Nothing To See Here, Keep Moving
We’ve recently seen release of ever more definitive documents showing that nothing happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, despite the use of the “Incident” as Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War MacGuffin.
Now we learn that the Kennedy Administration’s finest hour, the storied grace under pressure of a wise […]

Beginning of the End
A fugitive from American fraud and bribery charges since the 1970s, Robert Vesco may have died in Cuba, which jailed him for a more than a decade.
The Associated Press reports that a Robert Vesco died and was buried last year in Havana, but quotes an American writer who interviewed […]

One Man, Our Vote
Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.
“Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.
Vote Early & Vote Often

When Golf Was King
Golf Digest takes a loving look back at Eisenhower era on the links. Even they are astonished at Ike’s days wandering the fields, and a handy chart allows you to track his obsessive play day by day.
All […]

How Was I to Know?

Portfolio runs an excerpt from John Rosen’s The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, focused on colorful 70s corporate bandit Robert Vesco.
Vesco’s currently doing the last years of a 13 year sentence in Cuba, jailed on murky charges after years of gilded exile in socialism’s […]