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On June 22, 2026
LA5H5981scPresident George W. Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, one of 14 recipients of the 2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005 in the East Room of the Whiite House. White House photo by Shealah...

Packwood

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On June 6, 2026

Bob Packwood is dead. While his name became a joke of 1990s politics due to his serial sexual harassment and his resignation from the Senate due to that behavior, he.

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Bo Gritz

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On March 9, 2026
Bo Gritz is dead. One of the largely forgotten figures of the late 20th century, Gritz played a critical role in the development of the paranoid, conspiracy theory driven reality of today’s world. He is not worth remembering outside of this, as he was a...

Podhoretz

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On December 17, 2025

Late 2025 has witnessed too many great Americans dying. Rob Reiner. Joe Ely. Steve Cropper. But things balance out and sometimes, the Earth purges one of its bad people too..

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Cheney

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On November 4, 2025
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural phenomenon out of that city, Dick Cheney’s family moved to Wyoming when he was a...

Chamorro

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On June 14, 2025

Violeta Chamorro is dead. Violeta Barrios Torres was born in 1929 to a wealthy, conservative family with significant land holdings near the Nicaraguan-Costa Rican border, on the Atlantic side of.

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Alan Simpson

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On March 14, 2025
Alan Simpson has died. The senator from Wyoming was a mean man. He was always a mean man. Like his friend John McCain, meanness became his currency. He will be remembered as “bipartisan” today because he embodied the Beltway desire to slash deficits by making...

Jimmy Carter

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On December 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter has died. Carter was a pretty bad president and then one of the two greatest ex-presidents, along with John Quincy Adams. He’s become something of a beloved figure.

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