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Twenty-four years ago, newly minted first lady Lady Hillary Clinton wanted to boot journalists out of the White House. Reporters threw a fit, and the Bill Clinton administration abandoned the idea.
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Claycord – Talk About Politics
Scandal has consumed the final four years of every two-term president in modern history - George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon. Barack Obama's administration is the exception.
Trump’s son-in-law to become top White House adviser
Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump arrives with husband Jared Kushner at the Vanity Fair party to begin the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, US on April 17, 2012. Photo: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/File Photo US President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will become a senior White House adviser working on trade and the Middle East, transition officials said on Monday, in a rare case of a close presidential family member taking a major job.
Trump unfiltered: Tweets reveal his interests, insecurities
His message came at the start of one of the busiest weeks of Donald Trump's transition to the White House. It's a week when he and his team are preparing eight Cabinet picks for confirmation hearings, finalizing appointments and gearing up for his first news conference as president-elect.
Why Donald Trump’s selection of his son-in-law for a top White House job is a dicey decision
Jared Kushner is President-elect Donald Trump's son-in-law but he's also one of his key confidants. Here's a closer look at the man who is expected to be a senior adviser to the president in Trump's White House.
Hillary Clinton cheered at Broadway’s ‘The Color Purple’
In this Nov. 8, 2016 file photo, Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, greet supporters after voting in Chappaqua, N.Y. Falling in line with tradition, Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration. It's a decision that will put Hillary Clinton on the inaugural platform as her bitter rival from the 2016 campaign assumes the office she long sought.
Trump Relatives’ Potential White House Roles Could Test Anti-Nepotism Law
Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump have played key roles in Donald Trump's campaign, his transition team and his family businesses. President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he may give his daughter and son-in-law some roles in his new administration, but a 1967 anti-nepotism law makes doing so a lot more complicated.
Trump can get elected, but he can’t get people to like him
Donald Trump and members of his family take part in the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Oct. 26. Perhaps what is fueling President-elect Donald Trump's ongoing venom toward critics and his unquenchable desire for affirmation is his awareness, at some level, that more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton - and worse, a significant majority still do not like him. As Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans are confident in his ability to handle an international crisis , to use military force wisely or to prevent major scandals in his administration .
January jobs numbers show President Donald Trump is inheriting a strong labor market
This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table during a job fair at Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, N.Y. The Labor Department released its weekly report on applications for unemployment benefits on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016.
2016 Year in Review: Darcy cartoon gallery
The gallery above contains a little over 60 cartoons on some of the notable events and people that made news in 2016. Saturday I posted a gallery of 45 cartoons looking back at the failed Clinton coronation campaign.
Look back at the Clinton campaign in cartoons: Darcy cartoon gallery
Hatchimals were the hot Christmas toy this season that left many parents and kids hot and bothered when the toy didn't perform as advertised. Just as some Hatchimals failed to fully hatch, so to did the Hillary Clinton coronation campaign, leaving all involved with egg on their faces.
Bill Clinton vows major donation to foundation
The Clintons are redoubling their commitment to their family foundation - pledging to donate $200,000 to their family charity after Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory over Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election. Clinton Foundation chairman Bruce Lindsey, a longtime Clinton crony, announced the family's latest move in an email Wednesday to supporters.
Countdown to Inauguration Day: What you need to know today
One of Donald Trump's senior communications staffers says he will not take the job of White House communications director after all. Jason Miller said in a statement Saturday that he's decided not to accept Jimmy Carter only ex-president to commit to Trump inaugural .
The Fray: Schumer promises Satmar crowd to be their guardian
Sen. Charles Schumer, addressing a crowd of thousands of Satmar Hasidim gathered in Brooklyn Tuesday night, praised the American values and “Torah values” he said they embodied, and invoked the Hebrew meaning of his surname to pledge to remain their guardian and a defender of the Jewish way of life.
Bill Clinton’s FBI Director Urges Senators To Confirm Jeff Sessions As Attorney General
Sen. Jeff Sessions is President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for attorney general. The Left views him as the spawn of Satan over controversial racial remarks he made while serving as a U.S. Attorney for Alabama, which sunk his nomination to a federal judgeship in the 1980s.
The Latest: Trump to meet with Boeing, Lockheed execs
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. Trump's closest advisers see Democrats' complaints that Moscow hacked their private ... The CEO of Boeing is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago just weeks after a public flap over the cost of the Air Force One project.
The Latest: Gingrich says Trump dislcaims ‘drain the swamp’
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pa. Trump's closest advisers see Democrats' complaints that Moscow hacked their private ... A leader of Donald Trump's transition says the president-elect is no longer interested in his catch phrase "drain the swamp" of Washington.
Bill Clinton: “One thing” Donald Trump knows “is…
Former President Bill Clinton was clearly still working through his post-election feelings when he told a local New York reporter that President-elect Donald Trump "doesn't know much," but "one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him." Addressing several topics related to the election at a small bookstore near the Clintons' Chappaqua home earlier this month, the former president took aim at his one-time friend.
Today in History: Dec. 19, 2016
On Dec. 19, 1946, war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French. In 1777, Gen.
GOP electors defend rural voice
SEPTEMBER 14: Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a College of Southern Nevada campus on September 14, 2016 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Hillary Clinton is expected to be back on the campaign trail tomorrow after taking time off to recover from pneumonia.