On August 2, 1990, elite Iraqi Republican Guard troops invaded Kuwait. A lightning operation - in two days they had taken the entire country - that caught the international community by surprise. Although Iraq had been critical of the increase in Kuwaiti oil production that was keeping prices low an
Tonight, a long excerpt from Antoine Coppolanis excellent biography, Richard Nixon , published by Éditions Fayard in October. I had already reviewed a good book on Nixon, by Romain Huret (https://brumes.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/de-quoi-nixon-est-il-le-nom/). Coppolanis massive work (a biography that
If the terms President of the United States and sex appear in the same sentence, the 1998 scandal over a sexual relationship (fellatio version) between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky comes to mind, but this time It has nothing to do with them and everything to do with Calvin Coolidge , American pr
In the United States, the hero of the war often becomes president after a major war. It was George Washington after the Revolutionary War, Ulysses Grant after the Civil War, and Dwight Eisenhower after World War II. Eisenhower before becoming president Dwight Eisenhower was born in Texas