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(no url available yet) NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News says journalist and former President Kennedy press secretary Pierre Salinger has died.

NEW YORK Oct. 16, 2004 — Pierre Salinger, who served as President John F. Kennedy's press secretary and later had a long career with ABC News, has died, the network said Saturday. Salinger, 79, died from a heart attack at a hospital in France, the network said. It was not immediately clear when or where in France he died, ABC News said.

On April 30, 2004 Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s book “The Politics of Truth” will be released. Wilson has been an opponent to the Iraq war, having proposed instead continued UN sanctions and inspections in a “containment” strategy. But his fame first derives from his well-known July 6, 2003 New York Times editorial piece “What I Didn’t Find in Africa”. Second, from the media exposure of his wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA employee connected to studying proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In media reports Wilson is usually introduced as the person who disproved President Bush’s State of the Union speech...

President Barack Obama said Tuesday the American people love all things French and acknowledged his own penchant for Gallic food and wines. In his first interview with a French television channel, Obama heaped praise on the country in an apparent attempted to stamp out any lingering tensions sparked by France's opposition to the United State's 2003 invasion of Iraq. "France is one of the most important countries in the world," the president told I-Tele and Canal Plus, days ahead of a trip that will take him to Normandy and Paris for D-Day commemorations. He said French collaboration was crucial to...

Among the world's democracies, the French offers the world's best model of freedom. That's what the polling group, Zogby International found in its survey of the Arab population of the Middle East. Working with Zogby on the poll was the University of Maryland's 'Sadat Chair for Peace and Development's' Department. The questions were put to a cross-section of Arabs in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Given the choices between Germany, Great Britain, France, the United States and Sweden, a plurality of 45% picked France. The poll reveals how effectively the liberal mainstream has poisoned...

Pour La Release Immediateness DATELINE VERSAILLES: One day after Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to Iraq, les tout France from Paris Nord to Versailles came to a halt to honor the surprise visit of Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry to this sleepy Parisian suburb and former home of the Ancien Regime (AKA "Kings and Queens of France"). Arriving on the personal jet that is not owned by her but by her family, Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry (or Mrs. Teresa Kerry-Heinz as she prefers to be known in Europe), was quick to make her way to Versailles II in order to...

ST.-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France — Imagine the scene here a year from now if this genteel village enters U.S. history. On Aug. 15, 2005, President John F. Kerry returns with great fanfare to St.-Briac-sur-Mer, where his parents met and where he spent childhood vacations in a Breton coastal landscape immortalized by Renoir. Escorted by his cousin, Mayor Brice Lalonde — a former candidate for the French presidency — Kerry leads the celebration of the 61st anniversary of the Allied liberation of the village from the Nazis. Speaking fluent French, Kerry greets crowds filling narrow lanes and a town plaza festooned with flags...

EDITORIAL Mr. Kerry's French Every now and then, U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, lets slip that he speaks French. He chats with French reporters, has occasionally responded in French to a French-language question at a news conference, and once participated in a phone-in talk show in France. But lately Mr. Kerry has been at pains to keep his language skills under wraps. Why? Because the senator and his advisers seem to have bought into the idea that his fluent French, far from being an asset in his quest for the presidency, is a liability. It...

RELATIONSHIP John Kerry's French Connection By Dale HurdCBN News Sr. Reporter June 1, 2004 When Kerry got into the race in 2003, the automatic assumption in the pundit class and among anyone who hadn't studied his background thoroughly, was that the man is Irish. CBN.com – SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France -- This is Kerry Country. No, it is not Massachusetts. And it is not Ireland. It is Brittany, on the coast of France, where John Forbes Kerry's French roots go through this pretty seaside village called Saint Briac-by-the-Sea. It was here in 1908 that the wealthy Forbes family came over from England...

John Kerry: Too French to be U.S. president? Guest Column Domenico Maceri - opinion@vg.pdx.edu May 21, 2004 James Garfield was a professor of classics before he became the 20th American president. Wanting to show his abilities with foreign languages, he amused friends by simultaneously translating an English document into Greek with his left hand and into Latin with his right hand. George W. Bush can't match the same kind of multilingualism, although he did make use of his limited Spanish in the 2000 election and, since becoming president, when addressing Latino groups. John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee, may...

