Author Archives
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A Humbug President’s Hubris: Take My Mountain Please!
It was President Warren G. Harding who liked to tell a story about his fellow Ohio Republican President William McKinley that revealed his predecessor’s character, about “the pose and love of the dramatic in McKinley that few people realized.” While… Read More ›
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On 1981 Tape, Jackie Kennedy Recalls Life as Fifties Housewife: With Sixty Newlywed Images
In photographs and a television interview from the fall of 1953 and the spring of 1954, the 24-year old newlywed Mrs. John F. Kennedy seemed to be the quintessentially submissive and serene Fifties Housewife. In 1981, by the time she… Read More ›
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A President in Alaska: Ninety Rare Images of Harding’s Fatal Trip
This very day, ninety-two years ago, Americans awoke to newspaper and radio reports of the President’s sudden death in San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, while he was in the middle of what was intended to be a two-month tour of the… Read More ›
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Cartoon & Caricature: A First-Time Collection
From the time she stepped onto the world stage as the spouse of the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960, the public persona of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy immediately began to solidify, the finer details planed away as she was shaped by… Read More ›
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Songs Summarizing Summertime: Vote Your Favorite
We’re almost in the thick of it. For three weeks after Memorial Day Weekend, you could still technically claim it wasn’t summer until the vernal equinox of June twenty-first. Two weeks out since Independence Day, however, it is high season,… Read More ›
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Never Forgetting A Dog’s Birthday
Has anyone truly met a Dog unworthy of serious consideration for sainthood? When you recognize how we all shape the way Dogs develop, who really can blame a Dog for just doing what they’ve learned to believe is natural? Growling,… Read More ›
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Ari & Jackie Onassis: The Video & Five-Part Series, with New and Rare Photos
Several years ago, this website ran a series of articles on Ari & Jackie Onassis. The series can be found at the following links: Ari & Jackie Onassis: Wedding, Yacht, Island, Bedroom and the End, Part 1 Ari & Jackie… Read More ›
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The Seven Fathers Who Lived to See Sons Become President
There was a homeopath who adored his son and a tanner who exploited his. Two were humble farmers offering practical advice that charmed the nation. Three were diplomats, two being Ambassadors to Great Britain, one of them being the first to serve… Read More ›
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