He broke 44 seconds for the 400 metres twenty-two times, more than twice as many times as any other athlete. Johnson currently holds the national records for the 200, 300 and 400 metres. The 4 x 400 metres relay world record was anchored by Johnson. Age: 57 Birthplace: Dallas, Texas,...
POST-SCANDAL:After Watergate, Gonzalez returned to Miami and his career as a locksmith. In 1977, he and three other men known as the “foot soldiers” of Watergate—Bernard L. Barker, Eugenio Martínez and Frank Sturgis—received$200,000 from Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign fund. The payment ...
In 1975, Lehrer joined forces with Robert MacNeil to cover the Watergate scandal on what was thenThe Robert MacNeil Report. The show eventually becameThe MacNeil Lehrer Reportand laterThe MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour. In 1995, MacNeil retired and the show becameThe NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. Throughou...
Who were the victims of the Cambodian genocide? What was the biggest oil spill in world history? Who was involved in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising? Who was involved in the Watergate scandal? Who broke the Great Wall of China? Who developed the steam driven elevator? Who stopped the train in ...
Some stories simply call out to you. I was a former investigative reporter and war correspondent in Chicago the day Vanity Fair broke the identity of Deep Throat. It was July 2005. Nixon had resigned in 1973. Woodward and Bernstein, and the infamous source on Nixonian corruptions himself, ha...
Paul O’Neill, 84. A former Treasury secretary who broke with George W. Bush over tax policy and then produced a book critical of the administration. April 18. Irrfan Khan, 54. A veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India’s best-known exports to Hollywood. April 29. ...
Damn, that was the night our cable broke, so I missed it. Wednesday, the Tulsa TV cable whores were here for SIX HOURS trying to get my cable to work, which is why there was no Wednesday page. Now it's Friday and Istillhave no cable. ...
In 1995 Scott entered electoral politics when he sought a seat on the Charleston County Council. He won and served until 2008. That year he successfully ran for a vacated seat in South Carolina’s House of Representatives, and he took office in 2009. In 2010 Scott entered the race for the...
“We used to talk about it in terms of ‘lancing the boil,’” says Shesol, who joined the administration in 1998 just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. Laughter was in desperate need by that time. The White House was like “a bunker guarded by lawyers,” Katz says. Still, if ...
The former president urged voters in a red district in Washington state to defeat incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse.