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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Explore_Ha_Long_Bay_with_Indochina_Sails_cruise_ship&amp;diff=20390</id>
		<title>Explore Ha Long Bay with Indochina Sails cruise ship</title>
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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Believe_it_or_not_1968_was_worse&amp;diff=19777</id>
		<title>Believe it or not 1968 was worse</title>
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		<updated>2018-07-13T06:28:04Z</updated>

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&lt;div&gt;By Maurice Isserman&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;July 12 (Reuters) - According to the Chinese Zodiac, 1968 and 2016 are both the Year of the Monkey. But maybe we should call this the Year of the Ghost Monkey of 1968. From the presidential primaries to the convention platform battles to bloody mayhem in the streets, 1968 is the go-to, default metaphor for what we seem to be reliving.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This year, like 1968, is certainly one of bitter conflict and wrenching change. And why is that a surprise? Some things don't change. A nation of several hundred million people, drawn from all over the world, can never exactly become a peaceable kingdom, a beloved community. Creeds differ, values clash; rival factions, communities and priorities compete.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Harmony would be nice - and an end to bloodshed is a goal to which most Americans can subscribe. But bear in mind that it has always been through conflict that Americans have decided who they are as a nation, discarding old assumptions and redefining identity and mission.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;I've been thinking about one of my favorite 1960s writers, the remarkable Vietnam War correspondent Michael Herr, who died two weeks ago. He covered the Vietnam War for &amp;quot;Esquire&amp;quot; in 1967-68, and his book, &amp;quot;Dispatches,&amp;quot;  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh] remains one of the greatest works about that troubled conflict. (Herr also contributed to the screenplays of two iconic Hollywood movies about the war, &amp;quot;Apocalypse Now&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Full Metal Jacket.&amp;quot;)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;Dispatches&amp;quot; is more than a war memoir, however. It offers genuine insight into American history and the American character. &amp;quot;There was such a dense concentration of American energy there,&amp;quot; Herr wrote of Vietnam in the late 1960s. &amp;quot;American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;I can't think of any other American writer who has managed to pack into one sentence so much love for his country - and so much disdain for the folly in which, in that instance, it was engaged.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Another passage in &amp;quot;Dispatches&amp;quot; also came to mind last week. Herr describes the first time he went on a mission with a company of Marines, and ended up caught in a fire-fight, hugging the ground for hours, &amp;quot;listening to it going on, the moaning and whining and the dull repetitions of whump whump whump and dit dit dit, listening to a boy who'd somehow broken his thumb sobbing and gagging, and thinking 'Oh my God, this f-ing thing is on a loop!...'&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Here's last week's loop: Tuesday, &amp;quot;whump whump whump,&amp;quot; black man in Louisiana pinned to the ground by police officers then shot to death. Wednesday, &amp;quot;dit dit dit,&amp;quot; another black man, this time in Minnesota, shot and killed in the front seat of his car as, his girlfriend said, he tried to produce the driver's license demanded by a police officer -- she sat in the seat beside him, her young daughter in the back seat. Thursday night, &amp;quot;dit whump dit,&amp;quot; five Dallas policemen targeted and murdered by a vengeful rooftop sniper, seven others wounded. Senseless death of innocent victims, brought home in disturbingly graphic detail via cable news and social media. Is it apocalypse now in the streets of America?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;And all this in the context of recent years of fervent protest over issues of racial injustice, in a nation beset by repeated acts of violence, both random and targeted, in the midst of a presidential campaign running off the tracks, with one candidate in particular displaying an ability to stir up as much rancor and discord as possible.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;If history is on a loop, are we back in the world of &amp;quot;Dispatches&amp;quot;? Is this 1968 redux? Do we really have to sit through this movie again?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Not likely. Fifty years have indeed changed America. The country is more diverse, ethnically, racially and religiously. There is a far more substantial black middle class than in 1968. (While at the same time the problem of black poverty, and for that matter white poverty, seems more intractable than ever.) Although it's sometimes hard to remember with all the noise generated by polarizing politicians, the United States is more tolerant than it was a half century ago - when the idea that there would someday be a black president seemed impossibly remote, and the notion of gay marriage unimaginable.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In 1968, the nation was still adjusting to the U.S. Supreme Court's wonderfully named decision &amp;quot;Loving v. Virginia,&amp;quot; issued the previous June, which overturned laws that banned interracial marriage. Until then, nearly one-third of American states had such laws on their books. Today at least 12 percent of all new marriages in the United States unite interracial couples, and the trend is expected to expand as  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html du lịch Bắc Kinh 5 ngày 4 đêm] millennials, least concerned of all Americans about race, reach marriage age.