VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Archive
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 […]
When Scions Attack: Third Generation Nixons & Carters Return to Haunt America
0 Comments Published by mr.president May 12th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, WHITE HOUSE REPLICA, PRESIDENT'S CHILDREN, UNITED STATES HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, RICHARD NIXON, JIMMY CARTER, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, GEORGE H.W. BUSH, GEORGE W. BUSHMeet Your New Overlords!
Hopes for a dynasty-free nation soared with the sputtering end of George W. Bush’s administration and the announced retirement of the Kennedy’s last office holder.
Over The Shoulder, Out Of Reach
But new threats emerge.
Jimmy Carter’s Grandson has been elected to the Georgia State Senate, and Richard Nixon’s Grandson aspires to do […]
Operation Overblown: Excess Eisenhower Comes To Washington
0 Comments Published by mr.president March 27th, 2010 in AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, LYNDON JOHNSON, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, RICHARD NIXONArchitects of Victory
Presidential grade inflation reaches a tragic apotheosis with the unveiling of an exciting new Frank Gehry design for DC’s long awaited Eisenhower Memorial.
The scheme accomplishes so many goals:
- obliteration from sight of DC’s only recognition of Lyndon Johnson.
- dimming if not completely blocking Education Department views of the Capitol, giving […]
We Don’t Like You And Your Friend Too
0 Comments Published by mr.president February 24th, 2010 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN HISTORY, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Beck Banishes
Awakened from their slumbers by patriot/seer Glen Beck, conservatives across America rush to join the antic showman in tossing Teddy Roosevelt over the side.
Until now, who knew that TR’s hysterically masculine crackpot vision of a white man’s world had some problems? Evidently not Jonah Goldberg.
Wonkette peers under the hood of Teddy’s […]
Tim Pawlenty, Buried In Grant’s Tomb
1 Comment Published by mr.president February 21st, 2010 in PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, MARGARET THATCHER, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, BARACK OBAMA, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, ULYSSES S. GRANT, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, PRESIDENTIAL GREATNESS, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CHURCHILLIAN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYGrant Me This
It was a gathering of the conservative faithful at CPAC this past weekend, and the search for novel political analogies reached strange new heights.
Among the oddities was Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, whose doomed Presidential campaign took its first tentative steps off the cliff by reminding the assembled Neo-Confederates of a past […]