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Patrons and Subscribers: Become a Patron! President Roosevelt Fireside Chat – Recovery, Banks and Government – September 30, 1934 News for this day had much to do with the continuing efforts at recovery, stability and getting America back to work – trying to undo the tangle of economic collapse and...
Patrons can download for free – so, how about becoming one? Become a Patron! As the word Impeachment starts making the ominous rounds, there are reminders of other situations and other times. We all talk about Watergate as unprecedented. But then, we had the 90s where sexual misconduct was considered...
Subscribers get special perks when they join up: Become a Patron! The subject of NATO has been in the news in recent months with a movement afoot on behalf of the current administration to divest ourselves from it. In the years directly after World War 2, it was a different...
Subscribers – you know the drill: Become a Patron! If Robert A. Taft was responsible for nothing else during his tenure on Capitol Hill, he would forever be known as the co-author of a piece of legislation that amended the Labor Relations Act of 1935 and did much to change...
Subscribers can get this download for free: Become a Patron! Waking up to the news this morning in 1967 had much to do with the endless war of attrition in Vietnam. The ongoing battle, mounting casualties and airstrikes near the Marine outpost at Con Thien. The theory being to destroy...
Subscribers can download for free: Become a Patron! September 18,1978 – After months of diplomatic wrangling and some 13 days of intense one-on-one negotiations, a Middle-East Peace accord was finally hammered out between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, Israel’s Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter. On the occasion of arriving at a...
Become a Patron! News for this September 13th in 1950, came from the legendary newscaster Edward R. Murrow and his daily news program Edward R. Murrow And The News. And the news was cautious. In Korea, it was reported that General Walker claimed the days of retreat for UN forces...
Become a Patron! Senator Henry “Scoop”Jackson was one of the most powerful and successful Senators in U.S. history – serving from 1952 until his death (while in office) in 1983. The elements that made Jackson the most successful vote-getter in the history of the state did not work as well...
Become a Patron! September 4, 1949 – the end of a busy week throughout the world. Starting with news from Belgrade of a split between Yugoslavia and The Soviet Union. Yugoslav leader Marshall Tito, a former supporter of Joseph Stalin, had second thoughts about the goings-on in Moscow and offered...
Become a Patron! Rent Control – lest you think it’s a recent subject for debate, think again. Rent Control has been a subject of considerable debate since roughly World War 1, if not earlier. After World War 1 the shortage of housing in Europe, brought on by mass destruction of...
