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Richard Galant

Exploring the dividing line between the present and the past

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How a mistake spread from the White House to the New York Times and the JFK Library

Press Secretary Pierre Salinger holds cigar as he and President John F. Kennedy look over documents in 1962. (White House photo by Cecil Stoughton)

Soon after John F. Kennedy took office as president in 1961, the first lady’s press secreta...

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The Resolute Desk is a symbol of two nations' folly

President John F. Kennedy sits at the Resolute Desk in 1962. (White House Photo by Cecil Stoughton / John F. Keffedy Presidential Library and Museum/NARA)

In early February 1961, the White House announced that Jacqueline Kennedy had made a...

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The SAVE America Act is a poll tax in disguise

On January 7, 1861, the fiery senator from Georgia, Robert Toombs, warned his colleagues that a breakup between North and South over slavery could no longer be prevented.

Invoking a Greek myth, he argued that the abolitionists and their su...

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The false gods of politics

Every Sunday morning at 11, beginning in 1999, Venezuelans could tune into a call-in show hosted by their charismatic president, Hugo Chávez.

“Anyone could call in and talk to the president,” wrote William Neuman in his book, Things Are N...

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The black GIs who liberated Hitler's victims

Samuel Pisar was 10 years old when Nazi invaders rounded up the Jewish community of Bialystok, Poland. He survived three death camps and, the New York Times wrote in 2009, “was condemned to die at least twice, but managed to slip back into...

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    Richard Galant is executive producer of Now It's History and a Senior Fellow at New America. He founded CNN Opinion and served as its managing editor. Galant led two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams at Newsday.

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