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 […]

And Their Flag Is Still Here
Miami may be knocking down the Orange Bowl, the sports stadium storied in legend and song, and the site of John Kennedy’s 1962 encounter with Bay of Pigs veterans ransomed from Cuba.
Shadow of a Gunman
The event came off […]

You can’t find your place in history when someone shuffles the pages

From washingtondecoded via historynewsnetwork comes a new interpretation of Lyndon Johnson’s decent into Vietnam: LBJ, the Best & the Brightest’s first victim.

“What Did LBJ Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It?” pivots on the fact that  Johnson was […]

It was like old times for Representative Duncan Hunter at the Orlando Republican Presidential debate.
Specifically 1961.
While most of the GOP candidates are content to bask in the warm glow of Ronald Reagan single-handedly toppling the Berlin Wall, Hunter has other roll back campaigns in mind. He’s going after Fidel!
Or at least making the […]