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Three of Hollings' children announced his death Saturday morning in a statement. “Our father, Fritz Hollings, was dedicated to his family, the United States Senate and the people of South Carolina," said the statement from Michael Hollings, Helen Hollings Reardon and Ernest Hollings III. He was so honored to have served the people of this great state in the South Carolina House of Representatives, as lieutenant governor and governor, and as a member of the United States Senate. He served as governor from 1959 to 1963. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1947 and was elected to the S.C. House in 1948 at age 26. A decade later, at age 36, Hollings was elected governor of South Carolina, the youngest South Carolina governor in the 20th century. Though he arrived in politics as a segregationist, his mindset changed during the Civil Rights era. “Asking to have one’s name removed from a courthouse is unprecedented,” U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said in 2015. “Senator Hollings told me, ‘They put my name on the courthouse because I got funding for it. I want to put it in the name of the guy who did justice here.’" While fighting for balanced budgets and economic investment, Hollings also championed legislation to offer assistance to those in need.

They’re making do by living with parents longer and delaying having children. Affordable rental housing is scarce, and home ownership is mostly beyond their reach, even for two working professionals. But to make a difference, they’ve got to find time to get involved with politics, which they have largely been loathe to do. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were big beneficiaries of millennials’ support in 2015. Only one of B.C.’s 42 members of parliament is a millennial, and only seven per cent of MLAs. She is doing it even though American millennials are even less likely to vote than Canadians. Only 31 per cent voted in the key 2018 midterm election, and 51 per cent voted in the 2016 presidential election. In Canada, 57 per cent voted in the last federal election in millennials’ best showing so far. Nearly 80 per cent of those aged 65 to 74 voted, as did roughly 75 per cent of the 55- to 64-year-olds. They claimed that younger Canadians got nearly twice the benefits of older Canadians.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., gave a vigorous defense of her signature Green New Deal initiative on Friday, rejecting Republican criticism that it's socialist. The freshman Democrat said she expected the pushback from the GOP to her plan, which calls for a complete transition to renewable energy by 2030. "I expected a little more nuance, and I expected a little more 'concern trolling,'" meaning disingenuously expressing concern. "We don't have time for five years of a half-baked, watered-down position," she said. She told the audience that her mission is to use the initiative to spark a conversation beyond Washington about how to address climate change and harness the American economy to drastically reduce the effects of global warming through a national effort akin to what the country did during the Great Depression and World War II. March 27, 201901:54 "The entire United States government knew that climate change was real and human-caused in 1989 — the year I was born. So, the initial response was to let markets handle it, they will do it," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Forty years of free-market solutions have not changed our position. I’m here not to convince my colleagues, but the electorate. "And here's a really big difference, the Koch brothers funded the Tea Party and everyday people funded my campaign."

Can we blame U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), really? Being ambitious and bold are not usually considered bad things. A decade of quantitative easing, along with trillion-dollar annual deficits run up recently by congressional Republicans, have laid the debt-ridden tracks upon which she hopes her massive Green New Deal will glide. Keep your balance near those computer keyboards, folks. Economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.” Cut the green congresswoman some slack? You cannot tell me that silly FAQ wasn’t spot on. Who knew that, days after the GND offered to Americans the notion that high-speed train travel could be a human (almost religious) right, deepest blue-state Governor Gavin Newsom stopped California’s high-speed train projects in their tracks, looking at costs and declaring, “Let’s be real.” Nonetheless, the Green New Deal enthusiastically promises to “create millions of good, high-wage jobs . counteract systemic injustices.” But what about afterlunch? Kindly old Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he will generously bring the GND to a vote in the U.S. Senate, helping Ocasio-Cortez in the upper house — and putting Senate sponsor Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and all other senators squarely on the record. The comeuppance would come, according to this rationale, when the public realizes just how humongously big Big Government would be if only Democrats were voting.

