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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: legacy

legacy stories: 12 news summaries
OPINION

 Media Airbrush 
 Did Kennedy 
 No Favors: 
 Hitchens 

Camelot replay overshadowed real accomplishments, redemption

Aug 31, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Kennedy “legacy” is not pretty, precisely because it requires so much media “airbrushing” to stay intact. “One of the many dreadful aspects,” Christopher Hitchens writes for Slate, “is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and ‘torch passing’ rhetoric in general.... More »

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media • Christopher Hitchens • Ted Kennedy • death • Chappaquiddick • Kennedy family • legacy • senator • US Senate • JFK • Edward Kennedy

legacy

'Whiz Kid' McNamara Could Not Escape Vietnam


Jul 6, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Robert McNamara led many careers but will be best remembered for his time as secretary of defense during the Vietnam War. Though he privately disagreed with some decisions, he maintained a public optimism about “McNamara’s War” that earned him derision, Reuters reports. Describing the impact of the war... More »

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Pentagon • Vietnam War • defense secretary • legacy • Pentagon Papers • appreciation • Robert McNamara • Evan Thomas • Birch Bayh

 'Candid' 
 Laura Bush 
 Tells Her Story 

Met with historians to discuss her little-known legacy

May 24, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shortly before the election last November, Laura Bush sought to shape her somewhat hazy legacy. The former first lady spoke to historians, reporters, and other DC insiders in a 3-hour “legacy lunch,” at which she was called “candid,” “funny,” and “open” as she... More »

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women's rights • Laura Bush • literacy • history • historian • first lady • legacy

OPINION

Dads May Hatch Schemes to Leave Golden Nest Eggs

But best a man can leave is his good name

Feb 8, 09 1:29 PM CST
(Newser) - From King Lear to Tom Daschle, a father’s desire to provide for his children could leave them with a rather dubious inheritance—“a legacy of embarrassment,” Stephen Amidon writes in the New York Times. "Inheritances can be tricky things. Even those given with the best of... More »

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fatherhood • inheritance • father • Tom Daschle • legacy

analysis

 Bill, Gore, Rubin 
 Guide Obama 
 in Spirit 

Bill, Al Gore and Robert Rubin leave mark on transition

Jan 20, 09 9:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Three of Barack Obama’s most important advisers will accompany him to the Oval Office only in spirit, Gerald Seib writes in the Wall Street Journal: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Robert Rubin. In leaving behind a healthy record as Democratic building blocks, the Clinton years left Obama “what... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • Al Gore • White House • Bill Clinton • Robert Rubin • legacy • transition team • President Obama

 Bush Touts Mideast Legacy 


Dec 5, 08 4:24 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush is optimistic about his legacy in the Middle East, saying the region is a “more hopeful and more promising place than it was in 2001,” the Washington Post reports. Bush does acknowledge some missteps: “As with any large undertaking, these efforts have not always... More »

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Iran • Middle East • Bush legacy • Arab Israeli conflict • legacy • Iraq war • George W. Bush

 Bush Contemplates His Legacy 

'I didn't sell my soul:' Bush

Nov 29, 08 11:17 AM CST
(Newser) - President Bush wants to be remembered foremost as someone who "did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process." In an intimate interview conducted by his sister Doro for an oral history project of the Library of Congress, Bush lists liberating Iraqis, fighting AIDS in... More »

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Republican • White House • president • Bush legacy • legacy • George W. Bush • National Public Radio • Doro Bush Koch • StoryCorps

 Newman 
 Wanted 
 Charitable 
 Legacy 

Actor hoped camps, Newman's Own line would outlast him

Sep 29, 08 11:22 AM CDT
(AP) - Paul Newman broached the subject of his philanthropic legacy several years ago while fishing with friends in North Carolina. Even though he was a Hollywood icon, it was a rare moment in which Newman reflected on how he would be remembered after his death, one of his buddies recalled yesterday.... More »

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charity • legacy • Paul Newman • Newman's Own • Hole in the Wall Gang

Analysis

 Mbeki Leaves 
 Mixed Legacy 

How aloof leader will be remembered

Sep 20, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thabo Mbeki could never be as beloved as Nelson Mandela, so he didn’t try, writes Mark Tran in the Guardian. Instead, Mbeki projected himself as a competent technocrat: cool, aloof, almost disdainful of popular opinion. He leaves behind a legacy as inscrutable as that persona, with clear... More »

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Zimbabwe • South Africa • Thabo Mbeki • HIV/AIDS • Poverty in South Africa • legacy

Analysis

 Campaign 
 Tarnishes 
 Clintons' 
 Legacy  

Divisive tactics take shine off long-time winners

Jun 9, 08 9:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary and Bill Clinton have led complicated public lives, but they’ve always been winners. Now Hillary’s defeat has jeopardized that legacy, thanks to a campaign that saw her repeatedly stretch the truth, invoke assassination, and lose African-American support. It’s one thing to employ questionable tactics and win,... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Clinton 2008 • history • legacy

OPINION

Bushes' Brother Act Goes Out With a Whimper

Lifelong rivalry leaves both siblings at loose ends: Weisberg

Feb 11, 08 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - In perhaps the final chapter of their peculiar sibling rivalry, Jeb Bush's political aspirations lie smoldering in the ashes of his brother's disastrous presidency, Jacob Weisberg writes in the LA Times. "Jeb's position as favorite son rankled his brother," the Slate editor writes, and "George's mistakes have... More »

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White House • Jeb Bush • sibling rivalry • legacy • Bush dynasty • political dynasty • George W. Bush

OPINION

Candidates
Play the
Name Game

Obama's best selling point: He's neither a Bush nor a Clinton

Feb 4, 08 2:10 PM CST
(Newser) - With “little substantive to separate them,” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton nevertheless present radically different choices, argues US-based Guardian columnist Gary Younge. He contrasts Obama's fresh blood against "the sclerosis in America's political class," heaping scorn on President Bush’s “cronyism, sleaze, dysfunction and incompetence”... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • legacy • cronyism • George W. Bush

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