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Barack O'Llama Visits Nixon Library and Museum
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsThe slow-moving procession crossing the busy intersection next to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., was truly a traffic stopper. After all, how often is it that drivers and pedestrians get a chance to see Barack O'Llama and the Dalai Llama up close and personal entering the museum grounds? Actually, it happens several times a week. See, this is the route that the folks behind ShangriLlama often take as they allow people to experience "llama walks." It all started a couple of years ago when Paul and Sharon Brucato of Yorba Linda noticed their son ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
A Valentine's Day Tribute to the Power of Love in Politics
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyWe are so often reminded of salacious sexual affairs in politics, but on Valentine's Day, perhaps we can spare a few moments to celebrate love? This should not be a foreign concept to us, and yet the contribution that love makes to keeping the ship of state afloat is too often ignored. Anyone who watched HBO's "John Adams" knows of the wonderful love affair between our second president and his wife, Abigail. If you have not seen it -- or read of this great American partnership between a man and a woman -- today is a good time to do so. Abigail was not only the devoted wife and mother of two ...
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 ...
'War on Drugs' Gives Way to the Dangerous New Face of Narco-Politics
By James Grady - Politics DailyA shotgun blast of news this year shredded what most Americans believe about what used to be called the "war on drugs" -- that it was being fought to curb what were seen as simply criminal enterprises. Instead, it left us all facing the new dangers of narco-politics, whether it is cartels challenging governments and attacking social institutions, capitalizing on corruption, or involvement in the drug trade by terrorist groups. As a veteran California law enforcement officer told Politics Daily: "What we're seeing in Mexico is cartels as new 'state making' agencies." That's politics, even if, ...
Alan Colmes: My Pick for 2010 Quote of the Year
By Alan Colmes - AOL News(Dec. 20) -- The notable quotes from 2010 have come out, courtesy of Fred Shapiro of Yale Law School. No. 1 on the hit parade, tied with BP's Tony Hayward saying, "I'd like my life back," was Christine O'Donnell's "I am not a witch." What a way to begin a campaign ad! Imagine running for the U.S. Senate and the first thing you have to do is convince your constituency you don't have a coven. "I am not a crook" didn't work out for Richard Nixon, by the way. O'Donnell made the list twice, the other quote being, "You mean to tell me that the separation of church and state is found in the First ...
Musical Portrait of a President: Bill Clinton's Young Life Inspires Opera
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyBill Clinton's life has already been a soap opera. Enter Bonnie Montgomery, a native Arkansan who has composed "Billy Blythe," an opera in the traditional vein and based on the life of a teenage Clinton. The opera explores a summer day in 1959 in Hot Springs, Ark., with a young Clinton who lives with his colorful mother, Virginia, and his abusive stepfather, Roger Clinton. Montgomery, 31, composed the music for the 90 minute opera with her long-time college friend, Brittany Barber, who wrote the lyrics. Four scenes of the opera recently debuted in the grand historic ballroom of Little ...
New Nixon Tapes, Documents Released From Watergate Era
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Dec. 10) -- Newly released audiotapes and secret documents from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library show a president obsessed with controlling the media and his public persona during the latter stages of his doomed administration. The California library has displayed and posted online 265 hours of secretly taped White House conversations from February to March 1973, as well as others from early April 1973 -- while the Vietnam War raged and Nixon found himself increasingly unpopular because of news reports unraveling the Watergate scandal. AP Among the documents released by the Richard ...
Ranking Former Presidents: JFK Still on Top, Clinton Rises While Carter Falls
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe public perceptions of former presidents in the modern political era have sometimes changed for the better or worse, compared to how they were seen while in office, but the one constant in Gallup's polling of views of nine chief executives who served during the last 50 years is that John F. Kennedy still comes out on top. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed by Gallup Nov. 19-21 said they approved of how Kennedy performed in office, about the same percentage as in 2006. Gallup says Kennedy has consistently ranked first since it started asking the question in 1990. Ronald Reagan comes in ...
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