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Apr.25.2013
I'm pleased to be part of such a fine group of poets, and the displays in the museum are most interesting. Most are from Asia, with many of them from China. The reading, at two PM, was arranged by Sally Ashton, the outgoing Poet Laureate of Santa Clara...
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Oct.18.2012
He didn't look like a politican. He wasn't a "pretty boy" like Kennedy; oddly he shared history from a rival: World War II veteran, was a senator. He didn't even come from a glamourous state. South Dakota? Yawn. Yet George McGovern was something you don't find much in politics: he was decent. He...
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Aug.08.2012
On this date in 1974, President Richard Nixon resigns in the wake of the Watergate burglary scandal. He was the first president in American history to resign.
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Jul.02.2012
Julian Goodman, the former NBC president, has died. He first joined the network in 1945, and worked the nightly news desk. He eventually became executive vice president of NBC News at the time Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were competitors to Walter Cronkite on CBS.
JULIAN GOODMAN
He was...
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Jun.25.2012
My wife Laurie and I had an amazing evening at the 54th Annual Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards gala at the Biltmore Hotel in the heart of Downtown. Here are some of the photo highlights, including a very special opportunity to meet the legendary Carl Bernstein.
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Jun.17.2012
I was reading Doonesbury this week with Mike Doonesbury's daughter Alex having a family dinner to celebrate her marriage toToggle, a man who suffers from apasia after being wounded in Iraq. Alex's grandmother Joannie gives a toast about how honored she is that Alex is getting married by Reverend...
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Jun.09.2012
The day seemed bitter cold to me.
No word from Son Jason . . . and few sightings of Son Guy (until this evening)
The work kept me busy until nearly six o'clock.
One item which caught my eye was a remembrance of Watergate, now 40 years ago, by Woodward and...
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Jun.19.2011
The National Archives on Monday has published the Pentagon Papers in their entirety on the internet. The ground-breaking document uncovered a government cover-up of the motives for our nation's participation in Vietnam. Those documents implicate members of 4 different presidential...
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Nov.11.2009
My father was born before the end of World War II in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia on February 1, 1945. His motherland remained under the French Protectorate since 1853. Laos and Vietnam also lived under France’s iron fist. The subjugation, repression, discrimination, and exploitation of Cambodge, Laos...
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Sep.15.2009
Okay, picture this, I am sitting at the breakfast table this morning, about to put some blackberry jam on top of a toasted homemade scone and hubby says to me, I had this amazing dream last night about funnel shapes, tornadoes whizzing across the sky in a place that looked like Kansas. I drop my...
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