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Bill Livingood Retiring

One of the longest serving House Sergeant-at-Arms and former Secret Service agent Bill Livingood is retiring after five decades of public service. Politico reports: House Sergeant-at-Arms Wilson “Bill” Livingood, who led the chamber through some of the greatest...

New(t) Gingrich: 2012’s New Nixon?

During this month the big political story on the Republican side of the 2012 presidential race has been the steady upward move of former Rep. Newt Gingrich in opinion polls.  Following a rather shaky start, his ability to display his wide knowledge of policy topics...

RIP Joe Frazier, Champ Of The Nixon Era

The late 1960s and early 1970s - in other words, what we now call the Nixon years - were very eventful ones in the history of American sports.  So many names and dates, sublime and heroic and sometimes comic, come to mind.  Bobby Riggs facing Billie Jean King before...