Archive for February, 2008
Reagan In The Ditch
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 29th, 2008 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 HUMOR“Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” Ronald Reagan
In the spirit of Ronald Reagan, Indiana is pondering finishing a broke and incomplete local Ronald Reagan Parkway by swapping it for a state road. Indiana would pay for the Parkway, while local government would take over maintenance on state highway 267.
Hendricks County […]
Pats of Glory
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 29th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, FIRST LADIES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXONPat Answers?
Perhaps America’s only Pat Nixon poem, an excerpt:
“Dropping eggs
Fertilizing
Hearing smelling
Biting and eating life still living as it
Thrashes and squirms in pain as it is
Savored in the mouth of other life . . . ?”
Obama Sweeps SMU
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 28th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, LAURA BUSH, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, BARAK OBAMA, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, FIRST LADIES, GEORGE W. BUSH Don’t Vote With Texas?
Barak Obama has swept a mock election at Laura Bush alma mater and would be future home of the Bush Library, Southern Methodist University.
The Republican National Committee: Legacy Losers
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 28th, 2008 in HILLARY CLINTON, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHParty Time Out
The Republican National Committee has long joined in the fun beating up the Clintons over access to Clinton Administration papers. But you don’t need to hide what you don’t have, and they’re doing their part to bury Bush Administration emails generated by White House staff.
A subset […]
Founding Fugitive
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 28th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTONPhiladelphia Freedom
Philadelphia is recognising a George Washington slave who escaped while he lived in the city. Oney Judge was one of nine slaves the Father of Our country brought with him to the nation’s first capitol, and one of two who escaped. Their experiences have been in the news with […]