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Picture: Rod with Dick in 1980
Spin CycleGawker notes that in 1980, when he was a kid, Rod Blagojevich and a friend camped in front of Richard Nixon's house until the ex-president came out and posed for a picture. Whether this explains Blagojevich later becoming a parody......Tags: Rod Blagojevich
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Obama: Time 'Person of the Year,' 2008
The Swampby Mark Silva This one probably wasn't too hard to predict. President-elect Barack Obama: "Person of the Year.'' So says Time magazine, with that long history of idetifying that person -- once was a "man'' in the old days of......Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Amazon.com Inc.
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W. Mark 'Deep Throat' Felt dead at 95
The SwampMark Felt appears on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington on Aug. 30, 1976. Felt was the source identified for years only as "Deep Throat" in the Washington Post's reporting on the Watergate scandal. (AP / August 30, 1976)......Tags: White House, Government, National Government, Newspaper and Magazine, FBI
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Five NBA games to be played on Christmas Day/Night
WatchdogI briefly referenced the NBA's unprecedented, Christmas quintupleheader in my newspaper column, but here's the full schedule: Orlando vs. New Orleans, ESPN, 12 p.m. Phoenix vs. San Antonio, ABC, 2:30 p.m. Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston, ABC, 5 p.m.......Tags: Mark Wahlberg, Katie Couric, Barack Obama, Regional Authority, Santa Claus (fictional character)
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Massachusetts meltdown: Blame game
The Swampby Mark Silva "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts.'' For years, that was the bumper-sticker boast of the Bay State, the only state that voted for Democrat George McGovern for president in 1972, the year when Richard Nixon was swept......Tags: Barack Obama, Polls, Los Angeles Times, Democratic Party, Wars and Interventions
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Swamp Sunrise
The SwampGood morning, It's a crystal clear and chilly morning in Washington. Near the end of one of the biggest political years in modern times, it may be quiet here today, but on this day in history: IIn 1922, The Union......Tags: California
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Florida's Crist: Independent run planned
The Swampby Jim Stratton and Aaron Deslatte of the Orlando Sentinel Gov. Charlie Crist will turn Florida's U.S. Senate race on its head Thursday by formally announcing he will run as an independent and walk away from the party that has......Tags: Barack Obama, Government, Regional Authority, Polls, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida)
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Obama, waterboarding, Gitmo, movin' on
The Swampby Mark Silva Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. Pressident-elect Barack Obama isn't offering any such sweeping amnesty, but is suggesting that he will not place a high priority on investigating where breaches of law may have occurred in the war......Tags: National Security, Constitutional Issues, U.S. Military, Barack Obama, Government
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Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
The Swampby Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Injuries and Wounds, Heads of State, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Obama to make Kagan choice official
The SwampSolicitor General Elena Kagan speaks at a forum in Washington in January. (AP/Jose Luis Magana) by Christi Parsons and David G. Savage This morning, President Obama will name Solicitor General Elena Kagan to fill the opening on the U.S.......Tags: Local Government, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Heads of State, White House, Government
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Bush's farewell: Eight years, 15 minutes
The Swampby Mark Silva At 8:01:30 pm EST this evening -- by the White House's clock -- President Bush will deliver his final address as president from the East Room, a 15-minute-or-so farewell that will encompass eight years of challenges and......Tags: Barack Obama, Lyndon B. Johnson, White House, Government, Osama bin Laden
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GOP questions Kagan's experience
The Swamp(Getty/Tim Sloan) by James Oliphant and Lisa Mascaro Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice as the nation's next Supreme Court justice, has never been a judge and until recently had never argued a case in court. Ever since her nomination......Tags: Local Government, Constitutional Issues, Arizona, Barack Obama, White House
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