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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Obama Library in Chicago Is a Hit... And Run

It would seem that the only thing harder than getting an Odyssey IMAX ticket these days is getting a ticket to the Barack Obama Presidential Center. Not too much of a surprise; he is popular, and the library is new and shiny, and a lot of people live in and around Chicago. There is, however, at least one Chicagoan who is not a fan. He drove up to the library this week, in a brown van, and ran over all the signs telling people where to park, and then took off. We suspect he will soon learn that a facility that requires all salaried employees to have a security clearance just might have a camera or two covering the grounds of the facility.

For last week's headline theme, we had two clues, separated by two days. First up was: "[T]he key word in the first headline is NOT 'Donald,' as Donald Trump will never, ever qualify to be a part of this theme, no matter how much he (and FIFA?) wishes it was otherwise." Second was: "We already said Donald Trump does not fit the theme. But there are four presidents who do fit (along with one VP), though we did not use any of those five. Oh, and one of those presidents is still living, as is the VP."

And here is the solution, courtesy of reader M.D. in South Haven, MI:

Unlike Donald Trump, these are all Nobel Peace Prize winners...

TrumpWatch 2026: King Donald Will Get His Way on Blanche—Martin Luther King Jr. (1964)

Legal Bytes: Call the Red Cross, Because the DOJ Is Bruised and Bleeding—The International Committee of the Red Cross (1917, 1944, 1963)

Governors, Part I: Mandela Barnes Is Out in Wisconsin—Nelson Mandela (1993)

Governors, Part II: Control of the House Could Begin, and End, with These Four Races—Menachem Begin (1978; with Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat)

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: Bourgeois Paranoia—Léon Bourgeois (1920)

This Week in Schadenfreude: State Department Gets Fried by AI—Alfred Fried (1911; with Tobias Asser)

This Week in Freudenfreude: Getting to the Root of the Problem, Literally—Elihu Root (1912)

We added Barack Obama with the headline of this item. He is, of course, one of the four presidents referred to in the second clue, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. The VP is Al Gore. We had a couple of readers write in and point out that VP Charles Dawes also won, while TR was both a president and a VP. We did not update the clue because we thought that would make it less helpful rather than more so.

Here are the first 60 readers to get it right:

H.B. in State College, PA
M.M. in Dunellen, NJ
W.V. in San Jacinto, CA
L.H. in Manchester, England, UK
D.M. in Oakland, CA
M.A. in Soquel, CA
K.H. in Ypsilanti, MI
P.A. in Redwood City, CA
M.S. in Canton, NY
M.W. in Altea, Spain
G.M. in Arlington, VA
P.H. in Fort Lauderdale, FL
S.K. in Henderson, NV
C.W. in Atlantic Beach, FL
A.C. in Kingston, MA
S.G. in Durham, NC
M.V. in Oak Park, IL
S.M. in Milford, MA
M.H. in Ottawa, ON, Canada
B.B. in Avon, CT
S.K. in Ardmore, PA
S.K. in Bethesda, MD
M.K. in Long Branch, NJ
H.B. in Santiago, Chile
S.W. in Winter Garden, FL
N.T. in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France
J.H. in Flint, MI
E.W. in Skaneateles, NY
S.T. in Coventry, England, UK
J.H. in Lake Forest, CA

B.G. in Houston, TX
C.G. in Knoxville, TN
S.B. in Palm Harbor, FL
N.H. in London, England, UK
J.N. in Zionsville, IN
L.W. in Los Angeles, CA
M.S. in New York City, NY
M.B. in Albany, NY
R.S. in Landing, NJ
L.R. in Columbia, MO
D.P. in Mt. Rainier, MD
K.R. in Austin, TX
M.D. in South Haven
P.L. in Skövde, Sweden
K.S. in Jefferson City, MO
Z.K. in Albany, NY
T.B. in Los Angeles, CA
J.J. in New York City, NY
A.B. in Miami Beach, FL
K.P. in Paris, France
C.C. in Chicago, IL
L.M. in Springfield, IL
M.M. in Jacksonville, FL
A.S. in Kansas City, MO
S.S. in Milwaukee, WI
J.K. in Seattle, WA
P.R. in Vancouver, BC, Canada
E.D. in Houston, TX
H.F. in Denver, CO
F.F. in Springfield, MA

The 60th correct response was received at 3:20 p.m. PT on Monday.

For this week's theme, it relies on one word per headline, and it's in the category Language. For a hint, we'll say that if the aforementioned Davy Crockett wasn't dead, and was playing along, he would probably be the first person to send in a correct response.

If you have a guess, send it to comments@electoral-vote.com with subject line August 7 Headlines. (Z)

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