The prospect of Joe Biden joining Barack Obama’s ticket, which seems to have grown more real in recent days, raises an interesting possibility: another Biden presidential campaign.
Given how his campaign turned out this year, the idea of Biden ever Read More
WASHINGTON-Unlike most of the elderly men who assembled in this city for Memorial Day and the opening of the World War II Memorial, 84-year-old John R. Pennington of Orangeville, Ga., didn’t have much to say about the horrors of the battlefield. He served in Panama for most of the war, and when it was time Read More
On an April night in Washington 33 years ago, a tall, slender man in navy combat fatigues tapped me on the shoulder.
I was sitting in a large army tent pitched on the Mall, in the company of a couple of dozen Vietnam vets, one of whom-a bearded, wiry little guy with a terrific sense Read More
“I … had my heart broken for the first time.”-Nicholas Kristof on the McGovern landslide defeat in 1972
It’s the Night of the Big Defeat, Election Night 1972, at McGovern campaign headquarters in the Holiday Inn in Sioux Falls, S.D., and after drinking a little too much, I decide it’s necessary for me to put Read More
When the 1990′s were young, I asked a daily newspaper columnist who had described John Cardinal O’Connor in terms usually reserved for Attila the Hun why she hadn’t discussed the Cardinal’s outlandishly leftist pronouncements on issues of wealth and poverty, war and peace, housing and health. She was silent for what seemed liked a minute-long Read More
Of all Theodore White’s Making of the President books, the one with the oddest shape was the volume that covered the 1972 election. White begins with a tale of a Master of the Universe: Richard Nixon, scarcely conscious of the buglike buzz of Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and the other Democrats, flying triumphantly to China. Read More
