froomkin@washingtonpost.com.
Disgusting.
That would be lack of fashion sense.
Kerry's daughters couldn't shine the Bush daughter's shoes.
Winning in November is going to be sooooo sweet.
Let them. It will go over with the undecided like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl. No one cares for the bashing of children of politicians so I say let the Rats show their true colors. It is their own throats they are slitting.
If so, it should be all out retaliation on Kerry's wife and her financials, his divorce/child support records from his first marriage, Edwards family...anything and everything should be fair game. If they want to play it like that fine, but let them feel the results of their actions.
As a father of a daughter, I would take any attack on my child and respond in such a way that whoever attacked her wouldn't think about doing it again.
But in reality, I think Barbara Bush would take care of the situation directly. I would not want to get on her bad side.
Paging Harry Truman...
God forbid they ever mention Chelsea Clinton falling down drunk all over London with her ugly boyfriend.
I read most of the transcript so I could get a read on what was going on in the minds of these people, including the reporter.
The bias could not be any more obvious. The bile and hatred emanating from both the questions and answers is disgusting. Shame on the WaPo for even printing it and giving them another platform to spew. It's a pretty smarmy transcript, dripping with sneers.
Angry, you don't want to be around me when I get angry!
Posted 7/14/2004 12:30 AM Updated 7/14/2004 12:17 AM
Keeping Kerry company
By César G. Soriano, USA TODAY
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — It's July Fourth weekend, and Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry are shivering in a driving rainstorm, listening to their father make a speech.
As the rain grows stronger, half the crowd runs for cover. But the man stands his ground and keeps talking, oblivious to his daughters' discomfort. They're tired, soaking wet — and beaming with pride.
Anything to help their dad, Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry, become the next president of the United States.
Alexandra, 30, and Vanessa, 27, are the first-daughters-in-waiting.
The unmarried sisters live on opposite coasts but are so close they speak on the phone at least once a day when not campaigning together.
They don't look alike, and they have different personalities. But each knows what the other is going through.
"(Vanessa) is really one of the only people I can talk to about some of the things I experience," Alexandra says.
Alexandra, the tall brunette with model looks, is a filmmaker and actress who made headlines in May at the Cannes Film Festival when flashbulbs revealed she had little on beneath a sheer black dress. "Alex," or "A" as her family calls her, graduated from the American Film Institute last month. The L.A. resident describes herself as a bit of a dreamer.
Vanessa, a blonde with piercing blue eyes who resembles her dad, is a third-year med student at Harvard Medical School. "Nessa" is more intense and more private, yet more comfortable in front of the camera and well-versed in her father's platform.
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The women already have had close encounters with the tabloids.
Alexandra made global news with her wardrobe malfunction at Cannes, where she was screening The Last Full Measure, her short film about a girl waiting for her father to return from Vietnam.
"It was a beautiful dress that didn't withstand 3,500 flashbulbs," she says. "But 24 hours later, you just have to say it was a moment, time passes, and you hope you didn't embarrass your father."
Then there was the tabloid rumor in May that linked Vanessa to actor Ben Affleck after they made campaign appearances together, a rumor she laughs off.
"I can only assume (the rumor) was put out there by a Republican, as both women, in fact, clearly have better taste than that," Affleck jokes by e-mail. Vanessa and Alexandra "are remarkably grounded, well-rounded, down-to-earth people."
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-07-14-kerry-daughters_x.htm
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Outside the War Department, [Felix] Frankfurter [whose Communist activity is the focus of my article--Fedora] used his former law clerks Joseph Rauh, Edward Prichard, and Philip Graham to create another branch of his apparatus, which can be called the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group. The Rauh-Prichard-Graham group supported Roosevelt's reelection in 1940, lobbied for US aid to Britain and Russia, and staffed wartime agencies, particularly the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and its subagency, the Office of Production Management (OPM), which later became the War Production Board (WPB). The War Production Board was later found to have been infiltrated by at least half a dozen Soviet spies.
The Rauh-Prichard-Graham group included members who were involved in espionage activity and related subversive activity. After clerking for Frankfurter on the Supreme Court, Prichard had moved to the Justice Department, where he was regarded by J. Edgar Hoover as one of a group of Communists who had penetrated the department. Later, after Prichard had moved to the Treasury Department, he became the target of an FBI investigation which implicated Frankfurter and the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group. The investigation was initiated when President Truman ordered Hoover to investigate the White House staff to find out how telegrams reporting meetings between Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and White House aide Harry Hopkins were being leaked to journalist Drew Pearson. A wiretap on Prichard's phone revealed that Frankfurter was colluding with Pearson. Follow-up wiretaps on Pearson and Brandeis-Frankfurter apparatus member Thomas Corcoran revealed that Corcoran and Rauh-Prichard-Graham group member Laughlin Currie had conspired to protect State Department official John Stewart Service from being prosecuted in connection with the leaking of classified government documents to the pro-Communist publication Amerasia. Currie was later exposed as a Soviet spy.
