Today is President Barack Obama’s forty-eighth birthday. How does he plan to celebrate? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released the following statement giving the run-down of Obama’s scheduled birthday activities: In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the...
The New York Times is reporting Former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism operation. Current CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers about Cheney’s role in keeping the program secret on June 24...
Vice President Joe Biden contributed humor at Thursday's Health Care Summit at the Blair House. CSPAN's cameras followed Biden during the afternoon session of the summit. CSPAN also recorded a conversation he had with one of the participants and reported: "It's easy being vice president — you...
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of The United States. Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York to Abraham Van Buren, a tavern keeper and farmer of Dutch descent, and Maria Hoes van Alen van Buren. Van Buren's early education began in a small school house in his...
Vice President Joe Biden's Israeli trip further shatters the United States' already fragile image. Israeli newspapers captured the sentiment with one word headlines that read "Embarrassment." Biden's week long trip to Israel intended to 'pave the way" for revived Israeli-Palestinian peace talks,...
John Adams, born on October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, served as Vice President to the first President of the United States, George Washington. Adams was also the second President of the United States and served from 1797-1801. Adams was also an American statesman, diplomat, and...
William "Bill" Clinton was the 42nd President of The United States. Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas to William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., and Virginia Dell Cassidy. When Clinton was three months old, Clinton's grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy,...
Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman was the subject of a failed assassination attempt on January 29, 2011. The attack left a pair of Suleiman's body guards dead and was deemed an "organized attack" launched upon Suleiman's motorcade shortly after he was appointed vice president by Egyptian leader...
It’s a sad day for fans of Starz “Party Down,” as the network honchos announced that the series has been cancelled. "Party Down," although praised by critics and loved by fans, never grabbed enough viewers to really make its mark. With weak ratings and one of the stars of the series leaving to...
The much awaited get together over a beer at the White House happened Thursday Night at the White House where President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sat with Harvard Prof. Henry Gates and Cambridge Police Chief Sergeant Crowley to have a friendly discussion over Gates's arrest which...
