Obama Phone, Pen Hard At Work

Making sure that fundamental transformation continues if and when Dear Leader leaves office

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Artek Established, Hungarian Rebels Executed, Nureyev Defects

On This Progressive Day: June 16

The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established (1925)

A Communist government is installed in Lithuania (1940)

Rudolf Nureyev defects at Le Bourget airport in Paris (1961)

b: Katherine Graham (1917); d: Imre Nagy (1958), Pál Maléter (1958)

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