Nixon’s final years as president sucked for Nixon. As the Watergate scandal intensified, the president can hardly be blamed for having reached for a drink. But apparently, the situation was so bad that when Nixon fell victim to growing bouts of insomnia and fits of drunken rage, some Washington insiders started taking bets on when […]
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The general stood on the battlefield before his army. He was draped in lion skin with a club in hand. Under a beaming sun touched by the shadows of his 100 thousand men, enemy troops could be forgiven for mistaking him as Hercules incarnate. His men outnumbered 3 to 1 — the general, already celebrated in song as a six-time Olympic…
A sliver of November skies utterly devoid of warmth shone through antiquated curtains. I could almost…
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By the time the Golden Rule, a 30-foot-long wooden gaff-rigged ketch, had sailed from California to…
“How do I [see] thee? Let me count the ways…” — Shakespeare “هنیبیم…
Last month, as the power switched off for the fourth night in a week in Maracaibo, a mother, father, and…
At high noon on August 9, 1945, a glistening B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar appeared in the cloudy…
Every August brings peak tourist season to Washington. Hordes of families and school groups swarm Capitol…