In Washington, it’s often more the cover-up than the scandal that undoes a president. “And when it’s over, we’ll be hard-pressed to remember how it began.” So wrote Jay Carney, then a correspondent for Time magazine, in 2007, in the...
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White House press secretary Jay Carney, rear, is seen on a television monitor during his daily news briefing at the White House.
Carney: ‘Scandals Metastasize’ — in the Industrial-Scandal Complex
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks during a town hall meeting at Raritan Valley Community College, on April 11, 2013, in Branchburg, N.J.
Christie and Ginjer: 67% and Smiling
Six months after Sandy, the shores of New Jersey and New York are still climbing out of the rubble of a super-storm’s wrath. Billions of dollars in federal aid which took three months to secure from a resistant House are...
Read more »Obama’s Task: That Elusive Sentence
Clare Boothe Luce, a former Republican member of Congress, once advised President John F. Kennedy that every great man is a sentence. Abraham Lincoln saved the Union. Franklin Roosevelt brought the nation out of the Great Depression. “History has no...
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President Barack Obama is Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Obama Time’s `Person of the Year’
President Barack Obama, who won re-election last month and is the “author of a new America,” is Time magazine’s Person of the Year for a second time, the publication said today. The president joins 12 others who have been honored...
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event at The Ohio State University Oval, on Oct. 9, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.
Obama’s Early Ohio Voting a Boon — Five-Point State Lead in Time Poll
While President Barack Obama is virtually tied with Republican Mitt Romney in some Ohio polls, he holds a commanding lead among early voters in one new survey today. Among Ohioans who have not yet voted, the candidates are in a...
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Luciano Guadalupe joins demonstrators protesting outside the site of a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Romney’s `Swift-Baining, Tippy-Toes’ and Possible Return on Disclosure
Mitt Romney “on his tippy-toes.” It’s a curious image to conjure. Yet there’s a lot of dancing going on in campaign circles today. As Romney’s campaign accused President Barack Obama of taking special care of his friendly donors, the president’s...
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