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JFK: “CAMELOT” ENDED SIXTY YEARS AGO: PART EIGHT (OF TEN)
Throughout his life, John F. Kennedy was lucky—both personally and politically. Part of the secret lay in his physical presence. He was young and handsome, charming and articulate. He appeared...
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JFK: “CAMELOT” ENDED SIXTY YEARS AGO: PART NINE (OF TEN)
Elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, John F. Kennedy served six undistinguished years before being elected U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1952. In 1956, his eloquence and political...
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JFK: “CAMELOT” ENDED SIXTY YEARS AGO: PART TEN (END)
Sixty years ago, on November 22, 1963, two bullets slammed into the neck and head of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It has been said that he left his country with three great legacies: The...
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STANDING UP TO TYRANTS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
After taking office as President, Donald Trump openly waged war on his own Justice Department—and especially its chief investigative agency, the FBI. FBI headquarters Among his attacks on federal law...
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STANDING UP TO TYRANTS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Donald Trump’s followers are doing what even the Mafia has never dared: Threatening the lives of FBI agents and openly challenging the authority of the Justice Department. On August 8, 2022, the FBI,...
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STANDING UP TO TYRANTS: PART THREE (END)
On September 2, 1964, the FBI launched a full-blown counterintelligence program against the Ku Klux Klan—COINTELPRO—WHITE HATE in FBI-speak. Tim Weiner, author of Enemies: A History of the FBI,...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere—strive to be loved. There are two primary reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and that their...
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YOU CAN SURVIVE THE CRIME, BUT NOT ITS PUBLICITY
J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary director of the FBI, has been dead for 52 years. But his rule—“Don’t embarrass the Bureau”—is very much alive and well in corporate America. In 1959, Hoover—against his...
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