Former President George H.W. Bush has celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Maine. The 41st president jumped out of a helicopter Thursday while harnessed to a retired member of the Army's parachute team. He could be seen floating to the ground using a red, white and blue parachute. A spokesman says he landed safely and softly in Kennebunkport, out of the sight of reporters. With the jump, Bush made good on a promise from five years ago, when he also celebrated his birthday by skydiving. The first time Bush jumped from...
- 6/12/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Former President George H.W. Bush has celebrated his 90th birthday by making a tandem parachute jump near his summer home in Maine. The 41st president jumped out of a helicopter Thursday while harnessed to a retired member of the Army's parachute team. He could be seen floating to the ground using a red, white and blue parachute. A spokesman says he landed safely and softly in Kennebunkport, out of the sight of reporters. With the jump, Bush made good on a promise from five years ago, when he also celebrated his birthday by skydiving. The first time Bush jumped from...
- 6/12/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Pulling back the curtain, History Channel announced this morning it will work with the White House Correspondents’ Association to produce a special video commemorating the centennial celebration of the organization as well as its annual White House Correspondents Dinner. The video will be screened at that annual Beltway bash/Hollywood petting zoo, which will again be held at Washington’s Hinckley Hilton on Saturday, May 3. President Obama and former President Clinton will participate in the video chronicling the origin of the Whca in 1914 and its evolution over the century. Related: Joel McHale To Host White House Correspondents’ Dinner In addition to Obama and Clinton, among those scheduled to be interviewed include historians; press secretaries Marlin Fitzwater, Mike McCurry, and Dana Perino; and the Whc Dinner’s past and current celebrity hosts. In theory the latter means Stephen Colbert, who scorched the ballroom with his in-character indictment of then-president George W. Bush,...
- 4/28/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
He wrangled Joe Biden and tangled with John McCain. But how will the former reporter fare at the podium as Obama's new mouthpiece? Howard Kurtz reports.
To get a sense of the challenge facing Jay Carney as he steps behind the White House podium, consider this:
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Carney's Voice Carry?
In the early months of the administration, a Washington Post editorial accused Joe Biden of having "foot-in-mouth disease." New York Times columnist Gail Collins called him "Washington's most compulsive talker." And who can forget when the vice president of the United States, pushing the new stimulus package, said that no matter what the administration did "there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong" ?
Biden had become a punchline. But by the fall, Newsweek was running a cover story headlined, "Why Joe Is No Joke."
As Biden's communications director, Carney doesn't...
To get a sense of the challenge facing Jay Carney as he steps behind the White House podium, consider this:
Related story on The Daily Beast: Will Carney's Voice Carry?
In the early months of the administration, a Washington Post editorial accused Joe Biden of having "foot-in-mouth disease." New York Times columnist Gail Collins called him "Washington's most compulsive talker." And who can forget when the vice president of the United States, pushing the new stimulus package, said that no matter what the administration did "there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong" ?
Biden had become a punchline. But by the fall, Newsweek was running a cover story headlined, "Why Joe Is No Joke."
As Biden's communications director, Carney doesn't...
- 1/28/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
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