Lawrence Eagleburger 1930-2011

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger passed away today. He was 80. Eagleburger joined the foreign service in 1957 following service in the Army and completion of graduate school. He went on to serve on the National Council under President Nixon, as...

Hubert Humphrey’s Hundredth Birthday

Last Friday marked a century since the birth in South Dakota of a son to a small-town druggist named Hubert Horatio Humphrey. That boy, who received the same sonorous appelation, grew up to be mayor of Minneapolis (he moved to the Land of a Thousand Lakes for college...

News Conferences

At the Christian Science Monitor,  Ruth Walker explains how RN helped popularize the term “news conference” as an alternative to “press conference.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the Fed’s first-ever official press conference...