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Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder went home to Richmond last week to deliver the most surprising speech of his four-month presidential campaign. In his State of the Commonwealth address, he stunned legislators by announcing the end of his quest for the Democratic nomination. Wilder took a page from New York...
LYNDON JOHNSON also seems to have thought his predecessor was a hawk, or at the very least found a justification for his own hawkishness in that interpretation. Riding Air Force One back to D.C. immediately after the assassination, Johnson writes, "I made a solemn private vow: I would devote every...
Yet when Brown re-entered politics, he plunged neck-deep into the very cynical side of the business that he now deplores. In 1989 he became chairman of the state Democratic Party, a post that required him to devote himself to shaking down fat-cat contributors. In less than two...
What came to dominate Japan's overall strategy was the impact of Hitler's stunning victories over the Western Allies in the spring of 1940. The Dutch army was crushed within a week, and Queen Wilhelmina fled to London, leaving the immense wealth of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia...
But Shevardnadze's resumed role will be far from what it was before. He will have to devote much of his time to resolving disputes with the republics rather than globe-trotting. Shevardnadze was hardly upbeat. "There is no reason for congratulations," he told the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "The time...