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Posts by David M. Kennedy

Obama’s Own ‘Rendezvous With Destiny’

By | 11.27.08 | 6:00 am

President-elect Barack Obama is confronting a cascading economic crisis, which seems to worsen by the day, not the week. As venerable banking houses collapse, once-mighty industries teeter on the brink of oblivion and unemployment mounts, the air thickens with recollections of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and comparisons between More…

The Vice Presidency — By the Numbers

By | 10.02.08 | 8:14 am

Despite Vice President John Nance Garner’s notorious description that the vice-presidency as not worth a pitcher of warm spit,” the fact is that the office, and who holds it, matter enormously.

That was true in Garner’s time and even more so today. Nine vice-presidents before him had advanced to the More…