Something to make you laugh or, perhaps, cry – especially, if you are one of those strange people who happen to care about political science or history or… As highlighted at the always interesting “more than 95 theses” and originally reported here and here:
Appearing on National Public Radio’s quiz show, “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” this weekend, [White House press secretary Dana] Perino admitted a story she’d previously only shared in private: When a reporter asked her a question during a White House briefing in which he referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis — she didn’t know what it was.
“I was panicked a bit because I really don’t know about … the Cuban Missile Crisis,” said Perino, who at 35 was born about a decade after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet nuclear showdown. “It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I’m pretty sure.” …
“I came home and I asked my husband,” she said on air. “I said, ‘Wasn’t that like the Bay of Pigs thing?’ And he said, ‘Oh, Dana.’ ”
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