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Clinton associates have long whispered that the politically-trained daughter would be perfect for politics, but now an Obama expert who advises Fortune 500 firms on communications has bluntly predicted a continuation of the Clinton dynasty.

“It doesn’t matter if she keeps her new television job, or if she quits—Chelsea can do it,” says Gil Peretz, author of Obama’s Secrets, a book on how to communicate like the president. “She started to gain substantive political experience when she campaigned for her mother in 2008.

Washington biographer Dennis Pogue, vice president of preservation at Washington’s home of Mount Vernon, reveals that the father of the nation lost his first campaign in 1755 to the House of Burgesses largely because he didn’t put on an alcohol-laden circus at the polls. That year, Washington got 40 votes. The winner, who plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine, got 271 votes.

A quick learner, Washington won three years later with the help of alcohol. “What do you know, he was successful and got 331 votes,” says Pogue, author of the new book Founding Spirits: George Washington and the Beginnings of the American Whiskey Industry. He spoke about his research Monday night at an event sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and the National Press Club.

The historic cache of more than 30 post-war diaries of Hitler’s death camp doctor Josef Mengele could fetch up to $1 million at auction Thursday in part because new and shocking translations of the “Angel of Death” reveal his continued hatred of Jews as well as disdain for former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, his own homeland after World War II, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and even the children in his new South American home.

Priebus, who’s starting to score some fundraising and organizational victories inside GOP HQ, having taken over for controversial former Chairman Michael Steele, says the debate over President Obama’s birthplace and whether he can be president is a huge distraction away from the party’s effort to fight Democratic spending and tax plans.

The sorry financial state of the media, especially among newspapers, which demand high productivity with little or no added pay, is burning out younger reporters, copy editors, and page designers.

His new show comes as the network [Fox Business] is picking up steam in its bid to take on CNBC as cable’s voice of business news. Dobbs also brings his political commentary to the table that brought him fame at CNN. When he quit CNN there was some speculation that he wanted to become a policy advocate, possibly on the issue of immigration, or even run for president.