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We were lucky to survive the Berlin Wall’s fall

Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: Nov. 9, 2019 Thirty years ago this week the impossible happened: the Berlin Wall fell. More accurately it was crushed by Berliners both East and West who’d had enough of the scar across their cityscape. Like crowds before them, in Leipzig and Dresden in East Germany, in Budapest and Warsaw […]

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Jeffrey Engel, Center for Presidential History, all the presidents’ vetoes

Backstory Originally Posted: April 5, 2019 To veto or not to veto? That was the question President George Washington wrestled with on this day in 1792. In honor of that decision, and the precedent it set for subsequent leaders, this week BackStory looks at presidential vetoes through two periods in American history. First, Joanne unpacks […]

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Listen: Clearing up your questions on Michael Cohen

MPR Originally Posted: February 28, 2019 Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, called his old boss a ‘racist’, ‘conman’ and ‘a cheat’ while testifying before the House Oversight Committee yesterday. Cohen, who pleaded guilty to several federal criminal charges last year — including lying to Congress — leveled several accusations against the […]

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New book from SMU historian Jeffrey Engel examines leadership, patience of Bush ’41 at end of Cold War

SMU News Originally Posted: November 2, 2017 November 2, 2017 DALLAS (SMU) – The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 was widely perceived as a victory for freedom and democracy – the end of the Cold War. Yet it threatened to be a destabilizing victory as the balance of global power […]