“Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators on the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama,” the AP reports.
Bob Woodward’s Watergate Apartment Is For Sale
The apartment Bob Woodward lived in during Watergate is listed for sale.
“When Deep Throat — later identified as Mark Felt — wanted to meet with him about the Watergate scandal, Felt would circle page 20 in Woodward’s daily New York Times and then draw a clock in the lower part of the page to signal what time they should meet in a Rosslyn parking garage.”
“If Woodward wanted to meet, he would put a flag in a flower pot on the balcony of his apartment at the Webster House along P Street in Dupont Circle.”
America’s Deadliest Election
Out this fall: America’s Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History by Dana Bash and David Fisher.
A book about the little-known 1872 Louisiana gubernatorial election which “led to hundreds of murders, warfare in the streets of New Orleans, dueling governors of Louisiana.”
It also offers a warning: “Readers will find eerie parallels to today’s divided political landscape and leaders willing to seize power no matter the cost.”
- Hardcover Book
- Bash, Dana (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 320 Pages - 09/03/2024 (Publication Date) - Hanover Square Press (Publisher)
Biden Hammers Trump for Finishing Last in Survey
“President Biden’s reelection campaign hammered former President Trump on Monday for coming in last among presidents in a new survey,” The Hill reports.
“Trump found himself at the very bottom of the list, while Biden was ranked the 14th-best president in the 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, which was conducted from Nov. 15 to Dec. 31 by a panel of experts specializing in the American presidency.”
From a Biden email: “Happy Presidents’ Day! … Unless You’re Donald Trump.”
Lincoln Pardoned Biden’s Great-Great-Grandfather
“Every new president selects personalized Oval Office decor to suit his tastes and pay homage to admired predecessors. President Biden’s Oval Office boasts both a portrait and a bust of Abraham Lincoln,” the Washington Post reports.
“But his family’s connection to the 16th president extends far beyond workplace ornamentation.”
“It dates to a late-night brawl during the Civil War.”
Trump Ranks Dead Last Among the Presidents
Justin Vaughn and Brandon Rottinghaus: “Presidents Day occurs at a crucial moment this year, with the presidency on the cusp of crisis as we inexorably shuffle toward a rematch between the incumbent and his predecessor. It’s the sort of contest we haven’t seen since the 19th century, and judging by public opinion of President Biden and former President Trump, most Americans would have preferred to keep it that way.”
“But the third installment of our Presidential Greatness Project, a poll of presidential experts released this weekend, shows that scholars don’t share American voters’ roughly equal distaste for both candidates.”
“Biden, in fact, makes his debut in our rankings at No. 14, putting him in the top third of American presidents. Trump, meanwhile, maintains the position he held six years ago: dead last, trailing such historically calamitous chief executives as James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.”
Jimmy Carter’s Long Goodbye
New York Times: “Carter entered hospice care one year ago Sunday, choosing to forgo further life-prolonging treatment with the intent to return to his simple home in Plains, Ga., to pass his final days in comfort and peace.”
“As it turns out, there have been more final days than he or anyone around him anticipated. The former president’s long goodbye has defied the odds and absorbed many around the world who have spent the last 12 months honoring his memory even as he has refused to follow anyone else’s timetable.”
Justices May Look to Civil War for Trump Ballot Question
“It was in a packed courtroom in Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy — in December 1868 where Chief Justice Salmon Chase concluded that Jefferson Davis, the defeated rebel president, should not face prosecution for treason,” NBC News reports.
“Little would anyone have known at the time that Chase’s decision —in addition to another one he authored the following year touching upon the same legal issue but reaching a different conclusion — would re-emerge from the mists of history to play a role in the ongoing dispute over whether former President Donald Trump should be barred from office.”
Associated Press: Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore.
Jean Carnahan Is Dead
Former Sen. Jean Carnahan (D-MO), who was appointed to the U.S. Senate after voters elected her dead husband to the seat, died at the age of 90, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Elon Musk Says Social Media Could Have Saved Jews
“Elon Musk said that X, his social media platform, could have saved Jews from the Holocaust after visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Monday,” The Forward reports.
