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Tag Archives: vietnam
The Foxhole: Chase Untermeyer on Reagan’s Navy, two Bush White Houses, and Churchill’s war counsel
The first time Chase Untermeyer shook hands with George H.W. Bush was in October 1963, when the latter was chairman of the Republican Party for Harris County, Texas. Three years later, when Untermeyer was a student at Harvard University and…
Celebrating 50 years of the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’
Fifty years ago, CBS introduced a new TV series that sharply divided American cultural opinion. Critics and intellectuals hated it, and it became for them a symbol of how far television had fallen since the so-called “golden age” of live,…
Were the First Ten Years of the 21st Century Really the Worst In American History?
The first decade of the 21st century was the worst in American history: Did you know that?
That’s what Thomas Friedman of the New York Times told a packed, applauding worshipful audience at the annual Aspen Festival of Ideas in…
Remembering Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice
Shortly after the Civil War both the North and South started to recognize those warriors who died in the epic war of our time. Originally this day was called “Decoration Day,” in which all the graves of those killed in…
Remembering John Murtha
Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. John “Jack” Murtha was certainly controversial but for the people in his district he did what congressmen are supposed to do – which is, to provide as many goods and services for his constituents as possible. He…