Truths and tales shape Trump era governance
A critique of how facts and falsities influenced the Trump presidency, Obama reflections on truth in the media age, and the danger of governing without a shared base of facts. The piece cites Lewandowski, Sanders, and critics like Neal Gabler, with historic references from Adams and Remnick.
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Donald Trump
Trump
Corey Lewandowski
Harvard
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Mike Huckabee
Team Trump
Hillary Clinton
Neal Gabler
Obama
David Remnick
The
New Yorker
Hamilton
Saturday Night Live
Scottie Nell Hughes
NPR
Hughes
John Adams
White House
United States
Steve and
Cokie Roberts
Stevecokie
Gmail.com
Heart's Content and the Atlantic Cable Legacy
David Shribman recalls Heart's Content Newfoundland once a global telecom hub. The 1866 undersea link connected Queen Victoria to President Johnson, spurring daily news, weather data, and safer navigation while transforming a fishing village into a social and technical center before closing in 1965.
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HEART
Newfoundland and Labrador
Menlo Park Lab
Thomas Edison
Palo Alto
Hewlett-Packard
Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
Illustrated London News
Valentia
Ireland
Trinity Bay
Newfoundland
Joan Clark
Atlantic
Queen Victoria
Andrew Johnson
New York
London
David Macfarlane
Labrador
Cape Breton
North Atlantic
Jesus
Cassie Brown
Conception Bay
Ezra Weedon
Ted Rowe
Avalon Peninsula
David M. Shribman
The
Post-Gazette
Dshribman
Post-Gazette.com
History Today roundup marks UN site gift and key milestones
History Today notes December 12 milestones from 1946 UN committee approving Rockefeller gift for the UN headquarters to 2015 Paris climate pact adoption. It lists events including Roosevelts nomination, Sinatra birth, Boys Town founding, Panay sinking, Kenya independence, Moore plea, Arrow Air crash, Bush victory ruling, Iraq troop withdrawal, and Saudi women voting milestones with Mayo Clinic founder quote.
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United Nations
Manhattan
John D. Rockefeller Jr
U.n.’S
Joseph H. Rainey
South Carolina
U.S. House of Representatives
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Straus
Commerce and Labor
Straus
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra
Hoboken
New Jersey
Edward Flanagan
Omaha
Nebraska
San Luis Obispo
California
U.S
Panay
China
Yangtze River
Japan
Kenya
Britain
Sara Jane Moore
San Francisco
Gerald R. Ford
Moore
Arrow Air
Gander
Newfoundland
George W. Bush
U.S. Supreme Court
Florida
Baghdad
Tehran
Barack Obama
White House
Nouri al-Maliki
Iraq
Paris
Saudi Arabia
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Robert Oaks
Will Barclay
N. Second St
Albany
Fulton
David Shribman
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Oswego CountyNewsNow.com
New York Publishers Association
First St
Andrew Poole
Palitimes.com
Mike LeBoeuf
Palitimes
Oswego Palladium-Times
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Palladium-Times
1St Street
Charles Horace Mayo
Mayo Clinic
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