Cuban Missile Crisis

America, Abandoned On Its Own Petard?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Globalization, Obama Transition, Obama, International Relations, Mindset, John F Kennedy, Pearl Harbor, War on Terror, Cuban Missile Crisis, Terrorism, 9/11, US Intervention Abroad, Us Foreign Relations, World War II, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

What if, just like us, other countries are content to let America be in the crosshairs of terrorist regimes and turn a jaundiced eye rather than roll their sleeves up and help?

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What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 12.03.2008 | World

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News
Mayhill Fowler

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

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Yesterday's Events and Conversation Pieces

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living

Read More: England, President-Elect Barack Obama, We Interrupt the Broadcast, Princess Diana, Mexico, Walter Cronkite, New York Times, Thanksgiving, Berlin Wall, Brazil, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sourcebooks, Hindenburg, Living News
Carol Hoenig

Apparently, there are certain magazines and newspapers with Barack Obama's image after having won the election that are collector's items. I'm pleased...

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Colin Powell's Adlai Stevenson Moment

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Adlai Stevenson, UN Security Council, Colin Powell, Cuban Missile Crisis, Politics News
Ariel Gonzalez

Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama is all well and good, but he still has a way to go before the ignominious stain on his carefully culti...

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Just Where/When Has McCain Led in Any Crisis? His Only 2 Speeds are Lame and Impetuous

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: President Kennedy, Leadership, John McCain, Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Kennedy, Crisis, 2008 Election, Politics News
Paul Abrams

I may have missed it, but I never read of John McCain's leading anything in that crisis. And, thankfully. With his impulsive leadership style, we might not be here writing about it.

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McCain & the Missiles of October

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, John McCain, Mccain Gambling Anger, Mccain Judgment, Thad Cochran, Maxwell Taylor, Cuban Missile Crisis, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, American Graffiti, Curtis LeMay, David Shoup, George Will, David Brooks, John McCain-John F. Kennedy, McCain Temper, Robert Kennedy, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Many voters are attracted to McCain's quick, "don't look back" decision-making and fancy that he will keep them secure. But would he? The experience of October 1962 strongly suggests otherwise.

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Ted Sorensen - Unassuming Insider at the Center of Power

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Eisenhower, Leadership, Mike McCurry, American University, Cia, Harry Hopkins, Kennedy, American Power, Arthur Schlesinger, Joe Biden, Cuban Missile Crisis, Richard Goodwin, Richard Nixon, Kenny O'Donnell, Ted Sorensen, Clark Clifford, Special Counsel to the President, Jimmy Carter, Adlai Stevenson, Jfk, Nixon, Bay of Pigs, Media News
Tom Alderman

AUDIO BOOK: "Counselor, A Life at the Edge of History" AUTHOR: Ted Sorensen ("Kennedy," "The Kennedy Legacy") GENRE: Autobiog...

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Ask not why words matter, ask when they mattered most

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Cuban Missile Crisis, American History, John Kennedy, Speechwriting, Kennedy, Schlesinger, Presidential Rhetoric, White House Ghosts, Jfk, Robert Schlesinger, Ted Sorensen, Presidents, Presidential Speechwriting, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...

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How Would Hillary Handle the Next Cuban Missile Crisis?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, National Security, Cuban Missile Crisis, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Throughout the primaries there has been a credulous discussion about the different reasons why Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War authorization bi...

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Obama is No JFK but Even If He Was His Inexperience Can't be Cavalierly Dismissed

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bill Clinton, Rfk, Jfk, Nikita Krushchev, Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Fdr, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The lack of administrative and crisis management experience shouldn't disqualify a prospective presidential candidate, or mean that he or she will crumble under fire.

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