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| Preface | |
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| How Washington Works-and Doesn't | |
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| Big Shots | |
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| Victory Over What? | |
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| Slow and Bluesy | |
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| Get Out the Shovel | |
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| Dogs and Cats | |
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| Tractor Man | |
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| Park Service Follies | |
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| The "F" Word | |
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| An Unusual Man | |
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| The English Language Debate | |
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| Fighting Government Waste: An Act of Terrorism? | |
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| A Government That Can't Remember Anything | |
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| Lost Lessons from Vietnam and Watergate | |
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| The Weirdest Week Ever? | |
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| When Defeat Is Not a Victory | |
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| Nothing Doing in Congress | |
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| Vote For...Never Mind | |
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| McDonald's for President | |
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| Debating Debates | |
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| Just a Dream | |
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| My Exploratory Committee | |
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| My Friends, It Is with a Heavy Heart ... | |
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| The Industry of Politics | |
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| Geeks and Snolly-Gusters | |
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| The Joy of Voting | |
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| While Waiting for a President | |
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| What Was That Again? | |
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| Campaign Commercials | |
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| Presidential Predictions | |
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| Campaign Ads and Brain Waves | |
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| Axes, Pancakes and Big Rigs ... Oh My! | |
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| The Best Politicians Money can Buy | |
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| Calling Mr. Jefferson | |
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| A Simple Plan | |
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| Sam Houston | |
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| Needed: A Twelve-Step Program | |
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| All Things to All People | |
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| The Washington Aquarium | |
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| Casting the Line | |
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| A Real Debate | |
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| Bad Advice vs. Common Sense | |
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| The Money Game | |
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| Hail to the Chief | |
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| Include Me Out | |
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| Me, Too | |
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| Second Inaugurals | |
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| Role Model? | |
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| Starstruck | |
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| Are We There Yet? | |
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| A History Lesson | |
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| The Boy Who Shook Hands with JFK | |
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| One Year On | |
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| History-Makers Climb Mountains | |
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| Vacations | |
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| Reagan's Wit and Optimism | |
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| Lessons from Ronald Reagan | |
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| My Favorite Presidential Interview | |
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| Ford's Clumsiness | |
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| "If I Were President" | |
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| Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of News | |
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| The Senior American Official | |
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| One-Hundred-Year-Old Man | |
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| Kicking the Tires | |
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| For Danny Pearl, Who Tried to Get It Right | |
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| Escapism at the Paris Hilton | |
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| No Bribe Left Behind | |
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| Getting the Story | |
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| Practicing What We Preach in Iraq | |
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| Sometimes, Good Things Happen | |
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| A Case for Newspapers | |
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| We Didn't Get the Paris Interview | |
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| War and Peace | |
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| Pitching In | |
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| A Death in the Family | |
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| Our Policy and Our Aim | |
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| Service | |
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| Ben Hua | |
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| Bob Kerrey's Story | |
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| An Uneasy Feeling | |
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| Duct Tape and Tax Cuts | |
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| The Spin on War | |
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| War Reporters | |
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| What Comes Next | |
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| Going It Alone | |
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| Honesty Still the Best Policy | |
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| "No Excuse, Sir" Is the Only Answer | |
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| Sharing the Sacrifice | |
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| More Than Lip Service | |
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| Is Baghdad Too Hot for Iraqi Leaders? | |
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| Asking the Right Questions About Iraq | |
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| A Tragedy Waiting to Happen | |
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| Do We No Longer Practice What We Preach? | |
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| Seasons | |
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| The Christmas Story | |
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| Not-So-Happy Holidays | |
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| Valentine's Day | |
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| The Man Who Forgot Valentine | |
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| Friends Like These | |
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| Mother's Day | |
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| What Is There to Say About Moms? | |
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| Graduation Day | |
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| Code of Honor | |
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| "Dad, Please Just Act Normal" | |
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| The Name of the Day | |
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| Present at the Beginning | |
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| Checks and Balances | |
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| Saying Thanks for Thanksgiving | |
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| And Speaking of Food ... | |
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| Who We Are | |
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| Trailer Trash | |
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| Sophistries | |
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| Talk to Your Kids | |
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| O.J. and D.C. | |
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| The Hit Parade | |
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| Common Sense | |
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| The Baseball Lesson | |
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| A Century's Work | |
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| The Nation Faces Us | |
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| Good Schools | |
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| Vouchers | |
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| Listening in the Dark | |
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| Unreality | |
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| To Know More | |
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| The Scandal and the Church | |
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| The Ten Commandments | |
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| In English Only? | |
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| Barry Bonds Is No Hero | |
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| A Very Bad Habit | |
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| The Sunset of Life | |
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| We Are All Broken | |
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| Human Interests | |
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| No Police | |
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| Good News | |
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| Online and Off | |
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| Working the Phones | |
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| A Real Snake | |
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| Everyone Cheered | |
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| Top Dog | |
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| Coping with the Cell Phone Culture | |
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| Talking the Talk | |
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| Just Call on Me | |
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| Staying in Touch Too Much | |
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| Sorry, Andy | |
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| The Lives We Led | |
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| The Obits | |
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| Angel Wallenda | |
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| Scott Lewis | |
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| Diana | |
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| James Michener | |
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| Dave Powers | |
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| Madeline Kahn | |
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| Russell Long | |
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| Johnny Cash | |
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| Eddie Adams | |
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| Pope John Paul II | |
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| Peter Jennings | |
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| Paul Tibbets | |
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| William F. Buckley | |
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| The Unthinkable | |
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| A Grayness Within Grayness | |
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| Oklahoma City | |
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| A Very Small Place | |
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| Falling to Earth | |
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| 9/11 | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| The Origins of Hatred | |
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| Proud to Be Americans | |
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| Daily Reminders | |
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| Government Failed the People | |
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| 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina | |
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| A Nation's Concept of Itself | |
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| Flood-Level Hypocrisy | |
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| Feeling Abandoned in New Orleans | |
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| At FEMA, Your IQ Must Be Below This Line | |
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| Our Finest Hour | |
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| Heroes | |
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| FDR | |
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| Eugene Lang | |
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| John Glenn | |
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| Hamilton Jordan | |
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| Bill Proxmire | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Postscript: An Election to Remember | |