The Fix: Is Harry Reid the next Chris Dodd?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 12th, 2010 5:35 am by HL
The Fix: Is Harry Reid the next Chris Dodd?
Lost amid the controversy caused this weekend by the revelations about racially-tinged comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) about President Barack Obama is the fact that a new independent poll shows the Nevada Democrat in the direst of straights in his re-election fight.
Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes is penning a different script for the world stage
In a scene from a recent HBO documentary about the Obama campaign, the candidate’s chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, looks exhausted after churning out a victory address following the last Democratic primary.
Nixon aide Colson said The Post needed to curry favor with administration
Charles Colson, special counsel to President Richard M. Nixon, suggested in January 1973 that The Washington Post fire Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, pull Watergate stories off the front page or produce “obviously friendly editorials” on the Vietnam War as ways to prove it wanted to end its warfar…