VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Archive

The Voice From Beyond 
America’s most prolific dead presidential offspring/author has struck again.  Margaret Truman, Harry’s daughter, has checked in again with yet another Washington “mystery.”  Murder Inside The Beltway is perhaps the most insipidly titled of her, shall we say uninspired crap novels.

Miss Truman “authored” a string of ‘em before her January death.  […]

Many Horsemen Come 
Some clown operating a site as “Lyndon Baines Johnson II”is on their way to perfecting the confection of search terms randomly assembled into quasi-readable copy.
A detectable relationship to the beloved LBJ is non-existent, but if you have a burning need to read up on “Sales Lessons Learned from the NBA and Professional […]

Dress For Success  
America’s closets continue to disgorge their treasures, or at the least their oddities. The Detroit News reports on a Michigan woman who has a cotton Nixon dress left over from the 1960 campaign.
The News also digs up       a more menacing looking dress in the holdings of the Indianapolis Museum of […]

Oh, To Be In Beirut! 
The New York Times recently turned over a substantial chunk of it’s op/ed page to exploring the murky Reagan administration intervention in Beirut, where hundreds of Marines died.
The lesson learned?   It was terrorism, and the giant who tumbled the Berlin Wall with a single breath  turned and ran.
But some hold […]

Which One Is Not Like The Other Ones?
 
Among those apparently driven round the bend by Obama’s poll numbers is the National Black Republican Association.
Always a little on edge, the Association  has tried its “King Was A Republican” campaign with no visible effect,
 ”Urban Print”
 and now they are reaching back to defend Nixon’s embrace of […]