WILLIAM MCKINLEY Archive
Sarah Palin Reloaded: McKinley Dies Again
Closed Published by mr.president September 13th, 2008 in PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, SECRET SERVICE, PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS, AMERICAN HISTORY, UNITED STATES HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMORWho Would Sarah Shoot?
The thrilling details of Sarah Palin’s Secret Service code name have been revealed to an anxious public, usually accompanied by boilerplate explaining how pretty Denali National Park is. Passed over in Palin’s moniker acceptance is her slap at our martyred 25th president.
Denali is the Native Alaskan name for Mount McKinley, the […]
McCain Mines McKinley Mojo
Closed Published by mr.president June 7th, 2008 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, JOHN MCCAIN, PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHOn to Buffalo!
William McKinley’s last use in a contemporary campaign was Karl Rove’s mad scheme to present George W. Bush as the Big Mc of our generation, achieving solid Republican rule by persuading the scruffies to vote against their interests.
It worked with Bush, at least as far as the minstrel show 2000 […]
Stumped
Closed Published by mr.president January 26th, 2008 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, VICE PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, US PRESIDENTS, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORYThe Stump, In Happier Times
Washington State now boasts the replica of a structure built for a Presidential event which never occurred, standing proudly at a different location.
The “McKinley Stump” is in Chehalis Washington’s evocatively named Recreation Park. It stood in various parts of town 100 years, but […]
The Visitors
Closed Published by mr.president January 24th, 2008 in WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, UNITED STATES HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, ULYSSES S. GRANT, JOHN F. KENNEDY, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, ANDREW JOHNSON, US PRESIDENTS, JIMMY CARTERFor you all you Presidential who-went-where-when obsessives, The 48th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry/ Civil War Musings blog has a roundup on Presidential visits to the Antietam battlefield near Washington.
With the special bonus of extensively documenting future President McKinley’s participation in the battle, where he heroically shuffled coffee to the front lines under […]
Hey! Ladies!
1 Comment Published by mr.president October 15th, 2007 in UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, AMERICAN HISTORY, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, BETTY FORD, LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADIES, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, PRESIDENTIAL SITES, POLITICAL HUMORThe National first Ladies Library is losing the sugar daddy who brings in four-fifths of it’s income. The Library is based in a Canton Ohio house once belonging to President William McKinley and wife Ida, and serves up a weird amalgam of decorating and democracy, a great deal of former White House china with a […]