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Leave It To Beaver- A Spoon Full of Sugar For The Cold War
Mayfield is in mourning. Eddie Haskell has died. A generation of baby boomers has lost yet another cultural icon with the passing of Ken Osmond who played that two-faced, smooth-talking suck-up in...
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The Wild West of Presidential Convention 1960
National party conventions were once wild west spectacles. Exactly 60 years ago I watched my very first presidential convention on television when a fresh-faced democratic Senator won his party’s...
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Comrade Joe and Socialist Sally
To believe Trump you’d a thunk the democrats nominated Fidel Castro! Since “ Socialist” Joe Biden is just one step away from morphing into the Cuban dictator – that is according to my die-hard Trump...
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Sean Connery My First and Only James Bond
His name’s Connery. Sean Connery. There is only one James Bond for me. Sean Connery. The original 007 who just died at 90, was the embodiment of the Ian Fleming character. Just as Goldfinger remains...
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November 22, 1963 An Unforgettable Weekend
The iconic George Lois Esquire Magazine Cover from May 1967. Lois was to comment that the cover represented “the moment when all American kids started to grow up with live violence in his carpeted den...
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Gee Wally, Was There Really A Cold War?
Mayfield is in mourning. Wally Cleaver, Beaver’s gentle, big brother was reported to have died this past Tuesday. No prank of Eddie Haskell, the fact was Wally remained in hospice close to death. Now...
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Cuban Missile Crises at 60
The cold war chill I caught as a child is directly connected to events that happened sixty years ago today. The Cuban Missile Crisis gave me a case of nuclear jitters that have stayed with me ever...
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How A White Supremacist Integrated the U.S. Military
Harry Truman hoped to finally put racism to rest, Tommy Tuberville would like the South to rise again. If Alabama’s Senator Tommy Tuberville had his way, today’s army would have you trading in your...
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Barbie and the Bomb
While other girls my age coveted a Barbie Dream House in 1962, I longed for a home fallout shelter. It was the great disappointment of my mid-century childhood that my New York family never had one....
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The Ball Player and the Blonde
A major sports figure and gorgeous entertainer are romantically involved. The American public is enthralled wanting to know every juicy detail. At times it seems to eclipse the big presidential...
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Trump to NATO Nyet
When Donald Trump encourages Russia to attack our NATO Allies there should be more than a red flag. When it comes to danger as well as derangement we are at Def Con 1. Is anyone surprised that Trump...
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Gettysburg Revisited
You don’t have to tour a battlefield to understand the Civil War. Look at today’s headlines. We’re still fighting the same issues that fueled the Civil War. The author and her brother at Gettysburg...
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Artists in the Galleries – The Heckscher Museum of Art
I am delighted to be discussing my collage “Ambassador of Peace-We Are Friends” on Sunday, October 20, 2024 , at The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington N.Y as part of their Artists in the...
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Drone Hysteria
Are these foreign objects sent by a foreign country or an illusion fueled by modern fears? Look… Up in the Sky…It’s a Bird…. It’s a Plane… It’s a Drone! It appears that drones did not interfere with...
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Don’t Say Biden Didn’t Warn Us
Before Joe hands over the keys to the White House on January 2oth, he’s flashing the warning lights. In his final speech from the Oval Office, Joe Biden did not tell America to stand back and stand...
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Watching JFK’s Inauguration- A Day of Hope not Despair
#TurnHimOff Ratings are what Donald Trump understands. Protest in your own home on inauguration day. Turn off your TV Today is a day of no TV for me. On Inauguration Day, 2025 my TV goes dark. Other...
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How Rugged is the Constitution?
America’s Constitution was once our insurance policy against tyranny. Against a dictator. There were laws. There were the checks and balances they created that served as our guardrail to prevent any...
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Russia’s Insatiable Appetite
On Monday, the world we knew shifted under our feet with 4 simple words- U.S. sides with Russia. Eighty years of foreign policy flip flopping gave me whiplash. I have spent several decades studying,...
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Is Trump Putin’s Puppet? Cold War Paranoia Here Today
A Russian-controlled puppet placed in the White House was the stuff of Cold War paranoia and pop culture Putin has done what the Soviets long dreamed of accomplishing- a Russian-controlled puppet...
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Feeding The World’s Hungry -This Is Who We Are
How many of us of a certain age were admonished as children to “clean their plates” at mealtime because “people were starving in Europe.” Wasting food was sinful. Images of shivering, hungry,...
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