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Bill Clinton Honors Arkansas' Little Rock Nine, 1957 Civil Rights Icons
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Little Rock Nine hold a special place in Bill Clinton's heart. He returned here on Saturday to honor the nine African-American students who in 1957 were prevented from attending the racially segregated Little Rock Central High School by the Gov. Orval Faubus and angry mobs that threatened lynching. President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, which sent units of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock and federalized the Arkansas National Guard to escort the students into the school. The protests continued, but the Little Rock ...
Chelsea Clinton's Dream Wedding (in Bill Clinton's Little Rock?)
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyIt would be the Arkansas equivalent of a royal wedding. That is, if Bill and Hillary Clinton hosted Chelsea's upcoming nuptials in her home state of Arkansas rather than in New York. Chelsea, 30, plans to marry Marc Mezvinksy, 31, this summer. Hillary says the wedding is the most important matter consuming her. Bill says he is close to losing the 15 pounds that Chelsea requested of him. Wedding plans are top-secret with only a few tips leaking out. My Woman Up colleague Annie Groer recently reported that the nuptials will occur on July 31 at Astor Courts, a 1902 Beaux-Arts masterpiece ...
US Archivist Preps for July 4 on 'Real' Independence Day
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 2) -- David Ferriero stands inside a chilly vault deep within the National Archives building here and looks on as an archivist reads from an original resolution passed 234 years ago today by the Continental Congress: Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. At the bottom of what became known as the Lee Declaration are 12 hash marks in the ...
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