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For Obama and McCain, it's a return to the '70s
With gas prices at record highs, confidence in government at record lows and an unpopular war dragging into its sixth year, the 2008 election is looking more like an episode of “That ’70s Show.”  Helms never changed on civil rights oppositionJesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself. Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
LA Times reporter Kenneth Reich dies at 70
Kenneth Reich, a retired Los Angeles Times reporter, bureau chief and political writer who covered four presidential campaigns, the 1988 California insurance rate rollback and the city's yearslong effort to host the 1984 Summer Olympics, has died. He was 70. |
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