09/13/2012
The Foreign Policy Cable: "One staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was responsible for the statement and tweets Tuesday that have become grist for the presidential campaign, and that staffer ignored explicit State Department instructions not to issue the statement, one U.S. official close to the issue told The Cable." http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/12/inside_the_public_relations_disaster_at_the_cairo_embassy
ON THIS DAY IN US HISTORY
On May 25, 1953, the first public TV station in the US officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston. KUHT-TV pre-dates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), and will serve as a model for other educational TV stations throughout country.
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