All posts tagged "Richard Nixon"
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9.7KBusiness and LaborThe Great Cranberry Scare of 1959 Wreaks Havoc at Thanksgiving
Seventeen days before Thanksgiving in 1959, a government bureaucrat set off the great cranberry scare with a warning: The iconic holiday fruit...
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5.6KMassachusettsJohn Adams Skipped the Inauguration of His Successor. So Did His Son.
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
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30.7K19Arts and LeisureArlo Guthrie Gets Arrested for Littering
A Thanksgiving dinner clean-up in 1965 launched Arlo Guthrie on a folksinging career, created an anti-war anthem and transformed an old church...
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7.6K9Flashback PhotosBen Bradlee, Boston Brahmin, Takes Down a President (The One Who Wasn’t His Friend)
Ben Bradlee, the storied newspaper editor who defied the Washington Establishment by publishing Watergate scoops and the Pentagon Papers, was very much...
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