Consider this: since Andrew Jackson - the father of the modern Democratic Party - left the White House, only two other Democrats (Franklin Roosevelt and... ...
Let me say one thing at the outset: if they had been passing out D minuses on the report card at Pixieland Kindgarten, I would have received one in arts and crafts. Asking me to take a pair of scissors and cut a straight line across a piece of paper is ...
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What would happen if one of the people in charge of the American military had gone mad? What if it happened while we were on the brink of World War III and no one knew about it? Secretary of Defense James Forrestal was the first person to hold that ...
I didn't set out to write a book about American politics. In fact, I was trying to avoid it. I've been in the thick of it as a former aide in the Clinton-Gore White House, the Democratic Party's platform director in 2000, then a senior advisor in the 20 ...
In Albany, Dewey's legal counsel Charles Breitel and a large staff burned the lights in their Capitol offices late into the night as they poured over heavy, leather-bound volumes of federal statutes and regulations, studied elaborate charts of the ...
I spent the day yesterday back in Salem with Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton - the two candidates who, most likely, will end up in second place when the votes in New Hampshire have been counted. But rather than seeing two contenders on their last legs, ...
I spent the day today in Salem, New Hampshire, a wonderful town of white-steepled churches and houses with porches, all shrouded in snow. There, John McCain and Barack Obama both held events - separated by two blocks and three hours. Both men were at ...
Four years ago, I was with John Kerry as he turned his victory in the Iowa Caucuses into a clear road to the Democratic nomination. The question in this coming week is whether Barack Obama will be able to do the same. John Edwards may have come in ...
When the toll of the repercussions of the Bush Administration's missteps and failures finally gets tallied up, one item on that long list will surely have be that too often Democrats and progressives were so purblind with justifiable anger that we ...
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