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The secret friendship between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon: Letters they sent each other in the 80s show close bond with Trump lauding him as 'one of this country's great men' eight years after Watergate ... 'I think that you are one of this country's great men, and it was an honor to spend an evening with you,' Trump writes to Nixon in June 1982, less than eight years after Nixon resigned the presidency during the Watergate scandal. The two had been spotted together at the '21' nightclub and Trump was writing Nixon to thank him for forwarding a photo....

All of them outran Trump in their districts in 2016 Twenty Republicans bucked their party and voted against the health care overhaul on Thursday. More than half of the members who voted “no” are part of the Tuesday Group, a collection of moderate House Republicans. Nine of the lawmakers represent districts that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton carried in November. President Donald Trump carried the districts of 11 of the members voting “no.”. But all of the lawmakers outperformed Trump last fall. Fourteen of the “no” votes are Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee targets. Five of the lawmakers are also part of the National Republican Campaign...

Robert Reece has found that ignoring the Man Code has improved his life enormously. Not only does traditional masculinity oppress women but it also severely restricts the agency of men (a topic, I’ve written about in the past in the context of straight man love and hip-hop), often in simple, taken-for-granted ways. Straight men go to extreme lengths to perform masculinity. They avoid a wide variety of activities that they arbitrarily deem feminine or “gay” without analyzing the detrimental effects of this type of gender policing. Often mundane, seemingly inconsequential activities are heavily policed, inhibiting men’s ability to live freely...

"At a recent cookout, I uncomfortably listened to a quartet of women lambast their husbands while we all worked together in the kitchen. Their fellas were outside with mine, ....totally unaware of the disdain being dropped on their heads.....These kinds of conversations happen again and again, to the point that lazy husbands have become an inevitable, universal truth....Hold on. If the high heel was on the other pedicured foot, and women were seen as perennial boneheads in need of rescue, we'd cry sexism. Yet, we openly criticize our own "lazy, immature" husbands and fuel a stunted characterization of men in...

Kay S. Hymowitz argues that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it's time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn't bring out...

By kmock@onlineathens.com U.S. Navy Cmdr. Andrew Clyde of Athens, a member of the Seabees combat engineering group, takes a break along a dusty road somewhere in Iraq. Friends are keeping his business, Clyde Armory and Police Protection Systems, open while he's on active duty. Friends describe local business owner Andrew Clyde as someone always ready to lend a hand. But many didn't imagine that Clyde's willingness to help would lead him to a war in the Middle East. On Feb. 1, Clyde, a Navy Reserve commander with the U.S. Navy Seabees - a construction and engineering unit that is trained...

Here's the link to the July 5 program