Archive for June, 2008
Statuary Haul
Closed Published by mr.president June 30th, 2008 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, POLITICAL HUMORWinsome, Lose Some
It’s one step forward, one step back for gigantic representations of Ronald Reagan. An immense Reagan statue has been dedicated in Covington Louisiana, with a head oddly swollen compared to the original noggin.
Maybe It’s The Hair?
Elsewhere, setbacks for the cause. A […]
Flights Of Fancy
Closed Published by mr.president June 29th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL RECREATION, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSHLife Like!
More detail emerges on new rides at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Museum & Fun Park, as a team of Kansans travel to California to install a Boeing 707 flight simulator in a shed near the Air Force One Pavilion.
Kansas’s El Dorado Times reports that the vintage hardware’s sad fate is […]
Nico Never Wavers
Closed Published by mr.president June 28th, 2008 in AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHScalia Speaks
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia claims to be an “Originalist” in court decisions, but he likes his history predictable, if wrong.
Defending his 2000 Florida recount cutoff, Scalia goes with a classic, offering the legend of a noble Richard Nixon putting country above self, declining to challenge the disputed 1960 election.
“Richard […]
The Black Legend
Closed Published by mr.president June 27th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORShady Stats
New York Sun prison correspondent Conrad Black writes from sunny Florida that the Nixonland hype must stop, claiming author Rick Perlstein somehow missed the hidden wells of Nixon popularity both past and present.
“Mr. Perlstein does recognize that Nixon was and is popular, though he doesn’t know how popular and can’t explain […]
Making Friends Wherever We Go
Closed Published by mr.president June 26th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTS ABROAD, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, RONALD REAGAN, US PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHAt The White House…
And Abroad…
“Sen. Rodolfo Biazon Wednesday questioned the US government’s deployment of an aircraft carrier to help in the search for survivors of the capsized MV Princess of the Stars and the retrieval of bodies trapped in the vessel. “An aircraft carrier is not designed for salvage. The USS […]
