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Damage control again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Immigration, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, White House, Freedom of the Press, Carney (music group), Barack Obama
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President Biden? History says no
I read with interest Jules Witcover's recent column regarding Vice President Joe Biden ("Could Biden benefit from Clinton's handling of Benghazi?" May 14). He infers that the Benghzai scandal could cost Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential...Tags: Martin van Buren, Politics, Elections, George H.W. Bush
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A stain on the Democratic brand
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as excessively...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Internal Revenue Service, White House, U.S. Department of State, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: Politics, Andrew Cuomo, The Washington Post, Martin O'Malley, U.S. Department of State
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Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...Tags: Barack Obama, Libya, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, Afghanistan
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Benghazi yet again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The debate over the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that briefly enlivened the 2012 presidential campaign will be revived today (Wednesday) in a hearing before a House committee exploring allegations that the...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), White House, U.S. Department of State, Interior Policy, George W. Bush
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Obama's uncertain trumpet
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In President Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...Tags: Gun Control, White House, World War I (1914-1918), Interior Policy, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Obama's revealing reflections
Probing questions at presidential news conferences sometimes have a way of getting their principals to reflect on their state of mind -- and at the same time the state their presidency, particularly when things aren't going well. Back in 1995, when Bill...Tags: Gun Control, Television, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Interior Policy, Television Networks
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Honoring the 43rd president
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior the other day at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics
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Pollution in the news stream
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In today's ever-growing coagulation of fact, fiction and rumor from print, digital and social media, where is the news consumer to look with confidence for the truth? The flood of instant accounts of the Boston marathon explosions and their...Tags: Gun Control, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), White House, Interior Policy, Sports
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Dubya's library opens debate about presidential record
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The other three living former American Presidents -- Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton -- are all scheduled to show up tomorrow (Thursday) at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist...Tags: White House, Libraries, Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
May 19, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 3, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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