Those who have been paying close attention might just as well say, like John McCain in Die Hard –“Welcome to the party, pal!” Alas, like Winston Churchill’s comment about a political rival occasionally stumbling over an inconvenient truth – likely, they will pick themselves up and hurry...
he would have been, but John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969, 21 years before the book was published. The failure to getConfederacy of Duncesand his earlier work,The Neon Bible, into print sent him intoa spiral of paranoia and depression. ...
I revved my engine to pass this guy. Mind you it was around 100 degrees out that day which I'm sure did not help matters. All of a sudden, after all the communing
On May 25, 1961 President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to a joint session of Congress and said. "First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth... ...
Another thing about Bush that’s cool is that the guy’s just plain smart. You can tell, even without the eloquence that infuses so much of his rhetoric. This dude is truly one of the brightest presidents yet, and he’s not afraid to show it. I imagine if John Kennedy was still ar...
Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy. Events such as those are such radical departures from normal life that we know some part of our lives will never be the same again. Lobby of the S&W. Martin Evans Boyer Papers, 1910-1993 (UNCC MC00094), J. Murrey Atkins Library ...
Marta McDowell is writer of All the Presidents’ Gardens. She said, “You can understand that, given our democratic form of government.” But she said she thinks that a visit to the home of the British royal family, Buckingham Palace, caused President John Kennedy to expand the White House...
It’s not good that John F. Kennedy got away with appalling behavior with women, just as it’s unfortunate that the Democratic Party circled the wagons around Bill Clinton after his Oval Office liaisons with a 22-year-old White House intern were revealed. Yet it’s healthier for a culture...
agonising choices. Kenya imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew. At one point, more people had been shot for defying it than had died of Covid-19. Kennedy Odede, who helped distribute soap to slum-dwellers in Nairobi, said: “They are telling me we better die from coronavirus than die from ...
Lion of the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress by Nick...Lee, Frances E