FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Archive
Bedford Falls: World War Two Done Right?
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 17th, 2010 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, US PRESIDENTS, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, HARRY S.TRUMAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYQuit Your Stalin
Americans like to think of D-Day as a splendid battle which, while tough, prefigured our inevitable sweep to victory over Germany. How it came to be that most of the German army was elsewhere, or where the slave laborers who built the Germans’ “Atlantic Wall” came from are petty distractions.
So it comes […]
A New Deal For Dead Presidents: Everything’s Better After All
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 1st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, JOHN F. KENNEDY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, HARRY S.TRUMAN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYNo Middle Ground
Having already incorporated Truman and Kennedy into the conservative pantheon, reactionaries are now critiquing Barack Obama for being just not FDR-ish enough
Portly torture enthusiast, former Bush speech writer and stain on the Washington Post op/ed page Mark Theeson is out with an exciting new line of pretend argument: […]
George W. Bush: Scene Of The Last Roundup?
0 Comments Published by mr.president November 19th, 2009 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, OVAL OFFICE REPRODUCTIONS, BUSH LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL GRAVE, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, JOHN F. KENNEDY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, US PRESIDENTS, GERALD FORD, HARRY S.TRUMAN, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, GEORGE W. BUSH Grave Importance
Fancy color sketches and models of the George W. Bush Presidential Library have been loosed upon an anxious world, and must be mined for clues.
Like, where will they bury him?
Assuming Bush follows the pharaoh-ic path of FDR, Truman, Ike, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and his father’s plan at College Station, […]
A Franklin Roosevelt Legacy: Enriching [Some Of] Future Generations
0 Comments Published by mr.president November 17th, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYGrace Tully: Note To Self
New York state’s gift to the nation, Chuck Schumer has a deal for us:
We allow the corporate descendants of Franklin Roosevelt secretary Grace Tully to profit from her absconding with FDR ephemera, and they will graciously donate the material to the Roosevelt Presidential Library for a tax deduction.
The recently bankrupt […]
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 […]
