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And Tillman’s last words? The soldier with him at the time poignantly recalls how Tillman saved his life even while his screams couldn’t spare his own. To his buddies but 40 yards away who were unloading artillery into his chest and head he screamed, “I’m fucking Pat Tillman, why are you shooting at me? I’m fucking Pat Tillman!

Pat Tillman’s War
Read: Mother Jones

Pat Tillman died nine years ago today.

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Here at start of their friendship R. Reagan writes M. Thatcher after 1st private meeting & fall of Saigon 4/30/1975 via @BeschlossDC

Here at start of their friendship R. Reagan writes M. Thatcher after 1st private meeting & fall of Saigon 4/30/1975

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“When Jews looked around the world and they saw Hitler and they saw Stalin and they saw Mussolini, they felt mighty glad that the man who was running the United States was Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” says Jonathan D. Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. “Nevertheless he was a consummate politician. And there were things that he felt deeply about, and he made sure they happened. Arming America secretly was one of them. Helping Britain was one of them. Saving Jews was not one of them.” Read: ‘50 Children,’ About Saving Jewish Children, on HBO - NYTimes

“When Jews looked around the world and they saw Hitler and they saw Stalin and they saw Mussolini, they felt mighty glad that the man who was running the United States was Franklin Delano Roosevelt,” says Jonathan D. Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University. “Nevertheless he was a consummate politician. And there were things that he felt deeply about, and he made sure they happened. Arming America secretly was one of them. Helping Britain was one of them. Saving Jews was not one of them.”

Read: ‘50 Children,’ About Saving Jewish Children, on HBO - NYTimes

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Read: Martin Luther King’s Last 32 Hours

Read: Martin Luther King’s Last 32 Hours

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On April 3rd, 1973, Motorola engineer Marty Cooper placed the first public call from a cellphone. In midtown Manhattan, Cooper called Joel Engel — head of rival research department Bell Labs — saying “Joel, this is Marty. I’m calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone.
The cellphone is 40 years old today | The Verge
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via The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

via The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

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By the time of the election in November 1968, LBJ had evidence Nixon had sabotaged the Vietnam war peace talks - or, as he put it, that Nixon was guilty of treason and had “blood on his hands”.

The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon’s ‘treason’

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Flashback March 17, 2003: NY Times captures US on brink of war with Iraq. via @nycjim

Flashback March 17, 2003: NY Times captures US on brink of war with Iraq.

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Well, let me say first of all, it’s a great drama,” Carter told CNN’s Piers Morgan in an interview that aired Thursday. “And I hope it gets the Academy Award for best film because I think it deserves it. The other thing that I would say was that 90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good.
Jimmy Carter: ‘Argo’ great but inaccurate - POLITICO.com
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The World’s First Underwater Nuclear Explosion

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newsweek: Ronald Reagan hits the beaches of Honolulu with his wife, Nancy, on a visit to Hawaii in 1984.  [photo: Scott Stewart/AP]

newsweek:

Ronald Reagan hits the beaches of Honolulu with his wife, Nancy, on a visit to Hawaii in 1984. 

[photo: Scott Stewart/AP]

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libawr:

“Before we all know someone who loved someone on that list….”

Let’s not let the momentum after Newtown fade away or go to waste. The President has signalled his commitment to come up with a plan, let’s hold him - and all our nation’s leaders - to that commitment.

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nprfreshair: Biographer David Nasaw on Joseph Kennedy’s belief in a Jewish conspiracy to get the United States to enter World War II: At one point, in 1949, he goes to Hollywood — this is after Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator movie, which makes fun of Hitler — and he says, to a room full of Jewish studio executives, “You guys are going to be responsible for pushing the United States into war against the Nazis unless you stop your anti-Nazi films, your anti-Hitler propaganda, your anti-German propaganda. When war breaks out, the American people are going to turn on American Jewry, and there’s going to be an outbreak of anti-Semitism like you’ve never seen because the Jews are going to be held responsible for every American soldier and the destruction of the American economy.” Image AP via NPR

nprfreshair:

Biographer David Nasaw on Joseph Kennedy’s belief in a Jewish conspiracy to get the United States to enter World War II:

At one point, in 1949, he goes to Hollywood — this is after Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator movie, which makes fun of Hitler — and he says, to a room full of Jewish studio executives, “You guys are going to be responsible for pushing the United States into war against the Nazis unless you stop your anti-Nazi films, your anti-Hitler propaganda, your anti-German propaganda. When war breaks out, the American people are going to turn on American Jewry, and there’s going to be an outbreak of anti-Semitism like you’ve never seen because the Jews are going to be held responsible for every American soldier and the destruction of the American economy.”


Image AP via NPR

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The history of our time on Earth in a minute

A tapestry of footage tracing the cosmic and biological origins of our species, set to snazzy music.

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Clouds Over Cuba →

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