Epstein Secrets

re William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover and George H.W. Bush. Six others tried and lost: James Cox, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Al Gore and John McCain. Interestingly, even the three successful ones had only one term as president. A caveat: Beware of any grand pronouncements about

erent from Lyndon Johnson without criticizing the latter. "One does not repudiate his family in order to establish his own identity," he would say. Gore faced the same problem in 2000, though many believe that he should not have tried to distance himself so much from a popular president who had pres

time distancing themselves from unpopular presidents. McCain was clearly a rival and opponent of George W. Bush. Stevenson was very different from Harry Truman, but he was, in effect, asking for not a third term for the Democrats but a sixth term — after 20 years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Truman. Sho

ction; campaign 2016 is expected to hit the $5 billion mark without breaking a sweat. He points out that this is not Dwight D. Eisenhower's or even Al Gore's America. If you want a measure of that, consider this year's primaries. I mean, of course, the 2015 ones. Once upon a time, the campaign season star

at this is not Dwight D. Eisenhower's or even Al Gore's America. If you want a measure of that, conside

en underway for eight months and whose course, it seems, will be essentially unaltered, whether Congress authorizes it or not. What would President Harry Truman, who once famously ran a presidential campaign against a "do- nothing" Congress, have to say about a body that truly can do just about nothing? Or ra

private, but continues to laud him for the media. Gore Vidal has no such restraint. On a television prog

tion.” “In English or what?” | was dumbfounded. “It was in English but also beyond all language. They told me that their associates had been to see Harry Truman when /e was president. Now remember Dick, he’ s the one who ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yet these creatures

t relaxing. Flynt had bought a paperback novel by Gore Vidal in the hotel store, but first he was readin

the victors launched Operation Paperclip, recruiting a variety of six hundred scientists from Nazi Germany to work in the United States. President Harry Truman ordered the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015430 exclusion of any “member of the Nazi Party or an active supporter of Nazi militarism,” but the Joint Intelligenc