Tag Archive for George H.W. Bush

Overthrowing Carter

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President Carter was rising in the polls in October, 1980, and had closed the gap with Ronald Reagan. Carter was confident of re-election because Iran, in secret talks with Assistant Secretary of State Warren Christopher in Turkey, had agreed to release the 52 American hostages they had been holding for more than a year.

Oilman’s Son Guns Down Reagan

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Candidate Ronald Reagan was opposed to tax breaks for the oil companies and this pissed off Texas oilmen such as John Hinckley, Sr., as well as a friend of his who was running against Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush.

The Kennedy Assassination: An Ordinary Coup D’état

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Kennedy was despised by the CIA, the Cubans, the military, the organized crime bosses who had helped steal the election for him only to become the subjects of a Bobby Kennedy crusade; by Nixon, who felt the Kennedys had robbed him of the Presidency; by the military-industrial elite that had wanted him to invade Cuba again during the missile crisis of 1962.

Presidential Debate Nostalgia

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Two of my favorite sitcoms were on TV last Thursday night at 9. NBC had the eighth season premiere of The Office, and Fox News aired the third installment of a new show called The Republican Presidential Debates. Both were great for laughs and quite a few groans, but, unfortunately, the debate was the more fictionalized of the two shows.