PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE Archive
Dick Nixon To Kick Around Again!
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 29th, 2010 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, NIXON MASKS, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXONLegends Of The Fall
It’s come to this: after being around for 20 years, the Nixon Library’s best spokesman defending the Nixon “legacy” is creationist fraudster and imaginary civil rights veteran Ben Stein.
The celebration of 20 proud years is in the spirit of the man, with events featuring such 60s legends as Freddie “The Jew […]
Washington Slept Here, Now Keep Moving
0 Comments Published by mr.president July 10th, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PLACES & THINGS NAMED REAGAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTS DAY, FOUNDERS!, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, BILL CLINTON House Proud
A belated salute to the Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott, who July 4th shared with readers his meditations on America and the world’s obsession with replicating homes of the great and the good, or at least George Washington.
Mount Vernon, soon to host another superfluous “Presidential Library,” holds first place in the nation’s […]
Lincoln Legends: Not Earring On The Side Of Caution
0 Comments Published by mr.president November 23rd, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, FIRST LADIES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY
Vanity Plot?
Anxious to display something, anything which had touched the great man for the Lincoln Bicentennial, in 2007 the Kentucky Historical Society spent $19,000 on a pair of earrings which may, or may not, have belonged to Lincoln’s wife.
The earrings history is sketchy. Basically, it’s a letter from a guy who once owned […]
This President’s Day, Stay Home!
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 15th, 2009 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL GRAVE, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, ALL PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HOMES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, WOODROW WILSON, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, RICHARD NIXONAs You Were
A hardy perennial as President’s Day approaches is the nation’s great editorial voices lamenting the sad spectacle of Americans swarming the malls rather than making pilgrimage to stately presidential homes and memorials.
The economy should knock out retail worries this year, and pilgrimages have their own troubles.
President’s Day’s origin, such as it is, […]
Illinois News In Brief
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 10th, 2009 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACE, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, RONALD REAGAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY“Officials: Lincoln’s Birthday Obscuring Reagan’s Birthday“