Not So Optimal

Unwanted Presidebt clutches at straws

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Father Coughlin, The Axis, James Carville

On this day: October 25

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis (1936)

Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba (1962)

The U.S. and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters were executed in a coup d'état (1983)

President Barack Obama speaks to unionists at the American Cord and Webbing factory in Woonsocket, RI (2010)

b: Father Coughlin (1891), James Carville (1944); d: Bat Masterson (1921)

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