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The next day, the troupe moved on and performed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, at 5th Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, and at another base in the United Arab Emirates. On Dec. 30 the group traveled to Afghanistan for shows in Kabul and Kandahar before returning to the UAE.. (dcmilitary.com)
In Washington, the anxiety of influence Jan 7, 2006
After it was revealed that President Theodore Roosevelt had received large donations from the insurance industry in 1904, he won passage of the first federal law banning corporate campaign gifts. A 1906 article in Cosmopolitan magazine exposed how corrupt state legislatures controlled the senators they appointed and sent to Washington. (International Herald Tribune)
Smoky heritage Jan 1, 2006
Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" departed for Cuba from Tampa. After the war, many a Cuban emigr set down roots in Ybor. (The News-Press)
Bush curls up with vacation books Jan 1, 2006
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush is spending part of his Christmas holiday reading about the post-presidential years of Theodore Roosevelt and the lives of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Bush is reading When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House, by Patricia OToole, and Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground, by Robert Kaplan while on vacation at his Texas ranch, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy. (MSNBC -- Politics)
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