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Presidential Pilot Remembers Flights Both Fancy and Fraught With Danger
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsHe sits on a couch thumbing through a photo album. "Here's Dwight Eisenhower," he says. "And LBJ, Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev and Walter Cronkite." Famed Army One helicopter pilot, Retired Master Army Aviator Lt. Col. Gene Boyer, is glancing over the images that defined his life. He stops and recalls, wistfully, what it was like to get to know John Steinbeck during the Vietnam War. He was amazing, Boyer told AOL News during a recent interview. "The great Steinbeck. And just look what he wrote about us helicopter pilots." Chris Epting Helicopter pilot Lt. Col. Gene Boyer -- who ...
Presidential Commissions: Gone and Often Forgotten
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- As presidential commissions go, the Oil Spill Commission's moment in the sun may have lasted longer than most. It convened its first session when the oil was still gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, then staged a series of hearings, enlivened by its sharp-spoken co-chairmen, that held the spotlight on its work. But with the release of the panel's final report, the show is over. In 60 days, the commission officially goes out of business. Its records will be trucked off to the National Archives in College Park, Md., where they will join the records of hundreds of other presidential ...
Hillary Clinton Falls and 4 Other Diplomatic Bloopers [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tripped and fell while boarding her airplane in Yemen on Tuesday, and the moment was caught on video. After a meeting with President Ali Abdallah Saleh to discuss security issues -- the first time in 20 years that an American secretary of state has visited Saleh -- Clinton waved to reporters from the steps of her plane. As she turned to step into the aircraft, she stumbled and fell inside, hitting the floor. Watch: The good news is, Clinton was unhurt, and she brushed off the mishap at a later stop in Qatar. "These things happen," she ...
Opinion: History Says Mitt's the Man for 2012
By Michael Medved - AOL News
(Nov. 29) -- Conventional wisdom says the battle for the GOP nomination in 2012 is wide open and unpredictable, but Republican history suggests that there is an obvious front runner who is nearly certain to represent his party in the presidential race. For nearly 70 years -- long before most of the current contenders were even born -- GOP leaders and primary voters have displayed a shockingly consistent tendency to pick a candidate whose previous national campaign, whether successful or not, suggested it was "his turn." This means that with very rare exceptions, Republicans choose a sitting ...
Sexually Explicit Chants Land Yale Frat in Hot Water
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 19) -- It's enough to give "Animal House" a bad name. Members of Yale University's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity find themselves facing possible disciplinary action after a group of pledges took part in an initiation activity in which they marched through campus chanting obscenities against women. On the night of Oct. 13, the pledges shouted phrases such as "no means yes, yes means anal" as they marched through the heart of campus in a single-file line. Video of the incident was posted on YouTube. Likening the fraternity's chants to "hate speech," The Yale Women's Center ...
Jan Brewer's Bad Night Conjures Up Other Memorable Debate Moments
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyArizona Gov. Jan Brewer's long and awkward pause in her gubernatorial debate was the talk of political junkies this week. Why she froze was anybody's guess. The governor compounded her problems by preceding her uncomfortable interlude with an inaccurate claim (that she balanced the state's budget) and by following it with an ungrammatical sentence: "We have did what was right for Arizona." The governor's lapse immediately took its place in the pantheon of memorable moments in political debates, a category full of gaffes, one-liners, whoppers, ill-advised gestures, zingers, and the occasional ...
Opinion: A Few Facts on Tax Cuts and Deficits
By Ben Stein - AOL News(July 14) -- As we speak, Congress and the media are debating whether to let President George Bush's income tax cuts expire at the end of 2010, as they will do without congressional action. The leading Democrats are in favor of allowing taxes to rise on taxpayers with incomes of (roughly) $250,000 a year for families, but want to keep taxes low on other, lower-income taxpayers. The GOP leadership says that allowing taxes to rise on the more well-to-do will stymie the fragile recovery and discourage investment. They say that keeping taxes low encourages growth to an extent that it actually ...
Bilderberg 2010 Begins, Stoking Conspiracy Fires
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs this year's meetings of the Bilderberg Group kicked off in Stiges, Spain on Thursday, protesters and conspiracy theorists also made their presence known. The group, which is comprised of roughly 130 invited guests from the worlds of finance, government, and journalism, will be meeting under fortress like security at the Hotel Dolce Stiges to discuss a range of topics that include global economic instability. Past participants have included former U.S. presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as Lord Browne of Madingley, the former Chief ...
Jerry Ford OKed Warrantless Wiretaps in U.S., Memo Reveals
By Andrew Becker - Politics DailyPresident Gerald Ford secretly authorized the use of warrantless domestic wiretaps for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes soon after coming into office, according to a declassified document. The Dec. 19, 1974 White House memorandum, marked Top Secret/Exclusively Eyes Only and signed by Ford, gave then-Attorney General William B. Saxbe and his successors in office authorization "to approve, without prior judicial warrants, specific electronic surveillance within the United States which may be requested by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." ...
White House Spokesman Who Resigned Over Nixon Pardon Is Dead at 87
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyJerald terHorst, the White House press secretary who held the job only 30 days and quit when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, has died. He was 87. His son Peter said terHorst died of congestive heart failure at a North Carolina retirement community, CNN reported. A former newspaper reporter, terHorst took the job of administration spokesman Aug. 9, 1974, after Nixon resigned during the Watergate scandal and Ford became president. TerHorst submitted a resignation letter Sept. 8, the same day Ford granted Nixon an unconditional pardon. He wrote about his anger that Ford would pardon Nixon ...
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