Currie belonged to a group within the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group which Rauh and Prichard referred to in later interviews as the "Goon Squad". The Goon Squad was composed of 15 to 20 second-line bureaucrats from various government agencies who regularly met in secret to exchange information from their respective agencies. Besides Currie, the Goon Squad included Leon Henderson of the Office of Price Administration; Isador Lubin of the White House staff; Robert Nathan of the OPM's Bureau of Research and Statistics Division; and David Niles of the White House staff. Niles, who also directed Northeastern University's Ford Hall Forum in Boston, regularly reported to Frankfurter on events in Washington and Massachusetts and acted as a spokesman for Frankfurter. While a member of the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group, Niles and some of his associates helped KGB agent Michael Burd obtain transit visas for other KGB agents.
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[After World War II] Frankfurter maintained contact with the remnant of the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group. He continued his relationship with Rauh and Graham, and he used his contacts in the wartime agencies the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group had infilitrated to build contacts in the postwar State Department.
The Rauh-Prichard-Graham group lost Edward Prichard after the war. Prichard began vocally criticizing President Truman, prompting Truman to have the FBI tap Prichard's phone to determine if Prichard might be the one responsible for leaking information from White House aide Harry Hopkins to journalist Drew Pearson. Prichard's career ended in disgrace in 1949 when he was jailed for vote fraud.
Despite the loss of Prichard, Joseph Rauh and Philip Graham remained politically prominent. Rauh and Rauh-Prichard-Graham group member Leon Henderson joined other leading liberals such as Eleanor Roosevelt in forming the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a lobbying group which attracted anti-Communist liberals and disgruntled ex-Communists by professing to be liberal but opposed to Soviet imperialism. The ADA played a leading role in the movement to discredit Senator Joseph McCarthy. Rauh also served as counsel for United Automobile Workers leader Walter Reuther when Reuther was investigated for union corruption.
Meanwhile, Philip Graham gained political prominence by marrying Katharine Meyer, a Communist fellow traveller [Footnote: "The young Katharine Meyer was friends with Communist labor leader Harry Bridges and in the 1930s Meyer was a prominent member of the American Student Union (ASU), a Communist-infiltrated group."] who was the daughter of Washington Post owner Eugene Meyer, an old friend of Frankfurter's. Using the Post, Graham developed powerful influence in Washington, taking a leading role in promoting the careers of Senator Estes Kefauver and Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson, two future Vice-Presidential candidates. Graham also confided to Drew Pearson in 1958 that he was working to try to get Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, replaced by John McCloy. [Note: Since writing this draft, I have learned that in 1946 an FBI memo identified McCloy as a member of a Soviet atomic espionage ring which also included Alger Hiss and Dean Acheson.]
Frankfurter maintained his relationship with Graham and exercised influence at the Post. He also maintained his relationship with Prichard-Graham-Rauh group member David Niles, who served as President Truman's advisor on US policy towards Israel. Meanwhile Graham maintained his relationship with Rauh, joining forces with Rauh to promote the career and civil rights legislation of Lyndon Johnson.
While Frankfurter maintained contact with the former members of the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group, the wartime agencies the group had staffed were dismantled into other government agencies. An offshoot of the OEM's Divison of Information, the Office of War Information (OWI), which had been penetrated by at least half a dozen Soviet agents, transferred 7,482 staff members into the State Department, most of whom did not have security background checks run on them. A number of other wartime agencies were also absorbed into the State Department. As a result of this reorganization, the focus of Frankfurter's apparatus in the executive branch shifted from the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group to Frankfurter's main connection in the Truman administration State Department, Dean Acheson.
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The Legacy of Philip Graham
Philip Graham of the Rauh-Prichard-Graham group committed suicide in 1963, but he was survived by his wife Katharine, who used the Washington Post to perpetuate her husband's political influence. The Post played a role in helping the aforementioned IPS [Institute for Policy Studies] leak the Pentagon Papers, as well as helping Richard Nixon's enemies publicize the Watergate scandal.
Meanwhile, Katherine's brother-in-law Robert Graham became the governor of Florida, where the Post media empire was used to rig local elections. Katherine herself sat on the Commission on National Elections (CNE), a board of top media executives used to rig national elections. Prior to the Post publicizing the Watergate scandal, Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen had warned Graham that Nixon had evidence of her role in election rigging and was pushing to have her FCC license revoked.
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Also on the Post's Walter Pincus, see this thread starting at Post #1900. My own comments start at #2041.
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I saw Julia Reed with Vogue on MSNBC today (she used to be with Newsweek and I like her--most freepers will know who she is). She is the person who interviewed Barbara and Jenna for that magazine.
She praised the twins to the skies. Said they have their parents' best qualities; gracious, mature, poised. She was surprised how composed they were considering it was their very first interview plus a fashion shoot for Vogue.
She made it clear that the twins stated that campaigning for their father was their own idea and he was so pleased and touched that they would join his last political campaign ever.
Incidentally, later they had the Style editor from the WaPo on (Robin Givhan, I think), and she, too was pretty darn complimentary.
Of course we know newspapers have separate factions.
Since I remember reading that they are going to be openly campaigning for W, they're now fair game. That's just the way it works.
And this omission surprises you, because...
Jenna Bush, the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, walks down the ramp from Air Force One at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, July 9, 2004. Jenna is joining the president to campaign in a three-stop bus tour of the state. REUTERS/Larry Downing US ELECTION
Note this sickening example of "sins of omission":
