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Gordon Mitchell

Red Phones and Daisies

3/2/2008 Gordon Mitchell

Joshua Keating takes a look at Hillary Clinton’s new “Red Phone” campaign spot and observes that it “borrows its theme and tone from Lyndon Johnson’s classic 1964 ‘Daisy’ attack against Barry Goldwater.”

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Gordon Mitchell

Cold War Perino-ia

1/17/2008 Gordon Mitchell

After fielding a question about the Cuban missile crisis in a daily briefing last October, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino later admitted, “I was panicked a bit because I really know nothing about the Cuban missile crisis.”…

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