Dwight Eisenhower
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Republicans need to remember that Donald Trump broke through for a reason
- US
- October 21, 2020, 18:30
If a man helps to win the greatest war ever fought among our species, some four-lane highways he built later on will tend not to define him. Sure enou(...)

A history of secrecy when it comes to presidential illness
- US
- October 4, 2020, 15:04
A deadly pandemic raged across the world. Millions had been infected. And suddenly the US president himself was hit by the virus. The year was 1919. (...)

Oh Stony Grey Soil of Montparnasse – Frank McNally on culture, curve-flattening, and carrying on in a crisis
- Opinion
- May 15, 2020, 19:01
News that the annual Patrick Kavanagh weekend would not be happening this year, while disappointing, came as no surprise. A text on the subject from A(...)

Bittersweet surrender – Frank McNally on the Irishwoman airbrushed out of a wartime victory portrait
- Opinion
- May 7, 2020, 00:01
When the Americans accepted the surrender of German forces in France 75 years ago today, at a schoolhouse in Reims, there was an unusual Irish presenc(...)

Will there be a new cold war? Only if the US public want one
- US
- June 13, 2019, 01:00
The US president and those around him are set on a showdown with China for mastery of the century. There is assent – even enthusiasm – from other quar(...)

Maureen Flavin, the Mayo weather woman who made D-Day work
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 6, 2019, 23:15
It’s hardly unusual for a young woman to be out late at night on her 21st birthday. But on June 3rd, 1944, Maureen Flavin had a compelling reason. At (...)

Janan Ganesh: The big Chinese elephant in the UK-US honeymoon suite
- US
- June 6, 2019, 01:00
A populist is someone who abhors the metropolis and demands its respect. According to the cultural right, big cities are teetering Babels, lawless and(...)

For Trump to succeed, he must fail on immigration
- US
- April 18, 2019, 01:00
“Poor Ike,” said Harry Truman of Dwight Eisenhower, his successor-elect as US president in 1952. “He’ll sit here and he’ll say ‘Do this! Do that!’ And(...)

It’s Dixie, not heaven: Alternative guide to Augusta National
- Golf
- April 11, 2019, 06:00
In an alternate universe somebody in CBS will grab hold of a microphone at Augusta sometime over the next four days and go completely rogue. Ditching(...)

Why all US capitalists should vote Democrat in 2020
- US
- March 14, 2019, 01:00
In a country where “liberalism” means big government and “neoconservatism” implies utopian daring-do, the mangling of another abstract noun was probab(...)