AMERICAN HISTORY Archive
Remembering Woodrow Wilson: Now With Visceralness!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 23rd, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, WOODROW WILSON, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMORLittle Professor
Presidential Memorializing continues spinning backwards in time, with the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library the latest fatuous exercise.
Wilson was born in Staunton Virginia, but his parents left town when he was four. From these slender roots the town has metastasized a Presidential Library, now to receive federal funding.
The Library represents double […]
Bush Library Opposition To High Court: Legislate From The Bench!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 19th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, BUSH LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSHSeeking Judgement
They lost the delegate vote at a Methodist regional conference, but Bush Library opponents have another shot at trying to block the tribute: Activist Judges!
Library opponents have launched an appeal to the Methodist Judicial Council, seeking a ruling that the Bush Institute attached to the Bush Library would violate Southern Methodist […]
Mr. Reagan, Give Them Back Their Wall!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 18th, 2008 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BERLIN WALL, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, CHURCHILLIAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, HERBERT HOOVER, GERALD FORD, POLITICAL HUMOR Communism Point & Click
So little is left of the Berlin Wall that Reuters reports authorities have resorted to handing tourists a GPS powered device if they want to recreate that closed in feeling.
We know where the Wall went: vast chunks carried off to America for victory displays. Prime offenders are Presidential […]
Bush Library: Methodists Embrace Hope!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 17th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BUSH LIBRARY, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHExecutive Assurance
The Methodist Church will not try to block the Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University, according to the Dallas Morning News. Unless a full regional meeting Thursday rejects it, the South Central Jurisdictional Conference resolutions committee is putting it’s faith in fair treatment from Bush.
“The group voted to reject […]
Foreigners Out?
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 17th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, BILL CLINTON, POLITICAL HUMOR, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, US PRESIDENTS, GEORGE W. BUSHThe Donor Party
Beyond giving work to Congressional and Homeland Security investigators, the Bush Library pay to play scandal has generated renewed attention to just who pays for these hulking mausoleum/fun-zones. Past and future Librarians rush to assure us that none of that foreign cash shall corrupt our American values, at least […]