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SF Gate
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has decided against his own White House run, said Thursday that his endorsement will go to the most straight-talking candidate, adding that "at least we'll have an adult in office who can lead and can accomplish something."..
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SF Gate
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A day after his predecessor's sex scandal propelled him into office, Gov. David Paterson revealed Tuesday that he had affairs with a "number of women," including a state employee, but said that does not affect his ability to lead.
Paterson had admitted..
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SF Gate
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who took office with the vow "Day One, Everything Changes," started day one of his life after allegations of a prostitution scandal with his outlook so changed that many wondered if he could remain in power.
The first-term Democrat..
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Washington Post
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White House officials arranged for top officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy to help as many as 18 vulnerable Republican congressmen by making appearances and sometimes announcing new federal grants in the lawmakers' districts in the mon..
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CNN
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Former Vice President Al Gore said he has "fallen out of love with politics" and has no intentions of running for office again. "The main reason is, I'm involved in a different kind of campaign -- to try to raise awareness of what I truly believe is the m..
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Los Angeles Times
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The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information.
An executive order that Bush issued..
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CNN
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Vice President Dick Cheney's office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman said.
The National Archives' In..
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USA Today
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House Democrats on Thursday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney's idea of abolishing a government office charged with safeguarding national security information — and criticized him for refusing to cooperate with the agency.
Cheney's office — over..
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Think Progress
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Responding to Drudge’s attack, Vice President Gore’s office told ThinkProgress:
1) Gore’s family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100 percent green power through Green Po..
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MSNBC
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The newest member of Congress, who is temporarily filling former Majority Leader Tom DeLay's Texas seat, wants an investigation into the destruction of computer files in her office by staffers she inherited from DeLay...
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Washington Post
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The prospective presidential candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton has given rise to plenty of speculation about the notion of Bill Clinton as the nation's first gentleman. But what about another role? How about, say, vice president?..
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MSNBC
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy will undergo surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor, his office said.
The 76-year-old senator was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, an especially lethal type of brain tumor...
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BBC News
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US President George Bush has said it is "absolutely possible and necessary" for Israel and the Palestinians to agree a peace deal during his term in office.
Mr Bush was speaking after holding talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank..
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MSNBC
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The work of the CIA’s in-house investigator who found fault with the agency’s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks is being subjected to an internal review, published reports say.
The move, which is highly unusual, has raised concerns that CIA Director..
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SF Gate
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When San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew faces trial later this month on criminal charges that he lied about where he lived to run for office, the fact that Jew spent little time in a Sunset District home and kept a separate residence in Burlingame will not b..
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Washington Post
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The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release of internal documents about a lar..
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Washington Post
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We'll make statements only today," President Bush announced to reporters yesterday as he sat with the Estonian president in the Oval Office.
No surprise there. Vice President Cheney's recent declaration that he is not part of the executive branch has p..
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CNN
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The Supreme Court Monday upheld the legality of an internal White House office that forcefully pushes federal aid for religious charities, a case with an unusual nexus of constitutional, financial and political implications.
By a 5-4 vote, a conservati..
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USA Today
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If Vice President Cheney believes his office is not an "entity within the executive branch," then a House Democratic leader says taxpayers shouldn't have to finance his executive expenses.
Cheney's office has claimed his constitutional role as presiden..
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Washington Post
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Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer. He ca..
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