Month: August 2024

An Extraordinary Couple: William Cohen & Janet Langhart Cohen

Bill Thompson

We’re all familiar with the old saw that “opposites attract.” But how opposite is too opposite?

At first glance it might have seemed that William Cohen and Janet Langhart were just too opposite to succeed as a couple

Cohen was white, Jewish, Republican.

Langhart was black, Christian, and Democrat.

But when journalist Langhart interviewed Senator Cohen, something sparked. And in 1996, they were married. The following year President Bill Clinton appointed Cohen his Defense Secretary.

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The Cohens’ marriage has been sustained by a mutual empathy, as both have
faced racial or religious discrimination each has experienced since childhood.

In 2007 William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen co-wrote a book called Love in Black And White. That’s when I had the chance to sit down for a few minutes with both of them to talk about it.

So here now from 2007, William Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen.

William Cohen is now 82. Janet Langhart is also 82. They celebrated their 28th anniversary last February.

How ‘Term Limits’ Launched Vince Flynn’s Thrilling Career

Bill Thompson

Fed up with business as usual in Washington, DC?

This election cycle may feel like a new phenomenon, but that voter frustration has been around for decades.

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Back in 1997 a young dyslexic sales and marketing executive, temporarily employed as a bartender, turned his own frustration into his first book, a self-published political thriller called Term Limits

It got only lukewarm reviews – some even hated it. But readers ate it up. and Vince Flynn’s professional writing career was launched.

His second book introduced us to a counterterrorism specialist named Mitch Rapp, who was then featured in a bestselling series of Flynn thrillers.

Vince was a popular speaker on book tours, so I had the chance to interview him several times over the years. But today let’s go back to where it all started, our conversation about Term Limits.

So here now, from 1998, Vince Flynn.

Vince Flynn died from cancer in 2013. He was 47.

Near-Death Experience: Raymond Moody’s Groundbreaking Research

Bill Thompson
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Have you ever had a near death experience? A real, honest-to-goodness experience of your life ending as you left your body, floated up to the ceiling, and perhaps walked into the bright light?

Millions of people say they have had a near death experience, a term actually coined by Dr. Raymond Moody in 1975.

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But the questions abound. What exactly happens during a near death experience? Some people have one and others don’t? And why do some people choose to come back?

In 1988 doctor Moody wrote a book called The Light Beyond – that’s when I first met him. So here now, from 1988, Dr. Raymond Moody.

Dr. Raymond Moody says he had a near-death experience of his own in 1991 as a result of a failed suicide attempt.

He ruend 80 in June.