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Remarks by the Vice President at Westminster College Westminster College Historic Gymnasium Fulton, Missouri 11:35 A.M. CDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) That's a nice Missouri welcome. I'm delighted to be back, back here in Fulton, with the distinguished members of the Missouri congressional delegation here today -- and, of course, back in a county known by one of the grandest names in America -- the Kingdom of Callaway -- I'm told. (Applause.) And it's a special privilege to be back here at Westminster. I want to thank Dr. Lamkin not only for his fine introduction today, but also...

Peter Jennings just ran a piece on Kerry's Vietnam history. Included in the piece was a bit of video after this morning's interview with Charlie Gibson. Kerry (thinking he was off-camera) ripped out his earpiece, and said "I feel like they're doing the work of the Republican National Committee."

<p>Sen. John Kerry, the expected Democratic presidential nominee, promised here Saturday that if elected he would behave like a respected Republican - Teddy Roosevelt, who Kerry noted, was president when St. Louis held its 1904 World's Fair.</p> <p>Addressing a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered in the World's Fair pavilion in Forest Park, Kerry said, "This place was built by somebody who believed in the environment, who believed in protecting Americans, who believed in fairness.</p>

This morning Steve Doocey of Fox and Friends interviewed Howard Dean, and asked him a question about the "Panic attacks" that Dean experienced when he learned that he was to become the Governor of Vermont. Howie flatly denied it as false. When I investigated this I did learn that the term "Panic attack" was verbage that Carl Limbacher had inserted into the story, however, I found this an interesting study in the way People magazine cleaned up all the references to Howie's anxiety problems and the counseling he received, which he did admit in the transcript of the interview on...

<p>The third night of a three-day weekend is always quiet at the Missouri Grille. The regulars are worn out. They sit at the bar and sip their drinks. There is little conversation. It's a night to mind your own business, which is what I was doing Monday just this side of midnight when I sensed a presence behind me.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - Richard Gephardt's aides had meticulously planned the unveiling of his presidential bid, choosing Saturday as the day to announce he would form an exploratory campaign committee.</p> <p>But the news about Gephardt's plans leaked out two days earlier, raising eyebrows about how a savvy political veteran like Gephardt could have bungled something as closely watched as a presidential rollout.</p>

Alan, Aaron, Greta: The hands vs. the nose vs. the eyes By Steve Johnson Tribune media critic Published February 15, 2002 The eyes do not have it. New Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren got more free publicity out of a plastic surgery mystery than anybody since Britney Spears. Did she have her eyes done or didn't she? Did she do other facial work at the same time? And why is she, of all people, going on and on about it? In the second week after the former CNN legal specialist's new show debuted, those questions seem a little ...

They can't pin this on Bush By Mark Steyn (Filed: 13/01/2002) THE first time I gave any thought to Enron, the world's biggest energy trader, was during last summer's California blackouts, when the state had a go at blaming their woes on the company's chief executive, Ken Lay. "I would love," said Bill Lockyer, California's Attorney-General, "to personally escort Lay to an 8 x 10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" Fortunately for Mr Lay, he lived not in California but in Texas, beyond the reach of Mr Lockyer's ...

By Michael Steen and Charles Aldinger KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The besieged Taliban on Friday began surrendering Kandahar, their final bastion and birthplace, which would allow U.S. forces to concentrate on hunting down Osama bin Laden in his suspected mountain lair. Anti-Taliban forces captured bin-laden's main base in the Tora Bora mountains of eastern Afghanistan, but failed to find the Saudi-born militant, blamed for the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 4,000 in the United States. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said Taliban fighters began handing their weapons to a commission of tribal elders, Islamic scholars and mujahidden commanders in the ...

<p>A year ago, then-Sen. John Ashcroft had an official campaign Web site where he espoused his views and his "Missouri Values" theme.</p> <p>Now, that same site is a portal to a pornographic site that repeatedly blasts raunchy images -- even after the viewer attempts to log off.</p>

Gephardt calls Condit's statments "disturbing and wrong" By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent 08/24/2001 10:58 AM Calling Rep. Gary Condit's televised statements "disturbing and wrong," House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt said Friday that he will talk to House colleagues about possible action. Such action might include asking Condit, a Democrat from California, to give up his choice seat on the House Intelligence Committee, Gephardt said. "I do not believe he was candid and forward," Gephardt said in an interview with Post-Dispatch writers. "He stayed in this zone of being evasive." "I didn't hear candor, I didn't hear an apology," ...

