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...last stop of a five-day, four-country trip that also included visits to Russia, Latvia and the Netherlands, Georgia provided the most lively illustration of the main narrative of Bush's trip: tying the democratic movements in the former Soviet republics to his vision for democracy in the Middle East and around the world...
Despite these differences, Morrow goes to great length to find similarities among the three main characters. Both Kennedy and Nixon had siblings who died young, for example. JFK and Johnson both had voracious sexual appetites—as Morrow reminds us time and time again. Kennedy said he could not sleep without having had sex. While his wife Jacqueline was delivering their first child stillborn, JFK and a fellow senator were entertaining women on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Johnson too had many affairs, but he stands out more for his trademark crudeness. “[H]e liked...
...credit, Morrow’s portraits of his three main characters are at times quite touching. Morrow vividly describes the Kennedy family, dominated by patriarch Joe and rocked by repeated tragedies. John’s older brother and younger sister were dead by 1948; these repeated reminders of mortality spurred JFK to make the most of every moment. Kennedy might have operated on the assumption that since the gods had mistakenly overlooked him, “then better to take advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with...
...keep our position on the importance of anti-retroviral therapy, which should be the main therapy given to all people living with HIV/AIDS,” she said...
...Bernanke ’75 once joked that his main talent was “taking the SATs” according to a colleague, but it seems that he can hold his own in economics as well...