CHURCHILLIAN Archive
Tim Pawlenty, Buried In Grant’s Tomb
1 Comment Published by mr.president February 21st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, MARGARET THATCHER, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, ULYSSES S. GRANT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CHURCHILLIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYGrant Me This
It was a gathering of the conservative faithful at CPAC this past weekend, and the search for novel political analogies reached strange new heights.
Among the oddities was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose doomed Presidential campaign took its first tentative steps off the cliff by reminding the assembled Neo-Confederates of a past […]
George W. Bush, A Fond Look Back
0 Comments Published by mr.president December 21st, 2009 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTS ABROAD, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, TONY BLAIR, BUSH LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, CHURCHILLIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHRemember, Remember The Eleventh Of September
The George W. Bush Presidential Library has no building yet, but in our up to the minute virtual world they’ve begun filling the Internets with thoughtful reminders of the glorious Bush Era.
The Library website has an exciting 9-11 look-back slide-show, featuring our hero on the phone,
videoconferencing,
and […]
Poker In The Service Of Freedom
0 Comments Published by mr.president November 10th, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL RECREATION, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HARRY S.TRUMAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, CHURCHILLIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYChips Ahoy!
The Wall Street Journal dips into the bottomless well of presidential pastimes to discuss poker and its role in the defense of the West. Harry Truman’s lifelong devotion to gambling is approvingly reviewed, with side discussion of Winston Churchill’s legendary alcohol consumption and failings at cards.
Poker was played on the eve […]
The Conservative Path To Power: Making [Up] History
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 16th, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, CHURCHILLIAN, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHAnalogize This
“It is to the eternal glory of the American nation, that the more hopeless became their cause, the more desperately the Southerner fought”
- Churchill
The Washington Post this President’s Day gives us hints at the parties would-be roads to power, and if the Republican portrait is accurate we won’t be seeing them for a […]
Mr. Reagan, Give Them Back Their Wall!
Closed 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 […]