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In debut, Gingrich threw a bomb

On the evening of Oct. 4, 1990, Newt Gingrich and his then-wife, Marianne, were enjoying a VIP reception at a Republican fundraiser when they were suddenly hustled over to have their picture taken with President George H.W. Bush. "I thought it was a bad idea," Gingrich said in a series of interviews in 1992 that have not been previously published. Days earlier, Gingrich had dramatically… 0

December 26, 2011

Reflections on a war gone wrong

Robert McNamara, the former secretary of defense and an architect of the Vietnam War, said it all could have been different if McGeorge Bundy, President Lyndon Johnson's national security adviser, had not resigned from the White House in early 1966. "I believe if McGeorge Bundy had stayed in the government . . . he and I together could have prevented what happened in Vietnam," McNamara… 0

October 20, 2009

Afghanistan

Three insurgent groups detailed

In a confidential briefing to the Obama administration, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, identifies three main insurgent groups "in order of their threat to the mission" and provides significant details about their command structures and objectives. The first is the Quetta Shura Taliban (QST) headed by Mullah Omar, who fled Afghanistan after… 0

September 22, 2009

Afghanistan

General: Forces or failure

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post. Gen. Stanley McChrystal says emphatically: "Failure to gain… 0

September 22, 2009

Ten lessons Obama should learn from George Bush's mistakes

There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush. Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 hours, spent hundreds of hours with his administration's key players and reviewed thousands of pages of documents and notes. That produced four books, totaling 1,727 pages, that amount to a very… 0

January 19, 2009

'Deep Throat' source Mark Felt dies

Mark Felt Sr., the associate director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal who, better known as "Deep Throat," became the most famous anonymous source in American history, died Thursday. He was 95. Felt died at 12:45 p.m. at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. Felt "was fine this morning" and was "joking with his caregiver," according to his daughter, Joan Felt, on Thursday. She said… 0

December 20, 2008

Ford, Nixon were friends to the end

Months before Richard Nixon set a relatively unknown Michigan congressman named Gerald Ford on the path to the White House, Nixon turned to Ford, who called himself the embattled president's "only real friend," to get him out of trouble. 0

December 29, 2006

'Rumsfeld, Cheney and the president made a big mistake'

Former president Gerald Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush had launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration. 0

December 28, 2006

Ford left mark on the state

The tale of Deep Throat

WASHINGTON - In 1970, when I was serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and assigned to Adm. Thomas Moorer, the chief of naval operations, I sometimes acted as a courier, taking documents to the White House. 0

June 2, 2005

Cheney: Presidential power restored

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview that the proper power of the presidency has finally been restored after being diminished in the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate, and that President Bush contributed to the process by not allowing his narrow victory in the 2000 presidential race to inhibit him during his first term. 0

January 20, 2005

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