Topic: John F. Kennedy
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Robert Frost: 10 quotes on his birthday
Here are 10 quotes from this monolith of modern American poetry.
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The 25 best country songs of all time (+video)
Check out Country Music Television's rankings of the best country music songs ever released.
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Presidential libraries: from Boston to Honolulu ... or maybe Chicago
Presidential libraries can be found coast to coast, and may even go beyond that once a site is selected for President Obama's future repository of documents and artifacts. To quickly hopscotch around to the 13 official presidential libraries and museums overseen by the National Archives, plus that of Abraham Lincoln, check out this library list.
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Gender pay gap: Top 5 best and worst states
The pay gap between men and women has steadily narrowed during the past few decades. Women earned 77 cents for every dollar men earned in 2011, compared with 59 cents in 1963. Here is a look at states with biggest and smallest gender pay gaps today.
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Bestselling books the week of 11/29/12, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
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Why we should let the Bush tax cuts expire
Although Wall Street’s excesses were the proximate cause of the Great Recession, its fundamental cause lay in the nation’s widening inequality. Extending the Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans would widen that gap further.
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Claire McCaskill: As many as 6,600 US military graves mixed up
Claire McCaskill, a senator from Missouri, believes that between 4,900 and 6,600 graves may be unmarked or mislabeled on cemetery maps. Claire McCaskill is chairwoman of an oversight panel on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Reform Committee.
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In Pictures: Presidential weddings
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Bruce Willis won't be visiting this asteroid, but the European Space Agency will
The European Space Agency's unmanned Rosetta spacecraft will perform a flyby of asteroid Lutetia on July 10.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day 07/06
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The Icarus Syndrome
How hubris – in various shapes and forms – played a role in America’s decision to go to war in Iraq.
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Ted Kennedy and the lost notebook: FBI was watching him
FBI files on Sen. Ted Kennedy kept between 1961 and 1985 are full of death threats and clues to the senator's relationship with the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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Ted Kennedy FBI records show death threats persisted
Ted Kennedy received death threats even five years after his 1980 presidential run.
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Face in Space: NASA offers to fly your picture on the space shuttle
With just two planned space shuttle missions remaining, NASA has launched the Face in Space project. Send NASA a photo of yourself, and it will fly aboard one of the final shuttle missions.
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President Obama says Israel remarks by Helen Thomas 'offensive'
Speaking on NBC's 'Today' show Tuesday morning, President Obama said remarks about Israel by now-retired journalist Helen Thomas were 'offensive.'
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Lyndon B. Johnson
This biography of LBJ is the latest in the well-received American Presidents Series.
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Letters to Jackie
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Giant meteor found to have struck Appalachia
Some 200 million to 300 million years ago, an asteroid struck the heart of what is now Appalachia, creating a four-mile-wide crater.
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A Texas exhibit on the life and times of late TV newsman Walter Cronkite
An exhibit chronicling the life and times of the late TV newsman Walter Cronkite is at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library at the University of Texas in Austin.
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In Pictures: Walter Cronkite
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Gallery: Notable women in US politics
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'Los Suns' Cinco de Mayo statement: protest on a tank top
The Phoenix Suns players decided to wear their Spanish 'Los Suns' jerseys to tonight's Cinco de Mayo playoff game to protest the new Arizona immigration law. It's the latest example of America's often-contradictory views on illegal immigration and the Hispanic community.
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Faisal Shahzad, Times Square bomb suspect, made now-familiar trek to Pakistan
Faisal Shahzad, arrested Tuesday as a Times Square car bomb suspect just before he left the country, had recently visited Pakistan. Several Americans showing interest in militant Islam or attacking America have journeyed there before.
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Katie Holmes to play Jackie Kennedy in History Channel miniseries
Katie Holmes is set to play Jackie Kennedy opposite Greg Kinnear as President John F. Kennedy in an upcoming History Channel miniseries.
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Citizens of London
The Americans who made it to London post-World War II found a vibrant city fueled by courage and resolve.
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In Pictures: Presidential first pitches
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Obama and Medvedev step closer to nuclear weapons-free world
A phone call today between Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev sealed the deal for the US and Russia to reduce strategic nuclear weapons by almost one-third and to halve the number of delivery vehicles, such as missiles and bombers.
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Postmasters general, kings of political patronage?
Postmasters general were once powerful figures who were members of the cabinet and often among a president's closest political and personal advisers. What happened?
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Sander Levin, chair of Ways and Means, forms powerful brother duo
Sander Levin is now part of one of the most powerful brother acts in Washington since the Kennedys. He was named the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday. His brother, Carl, is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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