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7 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Edith Roberts
” In an op-ed for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse remarks on an enduring legacy of the late President George H.W. [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 5:37 am
[In The Atlantic, Franklin] Foer suggests this nostalgia is mostly bunk, since the WASPs were so often bigots (he quotes Henry Adams’s fears of a “furtive Yacoob or Ysaac still reeking of the ghetto”), since their cultivation of noblesse oblige was really all about “preserving [a] place at the high table of American life,” and since so many of their virtues were superficial, a matter of dressing nicely while practicing imperialism, or writing lovely thank-you… [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 4:44 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At CNBC, Tucker Higgins writes that President George H.W. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 11:57 pm by Steve Lubet
Marshall’s health problems forced him to retire during the administration of George H.W. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  As Vice President from 1789–1797, John Adams cast twenty-nine tiebreaking votes;[16] none of those related to the appointment of Presidential nominees.[17]  Between 1797 and 1801, Thomas Jefferson cast three tie-breaking votes,[18] and none of those related to the appointment of Presidential nominees.[19]  Nor did Vice President Aaron Burr cast any tiebreaking votes on nominees between 1801 and 1805.[20]  Vice Presidents, nevertheless, have since occasionally… [read post]
1 Aug 2018, 7:27 am
There's the Scott Adams idea that Trump deliberately gets some things wrong. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:05 am by NCC Staff
(John Quincy Adams was the first to ride on a train.) 2. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:53 am by Jordan Brunner
This will be Huntsman’s third ambassadorship following his appointment  as ambassador to Singapore under President George H.W. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 12:40 pm by Amy Howe
Larsen is married to Adam Pritchard, a Michigan law professor who teaches corporate and securities law. [read post]
13 Nov 2016, 6:15 am by JB
American Presidents who failed to win even a plurality of the vote include John Quincy Adams (1824), Rutherford B. [read post]
16 Oct 2016, 7:22 pm by Smita Ghosh
”).The LA Times features a review of The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, H.W. [read post]
17 May 2016, 3:24 pm
Surprised Adams made no mention of the most famous case of a presidential candidate making handsomeness the key factor — George H.W. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 7:50 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in October 1991, and the Senate never took any steps to consider her nomination, keeping the seat open until President George H.W. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 2:20 pm by Thomas Hopson
Porter was a Carter appointee, but Hansen was appointed by George H.W. [read post]