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- 1From:The Washington PostByline: Gillian Brockell This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, a bungled crime at a Washington D.C. hotel on June 17, 1972, that two years later led to the resignation of President Richard M....
- 2From:The Washington PostByline: Michael E. Ruane WASHINGTON - After the seven-ton granite block was uncrated, and the huge yellow crane had lowered it into place, workers brushed off the snow and Richard Dean walked over to look at his...
- 3From:The Washington PostByline: Christopher B. Daly Fifty years ago this month, the political conflict over the U.S. war in Vietnam blew up into a first-order constitutional crisis involving the definitions of press freedom, national security...
- 4From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: SOLANA CAIN, Staff Lead For more than 100 years, photographers have preserved an extraordinary collection of 20th-century news photography for The Globe and Mail. Every Monday, The Globe features one of...
- 5From:The Washington PostByline: Hugh Hewitt Some of the people I admire the most in journalism have lost their balance. President Donald Trump has so repeatedly pushed around the Fourth Estate and so often bloodied their collective nose...
- 6From:Politics & Government Week2019 MAR 21 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- A new study on Science - Political Science is now available. According to news reporting originating from Irvine,...
- 7From:The Washington PostByline: Alex Horton The engines of unarmored Humvees whirred on the Kuwait-Iraq border, readied for a mission to find weapons of mass destruction that would never be accomplished. Brandon Friedman, then an Army...
- 8From:Washingtonpost.comByline: Alexandra Petri An amazing thing I am learning more and more about the 1980s, with every passing scandal -- starting with Roy Moore, then passing to Brett M. Kavanaugh and now to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam...
- 9From:The New York TimesWASHINGTON -- In one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam War, the top American military commander in Saigon activated a plan in 1968 to move nuclear weapons to South Vietnam until he was overruled by President Lyndon...
- 10From:Washingtonpost.comByline: Todd Gitlin The left has known demoralizing, mind-bending, gut-wrenching times more than once in my lifetime. Within the space of two months in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were...
- 11From:Washingtonpost.comByline: Sadie Dingfelder Fifty years ago, the world was as tumultuous as it is today, says National Portrait Gallery historian James Barber. "You had the Vietnam War, the draft, the civil rights movement, marches,...
- 12From:Washingtonpost.comByline: Eugene Scott There seems to be constant conversation in the media and among politicians and their audiences about how middle-class Americans are being impacted by the current economy. But a group of liberal...
- 13From:The Washington PostByline: Marylou Tousignant An unpopular president. A long war. Student protests. Gun violence. Racial strife. Political fights. Tensions with North Korea. It sounds like today's news, but these were the headlines...
- 14From:The Washington PostByline: Megan McArdle Fifty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, the scars of the riots that followed are only now fully healed in Washington. In other cities, they still aren't....
- 15From:Washingtonpost.comCarlos Lozada's June 18 Outlook review, "Is the Western order becoming irrelevant?," didn't counter the implication offered in two British books that though the United States has made mistakes, abdication of its role in...
- 16From:Morning EditionTo listen to this broadcast, click here: INSKEEP: It took 65 years to find out what happened to Robert Dakin. He left home in 1950. He went off to serve in the Korean War as a sergeant in the United States Army. He...
- 17From:Weekend All Things ConsideredTo listen to this broadcast, click here: NOAH ADAMS, host: From NPR News, this is WEEKENDS ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Guy Raz is away. I'm Noah Adams. (Soundbite of music) Today, April 17th, marks exactly 50...
- 18From:Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)Byline: STEPHEN COLE; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- John F. Kennedy petitioned Warner Bros. to have Warren Beatty portray him in the 1963 biopic, PT-109. The actor demurred. "If the President wants me to...
- 19From:The New York TimesThe end was crazy, like so much of the war itself. At the besieged American embassy, with North Vietnamese tanks driving on a Saigon frozen in disbelief, Marine guards locked in a paymaster's office were frantically...
- 20From:The New York TimesCORRECTION APPENDEDBy the end of 1963, Medgar Evers had been murdered, four young black girls had perished in the bombing of an Alabama church, and Nina Simone had had enough. The next year, she put her career on the...