Archive for July, 2007

A future President was tested in conflict seventy-five years ago, but his role goes unmentioned. July 28, 1932 saw the US Army mobilized to drive the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans out of Washington. At least three veterans died. Douglas MacArthur commanded the soldiers, but who was his deputy?
Dwight Eisenhower goes unmentioned […]

Profiles In Courage

Is downloading porn a problem in the Kennedy Library reading room?
A presentation to teachers on using the web to teach build citizenship skills dissolved into bad
comedy when […]

The new Nixon tapes deepen our knowledge of the late President’s “complex” relationship with the Jews. Now Nixon’s “House Jew,” Leonard Garment, has spoken out on his ex boss’s thoughtful utterances.
Garment writes the New York Times that Nixon wasn’t so much anti-Semitic as abrupt. “Let him be the house Jew” is a “characteristic […]

America, your need for Oval Office Reproduction will not be denied!
Coming soon to Oyster Bay New York, Washington DC, Cambridge Massachusetts, or some berg they can persuade to front the cash, it’s another Presidential Museum!
“Newsday” previews the relentless action:
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Gerald Ford and the Congressional Path to a Bottle of Dr. Ed Condon’s Feel-Good UFO Elixir
One Robert Barrow returns us to a more innocent time, when a youthful Representative Gerald Ford responded to constituent concerns about mysterious lights in the sky by pressing for federal investigation of UFOs.