West Wing Week: Each of Them Loved This Country . . . More Than Life Itself," 06/01/12

Published on Jun 1, 2012 by whitehouse

Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. 

This week, the President honored Memorial Day and the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, signed bipartisan legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, and welcomed Former President Bush and Former First Lady Laura Bush for the official unveiling of their portraits. 

That's May 25th to May 31st, or "Each of them loved this country . . . more than life itself."

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Mary Travers, folk singer, dies

Mary Travers, a striking figure in the early-1960s folk music movement, died Wednesday at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut after suffering from leukemia for several years. She was 72.

She was best known as the blond with the bangs who commanded the middle microphone with Peter, Paul and Mary, a trio that brought folk music from coffeehouses to top-40 radio.

They also introduced to America the young Bob Dylan and helped him to turn his "Blowin' in the Wind" into a national anthem.

The group reunited several years ago to begin touring, and Travers performed with them until a few months ago.

Travers, like Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, saw folk music both as an art and as an instrument for change. They sang a number of sociopolitical songs, which Travers later defended.

Our political affairs editor, Rightard Whitey, saw the trio in concert at Ohio State University the turbulent 1960s. It was an amazing concert during an era in which political consciousness was very apparent in American music.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/16/2009-09-16_mary_travers_of_peter_paul_and_mary_dead.html#ixzz0RQcAXoOb

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