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Opinion: President Kennedy's Inaugural, Then and Now
By Bob Lehrman - AOL NewsFifty years ago Thursday, a White House aide went out to the east side of the Capitol, climbed steps shoveled clean of snow, and sat down to watch a new president deliver the most remembered inaugural address in history. That was appropriate. Ted Sorensen, who died last year, wrote much of JFK's speech, the anniversary of which has brought the usual enthusiastic reminders of its iconic status and influence. "These ideals ... still resonate," one historian said recently, pointing to its "call to service ... emphasis on change and ... faith in the future." But is that the right way to ...
JFK Library Goes Digital on 50th Anniversary of Camelot
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe JFK Library and Museum has unveiled the nation's largest online presidential archives, making the writings, speeches and personal correspondence of John Fitzgerald Kennedy available to more people than ever before. Fifty years after Kennedy's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1961, the days of his presidency have come alive online. Visitors to the digital library can view the president's most famous speeches, click through telegrams from civil rights leader Medgar Evers imploring Kennedy to get tougher on racial discrimination and listen in on his conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt about the ...
JFK Ambulance Up for Auction in Arizona
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe ambulance that carried the body of president John F. Kennedy in the Capitol region when it arrived from Dallas is up for action in Arizona. The grey, Pontiac Bonneville Naval Ambulance will be sold at the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. in Scottsdale, the auction house announced on its website Friday. The ambulance met Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on November 22, 1963 and took the president's body to the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. Former first lady Jackie Kennedy and her brother-in-law, Robert Kennedy, also rode in the 1963 model ambulance with Kennedy's casket to the ...
Powerful Storm Sweeps Along Eastern Seaboard
By John O. Membrino - AOL News
(Dec. 1) -- Widespread electrical outages, lengthy airport delays and flooding rain plagued the East Coast today as a powerful storm system that earlier spawned several tornadoes continued to leave its mark in several states. Tornado watches were posted for sections of Virginia and Maryland. Officials in Washington distributed sandbags for residents in flood-prone areas, and several thousand customers lost power in the mid-Atlantic area and New York, The Associated Press reported. The same storm system was responsible for a number of tornadoes that struck across the Southeast on ...
Why Politics No Longer Attracts Our 'Best and Brightest'
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsANALYSIS (Oct. 14) -- Politics as usual? In his Friday column, The New York Times' semi-conservative columnist David Brooks laments the state of modern politics. He focuses on the Illinois senate race, where Republican Rep. Mark Kirk is taking on Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Kirk has had a successful career -- Ivy League degree, Georgetown Law, State Department, World Bank, Navy reserve -- but felt the need to embellish his resume further. Writes Brooks: "He claimed a military award went to him when it really went to the unit he led. He claimed his plane was shot at over Iraq when it ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: White Supremacists' Threats Zeroed in on Surviving Brother
By Byron Tau - Politics DailyNewly released FBI files on the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy show he was a magnet for threats by white supremacist groups unhappy with the pro-civil rights stance of the Democratic Party and the three Kennedy brothers during the 1960s. In FBI documents, a bureau informant reported that during a visit to the National Socialist White People's Party Headquarters in Arlington, Va., an unnamed woman said the senator "deserves the same as his brothers got." (Further context is unavailable from the report.) The woman went on to say that "the white people have to work like dogs so the ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Kennedy Patriarch Phoned Feds to Check Rumor About Teddy
By Allan Lengel - Politics DailyWASHINGTON -- Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy dynasty, was close enough to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to call the bureau and check on a rumor regarding his son, according to FBI files released today. An FBI file dated May 11, 1954, said Kennedy called the bureau and spoke to an assistant director. Kennedy said he had learned that muckraking journalist Drew Pearson was going to write a story about his son "Teddy" that said he had not been admitted to school at Fort Holabird, Md., while in the Army because of an "adverse FBI report which linked him to a group of ...
Ted Kennedy FBI Files: Mob Planned to Frame Ted, Bobby for Sexual Shenanigans
By Allan Lengel - Politics DailyWASHINGTON -- The FBI received a confidential tip in 1965 that the Mafia was plotting to "attack the character" of Senators Edward and Robert Kennedy and brother-in-law Peter Lawford by framing them for sexual high jinks at a party. The information, contained in just-released FBI files, noted that the tipster said "the Italian Outfit" planned to work with associates of Frank Sinatra to arrange for women to "be placed in compromising situations in the presence of any or all of the two Kennedys and Peter Lawford." The FBI said the party was to take place in New York. The FBI file, dated Aug. ...
Mass. Senate Race Coming Down to Wire, New Poll Shows
By not in system - AOL NewsRepublican Scott Brown leads Democrat Martha Coakley 51 percent to 46 percent with 4 percent undecided in a tight race to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy that will be decided in a Tuesday special election, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Jan. 16-17. The margin of error is 2.8 points and PPP says "other factors, such as refusal to be interviewed and weighting, may introduce additional error that is more difficult to quantify." ...
Top 10 Lists of 2009 Google Searches Dominated by Democrats, but Not Obama
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyGoogle on Tuesday released the top searches within the United States for 2009; the results are surprising and interesting. The top Google searches for senators show that people are more interested in reading about Democrats than Republicans -- only Chuck Grassley of Iowa at No. 9 made the list for the GOP. And it also shows that people are doing more searches for senators with key roles in legislation than for senators caught up in scandals. No surprise, Ted Kennedy tops the Senate Google searches, as he died this year. Second on the Senate list is Nelson, but the Google people don't tell us ...
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