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January 28, 2014
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Speech! Speech!
Clinton kept quiet post-Lewinsky, while Ford was downright depressing.
Loose Lipped
The Republican leadership has vowed to promote inclusiveness, but you wouldn’t know it to hear some of the recent comments by the party faithful.
GAME TIME
The president puts in back-to-back 2 a.m. nights rewriting his speech to make it “sing” and hopefully sway Congress. A former speechwriter shares what it’s like inside the White House.
Wasted Money
The U.S. spent 5 years and $200 million on a program to teach Afghan soldiers to read, but a new report reveals that effort was a failure.
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
A letter asks the administration to pick qualified African-Americans for positions on Alabama’s bench until “the court’s racial composition reasonably reflects the state’s black population.”
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