August 2012

Has Amelia's Plane Been Found?

At 9:00 on the morning of Tuesday March 20, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stepped to a
 podium in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin Dining Room and addressed a roomful of reporters, federal officials, and a sprinkling of female military aviators. Behind her sat the Secretary of Transportation, the foreign minister of the nation of Kiribati, the CEO of Lockheed Martin, underwater explorer Robert Ballard, and Richard Gillespie, executive director of The Investigative Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). Secretary Clinton began by describing her youthful admiration for Amelia Earhart, “a woman who, when it was really hard, decided she was going to break all kinds of limits—social limits, gravity limits, distance limits. Nobody,” the secretary explained, “was there to tell Amelia Earhart she couldn’t do whatever she wanted.”

Coolidge takes oath of office

Growing Up Colored

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Pride of Piedmont, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the young batboy of the highschool baseball team (far left), would become valedictorian of his class and be elected president of the band, the science club, and the Episcopal Young Churchmen. Later, Gates earned degress from Yale and Cambridge. Courtesy of the Gates family

Ike's Son Remembers George S. Patton Jr.

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During the U.S.'s counteroffensive against the Nazi's in December 1944, Dwight Eisenhower met with Lieutenant General Omar Bradley (right) and Lieutenant General George S. Patton in Bastogne, Belgium. U.S. Army

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