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The Vice President's House

The Question: Where does the vice president live? The Answer: In July 1974 Congress designated a house on the southeast corner of 34th Street and Massachusetts…

Fred Thompson

Candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination by Beth Rowen Fred Thompson Related Links Fred Thompson’s campaign website Profile of Tennessee…

Requirements to be President

  Just who can run for president? 2016 Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore Related Links U.S. Elections How a President Is Nominated…

2008 Academy Awards

2008 Academy Awards | Oscar winners and nominees The 2008 Academy Awards were presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. All of the nominees are listed below; the Oscar…

2008 Academy Awards

The 2008 Academy Awards will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre. Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon…

Philip Miller CRANE, Congress, IL (1930)

CRANE, Philip Miller, (brother of Rep. Daniel Bever Crane), a Representative from Illinois; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 3, 1930; attended DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind…

One Vote Against War With Japan

The Question: I was watching a movie about Pearl Harbor and it said that when the president asked for a declaration of war (against Japan) there was only one vote against it.…

Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr., 1924–2010, American general and public official, U.S. secretary of state (1981–82), b. Philadelphia, grad. West Point, 1947. He served in Korea (1950–51)…

Muskie, Edmund Sixtus

(Encyclopedia) Muskie, Edmund Sixtus, 1914–96, U.S. Senator (1959–80), b. Rumford, Maine. A lawyer, he sat (1947–51) in the Maine legislature after serving in the navy in World War II. He later…