Would you or I have shown the same courage, humanity and enduring spirit?
Category Archives: Archive
For Those Who Served
Last week was a stark reminder that in one split second life can end or be altered forever.
The Perils of Making Predictions
Pundits beware: Punxsutawney Phil gained a reprieve last week, after narrowly escaping lynch mobs and the possibility of time on death row.
My Testimony to Congress on the “Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Completion Act”
On March 19, I testified before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation on the proposed legislation H.R. 1126, the “Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Completion Act,” which calls for a new design for the Eisenhower Memorial.
The Most Important Foreign Policy “Secret” of All
Earlier this week North Korea threatened to break the 1953 ceasefire with South Korea, citing the probability of new international sanctions and U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for later this month and next.
The Road Ahead
The sun rises slowly in southern Pennsylvania, ushering in a day full of promise and potential.
Only in Washington
Earlier this month I arrived in Santa Monica to participate in a Milken Institute Forum with Evan Thomas, former Newsweek columnist and political biographer.
My Interview with Andrea Mitchell on the NRA’s Ad
Last week, I was asked to appear on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss my concerns with an NRA web video that compares school security to the protection requirements of the president’s daughters.
Reflections on the President’s Inaugural Address
During the Reagan years, one of my politically attuned daughters always refused to voice her opinion on the president’s speeches until she’d read the full text in the newspaper the next day.