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Ben Stein: What My Father Left Me
By Ben Stein - AOL News(June 19) -- Recently, I spoke to a gathering of successful men and women in money management in a New England city. One of the men there asked me if I had a private jet. I laughed and told him I could not even remotely afford a plane of my own. He said he was surprised. He said he assumed I was rich because I had a famous father in the world of money. "No," I said. "No plane." And then I added, "He left me a lot more than money." Bettmann / Corbis The author's father, Herbert Stein (pictured at left), testifies before Congress in March 1973, when he served as chairman of the Council of ...
Un-Father's Day
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyRest in peace and all that, but he was not a good father. I'd rather not go into details. But one day, when I was a little girl, he brought me a tiny pink eraser from work. I'd been begging for weeks, God knows why. ...
Happy Father's Day, Mr. Presidents!
By Ken Layne - Politics DailyThis is that special time of year when, as a cheap afterthought to Mother's Day, we sort of vaguely celebrate that other parent who may or may not be around. We call it Father's Day, and our nation's various recent presidential people aren't very good at it, either.The dad who best represents lousy parenting and America's image-over-substance marketing economy is, of course, our greatest president, Father Ronald Reagan. Married, divorced and married again, Reagan fathered children by two different women and adopted a boy with his first wife, shortly before he divorced her. The children who ...
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