Carter candor Ex-president looks back, around and ahead at the nation and the world Interview by Serajul I. Bhuiyan and Richard Hyatt ---- PLAINS, GA. | The mayor, Boze Godwin, was wearing shorts. Stepping from behind the counter at his drugstore, he asked why I was in Plains. "We have an appointment with Jimmy," I said. "You just missed him. He was over at city hall for a meeting," Godwin said. Locals had met to discuss a Plains improvement plan, and the former leader of the free world had joined them. A few minutes later, cleared by the Secret Service, ...

Secretary of state says local judges erred in election JO MANNIES Of the Post-Dispatch © 2001 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 07/24/2001 09:12 PM Secretary of State Matt Blunt will declare today that court orders issued in St. Louis and St. Louis County on Nov. 7 improperly allowed 1,233 people to vote. Those voters, Blunt says, gave reasons that didn't meet the criteria allowed under state law. He said as a result, the judges should not have issued the orders that allowed them to vote. "This was a massive abuse of the court-ordered voting system," Blunt said in an interview Tuesday. "The ...

It's the press that's ailing By Charles Krauthammer The Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON - DICK CHENEY Question: "Mr. Vice President, can you continue in your current job?" Question: "Have you talked at all with the president about the possibility of resignation and how that would be handled?" -- Reporters, Cheney press conference, June 29 The silliness has gone on long enough. It is time for a little clarity about Vice President Dick Cheney's health. It begins with the distinction between having an underlying disease and what we colloquially think of as being "sick." For example, you can have progressive ...

£1,000 golden handhske Ron Mackenna Chief Reporter ANYONE who fancies pressing the flesh with former President Bill Clinton will be able to do so when he visits Glasgow later this year, so long as they are willing to stump up £1,000 for the privilege. Well-heeled Scots couples are already queuing up for the honour of spending time with Bill Clinton at an intimate gathering which will take place shortly before he delivers a speech for charity at the Hilton Hotel in December. About 100 couples, paying £1,000 each, will get the chance to schmooze with the one-time leader of ...

JUNE 28, 12:56 EST Milosevic Reportedly Handed Over BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Slobodan Milosevic was handed over to an official of the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday, radio B-92 reported, in the apparent start of his extradition for trial before the Netherlands-based court for alleged Kosovo atrocities. The independent radio station did not quote a source for its report. Reporters at Belgrade's Central Prison saw a motorcade leaving the building for an undisclosed location but could not verify if Milosevic was in one of the cars.

Jo Mannies On Politics : Non-candidates for the Senate are proceeding with caution By Jo Mannies 06/24/2001 She's raising money like a candidate, making appearances like a candidate and talking like a candidate. But Sen. Jean Carnahan says she has "no timetable" for deciding whether to be a candidate. "I get up in the morning focused on what I'm doing that day, and I go to bed thinking about what I'm going to do the next day," Carnahan said while in town last week. The question of whether to seek election next year for four more years in the ...

Campaign finance reform puts Gephardt on hot seat BY JON SAWYER Post-Dispatch Washingtion bureau 06/16/2001 WASHINGTON - With a congressional showdown on campaign finance reform just weeks away, the man on the spot is House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt. Advocates say that if Gephardt, D-St. Louis County, simply holds his Democratic troops together this summer, Congress will enact the most sweeping limits on campaign fund raising since the Watergate reforms of 1974. Gephardt says "simple" is the one thing his task is not. In April, the Senate passed a campaign finance bill sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Russ ...

WASHINGTON - Even as Rep. Richard Gephardt touts a campaign finance reform bill that would ban soft money, he has set up a committee to raise more of the unregulated, unlimited funds. Gephardt established a new account recently to boost Democrats' prospects in various redistricting battles around the country, perhaps including his own in Missouri. A spokeswoman declined to rule out other uses of the money, including a potential White House bid by Gephardt in 2004. Gephardt's move to start raising soft money comes just as the Senate voted 59-41 Monday to ban the practice and overhaul the nation's campaign ...

For Immediate Release March 29, 2001 PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT The James S. Brady Briefing Room Listen to the President's Remarks 10:32 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I first want to say how pleased I am that the House yesterday passed on a realistic, common-sense budget to the Senate. I appreciated the vote. They did the right thing. It's a budget that meets our nation's priorities. It's also a budget that leaves ample room for meaningful, real, long-lasting tax relief. I look forward to working with the Senate to get a budget passed. I'm also deeply concerned ...