President Bush Meets the Washington Club
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...PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS THE WASHINGTON CLUB n 1967, The American Spectator (then known as the Alternative) was founded by I graduate student R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., to challenge the liberal orthodoxy dominating Indiana University...
...Now, of course, only "Doonesbury" takes that position...
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...This year's dinner was held January 22 at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C...
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