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The 'assistant president'
Today's question: The Constitution doesn't define the vice president's role beyond a handful of government tasks. What should be the role of the vice president? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman discussed how history might treat Dick Cheney and digested...Tags: Elections, William F. Buckley, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Constitutional Issues
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Clermont museum takes White House on tour
Special To The SentinelWhen the Republican National Convention opened this week, so did the doors to the White House and a presidential limousine -- thanks to a south Lake County museum. In fact, thousands of pieces of presidential memorabilia, including a 60-by-20-foot...Tags: Republican National Conventions, History, Religious Leaders, Minnesota, Government
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How will Cheney go down in history?
Today's question: The office of vice president has been regarded as mostly ceremonial. How much (for better or worse) has Dick Cheney changed that? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman digested the candidates' vice president picks.
Cheney: a cautionary...Tags: Elections, William F. Buckley, Philosophy, Joe Lieberman, Al Gore
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Richard Landon Kassebaum, 47; filmmaker documented his GOP family's political experiences
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRichard Landon Kassebaum, a filmmaker who documented his Republican family's political experiences, which included his grandfather Alf Landon's 1936 presidential bid, died Wednesday. He was 47. Kassebaum, a longtime Los Angeles resident, died of cancer...Tags: Diseases, Elections, John Brown, Death and Dying, Parliament
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Richard Kassebaum dies; made films about politicians
LOS ANGELES - Richard Landon Kassebaum, a filmmaker who documented his Republican family's political experiences, which included his grandfather Alf Landon's 1936 presidential bid, died Wednesday. He was 47. Kassebaum, a longtime Los Angeles resident,...Tags: Elections, Diseases, John Brown, Parliament, Death and Dying
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Does experience matter anymore?
DENVER—Let's hear it for youth and inexperience. After choosing little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate, it's going to be a little hard for Sen. John McCain to hold those qualities against Sen. Barack Obama. After all, the...Tags: Elections, Regional Authority, New York, John McCain, Illinois
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Viewers find hope on TV
Television has often been called the Great Hype Machine for its tendency to inflate the importance of events and the quality of products that it covers and sells. But in recent weeks, the medium has also become the Great Hope Machine for a nation mired in...Tags: Elections, Fordham University, Multi-Sport Events, NBC, Barack Obama
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R. Kassebaum, filmmaker, senator's son
Los Angeles TimesRichard Landon Kassebaum, a filmmaker who documented his Republican family's generations of political experiences, died Wednesday. He was 47. Mr. Kassebaum, a longtime Los Angeles resident, died of cancer at a Knoxville, Tenn., hospital, said his...Tags: Elections, Diseases, John Brown, Death and Dying, Parliament
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CAUCUS POLITICS FROM CT TO DC
Gustav Pulls Off A First National political conventions have gone on in time of war and with rioting in the streets outside. The Republicans' decision to scrap all but the bare essentials of their opening night tonight because of Hurricane Gustav bearing...Tags: Meteorological Disasters, San Diego (San Diego, California), Wars and Interventions, Jerry Falwell, Disasters
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Former Manchester Fire Chief Dies; Woodstock Man Was In Olympics
State highway worker accused in theft of steel, bridge I-beam facility in Colchester. Local author collecting stories from those who worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut and New York state. Former Glastonbury woman at Democratic...Tags: Police Investigations, Criminal Laws, Justice System, Crimes, Laws
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Oprah on Obama: I cried my eyelashes off
Oprah Winfrey is leaving Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes. The talk-show host said she was moved to tears by Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. And those must've been some...Tags: Elections, Oprah Winfrey, Martin Luther King Jr., Society, Political Candidates
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Celebrities at the Democractic convention? Too many for DNC to count
How many celebrities and notable Americans came to watch Barack Obama close down the Democractic convention at Invesco field Thursday night? Too many for the DNC to count, but Fergie, Oprah, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Hudson, Shawn Johnson, Sheryl Crow,...Tags: Star Jones, Elections, Taye Diggs, Super Bowl, Daniel Dae Kim
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