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CHOU En-lai, the former premier of China, once was asked for his opinion of the French Revolution. "Too early to say," he replied. So it is with the Beijing Games that the late Chou made possible by working with former US Secretary of State...
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) speech in Dayton, Ohio, served as a perfect introduction to the American people. She was forceful, she was direct and she was in command. She also stayed positive. And, in her first speech as Sen. John McCain's...
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Earlier this week
On Aug. 8, 1974, the night Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Henry Kissinger assured him that history would judge him to be one of America's great presidents. "That depends, Henry," Nixon replied, "on who writes the history." Rick Perlstein,...
Many people have rightly remarked that former Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter Rodman, who recently died, will be greatly missed. I was once his fierce adversary, and I will miss him too. He was everything that his friends and colleagues say: a...
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STONE HARBOR, New Jersey -- I am lolling with some good reading along the Jersey shore. The sun is high in the clear blue sky and there is a cool breeze. Of a sudden a hurricane just hit. From my office comes word that Peter Rodman died over...
WASHINGTON Americans began mourning over the weekend the loss of one of the country's premier foreign policy thinkers and strategists, Peter Rodman. At 64, Rodman succumbed to leukemia, leaving behind his wife Veronique, his daughter Theodora, and...
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