Horror History Today 75 Years Ago With Dick Nixon And A ‘Pumpkin’

In the ripple pool off my 75th birthday last Wednesday — my post here on the ludicrous, noted event — one of the offshoots was Henry Kissinger kicking the bucket that day, too. He joins a small, select group who have passed on my birthday (my most-favorite Beatle George Harrison, 2001; an early crush, Natalie…

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Journalism 50-Years Later — Watergate Reporters To Be Honored

A few degrees under 100 just about mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — the fevered-heat wave starts this afternoon, though, officially the baking isn’t supposed to begin until tomorrow. A lot of the time reality is a day early. And a long-ago-like tomorrow, it’s been 50 years since the Watergate era — the…

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An Aide’s Real-Time Aperture

One of the more-interesting, on-topic features I spotted today concerns those ‘omnipresent‘ White House aides, of which Cassidy Hutchinson is currently way-prominent, most-especially even as a former one: Highlights from Zak’s must-read piece at The Washington Post this morning: Washington is run by aides, or at least it runs on the work of aides: the…

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Time-Reality ‘Gate’ Fracture — 50 Quick-Years Later And Here We Are In The Now

Fifty years seems a long time. However, entire perspective on the calendar depends on the point of view. If you’re a youngster, thoughts on a three-month summer vacation from school could easily appear as forever-time, but if you’re in your mid-70s, 90 days is a near-about finger snap. And with even half a century gone,…

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