For several generations a popular story about St. James Church made the rounds of the Hudson River Valley community. One Sunday, an old Republican matriarch member was mortified to find her pews crammed with complete strangers, gawking and waiting for… Read More ›
The Reagans
Ivana Be First Lady: Trump Wives Tales, A President Who Married His Niece & Other Multiple-Wife Presidencies
Most Americans are entirely unaware of the scandalous fact that a President lived in the White House at the same time with both of his wives. And there was that sensitive First Lady who was so jealous over the first… Read More ›
Nancy Reagan & Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Their Untold Story
“What about Jackie?” The first person Nancy Reagan asked me about was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I’d never flown in a helicopter before, let alone the presidential one, but there I was in the sky, whirring through the lower stratosphere above… Read More ›
Private Pools of the Presidents: A Photo Essay
Not every President has a private estate where they beat the heat of Washington by taking a running jump into a cool pool. But they do have the White House and Camp David. Both the primary presidential residence and the… Read More ›
First Ladies, Swimsuit Edition: Bikinis to Bonnets to Bloomers
In the beginning, First Ladies were given no dispensation when it came to figuratively swimming in their bathing suits alongside the Presidents. Regardless of their nationally elevated marital status, they were expected to lead their countrywomen by example. So it… Read More ›
The Presidents, Swimsuit Edition: Trunks to Tees to Plain Naked
Roosevelt wore one with a tanktop. Kennedy, Reagan, LBJ, Nixon and Obama sported the more familiar trunk suits. Truman slipped into what almost looks like a 1940s Speedo. John Quincy Adams, among others, wore nothing at all. In most parts… Read More ›
White House Staff Reveal Private Life of Presidents & First Ladies
The new book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by former Bloomberg News reporter Kate Brower, is making waves. The media dustup is not just over the book’s personal revelations about recent Presidents and First Ladies,… Read More ›
St. Patrick’s Day & The Presidents: Shamrocks, Leprechauns, and Some Visits to the Old Sod
Since the days of Thomas Jefferson, various, individual Presidents have chosen to commemorate St. Patrick’s Day. For much of the 19th century and early 2oth century, it was a matter intended less to honor Irish-Americans and more to seek the… Read More ›
Presidents, the Irish & the Clinton St. Patrick’s Day Parties
Even if it took a century and a half, there were hopes to make the White House green from the start. Just two years after George Washington took his oath of office as the nation’s first chief executive, there was… Read More ›
A Movie Star First Lady: Nancy Reagan’s Hollywood Acting Career
You might have caught Michelle Obama on Youtube during one of her television appearances with Jimmy Fallon or Ellen DeGeneres. Or maybe you caught the web episode of the kids show iCarly when she made a guest appearance. Perhaps you… Read More ›
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