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Controversial Pentagon Papers to be released on Monday

June 12, 2011 The federal government announced plans to formally release the complete set of Pentagon Papers on Monday, marking the forty year...
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Cuts in VA Benefits?

  • 1972
  • February 4, 2011
On this date in 1972 the Apollo 16 mission landed on the Moon after a seven-hour crisis that nearly aborted the mission altogether.Astronauts John...
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The Cold War: cooperation and betrayal (1963-1980)

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. engaged in strategic engagement culminating in détente. The crisis frightened both sides...
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Speech: Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon

  • Ford pardons Nixon
  • May 12, 2012
On September 8, 1974, President Gerald R. Ford took the unprecedented step of pardoning disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon who had been...
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Preston Bruce – White House doorman for 21 years

  • White House staffers
  • April 12, 2012
A resident of South Carolina and the son of a sharecropper and barber, Preston Bruce walked his way through the history books from 1953 to 1976 as...
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Postwar America (1946-1953)

Once the initial euphoria over V-E Day dissipated, America moved in a dark direction. Labor strifeplagued the nation as workers led strikes...
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American polarization: 1970s timeline

As the sixties gave way to the seventies, American optimism turned to cynicism. Governmental incompetence, arrogance, and propaganda disillusioned...
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American polarization: 1960s timeline

The partisan nature of twenty-first century politics is worsening. Although not as bad as the mid-nineteenth century, some seetears in the national...
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Interview with Darrell Duffey as Richard Nixon

There is a lookalike to that of former President Richard Nixon, and this talented man is Darrell Duffey.Duffey already had the "look" of...
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Chappaquiddick

Ted Kennedy’s brothers all met violent ends leaving the senator to evolve into family patriarch. However, Ted Kennedy had his own trials to...
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