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Shulkin's Trip Scandal Hurt Fight to Slow 'Choice' Effect on VA

Concerned Veterans for America, a group of policy advocates funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, who want to shrink the size of federal bureaucracies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, appears to have won a major victory with President Trump’s firing of Dr. David Shulkin as VA secretary.

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Military Retiree and History Professor Finds New Career in Film

As a history professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the career path of Greg Daddis, who has a doctorate in American history, couldn’t have been further from the movie business. However, after two executives visited the school on a research trip, the former Army armored cavalry colonel found himself part of the team for The Vietnam War, the latest project by noted documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.