Hundreds of GW and Georgetown students rush to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after hearing of the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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Osama bin Laden dead, GW students celebrate outside White House
GW Tuition: 42K; Dorm: 10K; bin Laden Dead: Priceless
Students joined thousands of revelers at the White House to celebrate the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces.
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Former Press Secretaries dish on the historic job and the state of media
Directed by award-winning journalist and George Washington University Professor Frank Sesno, Lisner Auditorium held a discussion panel earlier tonight during which four former White House press secretaries spoke on and sparred over numerous topics pertaining to the challenges of the job itself, changes in the media industry and the evolving role...
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Daily Links
The Automakers Are Back For More Wall St. Losing Hope For Leadership We’re On A Road To Dependency Cheering For Stimulus Buys Into 1930s Myth A Great Example Of Government Waste History Of The White House Wet Bar The Most “Educated” Man In America
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More Weird Facts About Presidents
Also From Mental Floss: 1. James Monroe once chased the Secretary of the Treasury out of the White House with a pair of fire tongs. 2. Andrew Jackson may have looked like a hardened old soul, but he was quite the merry prankster: when he was in school, he invited a bunch of prostitutes...
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Some Interesting Facts About Presidents
From Mental Floss: President No. 2: John Adams spoke with a lisp because he stubbornly refused to wear dentures. President No. 4: James Madison was hardly an imposing figure. Our shortest president, he was not quite 5-ft., 5-in.-tall and weighed only 100 lbs. President No. 5: In 1831, James Monroe became the third founding...
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The Last Minute Nitty Gritty
As the clock ticks down on the Bush Administration with unmerciful sloth, here’s the run-down on what will happen when a theoretical “transition” finally becomes disconcertingly concrete: President and Mrs. Bush fly to Camp David Friday afternoon for a final weekend in the rustic seclusion of “the Camp.” Over the next 36 hours, White...
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Dispatch from the White House rally.
Leaving a friend’s apartment, I see “CNN Projects President-elect Obama” displayed across the screen. I shake my head. I walk out into the evening. Horns and shouts pierce the air along with illegal fireworks, saved from the 4th of July, fired from the distance. I walk back onto campus. A crowd has formed in...
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Where Have All The Beards Gone!?
A post over at Andrew Sullivan’s blog had me curious about facial hair and presidential elections.. …wouldn’t Barr be the first mustachioed occupant of the White House since Teddy Roosevelt? Even if you don’t like the man, vote the mustache! This would be change we can see. Not quite. The last president to win...
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"Paint the White House black / and I’m sure that’s got ‘em terrified"
Your daily civics lesson and (very unsolicited) Obama campaign commercial, courtesy of Ludacris: Said I handled his biz and I’m one of his favorite rappersWell give Luda a special pardon if I’m ever in the slammerBetter yet put him in office, make me your vice presidentHillary hated on you, so that b**** is irrelevant...
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