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Zog I of Albania in front of the Albania Republic flag.

Albania’s First Republic

… the Premier as his party maintained power. Zog survived an assassination attempt in 1924, but he was severely wounded … ruled over his kingdom with impunity, despite nearly sixty assassination attempts, until 1939, when Mussolini commanded …
Grover Cleveland, painted by Anders Zorn in 1899

The Politics of Civility

… vulgar, low-bred brute,” a man “not so respectable as Caligula’s horse.” In 1884, upon revelations that Grover …
Vicente Fox Quesada

Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?

… a decaying party and a restive electorate cracked it. The assassination of a PRI candidate in mysterious circumstances …
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

… and to oppose the inter-American meeting. There was an assassination of a leader in Bogotá that had nothing to do …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… intended to implicate President Kennedy in the 1963 assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem; exchanging …