Remembering history the way they wished it had been
Having already provided the gifts which say “I Love the 70s” for Christmas 
and the Fourth of July 
, Jimmy Carter is bringing his word wrangling magic to Mothers Day with a book about, um, his Mom.
A Remarkable Mother hits the shelves April 1. 
One Man, Our Vote 
Greg Grandlin offers a roundup of one interested party’s role in the last twelve presidential elections, and perhaps on his last one.
“Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate” clocks el Lider Maximo’s walk-ons and cameos over five decades.
Vote Early & Vote Often 
Ship of Fools 
A Georgia Democratic Senate candidate says his failed efforts to keep the Presidential Yacht Sequoia safe for Washington cocktail parties are a credential for office. 
Josh Lanier was Executive Trustee of the Presidential Yacht Trust, one of the parade of troubled entities owning the yacht in the years since President Carter sold it. This collection of Washington worthies had visions of putting the ship back on the public tab after gussying it up, but the Sequoia ended up sold to a shipyard.
Since then another owner has gussied it up, rents it for parties, and flirts with selling it back to the feds.
It’s Alive! 
As President’s Day morphed into All Presidents, All The Time Day, its just gotten weirder and more unwieldy.
Republicans try to shoehorn Reagan in with fellow February Birthday Boys Washington and Lincoln, while complaining that one day really doesn’t do the lads justice. And lament the passing of glorious days of old when we heard of Lincoln learning to read by the light of a single lump of coal.
Meanwhile at the Carter Library they’ve gone beyond mere days to celebrate “President’s Month“!
For you all you Presidential who-went-where-when obsessives, The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry/ Civil War Musings blog has a roundup on Presidential visits to the Antietam battlefield near Washington.
With the special bonus of extensively documenting future President McKinley’s participation in the battle, where he heroically shuffled coffee to the front lines under fire.
