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Touring country fairs in his home state of Nebraska in August, Senator Chuck Hagel was flabbergasted by what voters were buttonholing him about. Nebraska is one of the most patriotic and pro-Bush Republican states in the Union. There's a saying here that the Cornhuskers are proud of three things: their corn, the University of Nebraska football team and a nuclear-armed Trident ballistic missile submarine the U.S. Navy named after their state. The first questions voters asked Hagel, predictably, was what could be done to protect farmers from the devastating drought attacking their corn. But the second question...
...approving war before it recessed for the elections. Bush would have that in his pocket so he could launch military strikes perhaps by January when Congress was not in session. But the plan was in danger of already unraveling. Republicans were already heckling him. Congressman Doug Bereuter, a senior Nebraska Republican on the International Relations Committee complained to his hometown Omaha World Herald: "The administration has mishandled [its Iraq policy] "to the point that they have no other option" but war. They got their [military] planning ahead of their diplomacy and education policy." Bush clearly has a lot of educating...
...expedition was just about a grand trip across the West, as great as that would be, it wouldn't capture my attention or the attention of so many Americans," says Gary Moulton, history professor at the University of Nebraska and editor of the 13-volume set The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. What captivates scholars like Moulton, not to mention countless amateur history buffs, is the way the story grows and changes, adapting itself to evolving American moods...
...brutal portage across parts of Montana and Idaho that included some of the most rugged wilderness in North America. If nothing else, later traders and settlers, appalled by the expedition's experience, learned where not to go and found a friendlier route along the Platte River across Nebraska and over South Pass in Wyoming...
...line of work for which Kerrey was best suited. He could never have been as good a President as he is a writer. Kerrey's memoir of his early life, When I Was a Young Man (Harcourt; 270 pages), covers the period from his birth in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 to his return there at the end of 1969. He came home with a prosthesis on his right leg, which had been shattered in a fire fight in Vietnam. When I Was a Young Man is an astonishing, wonderful book. It has a few false notes; there...