My uncle was a whiny 8-year-old and my mother was a nervous 10-year-old when they crossed the border from Mexico to the United States alone, without any other family, in hopes of a better life.
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Book compares presidential legacies
George W. Bush followed former president Ronald Reagan’s example but forged his own path during the current presidents term, Lou Cannon said, speaking before a group of invited guests at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday in a speech that discussed his latest book, “Reagan’s Disciple.”
Executive orders: acts of convenience
When publicly elected officials have the power to work in secrecy, what have we, the public, lost? When a right to gain access to information that should be deemed “public” is denied, where do we turn to in order to learn from our mistakes?
Stockman’s Slip
With the magnitude of problems facing the Reagan administration today, there is no room left for the squabbles that have been producing headline after headline. How can the President hope to devise a successful economic solution if he can’t control the members of his cabinet.