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Ford Pardons Nixon

21 minutes ago ago from American History From About

Search American History Home Education American History Email American History Wars & Events People Eras Free American History Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Martin's American History Blog By Martin Kelly , About.com Guide to American History My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to: iGoogle My Yahoo! RSS Ford Pardons Nixon Friday September 8, 2006 On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford ...

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Review (Guest): Integrity–Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House

12 hours ago ago from Public Intelligence Blog

Amazon Page REVIEW BY  Russell J. Geoffrey (East Greenwich, RI) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars INTEGRITY: easy to lose, hard to restore February 4, 2008 He was a Navy officer serving on the USS Yorktown by the age of 22, in law school at 26, a staff assistant to the counsel to the president at 29, and Undersecretary of Transportation at 33. At 34, he was in jail. How ...

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Obama’s Friend Dies (R.I.P.)

20 hours ago ago from Hip Hop Honeys Girls & Hip Hop Honeys Rap Music Video Models

Ann Nixon Cooper, the Atlanta based woman who gained national attention after President Obama mentioned her in his election speech, has died. The 107-year-old garnered praise from The President as he noted that the same woman who was born when Black people and women didn't have the right to vote, bore witness to the country electing its first Black president. Cooper passed just weeks before her birthday on January 8 when she would ...

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Cuba News Update: President Raul Castro Speaks to the Closing Session of the National People's Assembly

21 hours ago ago from Pan-African News Wire

Cuban President Raul Castro with the late Commander Juan Almeida in Cuba. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos I congratulate our heroic and revolutionary people and wish them renewed success in the 52nd year of the Revolution Susana Lee and Juan Diego Nusa WITH this message, President Raúl Castro ended his closing speech at the final session of the National Assembly of People’s Power. Under the direction of ...

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The President’s Schedule

22 hours ago ago from The Presidential Prayer Team

In the morning, President Obama will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisers in the Oval Office. Mr. Obama will then meet with CEOs of several small and community banks in the Roosevelt Room to discuss the ways we can work together to continue on a path to economic recovery. In the afternoon, the president will meet with members of the National Economic Council in the Oval Office. Here's the Full ...

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White House Taps Former eBay, Microsoft Exec as New 'Cyber Czar'

21 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

The White House announced Tuesday that Howard Schmidt, a former executive at eBay and Microsoft, will become the administration's new cybersecurity coordinator. Schmidt's selection comes at the end of a long process in which several other candidates turned down the job. President Obama is expected to announce the appointment Tuesday. Schmidt is an Internet security expert who, along with working for major Web-based companies, founded a ...

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John Feffer: Obama: Is He Nixon Reborn?

13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Richard Nixon was the greatest peacemaker in U.S. history. He orchestrated the historic opening with Beijing. And he presided over the most significant arms control treaties of the détente period: the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the ABM treaty. Wait, that doesn't sound right. Let's try this again. Richard Nixon was the greatest warmonger in U.S. history. He sharply escalated the war in Vietnam and widened the conflict, tragically, ...

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Obama names Howard Schmidt as cybersecurity coordinator

19 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business

Seven months after President Obama vowed to personally select an adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer systems, the White House on Tuesday tapped a former Bush administration official for the job. Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's White House, will be Obama's new cybersecurity coordinator, an administration official said Monday night. A letter announcing the ...

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