He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president,the values he stood for – honesty,compassion,morality – endure.
For some couples,there are insurmountable obstacles to having children.
The only upside of watching US elections and electoral processes is,as Peter Hartcher says,to develop or renew one’s own appreciation of Australia’s electoral system
A faction in Kooyong has started to agitate for Mr Josh Frydenberg to be the Liberal candidate in this seat. The current selected candidate,Amelia Hamer,won the right to be the candidate with a large majority vote nine weeks ago. Will we next hear that she has “generously” stepped aside for Mr Frydenberg? Being a woman,she must know what action is expected of her.
For the hard right of the Republican Party,disgraced president Richard Nixon made only one mistake:resigning. Their new hero would never do that.
Unlike Richard Nixon during Watergate,Republicans remain largely in Donald Trump’s corner,even as he heads into an election year facing three criminal trials.
Daniel Ellsberg,the US military analyst who leaked the classified Pentagon Papers that revealed government deception about the Vietnam War,has died.
On this day in 1972,Washington police apprehended five burglars at the office of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex. The break-in led to an investigation that revealed multiple abuses of power by President Richard M. Nixon. His attempt to have the CIA tell the FBI to lay off the investigation was the smoking gun that led to his decision to resign. Nixon knew that if he did not quit he would be impeached. He announced his resignation on August 8,1974.
Decades collide as friends gather,lurid-coloured cocktails in hand,in a COVID-safe plastic dome at the hotel forever linked with the downfall of a president.
The two nations are right now locked in open rivalry for world domination - but for many years,they tried to be allies.
Over the past seven decades,the Queen has met every US president,bar one.