Why President George H. W. Bush “froze out” Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

Mike Magee For the past seven years the AIDS epidemic had raged throughout America. One year earlier, an AIDS activist group had coalesced in Greenwich Village, New York. They called themselves ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). They were largely HIV-positive individuals who were fed up with being given the cold shoulder by government […]

President Jimmy Carter: Challenged the Moral Majority and Defended the Bill of Rights.

Mike Magee Today was frigid in Washington, D.C. But inside this sacred dwelling on the corner of 16th and 0 Streets NW, marked by soaring 58 foot ceilings supported by gothic arches, smiles and gratitude filled the air at the 6 p.m. prayer service in memory of former President Jimmy Carter. Carter was an extraordinary […]