Fri, Dec 22
2001—Richard Reid’s shoe-bomb fizzles, but all air passengers must still remove shoes before boarding. 1989—RIP Samuel Beckett. 1984—Asked for money on a New York subway, Bernhard Goetz responds with lead instead. Then he flees to New Hampshire. Of course. 1981—Ronald Reagan gives the poor 30 million lbs. of moldy cheese. 1974—Seymour Hersh exposes the CIA’s Operation Chaos in the New York Times: 10,000 Americans under illegal surveillance since 1967. 1973—“Dick” Nixon’s paranoid agitation at a Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting leaves four-stars wondering, “did he just ask us if we’d back a coup?” 1967—The CIA hands the President a second report on its illegal surveillance …