Yamamoto was born Oct. 19, 1918. Jordan, founding president of Stanford University, was a progressive reformer who thought society could be improved through sterilization and selective breeding. Fred Yamamoto as a member of the 442 RCT. The board formed a committee to recommend new names. Many cited the Nanjing massacre of 1937 in emotional testimony. “There exist certain hurt [feelings] when the last name ‘Yamamoto’ is mentioned, especially for Asian immigrants whose families were tragically affected in China, Korea and Southeast Asian countries during World War II,” a petition said. Further, some asked, if it’s wrong to object to Fred Yamamoto’s surname because Adm. Yamamoto shared it, why did the district scrap Frederick Terman’s name because of his father’s views? “Taiwan was colonized by Japan for 50 years.” Kathy Jordan, a former professional tennis player who had opposed naming the school for Yamamoto, ran an insurgent campaign for school board which won significant support from Chinese immigrant parents. We don’t want to see this kind of thing happen again here.” He asked to remain anonymous. Complaints of insensitivity and trauma have become distinctive marks of Americanness.

But examination of presidential Cabinets over the past 50 years reveals that both parties maintain similar levels of connections with elite corporate actors. Yet the Trump administration has taken this relationship to new heights. What is more, Freitag found that little difference existed between Republican (78 percent) and Democratic Cabinet members (73 percent) when it came to corporate affiliations. This new cohort of social scientists reshaped the conversation concerning the intersection between corporate and political power, bringing in a much more critical perspective on U.S. politics. The power elite has continued to shape American politics. Since the Nixon administration, more than 70 percent of both Republican and Democratic Cabinets have been filled by either corporate veterans or by people who decamped to corporate America after serving in the Cabinet. George W. Bush (100 percent), Nixon (90 percent), and Ford (82 percent) possessed the highest percentage of these elite appointments, while the Carter (71 percent) and George H.W. Bush (71 percent) administrations had the lowest. And yet, Trump has taken this tradition to a new level. His administration has featured more individuals coming from the corporate sphere than any recent administration (72 percent).

“At a time when the complexity of Italian and international political life requires statesmen of substantial human and Christian” value in the service of common good, Pope Francis held up the figure of the Venerable Giorgio La Pira saying he is an exemplary model for the Church and for the contemporary world. The Pope was addressing some 200 members of the “Giorgio La Pira Foundation” whom he received in the Vatican. St. Pope John Paul II recalled La Pira several times pointing out his “extraordinary experience as a politician and a believer, capable of uniting contemplation and prayer to social and administrative activity, with a preference for the poor and the suffering”. He mentioned his long career in the public space, of how he gave life to charitable works, and of how, when persecuted by the fascist regime he took refuge in the Vatican before being able to join the Constituent Assembly and to contribute to the drafting of the Italian Constitution. “But his mission in the service of the common good found its summit in the period when he was mayor of Florence, in the fifties” the Pope said, when “La Pira took a political line open to the needs of social Catholicism and always on the side of the last and most fragile sections of the population.” He also upheld La Pira’s work to promote social and international peace, with diplomatic activity, international conferences, a strong stance against nuclear war and the war in Vietnam. Prophets of peace and workers for the common good He encouraged those present to “keep alive and to spread the patrimony of ecclesial and social action of Venerable Giorgio La Pira; in particular his integral witness of faith, his love for the poor and marginalized, his work for peace, the implementation of the social message of the Church and his great fidelity to Catholic guidelines”. “These are all elements which constitute a valid message for the Church and society today” he said. Example for those who work in public sector Pope Francis noted that La Pira’s example “is especially valuable for those who work in the public sector” and are called to be vigilant towards those negative situations that undermine the common good and the dignity of the person. He urged those present to treasure the legacy of La Pira and to “be peacemakers, architects of justice, witnesses of solidarity and charity”. Speaking off-the-cuff the Pope concluded his discourse with an encouragement to be bringers of a “new spring” by being prophets of hope and of holiness, and by never being afraid to soil one’s hands to work and go forward.

