What if Lindbergh became president in 1940?
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Shortsightedness is one of the side effects of youth, and it is no less a problem in the life of a country than of a person. Belief in the invincibility of democracy, a particularly American brand of shortsightedness
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Standing on the threshold of the 20th century, the world seemed so young and carefree. In the warm summer air, the songs of birds could be heard and at times drowned out by the whir of the lawn mower. The clip clop of horses' hooves could be heard along the unpaved streets where children played their games. In the cool evenings, the lamplighter made his rounds. Shadows danced off buildings and sidewalks. There were those who enjoyed swinging lazily in the hammock or lazily gliding their canoe on some moonlit lake. Everything seemed settled and comfortable in familiar patterns, but there were changes in the wind. In a little more than 15 years, there would be almost three quarters of a million Model T Fords on the roads in North America.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
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You don't want it to end. You want it to be 2004 forever, or at least a few more days. It's too soon to give it up. Not yet. Can't it be 2004 just a little longer?
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Minnesota Republican Mark Kennedy, who is running for governor, currently represents the 6th District in the House. That seat was once held by the father of a famous aviator. Who was that congressman's son?  Chuck Yeager Charles Lindbergh Wilbur Wright Howard Hughes
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A large executive jet order may be just the beginning.
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DRESDEN, Germany -- Sixty years ago today, 15-year-old Karl-Ludwig Hoch ran for a bomb shelter just as the first illumination rounds lit up the sky, and as waves of Allied warplanes began pounding the city with incendiary bombs.
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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said today that the agency would propose allowing airline pilots to fly until they are 65 years old.
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Howard Hughes, the man who inspired acclaimed movie The Aviator, led a glamorous but ultimately tragic life.
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Nevermind the civil war debate -- the real question is why didn't the U.S. make a war declaration in the first place? That could bring an end to something that never should have been started
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration who remained a proud liberal even as others dared not use the word, has died. He was 89.
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&quot;My heart stopped    here on the ground.&quot;   -- Erik Lindbergh
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Description: The president plans to nominate one of his closest aides to serve as the next Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice would replace Colin Powell, who announced his departure Monday.
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To appreciate how George W. Bush and John Kerry each look at the world, it helps to start with Sept. 11, 2001. Minutes after American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon that morning, President Bush
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Former Polish president and Solidarity  hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt  at a political comeback by running for president later this  year. Walesa led a labor union movement that helped topple  communism in Poland in 1989, and was its first democratically  elected president.
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"Come to Think of It" (Viking Adult, 400 pages. $24.95) By Daniel Schorr: Everybody remembers the good old days. Time tends to filter out the rest. But after 91 years, 12 presidents and seven decades in the news business, Daniel Schorr doesn't seem to have filtered out much.
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Health care costs have risen much faster than the increases in social Security benefits, says John Kerry. He says the elderly of America will have a much better deal if he becomes President.