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Will the British prime minister who has been described as “an adventurer addicted to romance and careless about facts” please stand up? The same prime minister who had first made his reputation as a writer before becoming a politician, spices his parliamentary parlays with Latin phrases, and whose reputation as a chancer a charlatan, even clashes with the staid Conservative Party he leads and whose political fortunes rests entirely on his shoulders. Oh, and the very same prime minister driven by what he claims is political principle, but others suspect is sheer ambition, and insists he is guided by a moral compass, while others believe is immoral calculation?
This Week in History: April 17-23, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
April 17
1704 – John Campbell publishes in Boston the first successful U.S. newspaper.
1865 – Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in President Lincoln’s assassination. She owns the boarding house where her son John Surratt, along with John Wilkes Booth and others, conspire to kill the president. She is hanged on July 7th with three others convicted of the conspiracy. Mary, aged 42, is the first woman executed by order of the U.S. government.
1924 – Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and Louis B. Mayer Company merge to form MGM.
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Mesereau on Michael Jackson Sleeping in the Same Bed as Kids
Jessica Todd
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In this clip, Tom Mesereau opened up about Michael Jackson s brother Randy contacting him several times to represent Michael in his 2005 criminal trial. Tom explained that he initially turned the Jacksons down because he was preparing for Robert Blake s trial, but when that fell apart, he met with Michael. Tom detailed the meeting and being chosen for the trial, along with the raid on Neverland, which you can hear about in full above.