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In the years immediately following World War II, one of America's most popular entertainers was a young singer named Margaret Whiting.

She estalished herself as a top performer on radio and TV as well as in the recording studio.

In this 1987 interview Whiting reflects on her life and career.

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For 21 years, starting in 1966, through five administrations, Swiss-born Henry Haller was the White House executive chef .

In this 1987 interview Haller reveals what it's like feeding a First Family -- and how the kitchen staff handles a new administration.

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In 1966, Marvin Miller – an economist by training – was elected executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

By the time he retired 16 years later, Miller had helped transform not just the players association but the entire professional sports industry.

In this 1991 interview Miller recaps his accomplished labor union career.

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In 1933, a three-yearold boy, his older sister and their mother moved in with the boy’s grandparents – who had a very large house in an important city.Curtis Roosevelt was that young boy. His grandparents were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had just recently moved into the White House themselves.

In these interview highlights from 2008 and 2010 Curtis Roosevelt recalls his unique childhood experience.

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A number of countries require national service from their young men, and Israel from its young women as well What should the US?

In this 1990 interview conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. makes the case for a year of national service as a way for young Americans to demonstrate their gratitude for our civil liberties.

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For 40 years a modest family-owned business has been supplying folks in Washington DC with the treat no one dislikes – chocolate.

It was started in 1984 by sisters Frances and Ginger Park, daughters of a Korean immigrant. And their story is as appealing as the morsels they sell at their store, called Chocolate Chocolate.

In this 2011 interview Ginger and Frances recall how they got into the business, and what has kept them going.

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In 1943 a 20-year-old model from New York was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS to be a spy in Europe. Thus began the espionage career of Aline Griffith, later the wife of a Spanish aristocrat.

In this 1988 interview Aline, Countess of Romanones recounts her recruitment and training as a spy.

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One of the leading contenders for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination was Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. His anti-Vietnam War position resonated with a large segment of Americans.

In this 1987 interview McCarthy talks about his political memoir, Up 'Til Now, and what went wrong for his campiagn in '68.

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Commercial radio in its infancy was a novelty, and it took years for the medium to realize its full potential as an essential part of American life.

Ed Bliss joined CBS radio in 1943, and over the next 25 years worked alongside Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, among others, to shape the directio of broadcast journalism.

In this 1991 interview Bliss reflecs on how readio and TV news evolved.

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It's been 47 years since the king died. Elvis Presley died at his Graceland mansion in Memphis on August 16,1977 at the age of 42 .

Among the utterly devastated were those closest to Elvis, including his family, and his longtime hairdresser and confidante Larry Geller.

In this 1989 interview Geller reveals things Elvis told him during their long friendship.

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