In a new tell-all book, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” now-69-year-old Mimi Alford writes candidly about her eighteen-month affair with the former president, starting when she was a 19-year-old White House intern. (more)
BOSTON (AP) — Final recordings President John F. Kennedy secretly made in the Oval Office include an eerie conversation about what would become the day of his funeral. (more)
We are now very used to observing the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death — the forty-eighth one ticked past last Tuesday. Were it not so tragic, our novelty-hungry culture would long since have rendered it banal. (more)
Today is the 48th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. I know it’s risky for a woman to give clues about her age, but I admit to remembering that day, now nearly (gulp) a half-century ago. (more)
Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” has a new book out, Elusive Hero, which offers an in-depth and well-researched look at the life and presidency of John F. Kennedy. In light of today’s focus on tax reform and the dealings of the congressional supercommittee, Matthews’s new book provides a timely reminder of the stark contrast between the policies of the man who brought us Camelot and the policies of the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (more)
The Daily Caller spoke with MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about Matthews’ new book, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero,” and what makes it different from so many other books on the former president. (more)
NEW YORK (AP) — President John F. Kennedy had just one critique when he saw photos of the actor set to play him in a World War II drama. (more)
Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal. (more)
Republicans are uncivilized, hostage-taking barbarians. Worse, we are drama queens. That wisdom prevails in our nation’s capital, as we emerge from our no-holds-barred, debt-ceiling death match. The GOP inconvenienced Washington’s comfortable elite, the story goes, to deal with a petty accounting issue: raising the debt ceiling. Washington has routinely dispatched this annoyance 74 times since 1962, without difficulty or drama. Why should this time be different? The established news media, in chorus with the Democratic Party, instructed us of their conclusion: Boorish Republicans, led by an ignorant and fanatical Tea Party minority, manufactured this unnecessary drama and put the full faith and credit of the United States at risk. (more)
No region of the world is immune to buying into outrageous conspiracy theories. But the Arab world is a conspiracy theory mecca (pun definitely intended). Maybe as a result of Arab states’ powerlessness at home and collectively on the world stage, perhaps as a result of their embarrassingly primitive societies, their failure to modernize and the lies passed on as truth on government run media, conspiracy theories thrive. (more)
For decades, Democrats have insisted on taxing profits generated by U.S. companies in foreign countries, because they think that doing so will force businesses to keep their investments in the U.S. (more)
Before ReelzChannel CEO Stan Hubbard bought the broadcast rights to the political hot potato known as “The Kennedys,” he watched all eight installments of the miniseries to settle the questions he needed to have answered. (more)
Last week, the president’s flagship supporters decamped with unusually harsh farewells. (more)
Last night President Obama gave a perfectly fine speech. He certainly looked, sounded and seemed presidential. So he may well get a significant bump in the polls, as some analysts predict. (more)
In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is digitizing reams of JFK artifacts. Among them: The president’s application to Harvard, including mediocre test scores and a refreshingly banal personal essay. (more)
“Stop the bad stuff” is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That’s how he defined the GOP mission. Now he’s speaker. (more)
Hugo Chavez, the yanqui-hating dictator of Venezuela, will not accept Washington’s proposed emissary and has dared the United States to break diplomatic relations. It seems Ambassador-select Larry Palmer’s sin is that he did not applaud Chavez when he used his rubber-stamp parliament to perpetuate his dictatorial regime. The State Department’s limp-wristed response was to cancel the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador. That, and silence from the White House, told the megalomaniac in Caracas exactly what the United States will do when Iran finishes building a nuclear missile base in Venezuela — absolutely nothing. (more)
Senate Republicans bound together last night to defeat the infamous omnibus pork spending bill, all fat-infested $1.1 trillion of it. (more)
John F. Kennedy wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book in the 1950s titled Profiles in Courage. Bill Clinton in 1992 had an incident called his “Sister Souljah moment” — a phrase that has become synonymous with the same definition of political courage used by then-Sen. Kennedy in his famous work: the willingness to stand up to your own base when you feel it is the right thing to do, even though it might be the hardest thing to do. (more)
Is cutting taxes immoral? Some people are arguing that extending tax cuts to the wealthy is just that. Was supporting Obamacare and taxpayer-funded abortion moral then? (more)
