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Bob Hope family to auction off 800 of his 'favorite things'
LOS ANGELES -- A foot-high cowboy hat from the movie "Paleface." An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of Bob Hope's favorite things. Nearly 800 items of Hope history, from...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Benny
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Fans Can Thank Hope For Memories At Charity Auction
A foot-high cowboy hat from the movie "Paleface." An autographed photo of Lucille Ball with some teeth blackened out. A money clip from Jack Benny. These were a few of Bob Hope's favorite things. Nearly 800 items of Hope history, from foolishness to fine...Tags: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Golf, Jack Benny, Auction Service
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No new ships in Senate committee's defense bill
202-824-8224The Senate Armed Services Committee unveiled a defense bill Thursday that makes no attempt to add ships to the Navy's fleet next year beyond what the Pentagon had requested. Faced with a dwindling fleet, some key House members have discussed the idea...Tags: Shipbuilding, George Bush, Upper House, Parliament, Carl Levin
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Navy's ship plan faces rough seas
202-824-8224First of two parts To hear Navy officials tell it, shipbuilders like Northrop Grumman Newport News are finally heading for good times. After dwindling to its smallest size in about a century, the Navy's 279-ship fleet will grow to 313 ships over the...Tags: Duncan Hunter, Shipbuilding, Government, Budgets and Budgeting, Gene Taylor
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Ford aide wrote historic speech
Tribune NewspapersRobert T. Hartmann, a close aide to former President Gerald Ford who drafted many of the president's speeches, including his first address to the nation after President Richard Nixon left office, has died. He was 91. Mr. Hartmann, who spent more than two...Tags: Republican Party, Government, Beverly Hills, Elizabeth Edwards, United Nations
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Cheney's wealth is triple that of Bush
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The tens of millions of dollars in assets reported by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, triple those held by President Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush. Bush kept much of his money invested fairly conservatively,...Tags: Dick Cheney, George Bush, John McCain, Major League Baseball, Personal Finance
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The 2012 nomination
With all of the news coverage on Hillary Clinton's refusal to quit the race, I'm surprised that no one has commented that Ronald Reagan followed the same strategy in 1976. It was fairly clear after the California primary, then held in June, that Gerald...Tags: Ronald Reagan, DuPage County, John McCain, Barack Obama, Downers Grove
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Supreme Court upholds lethal injection
WASHINGTON—The nation's longest-serving Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens, parted company with his colleagues Wednesday, declaring for the first time his formal opposition to capital punishment. Stevens, who was part of the court majority...Tags: Antonin Scalia, Punishment, Death Penalty, Kentucky, Local Authority
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Convention warfare
The New York TimesPresident Jimmy Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had been sharp adversaries with a bad history, and in the 1980 presidential campaign they let it bleed into a bitter nomination fight. The Carter administration challenged Kennedy's patriotism and...Tags: History, Ronald Reagan, John McCain, George Bush, Polls
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Rumsfeld book due out in 2010
Donald Rumsfeld, the powerful defense secretary and architect of the Iraq war who left office in 2006 as he faced ever-rising criticism, is working on a memoir to be published by Penguin Group (USA) in 2010. "This will be a story that will span my...Tags: Dick Cheney, George Bush, International Military Interventions, Media, Executive Branch
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