Here's what happened at Armistice centenary services around the world Our live coverage has ended for the evening, but stay with CNN to read more about Armistice centenary commemorations. Speaking at Suresnes American Cemetery, just outside Paris, Trump called out to six US veterans from World War II who were in the crowd, and a 13-year-old American boy who had saved his money to attend the event. "On this day in the year 1918, church bells rang out and celebrations ensued," Trump told the crowd. "But victory had come at a terrible cost," he added. "Countless would come home bearing the grisly scars of trench warfare." Paying tribute to the French and American soldiers who fought side-by-side, Trump said: "You cannot fight better than we fought together." Trump visits Suresnes American Cemetery US President Donald Trump is at Suresnes American Cemetery, just outside Paris, where 1,541 Americans who died in World War I and 24 from World War II, are buried. The president is due back in Washington by Sunday evening. Trump baby blimp flies in Paris A giant blimp of a baby Donald Trump was launched in central Paris, in protest against the US President's visit to the city. In photos: World War I, then and now Pope Francis marked the World War I centenary by calling for an end to world conflict.

The lessons of World War I are many and varied for those who study warfare. But Schlieffen's strategy was disastrous as well, because it minimized the importance of violating Belgium’s sovereignty, something diplomats and politicians would have understood would trigger British involvement. The mindset that strategy is separate from politics also allowed Germany’s military to rationalize their defeat on the battlefield as a “stab in the back” by politicians’ lack of support, which shaped how the German military and society viewed the rise of fascism. This delegitimized the political class and kept the military from exercising institutional restraints as Weimar collapsed. But as Sir Lawrence Freedman demonstrates in his magisterial “Strategy: A History,” strategy divorced from politics leads either to irrelevance, because the strategy will not be employed, or disaster, when political leaders are confronted with the unexpected costs and consequences. It is the job of elected political leaders to determine which wars to fight, and what proportion of national effort to commit to the undertaking. Political leaders aggregate societal preferences, and there is simply no substitute for political judgments to guide strategy—no matter how much such a substitute is yearned for or what superior outcomes excluding that political judgment might provide. Thus do strategists propose technical solutions like “a Goldwater Nichols for the interagency” to streamline the cacophony of policymaking in a government created expressly to prevent consolidation of power, even though streamlining policy in the way the 1985 defense reform legislation did internal to the Defense Department would reduce the ability of Congress, think tanks, journalists and departments from influencing policy outcomes. The crafters of President Trump’s National Security Strategy heroically attempted to do just this, harnessing the president’s campaign agenda in developing the 2017 strategy. But their effort may now be judged a failure on the grounds of both irrelevance and potential disaster.

That is, they don’t like “big government,” just as they don’t like “big business.” To be sure, neither “big” actually goes away, and so it’s no wonder that Americans seem permanently riled up. We can also observe that the folks don’t like “big politics” either—that is, the idea of one political leader or party having too much power. On Tuesday, the voters showed that they prefer divided government; that is, they simply don’t trust either party to have all the marbles in Washington, D.C. It’s been this way for a long time. Specifically, midterm elections give voters a chance to “send a message” to the president, whoever he is, by depriving him of allies in Congress. Since 1945, the average loss in the House for the party in the White House has been about 26 seats. The legislation passed in March 2010, and just eight months later the Republicans won a big victory in the midterm elections, gaining 63 seats in the House and thereby flipping the speakership. Instead, Obama was re-elected comfortably, even as House Republicans, too, were re-elected. So in 2020, for example, Trump, if he seeks re-election, can point to Pelosi and say to voters, “Who do you want: her or me?” That’s the sort of confrontational dynamic that Trump in particular thrives on. After all, another way of saying that presidents tend to lose support in the midterm elections is to say that lawmakers in the president’s party lose their jobs. But the one thing they do know, for sure, always, is that they don’t like “big.” And on Tuesday, once again, they busted big politics.