Mag: American History Personalities

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  Interview: Walter S. Mondale

  Former veep Walter S. Mondale’s view on campaigns, debates and primaries...

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  Strom Thurmond Meets His Daughter

  South Carolina’s spiteful white supremacist senator had a soft spot for his secret black daughter...

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  American Journalist Dorothy Thompson Underestimates Hitler

  Adolf Hitler had shown little interest in talking to foreign reporters, but in late 1931, when he was widely seen as Germany's next leader, he finally agreed to meet with Dorothy Thompson, a savvy American reporter with a keen eye and a...

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  Encounter: Casey Stengel Filibusters Estes Kefauver

  Dodging questions is an art on Capitol Hill, where politicians routinely avoid answering uncomfortable queries by using various time-honored evasive tactics, including changing the subject, telling an irrelevant anecdote or uttering vague...

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  A Capitol Offense

  Congress enacted Prohibition but lawmakers didn’t go dry, thanks to bootlegger George Cassiday—the “Man in the Green Hat”—who set up shop on Capitol Hill ...

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  Ella Fitzgerald, the Vocal Virtuoso

  Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat...

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  Fat Cats and Vagabonds

  Harvey Firestone, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and John Burroughs were unlikely camping buddies...