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While attending a recent symposium at Georgetown University in Washington on the life and career of the late Richard Helms (CIA Director - 1966-1973), I observed a panel of Cold Warriors answering audience questions. Panelists included: Dr. Henry Kissinger, Brent...

Virtually every aspect of Sandy Berger's brief and uncharacteristic career as researcher and thief at the National Archives ---including the lackadaisical attitude of the Justice Department investigating and pursuing the case--- raises more questions than it answers....

George Will's column earlier this week was apropos his visit to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence.

Nixonians remember Sam Dash as the Majority Counsel who organized and orchestrated the Ervin Committee's Watergate hearings. Many years later, in 1994, Professor Dash reemerged from the Georgetown Law Center to serve, mostly unhappily, as an ethics adviser to...

The irreverent political blog Wonkette today characterizes today's latest endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama as "George McGovern hearts Barack Obama, the McGovern of the 21st Century." Not that Wonkette is particularly friendly to Sen. Hillary Clinton; the blog's newest...

Richard Nixon prided himself on his mastery of foreign affairs, both as President and as a senior statesman. An accomplishment of which he was most proud was his opening to China, both because it allowed the U.S. to use the “China card” to balance out a rising Soviet...

The continuing flap over the statements by Jeremiah Wright and his association with Sen. Obama bring to mind situations in the past in which prominent politicians came under attack because of their associations with controversial individuals. FDR had to cover up...

DeVan Shumway died on 23 April of lung disease. His obituary ran in yesterday's Washington Post. Van was the spokesmen for the Committee to Re-Elect the President throughout the 1972 campaign, including the contentious and controversial Watergate period. Mr. Shumway,...

The Washington Post has assembled a sampling of the several TV ads that were made in some haste for the 7 May Indiana primary after Robert Kennedy announced his presidential candidacy on 16 March 1968. The Indiana ad campaign was entrusted to Charles Guggenheim, the...

Long after nightfall on January 20, 1969, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson arrived at their 330-acre Texas ranch. LBJ had been an ex-President for just a few hours. Throughout the day well-wishers had gathered – first at Andrews Air Force Base, then at Bergstrom Air Force...