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W. Hickman Ewing Jr.
W. Hickman Ewing, Jr. is an American attorney. Ewing served as the United States Attorney for the western district of Tennessee from 1981 to 1991. He later served as the special prosecutor overseeing the Whitewater investigation. Early life Ewing is the son of Addie Carolyn (Young) Ewing and William Hickman Ewing, Sr., a longtime high school football coach and the court clerk of Shelby County, Tennessee, who served time in the 1960s for embezzlement. Ewing attended Whitehaven High School in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated in 1960. After graduation, he enrolled in Vanderbilt University and then served as an officer in the United States Navy. During the Vietnam War, Ewing was deployed on Swift Boats in Cam Ranh Bay. After returning from Vietnam, Ewing earned his J.D. degree from Memphis State University law school. Ewing then worked for the US attorney's office as a clerk. Ewing was eventually promoted to a prosecutor and worked on a series of cases against public officials invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cam Ranh Bay
Cam Ranh Bay ( vi, Vịnh Cam Ranh) is a deep-water bay in Vietnam in Khánh Hòa Province. It is located at an inlet of the South China Sea situated on the southeastern coast of Vietnam, between Phan Rang and Nha Trang, approximately 290 kilometers (180 miles) northeast of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Cam Ranh is considered the finest deepwater shelter in Southeast Asia. The continental shelf of Southeast Asia is relatively narrow at Cam Ranh Bay, bringing deep water close to land. Since 2011-2014, Vietnamese authorities have hired Russian consultants and purchased Russian technologies to re-open Cam Ranh Bay (a former United States and later Soviet military base) as the site of a new naval maintenance and logistics facility for foreign warships. Overview Historically, the bay has been significant from a military standpoint. The French used it as a naval base for their forces in Indochina. It was also used as a staging area for the 40-ship Imperial Russian fleet u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist and political operative. A former aide to President Bill Clinton, he is a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton and was formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation. As a journalist, Blumenthal wrote about American politics and foreign policy. He is also the author of a multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, ''The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln''. Three books of the planned five-volume series have already been published: ''A Self-Made Man'', ''Wrestling With His Angel'', and ''All the Powers of Earth''. Subsequent volumes were planned for later. Blumenthal has written for publications such as ''The Washington Post'', '' Vanity Fair'', and ''The New Yorker'', for whom he served for a time as the magazine's Washington correspondent, and, was, briefly, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for '' Salon''. He is a regular contributor to the openDemocracy website and was formerly a regular columnist for ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
