WHITE HOUSE HISTORY Archive

Got It Covered  
Fantasies of George W.Bush finally answering the numerous suits, inquiries and subpoenas pending against his administration after he leaves office received a cold shower Thursday from the New York Times, which reports a crackpot Harry Truman legal theory may have empowered presidents to tell Congress, the courts and polite society generally to […]

 For The Good Times 
One delight of our soon to be departed President was that even a totally in the tank Tory Party rag like The Daily Telegraph felt free to smirk at Bush’s behavior.
The paper has gathered an early departure love letter to the Bush Era, in the form of some of the finest […]

Eveready! 

Jesse Taylor of Pandagon joyously mocks the endlessly expressed notion that putting a little touch of Reagan in everything we do is key.
Taylor takes off on Scott Rasmussen’s Wall Street Journal advice to seek Him everywhere, and hilarity ensues:

“Barack Obama’s election reaffirms the central tenet of American political life, which is that Ronald Reagan […]

Who Was Barack Obama? 
The hope’s barely dry for the Obama Administration, but an exhibit on the Senator’s rise to greatness looms.
Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and Museum has some odds and ends left over from the Democrat’s convention week in town, and they’re putting on a show!
This handsome number  is the centerpiece […]

Statuesque!  
Gerald Ford is another step closer to immortality in the United States Capital, with the selection of the artist to create a larger than life statue.
Michigan is making room for No-Term Gerry by yanking the state’s statue of Zachary Chandler, a Civil War era Republican senator of real accomplishments.
The unfortunately named University of […]