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Reminded by the Iraq invasion of the consequences of national hubris in international affairs, a lesson learned and then forgotten after Vietnam, Americans are again skeptical of &amp;quot;boots on the ground&amp;quot; scenarios for remaking the world in their own image. The fact that this skepticism, even in the absence of a draft, is shared across the generational spectrum - and is, to some extent, bipartisan - is another important difference between 1968 and today.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Americans are also asking important questions about economic policies and decisions taken in Washington and corporate board rooms, that have increased income inequality to levels not seen since the 1920s. Americans as a people, many of them anyway, are more self-aware and thoughtful in this second decade of the 21st century than has been the case for some decades.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;It's true that the presumptive presidential candidate of the party of Abraham Lincoln wants to make America &amp;quot;great again&amp;quot; by turning back the clock to the imagined splendor of an era of racial and ethnic homogeneity. But come November, after all the shouting and posturing, there will come a great moment of clarity, when the diverse population of America votes.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Speaking of clarifying moments in American history, in his first speech as president in March 1861, the first Republican president of the United States beseeched his fellow countrymen to listen to the &amp;quot;better angels of their nature&amp;quot; and avoid the looming Civil War. That did not, Lincoln assured Southerners, mean the end of slavery, at least in the short run.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;His appeal fell on deaf ears. But just two and a half years later, in a November 1863 address at Gettysburg, Lincoln proclaimed a &amp;quot;new birth of freedom,&amp;quot; carrying on and transforming the meaning of the American experiment, in which there no longer was a place for human servitude. And, in doing so, changed the nation.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;History was not on a loop in the 1860s.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Nor in the 1960s. In a Memphis church on April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. reflected on the possibility of his own death. He had been nearly killed by a deranged assailant in 1958, and he explained why he was glad to have survived - and not just because he loved life.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I wouldn't have been around here in 1960,&amp;quot; King recalled, &amp;quot;when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters.&amp;quot; What those students were doing, he said, was making America great again by setting out to challenge and change its injustices: &amp;quot;They were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy  the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Lincoln and King lived in difficult times, as we do. It is in just such eras that Americans have rediscovered and refashioned the best traditions bound up in our national experience.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Can we resolve in the years that follow the [http://mondediplo.com/spip.php?page=recherche&amp;amp;recherche=tumultuous%20election tumultuous election] year of 2016 to listen to the  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] better angels of our nature, and turn the dense concentration of American energy away from waste and pain - and use it instead to light our world? (Maurice Isserman)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>http://iqbal.wiki/index.php?title=Jesuit_priest_peace_activist_Daniel_Berrigan_dies_at_94&amp;diff=19665</id>
		<title>Jesuit priest peace activist Daniel Berrigan dies at 94</title>
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&lt;div&gt;NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 94.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a &amp;quot;long illness,&amp;quot; according to Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;He died peacefully,&amp;quot; Benigno said.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This Feb. 16, 1981, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan, ex-priest, now political activist on [http://Www.nuwireinvestor.com/results.aspx?searchwords=NBC-TV%BFs NBC-TV�s] �Today� show in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan and his younger brother, the Rev. Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers entered a draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, on May 17, 1968, with seven other activists and removed records of young men about to be shipped off to Vietnam. The group took the files outside and burned  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html vtr.org.vn] them in garbage cans.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Catonsville Nine, as they came to  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] be known, were convicted on federal charges accusing them of destroying U.S. property and interfering with the Selective Service Act of 1967. All were sentenced on Nov. 9, 1968 to prison terms ranging from two to 3.5 years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;When asked in 2009 by &amp;quot;America,&amp;quot; a national Catholic magazine, whether he had any regrets, Berrigan replied: &amp;quot;I could have done sooner the things I did, like Catonsville.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan, a writer and poet, wrote about the courtroom experience in 1970 in a one-act play, &amp;quot;The Trial of the Catonsville Nine,&amp;quot; which was later made into a movie.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan grew up in Syracuse, New York, with his parents and five brothers. He joined the Jesuit order after high school and taught preparatory school in New Jersey before being ordained a priest in 1952.