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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Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
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At the height of World War II in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt opted for a low-key inauguration to mark the start of his fourth term, with a simple swearing-in ceremony, a brief speech from the South Portico of the White House to a small crowd and a modest luncheon.
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OTTAWA (CP) - "I am not talking here about changes we will need in 10 years from now. I am talking about today. I am talking about now. We stand together on the edge of historic possibility. At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold." - Paul Martin, Nov. 14, 2003 at the Liberal leadership convention.
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Seventy-four-year-old John Young plans to leave the space agency on December 31st. He graduated from Orlando High School in Florida and received a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952.
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He toured the 20th-century horizon as fully as the leaders he wrote about.
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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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Pearl Harbor veteran Andrew Hlusak of Phoenix was fresh off a 12-hour shore leave on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard a fateful call that signaled the entire world was about to change.
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QUESTION: Good morning. Sir, does it bother you that there's a perception out there that your administration has been one that favors big business and wealthy individuals? And what can you do to overcome that, sir?
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Global Politician, NY Dec 12 2004 Lessons of Integration of Aliens into Finland between 1917 and 1944 12/13/2004 By Antero Leitzinger When Finland became independent on 6th of December 1917, the constitution, ...
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JFK would not have lived and diabetes would still be fatal if hormones had not been discovered 100 years ago.
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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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Air Force One roared into the air at noon on Dec. 19, 1967, carrying Lyndon Baines Johnson on a secret mission. The Vietnam War raged. Johnson was desperate for peace. He would risk a 4 1/2 -day, 27,000-mile globe-circling journey to find it, plowing the skies while awaiting word on his long-shot...
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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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"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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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 10--When President John F. Kennedy challenged America to go to the moon in 1962, it was in the middle of the Cold War and the Soviet Union's space program was well ahead of ours. Americans worried about a "space gap" and Soviet domination of the heavens.
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By Bob Schieffer. By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. Congratulations, Republicans! You are about to become the proud owners of a sparkling new 2004 convention - a four-day chance to make the case for the re-election of President Bush.