Archive for October, 2007
Memoes On Horseback
Closed Published by mr.president October 30th, 2007 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTON, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORThe National Archives Doc ‘O The Day for Saturday
Surfacing this picture gives the Archives reason enough to link to a 1998 article in their publication “Prologue,” “I Am Entitled to the Medal of Honor and I Want It” Theodore Roosevelt and His Quest for Glory
The story is a trawl […]
The Bitch Is Back
Closed Published by mr.president October 30th, 2007 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMOR Standard deviation
The Weekly Standard offers a wet kiss to Republican operative and son-Nixon-never-had Roger Stone. Nothing on Nixon but the bitchin’ tat on the cover, lots of Stone’s mischievous rise to greatness.
Manhattan Transfer
Closed Published by mr.president October 30th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, HILLARY CLINTON, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, RUDY GIULIANI, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTISH, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYEvery jot and tickle of drama surrounding access to Hillary Clinton’s papers gets extensive play in right wing blogs, generally along the lines of “I wonder what she’s hiding” or “Hmmm.”
We can now watch with interest the reaction to the Chicago Tribune’s blow by blow of the ever changing status of Rudy Giuliani’s papers.
After […]
Flights of Fancy
Closed Published by mr.president October 29th, 2007 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, RONALD REAGAN, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSH Before the Banner, there was the flight suit
- Mission Accomplished Explained?
Johnson City
Closed Published by mr.president October 29th, 2007 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, LYNDON JOHNSON, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMOR The L.B.Jesus that’s ugly!
David H. Bennett argues in the Austin American-Statesman
for LBJ memorializement beyond the Education Department building.
“Washington is a city of monuments: The Mall features buildings, statues and walls commemorating big achievements (like saving the Union) and small ones (like inventing the screw propeller). But until now, […]