Said Musk: “One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in is they shut down all the press and any means of conveying information.”
New Video Shows GOP Lawmakers Admonishing Rioters
“Dramatic, newly released video shot by a Jan. 6 rioter shows the confrontation between two Republican members of Congress and Capitol rioters trying to breach the main door into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives. The videos show rioters staring down the barrels of guns through broken glass as they tried to force their way inside,” NBC News reports.
Said one rioter: “We’re coming in one way or another. They can only kill so many of us.”
At one point, as the video is pointed directly at a gun-wielding officer, a rioter shouts: “Fucking pedophiles! We know about your pedophilia!”
Look to 1948 for Lessons About 2024
Nate Cohn: “Harry Truman was the only president besides Joe Biden to oversee an economy with inflation over 7 percent while unemployment stayed under 4 percent and G.D.P. growth kept climbing. Voters weren’t overjoyed then, either. Instead, they saw Mr. Truman as incompetent, feared another depression and doubted their economic future, even though they were at the dawn of postwar economic prosperity.”
“Normalcy was just beginning to arrive in 1948, when Mr. Truman won re-election… If something similar is almost at hand, it can’t come soon enough for Mr. Biden.”
It Was About Slavery
Nikki Haley was asked last night by a voter about the reason for the Civil War and she didn’t mention slavery in her response.
Of course, the AP notes that South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession — the 1860 proclamation by the state government outlining its reasons for seceding from the Union — mentions slavery in its opening sentence.
Playbook: “You can complexify it all you want, but any answer rooted in reality must acknowledge that the correct answer is: slavery. It was the cornerstone upon which the Confederacy was built. States’ rights? Yes, inasmuch as states wanted the right to allow human beings to be owned as property. (We can’t believe we need to say this in 2023.)”
No Upside for Supreme Court in Deciding Elections
Wall Street Journal: “Looking back to 2000, though, one element is much the same: Regardless of what the Supreme Court does, its own reputation is likely to suffer. With about half the population sure to be disappointed in a decision fundamental to the nation’s direction, it could hardly be otherwise.”
Quote of the Day
“They got drunk, painted themselves like Indians and pushed tea bags into the Boston Harbor, which we in Rhode Island think is pretty weak tea compared to blowing up the goddamn boat and shooting its captain. But you know, all those Massachusetts people went on to become president and run Harvard… So they told their story, and their story, and their story.”
— Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), quoted by the Washington Post, arguing that Rhode Island’s 1772 attack on the HMS Gaspee was more important than the 1773 Boston Tea Party.
Donald Trump Channels Hitler
Join now to continue reading.
Members get exclusive analysis, bonus features and no advertising. Learn more.
Myths of the Boston Tea Party
Smithsonian Magazine: “Contrary to popular belief, the 1773 protest opposed a tax break, not a tax hike. And it didn’t immediately unify the colonies against the British.”
Making Richard Nixon Great Again
Politico: “Among a small but influential group of young conservative activists and intellectuals, ‘Tricky Dick’ is making a quiet — but notable — comeback. Long condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as the ‘crook’ that he infamously swore not to be, Nixon is reemerging in some conservative circles as a paragon of populist power, a noble warrior who was unjustly consigned to the black list of American history.”
“Across the right-of-center media sphere, examples of Nixonmania abound. Online, popular conservative activists are studying the history of Nixon’s presidency as a ‘blueprint for counter-revolution’ in the 21st century. In the pages of small conservative magazines, readers can meet the ‘New Nixonians’ who are studying up on Nixon’s foreign policy prowess. On TikTok, users can scroll through meme-ified homages to Nixon. And in the weirdest (and most irony laden) corners of the internet, Nixon stans are even swooning over the former president’s swarthy good looks.”
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 50
- Next Page »