He Will Be Missed

Early this morning, the world was shaken with the news that Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria were killed when their plane crashed while attempting to land amid thick fog in Western Russia. Ninety-seven people were killed in the crash, including...

The Office Of The President

President Nixon organized his White House into three functional areas: The Office of the President, the National Security Council and the Domestic Council. Each President makes his own decisions on how he wants his White House to operate. There have been seven...

Anatoly F. Dobrynin, RIP

Yesterday, the death of Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin, the Soviet Union’s ambassador to the United States from 1962 to 1986, was announced in Moscow. He was 90. Few diplomats served as long in Washington as Dobrynin. (One who served longer was Ernest Jaakson, who was...

Justice Stevens Retires

Less than an hour ago word came from Washington that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who was selected by President Ford as William O. Douglas’s replacement in 1975, has announced that he will retire when the Court’s spring term concludes at the end of June....