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Bombshell Tapes May Reveal New Marilyn Monroe Mystery
By Chris Epting - AOL NewsDid Marilyn Monroe take a mystery trip aboard Frank Sinatra's private jet the very weekend she died? A trip during which she spent an intense night at the singer's retreat with mobster Sam Giancana? That's one of the suggestions made on the recently disclosed tapes featuring a close confidante of Monroe's -- who was also one of the most famous stylists in history. The legendary screen star's passing on Aug. 5, 1962, remains, arguably, the most mysterious and controversial death in Hollywood history. STR / AFP / Getty Images Undated file photo of American actress Marilyn Monroe ...
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 ...
Elaborate Ceremony for Reagan Centennial [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsMore on Ronald Reagan's Life and Legacy - Lou Cannon: Reagan Is Remembered for Good Reason - Pictures Tell Ronald Reagan's Life Story [PHOTOS] - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Ronald Reagan - Son Says Reagan Would See Today's GOP as 'Mean-Spirited' - Reagan Casts Long Shadow Over Clinton, Obama, Both Bushes - You Said It: Ronald Reagan [VIDEO] - Personal Memories: Reagan Was ... [VIDEO] - Reagan: Funniest President Ever? [VIDEO] - Peter Schweizer: The Genius of Ronald Reagan's Humor - What the World Was Like When Ronald Reagan Was Born - The Gipper Reconsidered: A Liberal's View - Ronald ...
Covering Ronald Reagan: Up Close, but Not Personal
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyScenes from eight years of trying to figure out the most elusive personality I ever covered in politics: November 1979, aboard a maiden flight of Ronald Reagan's chartered campaign plane sometime after his announcement in New York that he was running for president. Reporters from several prestigious national publications are on board, in addition to the "regulars" who had been assigned to the campaign for the duration. Several have scored interviews with the candidate and, one by one, each is ushered to the front of the plane for a strictly timed 20-minute visit. As the first Titan of ...
How Nancy Reagan Won Us Over
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyEverywhere Ron Reagan goes, people ask after his mother Nancy in a way that suggests public opinion about the 89-year-old former first lady has softened considerably in the years since she was dismissed as a trivial, couture-wearing woman, naively taken in by astrologers and unfashionably adoring of her husband, who shopped for china while schoolchildren ate ketchup as a vegetable. These days, as her son says, "she's warmly revered. But I'm not sure she's that aware of it. I tell her and she says, 'Really?' " Really, Mrs. Reagan. And the reappraisal of her in academic circles has if anything ...
Ronald Reagan's Children Disagree on His Alzheimer's, His Legacy and the GOP
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyRonald Reagan may have been hailed by admirers for such achievements as helping to end Communism and pulling the country out of its economic and psychic malaise. But "Father Knows Best" he wasn't. Having graduated from Hollywood movies and lucrative TV work to the governorship of California and the U.S. presidency, the one big thing that eluded him was a happy, cohesive family with four children from two marriages. Indeed, the last time Ronald Reagan's two surviving sons and a daughter were in the same room was for the reading of their father's will, after his death in 2004 at age 93. ...
Ron Reagan Jr. Says Father May Have Had Alzheimer's While President
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyRon Reagan Jr. kept his silence all these years, letting sister Patti take the spotlight when it came to analyzing their parents. But now he's caught up with a book titled, "My Father at 100," timed to coincide with the centennial next month of President Reagan's birth. I covered the Reagan White House and reported on the First Family's strained relations with their adult children. Ron Jr. is candid about his conflicted relationship with his father, writing in an excerpt featured in Sunday's issue of Parade: "He was easy to love but hard to know. You couldn't help wondering sometimes whether ...
Embryonic Stem Cell Ban: Does It Matter?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMonday's injunction by a federal appeals court judge against taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research prompted reactions of glee and alarm of the kind always associated with this divisive topic -- though with those emotions amplified by the intensity of this election season. Pro-life groups saw the preliminary stay against federal funding, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, as a rare and welcome victory, and many conservatives hailed the ruling as a defeat for President Obama -- even though Lamberth's decision against Obama's 2009 guidelines allowing limited ...
Carly Fiorina vs. Barbara Boxer: The Sisterhood and Abortion Politics
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt's nice that being called a feminist is no longer the slur it once was now that a hardy band of pro-life Republican women candidates has adopted the label. Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina, the GOP choice facing three-term Senate Democrat Barbara Boxer, will -- as the song goes -- accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative when it comes to her feminist, anti-choice credentials. It has long been a truism that you can't win election statewide in California without being pro-choice. The last two Republican governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pete Wilson, were ...
Sonia Sotomayor, Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySonia Sotomayor got a boost from fellow Princeton alum Michelle Obama on Wednesday, when the First Lady weaved President Obama's Supreme Court nominee into a commencement address she delivered at a Washington, D.C., high school. After that, Mrs. Obama lunched with former First Lady Nancy Reagan in the White House residence. ...
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