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- Key Lawmakers Not Sold On Navy Plan To Stop DDG-1000 Destroyer Buy In Favor of DDG-51
- By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers on defense panels said yesterday they were not sold on the Navy's new plan to stop the DDG-1000 destroyer program at the two ships already funded and build more of the older and cheaper DDG-51 combatants. Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee Chairman...
- Research articles 2008-07-24
- God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
- God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from john F. Kennedy to George W. Bush. By Randall Balmer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. 243 pp. $24.95 paper. In 1960, presidential candidate John Kennedy insisted that his religion should be a non-issue; most voters apparently agreed, and...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Should public relations experts ever be privileged persons?
- INTRODUCTION Over the past decade, the media fixation with pursuing crime stories has made it increasingly difficult for persons accused of a crime to enjoy a fair judicial process. (2) The media's concentration on trials to increase ratings and profits delivers what the voyeuristic public wants to see: raw...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- On the defensive: Walter Reuther's testimony before the McClellan labor rackets committee
- From January 1957 to March 1960, the United States Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, popularly known as the McClellan Committee, pursued the most extensive investigation of labor-management relations in American history. On 30 January 1957 the United States Senate authorized the select committee...
- Research articles 1999-09-22
- More Signs the Healthcare-Reform Freight Train Is Gathering Steam
- Political momentum for a major overhaul of the dysfunctional $2 trillion U.S. healthcare system isn't limited to recently released congressional white papers, it turns out. Check out today's portents that suggest President-elect Barack Obama will make an early and significant push to enact sweeping healthcare reforms: Obama's...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Kennedy, Baucus Have Differences on Reform Plan
- The battle lines on health care reform are being drawn, not between Republicans who have no real power and Democrats, but between Democrats like Sen. Max Baucus who favor a public plan with a small “p,†or would even kick that can down the road, and those like Sen. Kennedy...
- Blog posts 2009-05-30
- Kennedy's Plan Dribbles Out, Showing Complexity of Reform
- There are no surprises in an early version of a health reform bill drafted by Sen. Edward Kennedy’s committee. In a section of the bill devoted to insurance reform, The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions HELP Committee favors guaranteed issue of policies without pre-existing condition exclusions, limited community rating...
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- The Unexpected Lesson of Ted Kennedy's Success
- Up until his mid-40s, Ted Kennedy was a low achiever, at least by his family's standards. Kennedy's example proves you can turn around your career at anytime. by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Kennedy's Death Reminds us of Priorities
- I was scheduled to appear on both CNN and the CBS Early Show this morning to discuss the economy and the stock market. By 4:00 am, both segments had been canceled due to the death of Edward M. Kennedy. It was a good reminder that despite the focus on money,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
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- Senator Edward Kennedy: A Tireless Legislator And Courageous Man
- Editor's Note: During his 47 years in the Senate, the late Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts was a lion of U.S. health care and health policy. We at Health Affairs, along with much of the rest of America, grieve at his passing. We recently asked Democratic and Republican politicians, policy...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Senator Ted Kennedy Dies After Battling Brain Cancer
- Date posted: 2009-08-26 10:33:00.0 HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts — Ted Kennedy, 77, the man described by President Obama as "the greatest United States Senator of our time," but whose lengthy career and ambition for higher office were tarnished by a controversial 1969 auto accident, died late Tuesday after a battle with...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Edward M. Kennedy Edward M. Kennedy (born 1932), youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, entered the U.S. Senate at age 30 and steadily gained influence as he continued to win re-election. Largely because of the glamorous "Kennedy legacy," he was considered a potential Democratic presidential...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Edward M. Kennedy Edward M. Kennedy (born 1932), youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, entered the U.S. Senate at age 30 and steadily gained influence as he continued to win re-election. Largely because of the glamorous "Kennedy legacy," he was considered a potential Democratic presidential...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Kennedy's Story of Her Assault
- The briefing was over and Maj. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, one of the highest-ranking women in the U.S. Army, extended her hand to Brig. Gen. Larry Smith. Kennedy and Smith were alone in Kennedy's Pentagon office, although the door was open and Kennedy's assistant was sitting just outside. Smith ignored the...
- Research articles 2000-05-08
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Renewables to Overtake Energy Incumbents Within Decade
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to controversy. The environmental lawyer and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance served jail time in 2001 for trespassing after joining a protest at a U.S. Navy training facility in Puerto Rico , and wrote an article in Rolling Stone claiming the...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Masco chief Kennedy dies.(News)(Raymond Kennedy, president and chief operating officer of Masco Corp.)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Raymond Kennedy, president and chief operating officer of Masco Corp., died Feb. 4 from a heart attack at his home in Bloomfield. He was 60. Under Kennedy, the Taylor, Mich.-based company acquired many vinyl window firms, including Milgard Manufac Raymond Kennedy, president and...
- Research articles 2003-02-10
- Joan Kennedy reaches settlement with kin
- BOSTON AP -- Joan Kennedy has reached a settlement with her children in their fight for legal guardianship of their mother, who has struggled with alcoholism for decades, a spokeswoman for her son U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Sunday. Joan Kennedy, the former wife of U.S. Sen. Edward...
- Research articles 2005-06-13
- Edward Kennedy's former wife found passed out in street
- BOSTON, United States AFP — Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy's former wife, Joan Kennedy, was recovering in hospital, after a passer-by found her passed out on a Boston street. Kennedy, 68, who has had a long battle with alcoholism, was suffering from a broken shoulder and concussion, her son,...
- Research articles 2005-03-30
- Patrick Kennedy crashes his car near the Capitol
- Rep. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car near the Capitol early Thursday, and a police official said he appeared intoxicated. Kennedy said he had had no alcohol before the accident. Kennedy, D-R.I., addressed the issue after a spate of news reports. His initial statement said: "I consumed no alcohol...
- Research articles 2006-05-05
- Kennedy, John F.
- John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TWENTY years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a public opinion poll indicated that he was rated best overall of the nine presidents since Herbert Hoover....
- Research articles 2002-01-01
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