...hat television heralded. “Before 1963 and the advent of thirty-minute, picture-driven television news, Congress and the presidency got about equal coverage,” said Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “As television whetted the appetite for news about presidents, newspapers followed along, so for both of them now, on average, it’s pretty close to two to one, presidency news versus congression...
...ust attempts to real-time fact check Ryan; they also included some very unnecessary and poorly thought out derisions. For example, when Ryan was attempting to provide historical support for Romney’s plan by stating that “Jack Kennedy lowered tax rates, increased growth”, Biden apparently thought it would be great opportunity for a Lloyd Bentsen-style zinger sound bite, so he sarcastically interjected “Oh, now you’re Jack Kennedy?”. Biden’s statem...
...ands attain self-government or independence. This, however, was never the objective of the United States, as revealed by the declassified National Security Action Memorandum No. 145 (NSAM No. 145), signed by President John F. Kennedy on April 18, 1962. Kennedy writes in NSAM No. 145 that it is “unlikely that the Trust Territory could ever become a viable, independent nation” and therefore, “it is in the interest of the United States that the Trus...
...both sides are working themselves into a lather over the case, it’s probable that the ruling will leave them disappointed. Given the current composition of the court—which hinges on the moderately conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy —the Nine will almost certainly rule that gun ownership is an inalienable right, but one that can be regulated. In any event, how we got to this point merits a discussion of the battle over the 2nd Amendment. Those w...
...nted Joel Klein—most recently the chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, Inc. and before that an assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division—as chancellor. Klein recently selected Caroline Kennedy, at a salary, like Bloomberg, of $1 per year, to serve as chief fundraiser for the school system, demonstrating the overlap in the Bloomberg administration between the private and public spheres. Klein hopes that Ken...
The incumbent Republican senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, is locked in a grueling reelection race against Democratic challenger and Harvard Law professor, Elizabeth Warren. Brown was elected back in 2010 to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late and legendary liberal Ted Kennedy; the defining issue of the special election was Obamacare, which Brown promised to vote against. Brown’s election was expected to end the debate over the healt...
...to the United Launch Alliance, carryies military and intelligence satellites to orbit. U.S. military interests have long been the chief driver of both space commercialism and U.S. space policy in general. As senator, John F. Kennedy opposed the space program, but as president, John F. Kennedy needed a way to demonstrate military superiority over the Soviet Union. So, at Lyndon Johnson‘s urging, he endorsed the Apollo program, whose fulfill...
...itutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Throughout the night, Clarida regularly stressed Bair’s modesty when noting that she had been named one of Time magazine’s top 100 most influential people, received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, and was a character in the HBO film Too Big To Fail. Amid the discussion of credit default swaps, capital requirements, and mortgage restructuring, Bair stressed the importance of trust – no...
So a 63-year-old WASPy Native American and a college age nudist/porn star run for the U.S. Senate. It sounds like the setup to a cocktail party joke. But it’s not. Enter Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. Senator Brown made national headlines in 2010 when he won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in a special election. During that election, it came out that Brown had posed nude for Cosmo magazine when he...
This past Thursday, Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke under Low Rotunda, in an event titled “Challenges of Transformation in a Fragile State; The Case of Liberia.” Sirleaf is the 24th (and current) President of the Republic of Liberia and the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. A graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she has served in various positions for the Finance Ministries under Liberia’s Tolbert and Doe...
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