Category: Politics

November 25, 2014 /

Reprise: Thanksgiving at the Hollywood Canteen with Dinah Shore

November 25, 2014 /

Reprise: Bette Davis, John Garfield, Marlene Dietrich, and the Hollywood Canteen

July 10, 2014 /

FDR Campaigns at the Hollywood Bowl – 1932

February 17, 2014 /

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. JFK

February 17, 2014 /

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. FDR First Inaugural Address

February 17, 2014 /

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones. Abraham Lincoln

January 20, 2014 /

Hollywood speaks out on Civil Rights

Left to right: James Baldwin, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, Marlon Brando, Sammy Davis Jr., Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte

December 5, 2013 /

Nelson Mandela – NYTimes.com

Nelson Mandela By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday at age 95, fully deserved the legendary stature he enjoyed around the world for the last quarter-century of his life. He was one of the most extraordinary liberation leaders Africa, or any other continent,…

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November 22, 2013 /

JFK and the Awful Grace of God | Law on Politics

JFK and the Awful Grace of God | Law on Politics.

October 17, 2013 /

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let us not be afraid to help each other—let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.