by drkeithcox | Oct 31, 2022 | _externaldispatch
Ted Kennedy Had a Chance to Hold Nixon Accountable. Why Didn’t He?Senator George McGovern and his staff were desperate as the Democrats slogged into the final weeks of his 1972 campaign against President Richard Nixon. The Democratic Party was broke, dispirited...
by drkeithcox | Dec 14, 2020 | _externaldispatch
‘A fearsome decision’: Abigail Adams had her children inoculated against smallpoxThe future first lady feared inoculation, but she feared smallpox more. It was 1776, and Abigail Adams had decided that she and her four children would seek protection from a...
by drkeithcox | Nov 27, 2020 | _externaldispatch
Opinion | Remember the Chosin Few this ThanksgivingSeventy Thanksgivings ago, Pfc. Warren Wiedhahn was 21, far from home and freezing. During a winter of record cold, nighttime temperatures were more than 30 degrees below zero in the North Korean mountains.
by drkeithcox | Nov 20, 2020 | _externaldispatch
The story of the Gettysburg Address-and what it can teach us today He arrived in the small Pennsylvania town on November 18, 1863, a day before he was to give one of his few national addresses. He wasn’t alone. Gettysburg’s population at the time was less...
by drkeithcox | Oct 22, 2020 | _externaldispatch
John McCain demonstrates a civility hard to believe ever existed…