James Garfield was a professor of classics before he became the 20th American president. Wanting to show his abilities with foreign languages, he amused friends by simultaneously translating an English document into Greek with his left hand and into Latin with his right hand. George W. Bush can't match the same kind of multilingualism, although he did make use of his limited Spanish in the 2000 election and, since becoming president, when addressing Latino groups. John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee, may not be able to match Garfield's dexterity with languages, but his knowledge of French is much better than...

Why do the Democrats like to talk about Vietnam so much? Because it's the only war they ever won.

Below his picture the words read to the extent: "John Kerry's French Connection"..."And More..."

Not wanting to hurt his election chances, relatives in Brittany downplay affiliations St. Briac sur Mer, France – John Kerry's relatives in France bristle at jabs from across the Atlantic that the presidential contender has a French connection. They say Kerry has no link to France other than the home his grandparents bought here. "John Kerry is incredibly American," says Brice Lalonde, Kerry's cousin and mayor of this seaside Brittany village. "He has absolutely nothing French about him." For another cousin, Christopher Curtis: "This is an American story. John is an all-American guy with the benefit of having spent some...

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1485/diamond.html MIDI - SONG SUNG BLEU Sacre bleu, our Frenchman is running...Sacre bleu, for George Bush he's gunning His white flag looks like a rag...he needs a new one'Cause if he wins and plans surrendering...he will look like a bum...he'll look like a bum Sacre bleu...from the Eifel Tower...Sacre bleu, we'll shout "Leftist power!"Because if he wins and he plans surrendering...he willl look like a bum (musical break) His white flag looks like a rag...I think he needs a new oneBecause if he wins and he plans surrendering...he will look like a bum Sacre bleu, Kerry is a phony...Sacre bleu,...

SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France -- John Kerry's relatives in France bristle at jabs from across the Atlantic that the presidential contender has a French connection. They say Kerry has no link to France other than the home his grandparents bought here. ''John Kerry is incredibly American,'' says Brice Lalonde, Kerry's cousin and mayor of this seaside Brittany village. ''He has absolutely nothing French about him.'' For another cousin, Christopher Curtis: ''John is an all-American guy with the benefit of having spent some time overseas.'' With the race for the White House turning nasty -- and France-U.S. ties not quite mended from the...

<p>SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France -- John Kerry's relatives in France bristle at jabs from across the Atlantic that the presidential contender has a French connection.</p> <p>They say Kerry has no link to France other than the home his grandparents bought here.</p> <p>"John Kerry is incredibly American," says Brice Lalonde, Kerry's cousin and mayor of this seaside Brittany village. "He has absolutely nothing French about him."</p>

John Kerry's French cousin insists there's nothing gallingly Gallic about the Massachusetts Democrat. "John Kerry is incredibly American," claimed cousin Brice Lalonde, mayor of Saint-Briac-Sur-Mer and environment minister under Socialist former president Francois Mitterrand. "He has absolutely nothing French about him." The Associated Press reported today: "With the race for the White House turning nasty - and France-U.S. ties not quite mended from the Iraq war - Kerry's Gallic clan, when questioned, talks up his American-ness. Some are keeping a low profile, saying too much talk about France could be political arsenic." Lalonde admitted, "I'm afraid to hurt him," but...

<p>SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France (AP) — John Kerry's relatives in France bristle at jabs from across the Atlantic that the presidential contender has a French connection. They say Kerry has no link to France other than the home his grandparents bought here.</p>

LONDON (AFP) - US presidential hopeful John Kerry needs to stop acting so French if he wants to win the race for the White House, a French-born, US-based consultant and "medical anthropologist" says. "Kerry's trouble is that he is simply not the common man," Clotaire Rapaille, who's been contacted by Kerry's campaign team for advice, told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. In the wake of the US-led war on Iraq, which France opposed, the Democratic hopeful's command of the French language, plus his background in France and Switzerland, could be a real liability among US voters, he said. "Forget the French...