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Things were so unpredictable in Comey's first meeting with President-elect Trump, the former FBI director immediately took notes in his car after the interaction.

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One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

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The house was big enough for my brother and me to have firecracker wars at one end and leave Mom and Dad undisturbed at the other. When firecrackers weren't available, we attacked each other with pennies and marbles and clumps of Crisco, which made brilliant greasy asterisks when you missed and hit the wall.

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My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the '60s to the '80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.

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When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.

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There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

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Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

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Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.

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A number of Donald Trump's supporters told me during the campaign they had faith that he would be a good president because he would be helped by the experts around him. But the president's improvisation saps experts of their key skill: pattern recognition.

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Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 6th, 1968

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