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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
""bellissima, giovane e antica, bambina e già donna, autentica, misteriosa" ... Federico Fellini on Claudia Cardinale, who passed away today
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM