The Stump, In Happier Times
Washington State now boasts the replica of a structure built for a Presidential event which never occurred, standing proudly at a different location.
The “McKinley Stump” is in Chehalis Washington’s evocatively named Recreation Park. It stood in various parts of town 100 years, but […]

Damp but Determined
The draw your own Bush Presidential Library contest has a week to go, and the oddities mount. The Chronicle of Higher Education features one new entry, which involves putting the library beneath fountains of water, suspended above a “lagoon.”
The troubled recent history of public memorials and water be damned!

Now More Than Ever Forever!
We now know that Tricia Nixon’s Iowa Mccain appearance was only the scene setter in the Nixon Cox family’s new adventures in politics.
Tricia’s husband Ed Cox had previously roused from his thirty year slumber to flirt with challenging Hillary Clinton for Senate, only to […]

For you all you Presidential who-went-where-when obsessives, The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry/ Civil War Musings blog has a roundup on Presidential visits to the Antietam battlefield near Washington.
With the special bonus of extensively documenting future President McKinley’s participation in the battle, where he heroically shuffled coffee to the front lines under […]

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Community meetings on the proposed Oyster Bay Long Island Theodore Roosevelt museum are rolling along, with residents are asking Theodore Roosevelt Association President James Bruns some entertaining questions.
One questioner asked what exactly they’d put in the 100,000 square foot building since Roosevelt’s papers are at Harvard and the Library of Congress.
Bruns says they […]