Want a ray of hope in this bleak political landscape?Back in the early 1960s, John F. Kennedy went from being reviled, because of his religion, to being the president of the United States with approval ratings in the stratosphere.Figuratively, it happened in a twinkling of the eye.Kennedy, who ...
In the early days of 1999, Sen. Joseph Biden was walking through the basement of the Senate蘑菇视频 Richard Russell Office Building when he was approached by a reporter.Earlier in the day, Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania had ventured an opinion on the impeachment trial of President Bill ...
Following the presidential election of 1948, President Harry Truman took the train back to Washington, D.C., from his home in Independence, Mo. En route he stopped in St. Louis, where someone handed him a copy of the Chicago Tribune with its notoriously incorrect headline, 鈥淒ewey Defeats ...
Elections are partisan; they are politics by division. We choose sides in elections. For most of our history, the choice has been a binary one 鈥� the Democratic side or the Republican side.A Gallup poll released on Thursday shows just how divided, by party, we are: an overwhelming 95% of ...
Teddy White wasn鈥檛 being the least bit romantic when, 60 years ago, he wrote this:鈥淭he power [to govern] passes invisibly in the night as Election Day ends; the national vigil includes all citizens: and when consensus is reached, the successful candidate must accept the decision in the same ...
Four more years of the present trend will result in one of the worst crack-ups in American history. The pace we are on is simply unsustainable. Soon we鈥檒l be the laughingstocks of the world. Maybe we already are. We used to snicker, hearing about five-hour-long cricket matches. Cricket!The ...