HARRY S.TRUMAN 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: […]
Nixon: Still Kicking
0 Comments Published by mr.president May 24th, 2010 in HILLARY CLINTON, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, AWESOME POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA®, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, HARRY S.TRUMAN, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYEspecially Wack
They’ve had to surrender parts of the Nixon Presidential Library to ancient enemy the National Archives, they’ve seen their beloved Watergate exhibit trashed, but the Nixon bitter-enders still have some fight in them.
Coming Monday at the Nixon Library, the return of a particularly byzantine branch of the Nixon tree: a former Nixon aide […]
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, […]
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 […]