Friday Talking Points -- Past, Present and Future
Category: POLITICS
Forty years ago today, President Nixon addressed the nation to announce he would be resigning  the next day -- the only time in US history this has happened. Today, President Obama announced the US will be dropping bombs on Iraq once again. That's a pretty heavy-duty amount of the past to contemplate, in one week.
By Chris Weigant, ContributorPolitical writer and blogger at ChrisWeigant.com, 2014-08-09