ALL PRESIDENTS Archive
Republicans Eat Their Own
0 Comments Published by mr.president March 4th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, ULYSSES S. GRANT, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, GEORGE W. BUSHReagan Inflation
The echos of Tim [who?] Pawlenty’s heartfelt tribute to Ulysses S. Grant had barely faded when eager young Republican cubs sprang forth to re-seal Grant’s Tomb.
Small but perfectly formed North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry has introduced legislation to banish Grant from his perch on the $50 bill, replacing him with a fellow all […]
Odessa Steps Into History?
0 Comments Published by mr.president May 29th, 2009 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYINTRODUCTION TO THE ROTUNDA
When you walk into the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library, the first thing you should see is the rotunda and what is exhibited there.
Odessa Texas’s Presidential Museum threatens to close July 1, despite being on track to attract some 3,650 visitors this year. They have somehow managed to survive for 45 […]
Obama: Wish He Won’t In Dixie
2 Comments Published by mr.president May 22nd, 2009 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, ALL PRESIDENTS, JEFFERSON DAVIS, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WOODROW WILSON, US PRESIDENTS, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYCause For Alarm
A group of academics have petitioned President Obama to end a beloved presidential tradition dating back to Liberal Idol Woodrow Wilson: sending a wreath each year to a Confederate war memorial in Arlington.
The legacy of the man who segregated Washington DC lives on in this sacred annual remembrance, only shifted from Jefferson […]
The Kennedy Mystique: Further Into The Mist
0 Comments Published by mr.president March 8th, 2009 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, JOHN F. KENNEDY, LYNDON JOHNSON, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYSuper-performance!
Matthew Yglesias tries to make sense out of Gallop’s opinion polling on presidents by age, and comes up puzzled, especially by Kennedy’s over-performance across the ideological spectrum.
“I can’t imagine a coherent ideological viewpoint that would justify the high ratings Americans over-35 give to Kennedy… if you could take the Kennedy-Johnson years as a whole, […]
Negro First
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 24th, 2009 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, OVAL OFFICE REPRODUCTIONS, BUSH LIBRARY, ALL PRESIDENTS, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHBook Him
The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize winning arts critic Mark Feeney has solved the Presidential Library/Pharaoh-ization problem: Make Obama go first!
It’s a position our first African-American President has been in many times before, and why not round out Black History Month by renouncing the building of his all but inevitable Presidential Library?
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