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Fakes, Frauds, & Founders
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 18th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FOUNDERS!, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONBehold These Goofs
Unable to stage signing the “Mount Vernon Statement” at, um, Mount Vernon, massed conservatives held their event instead at the swanky Collingwood Library & Museum, a former dinner theatre venue on property once owned by George Washington and now available for wedding rentals.
Mount Vernon wouldn’t let them hold a political […]
Founder-ing
0 Comments Published by mr.president January 14th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FOUNDERS!, SARAH PALIN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE WASHINGTONFirst In War, First In Peace, & Not On The Tip Of Sarah Palin’s Tongue
Twenty-Twelve Dream Twixie Sarah Palin continues making the rounds of the Fox News Legends she now resides among, only to be caught out by Glen “I Know It When I See It” Beck, of all people.With the spunk and verve […]
The Adams Family: All Together Ooky
0 Comments Published by mr.president May 5th, 2009 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, FOUNDERS!, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, JOHN ADAMS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, JAMES MADISON, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, THOMAS JEFFERSONNow With Dignified Forms!
The New York Times identifies a looming menace in presidential monumental-ism: a renowned architectural crackpot’s involvement in Washington’s prospective Adams family memorial.
Rodney Mims Cook Jr is a man with a mission: hurling architecture back in time to an era of stately forms, and a whole lot of pillars. Cook gave Atlanta […]