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Secretary McAdoo

Treasury Secretary William McAdoo. March 1913. Desmond King’s Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the U.S. Federal Government (2007) describes Secretary McAdoo’s role in the Wilson administration’s policy of racial segregation, a policy that would dominate Treasury and other government agencies for the next half-century.

Nelson and Proxmire

Wisconsin Senators Nelson (1963-1981) and Proxmire (1957-1989)

Internet Protest and Support for SOPA

Cool graphic noted by Andrew Sullivan.

Congressman Karl Steffan, Nebraska, Member of House Appropriations Committee, with Col. Carter Burgess, Deputy Executive Secretary, studies the Committee Control Chart at the 1945 U.N. Charter Meetings in San Francisco. UN Photo/McLain. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Happy Halloween

October 31, 1963 – US National Archives

The briefing

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Anna Hazare

Supporters of Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare march in New Delhi (NYT)

Partisan Polarization

McCarty, Poole, and Rosenthal, Polarized America (2006)