Archive for November, 2007
Hall of Reagans
Closed Published by mr.president November 30th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORThey Dream of Disney?
The suburban Pittsburgh Upper St. Clair School District has settled on how they will honor Ronald Reagan after three years of discussions. They’d pondered naming a school or a theatre after the late President, but have decided on a “Hall of Presidents.” Just what the Hall will contain isn’t clear, […]
Rough Edges To Slick Trades
Closed Published by mr.president November 30th, 2007 in AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, BILL CLINTON Sword of the Republic,Sheathed
The Washington Post sends us hurtling back in time to the white hot passions of the Clinton Impeachment Trial. One time Impeachment Trial Manager James Rogin lost his House seat in the wake of the trial, and is now a state judge in California.
He’s been reaching out […]
Nixon Attracts the Wrong Crowd
Closed Published by mr.president November 29th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL GRAVE, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BERLIN WALL, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMOR The Youth of Today: No respect.
“Went out Friday in Long Beach, stayed in Saturday, and went to the Nixon Library on Sunday where I touched a large piece of the Berlin Wall (so cool).”
Write Like Your Whole World Depended On It
Closed Published by mr.president November 29th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMORIn the {Philadelphia Inquirer, Jack Ayer reviews Conrad Black’s Nixon opus, and pulls a fine Black apologia for Nixon:
“The aggregate is what must rank as one of the oddest summaries for any career: “not a uniquely sleazy president, but was treated as one.””
Haunting parallel alert: Black faces sentencing Friday.
That 80s Show
Closed Published by mr.president November 28th, 2007 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, MITT ROMNEY, MIKE HUCKABEE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR
That Bush-Reagan Thing
“…he wasn’t a part of that Bush-Reagan thing, I was a part of that Bush-Reagan thing”
With these bold if inarticulate words, Mike Huckabee affirms his Reagan Correctness and threw down the gauntlet to would-be Reagan lover Mitt Romney.
Romney wrapped himself in Reagan’s banner and responded with his own […]