Air Force One

The longest trips Gen. Arthur J. Lichte took growing up in the Bronx were on the subway to different boroughs of New York City. He never gave it a thought that one day he would fly airplanes around the world. On Friday, Lichte retired from the Air Force as commander of Air Mobility Command, ending a 38-year career that stretched from the Cold War to irregular warfare. Taking command is Gen.-select Raymond Johns, whose operational career includes mobility and test pilot assignments.  

James Cameron' has big aspirations for "Avatar" and here at Hero Complex we're stepping with some epic coverage plans -- a 30-day countdown. Today's topic: The USC professor who found himself on an unexpected Hollywood adventure when he was hired to create the language spoken by aliens on Cameron's distant planet of Pandora. This modern era of moviemaking has plenty of peculiar challenges for actors -- on green-screen sets, for instance, they have to watch a ping-pong ball hanging from a string ...

Oh, it was so hard and I was really concerned about it   -Zoe Saldana

 

President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Obama also confronts a difficult choice on strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, which will be criticized no matter what he decides.

This December, in his spare time, the president gets to help the Senate get to the finish line on health care, unveil his decision on Afghanistan and make clear that the recovery and job creation are job one   -Bruce Reed

 

Part of the point of a presidential library is that it's a monument to a leader's legacy--his style, his enduring affect on the world, even his reading habits...or lack thereof. Speaking of which, Laura Bush unveiled the design for her husband's book joint this week, and the ultra-traditional structure that nods to Washington but bows to the rest of Southern Methodist University's campus isn't winning any points with architecture critics . But how does W's design stack up against his predecessors?  

But I'd rather think I owe it to Merriman Smith. I was in middle school when I first became fascinated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I'd spend hours devouring books like William Manchester's The Death of a President or Jim Bishop's The Day Kennedy Was Shot the way other kids read the comics .

The wire service war of seconds had grown to minutes, and the AP was falling farther and farther behind   -William Manchester

 

The Air Force one albeit being pretty quiet this year has had a pretty solid offering of releases adn the new sport red & light bone color way is just as solid as anything else we have seen. The cherry flavored tumbled leather upper is accented well by the off white lining, laces and midsole. Aside from being so basic its a pretty well done and vivid color way.  

President Barack Obama ended his trip to Asia on Thursday much as he'd begun it a week earlier, surrounded by U.S. forces as he sought to project an image of military unity ahead of a controversial announcement on troop levels for Afghanistan. On the way to Tokyo last week, where he began the tour, Obama stopped for a rally at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. On Thursday, after a meeting and a brief news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul before Air Force One departed, ...  

President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. Obama also confronts a difficult choice on strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, which will be criticized no matter what he decides.

This December, in his spare time, the president gets to help the Senate get to the finish line on health care, unveil his decision on Afghanistan and make clear that the recovery and job creation are job one   -Bruce Reed

 

The country's most shocking day in modern times, before 9/11, occurred 46 years ago Sunday. The History channel has a couple of grabber specials that night about the event. And on Monday, National Geographic Channel premieres the arresting special "The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination".