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Nelson Mandela (b. July 18, 1918-2013), South African president. I enjoyed meeting President Mandela at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York.

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I am at the President Gerald R. Ford Leadership Forum with Veterans and Congressmen: Gerald R. Ford and Charles B. Rangel. Thanks for your kind comments. fordforum.org/observer-essay…

Financial Times, LETTERS, July 25, 2025. Thanks for your kind comments.

On July 25, 2010, online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked US military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures.

Happy Birthday to Martha Reeves (b. July 18) in Eufaula, Alabama. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas had great hits like "Dancing in the Street" and "Jimmy Mack." It was a thrill to meet Dr. Martha Reeves in Detroit.

Aldous Huxley (b. July 26, 1894-1963), author. "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." -- Aldous Huxley

July 26, 2020, a processional with the casket of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where Lewis and other civil rights marchers were beaten 55 years earlier. My dad served in Alabama Army Nat Guard for the Selma march in 1965.

Sir Mick Jagger (b. July 26, 1943). Diplomat at work at the Stones Exhibit (2013) at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH. Thanks for the memories!

Diplomat at work with K-pop singer Gemma Kang!

Tom Lehrer RIP variety.com/2025/music/obi…

Judy Collins told stories, sang old and new songs, and promised to keep singing for years to come.

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On July 31, 1991, President George H.W. Bush (1924-2018) and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-2022) signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) in Moscow. The bust of Vice President George H.W. Bush, US Senate Chamber.

On August 2, 2018, Apple Inc. became the world's first trillion-dollar company.

On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Bust of Vice President George H.W. Bush in the Senate Chamber.

On August 4, 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.) Never Forget!

Tom Lehrer RIP Wall St Journal 8/1/25