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Soviet Nuclear Go-Ahead

10/28/2015

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Soviet Union gave its military commander in Cuba the power to use tactical nuclear weapons against U.S. forces at his discretion. 

Peter A. Huchthausen, October Fury (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002), 1-2.
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Jackson Got Away with Murder, Literally

10/21/2015

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Andrew Jackson was not punished for murdering two British subjects while leading a military campaign in Spanish Florida against Seminoles who were aiding runaway slaves from the U.S.

John F. Marszalek, The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson’s White House (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 13.
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The CIA's Atomic Assessment Error

10/14/2015

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President Harry Truman confirmed that the Soviet Union developed an atomic bomb on September 23, 1949, three days after the CIA declared the Soviets would not do so for at least four more years. 

Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 48.
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Madison Over Monroe

10/7/2015

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In the 1789 election for Virginia’s 5th Congressional District, James Madison beat James Monroe by a vote of 1,308 to 972. 

Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (New York: Longman, 1990), 79.
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