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Caldera Should Never Have Had His Authority

As my esteemed colleague Frank Gannon mentioned Saturday, Director of The White House Military Office Louis Caldera resigned from his post Friday after the uproar caused by his office’s decision to carry out an Air Force One photo-op above the New York City...

Laughing Matters

The President’s decision to adjourn his weekly White House luncheon with the Vice President to Ray’s Hell Burger across the Potomac in Arlington, was reported and deconstructed with an intensity that finally struck even the media as a bit much....

Annals Of The Obama Administration

Here is the President’s speech to the White House Correspondents’ annual dinner at the Washington Hilton last night. He reads from a written text, and performs with the expected aplomb.  Some of his jokes are excellent; some are OK; a few are actually...

The Original Decider

From Michiko Kakutani’s review in yesterday’s New York Times of Presidential Command, the new book by the late Peter W. Rodman of the Nixon Center: Mr. Rodman [argues] that Nixon, not Mr. Bush or Harry S. Truman, “deserves the title of the ‘decider,’ ” and...