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From the NewsHour Vault: This Day in History
Sept. 9, 2013
On this day in 1910, writer and art collector Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas become housemates and turned their Parisian home into a gathering place for both American artists and writers. The two hosted avant-garde painters, including Picasso, Matisse and American writers such as Ernest Hemingway.
From the Archives: Frank Lautenberg on Drinking Age, Secondhand Smoke
June 3, 2013
In the 1980s, Frank R. Lautenberg led his first two extraordinary fights in the U.S. Senate. A freshmen senator in 1984, Lautenberg pushed through legislation establishing the national drinking age at 21. Five years later, Lautenberg would lead another successful fight -- this time, a ban on smoking on all commercial flights.