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;As a seminarian, Berrigan wrote poetry. His work captured the attention of an editor at Macmillan who referred the material to poet Marianne Moore. Her endorsement led to the publication of Berrigan's first book of poetry, &amp;quot;Time Without Number,&amp;quot; which won the Lamont Poetry Prize in 1957.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[http://www.google.com/search?q=Berrigan%20credited&amp;amp;btnI=lucky Berrigan credited] Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper, with introducing him to the pacifist movement and influencing his thinking about war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Much later, while visiting Paris in 1963 on a teaching sabbatical from LeMoyne College, Berrigan met French Jesuits who spoke of the dire situation in Indochina. Soon after that, he and his brother founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship, which helped organize protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan traveled to North Vietnam in 1968 and returned with three American prisoners of war who were being released as a goodwill gesture. He said that while there, he witnessed some of the destruction and suffering caused by the war.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan was teaching at Cornell University when his brother asked him to join a group of activists for the Catonsville demonstration. Philip Berrigan was at the time awaiting sentencing for a 1967 protest in Baltimore during which demonstrators poured blood on draft records.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;I was blown away by the courage and effrontery, really, of my brother,&amp;quot; Berrigan recalled in a 2006 interview on the Democracy Now radio program.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;After the Catonsville case had been unsuccessfully appealed, the Berrigan brothers and three of their co-defendants went underground. Philip Berrigan turned himself in to authorities in April 1969 at a Manhattan church. The FBI arrested Daniel Berrigan four months later at the Rhode Island home of theologian William Stringfellow.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan said in an interview that he became a fugitive to draw more attention to the anti-war movement.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers were sent to the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Daniel Berrigan was released in 1972 after serving about two years. His brother served about 2.5 years.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The Berrigan brothers continued to be active in the peace movement long after Catonsville. Together, they began the Plowshares Movement, an anti-nuclear weapons campaign in 1980. Both were arrested that year after entering a General Electric nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and damaging nuclear warhead nose cones.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Philip Berrigan died of cancer on Dec. 6, 2002 at the age of 79.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Daniel Berrigan moved into a Jesuit residence in Manhattan in 1975.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In an interview with The Nation magazine on the 40th anniversary of the Catonsville demonstration, Berrigan lamented that the activism of the 1960s and early 1970s evaporated with the passage of time.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The short fuse of the American left is typical of the highs and lows of American emotional life,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It is very rare to sustain a movement in recognizable form without a spiritual base.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Berrigan's writings include &amp;quot;Prison Poems,&amp;quot; published in 1973; &amp;quot;We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill,&amp;quot; a 1980 book based on his experiences working in a cancer ward; and his autobiography, &amp;quot;To Dwell in Peace,&amp;quot; published in 1987.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This July 25, 1973, file photo shows Rev. Fr. Daniel Berrigan and some friends participating in a fast and vigil to protest the bombing in Cambodia, on the steps of St. Patrick�s Cathedral in New York City. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;File-This April 9, 1982, file photo shows Daniel Berrigan marching with about 40 others outside of the Riverside Research Center in New York. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This is a Dec. 1968 photo of the Rev. Daniel Berrigan at an unknown location. The Roman Catholic priest and Vietnam war protester, Berrigan has died. He was 94. Michael Benigno, a spokesman for the Jesuits USA Northeast Province, says Berrigan died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at a Jesuit infirmary at Fordham University. (AP Photo/File)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Advertisement&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Beyond the baguette: France s food legacy in Vietnam</title>
