JOHN F. KENNEDY Archive
Mr. Reagan, Give Them Back Their Wall!
0 Comments 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 […]
A Tonkin Gulf In Reverse
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 3rd, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, FIDEL CASTRO, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, JOHN F. KENNEDY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, LYNDON JOHNSON, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, POLITICAL HUMOR
Nothing To See Here, Keep Moving
We’ve recently seen release of ever more definitive documents showing that nothing happened in the Gulf of Tonkin, despite the use of the “Incident” as Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam War MacGuffin.
Now we learn that the Kennedy Administration’s finest hour, the storied grace under pressure of a wise […]
Nico Never Wavers
0 Comments Published by mr.president June 28th, 2008 in AL GORE, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE W. BUSHScalia Speaks
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia claims to be an “Originalist” in court decisions, but he likes his history predictable, if wrong.
Defending his 2000 Florida recount cutoff, Scalia goes with a classic, offering the legend of a noble Richard Nixon putting country above self, declining to challenge the disputed 1960 election.
“Richard […]
Colorado Rocky Mountain Hype
0 Comments Published by mr.president June 8th, 2008 in BETTY FORD, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL RECREATION, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, JOHN F. KENNEDY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, US PRESIDENTS, GERALD FORD, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, WARREN HARDING, POLITICAL HUMORUp Where We Belong
Gerald Ford’s former Colorado home is for sale, and the frenzy is unrestrained!
“To our knowledge, it has been generations since the home of a former President has been offered to the open marketplace…and this is the only one in history to have such a prized location.“
Well.
Ford’s own home in […]
Reaction Shot
0 Comments Published by mr.president June 5th, 2008 in PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, JOHN F. KENNEDY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, GEORGE W. BUSHKarl to Comment?
Amidst the dazzle of Dallas’s Bush Library-To-Be is an element of vindication seeking, that the immortal stain of the Kennedy assassination be lifted from the city.
Change Of Subject
Others aren’t sure a Bush Library will do the trick. The Dallas Observer’s Jim Schutze points to the multiple investigations underway of […]
