HERBERT HOOVER Archive
Hoover & Elvis: If Every Day Was Like Christmas
Closed Published by mr.president November 22nd, 2008 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, HERBERT HOOVER, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYHerbert Hoover As You’ve Never Seen Him
Times are tough in America’s Heartland, but plucky Midwesterners are buckling down.
Iowa’s Herbert Hoover National Historic Site has so few visitors that early this year it dropped it’s admission charge to save the money spent trying to collect it.
Hoover is a punching bag for all seasons. Distant relative […]
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 […]
How They Hate [Some] Of Us
Closed Published by mr.president April 16th, 2008 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, HARRY S.TRUMAN, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, BILL CLINTON, RONALD REAGAN, JOHN F. KENNEDY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, HERBERT HOOVER, US PRESIDENTS, POLITICAL HUMOR
Honor Roll
Brussels journall takes the time to go where the streets have no name, or at least not ones it approves of. Thanks to the ceaseless proliferation of web-based tools they offer what can only be hoped is the definitive survey of
Belgian Streets Named after US […]
Nobody Here But Us Populists!
Closed Published by mr.president December 4th, 2007 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, RONALD REAGAN, HERBERT HOOVER, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY It’s Cultural!
A Politico “Senior Political Writer” has read the entrails of the Krugman Reagan=Racist debate, rejects the thesis, and wanders even further back in the Huffington Post to find the Republicans pretty much blameless going back to the Twenties.
While claiming Reagan’s appeal wasn’t racist, David Paul Kuhn […]
Getting Hoovered
Closed Published by mr.president November 14th, 2007 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HERBERT HOOVER, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSH the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
A dispute with Stanford faculty and students over Donald Rumsfeld appointment as a Hoover Institute Fellow is reminding Southern Methodist University of what may be in store for them when/if President Bush’s Fantastic Freedom Institute opens on campus paired with the prospective […]