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&lt;div&gt;It has been more than six decades since the end of French colonial rule in Vietnam, but when President Francois Hollande arrives this week he'll struggle to avoid a quintessential legacy of his country's rule: the baguette.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Smeared with pate and loaded with fresh coriander and cucumber, or just enjoyed with a pat of fresh butter, &amp;quot;banh mi&amp;quot; are a delicious symbol of Vietnam's lasting links with its former occupiers.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The French were very proud of banh mi. I think French cuisine has had a lot of influence on Vietnamese cuisine,&amp;quot; baker Nguyen Ngoc Hoan told AFP from his busy boulangerie in Hanoi's French Quarter.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;'Banh mi' are displayed for sale on a sidewalk in central Hanoi �Hoang Dinh Nam (AFP)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hoan started baking banh mi -- which refers to plain bread or the popular &amp;quot;petit pain&amp;quot; loaded with meat, vegetables or fried egg -- in 1987 and five years later got a stint at the bakery in the storied Metropole hotel, built by the French at the turn of the 20th century.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The sandwich has become a foodie favourite in hipster enclaves around the globe, sold from food trucks and sipped with craft beer in both its classic form and a flurry of new varieties.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Hoan's father was also a baker but discouraged his son from following in his floured footsteps.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;The baking profession chose me, it was not my decision,&amp;quot; Hoan said, speaking in front of a wall of ovens as his workers tirelessly knead dough nearby.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;He started his career baking what he called Vietnamese bread -- airy on the inside, crusty on the outside -- but after training with a French baker in Shanghai decided to switch to the denser French-style.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Now, he churns out thousands of warm baguettes daily, along with croissants, creme caramel and homemade pate.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- 'Petit pain' -&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;French bread was first made in Vietnam to feed hungry soldiers in Indochina, France's empire which spanned much of Southeast Asia from 1858 to its crushing defeat in the Dien Bien Phu battle in Vietnam in 1954.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But the French became known for more than food, gaining a brutal reputation for crushing anti-imperialist movements and putting Vietnamese laborers to work in gruelling conditions on rubber plantations, while heavily taxing citizens during periods of drought and famine.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Most French who came to Vietnam weren't interested in low-level jobs like baking.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;To fill the gap, Chinese and Vietnamese worked in boulangeries -- often hidden away in the back so customers wouldn't know who was baking their bread.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;quot;By 1910, little baguettes or 'petit pain' were sold in the street to (Vietnamese) people who were on their way to work,&amp;quot; according to Erica Peters, food historian and author of &amp;quot;Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam&amp;quot;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In the years that followed, meat, vegetables or fish appeared in the bread -- precursors to the modern-day banh mi sold all over Hanoi, a city rife with French colonial architecture, bistros and cafes.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Other culinary influences leaked in too.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Local cooks used meat scraps and unused bones from French butchers to create pho -- the national dish of beef or chicken noodle soup, according to Peters. 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		<title>Explore Ha Long Bay with Indochina Sails cruise ship</title>
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		<title>With Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Indochina Sails website will participate in the International Tourism Exhibition &quot; TUR 2010 at Göteborg &quot; to be held from Mar 25 to 28 in Goteborg the second-largest city in Sweden 2010</title>
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		<title>Chasing leaks is a road to hell in Washington. See: Nixon.</title>
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They were American citizens.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The White House received the wiretap transcripts - and they were useless, Nixon later said: nothing but &amp;quot;gossip and bullshitting.&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;The National Security Agency had its own watch list in those days, which grew to include two United States senators. One was Frank Church, an Idaho Democrat who sponsored the first bipartisan legislation against the war in Indochina. The other was Howard Baker, a Tennessee Republican, who famously asked at the 1973 Watergate hearings: &amp;quot;What did the president know, and when did he know it?&amp;quot;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;All this - and the Watergate burglary team, known as the Plumbers, because they were created to stop leaks - was in part a presidential war against the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech, and of the press. Back then, the pen proved mightier than the presidential sword. Today? Well, we�ll see, won�t we?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Trump doesn�t take a lot of free advice. But the president should be counseled on this point. He should not interpose the power of his office between reporters and their sources in the executive and legislative branches of the government. He cannot go on the warpath against the FBI, Congress, and the press corps over leaks.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Those three forces are in constant opposition. But a free press can work in concert with [http://www.purevolume.com/search?keyword=federal%20investigators federal investigators]. If they align against the White House, a critical mass of shared information will  [http://www.vtr.org.vn/cam-nang-du-lich-bac-kinh-5-ngay-4-dem.html tour bắc kinh từ hà nội] gather. That information could someday take the shape of a subpoena seeking the traces of a smoking gun. And an FBI agent can serve that subpoena at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It happened in 1973. It could happen again. 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