Civics
Watergate, Elvis & Everest
Egil "Bud" Krogh tells great stories on himself – all with the punch line of hoping people will learn from his mistakes and lapses of integrity. Krogh, a young Seattle attorney who was just 29 when he became a top official in the Nixon White House, became head of the notorious "plumbers" who used national security as their justification for breaking into Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office to look for damaging materials.
Your Top 10 influential books? Here are mine ...
One of the side benefits of recuperating from my recent surgery has been long blocs of reading time. I got four thick books as get-well gifts (including Douglas Brinkley's "Wilderness Warrior," about Teddy Roosevelt, from staff) and right now I'm plowing through an amazing book called "Citizens of London" by Lynne Olson. I heard a book review on NPR and was intrigued.
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Didyaknow...?
… that Sunday marked the ninth anniversary of the Nisqually earthquake? The quake literally rocked Capitol Building dome off its base on February 28, 2001. The massive 32 million-pound dome, built in 1928, had not been attached to the base. That's right: no bolts, no fasteners, no iron steel rods connected the dome to the base. Mere gravity held the dome down, but when the 6.8 quake hit, it lifted the dome a bit.
