Fifty years ago today, on February 3, 1971, former First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy, by then remarried, made her first and only visit back to the White House. After the trauma of her first husband’s assassination… Read More ›
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Jane & Jill, Potential First Ladies: Lots in Common Between the Wives of Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders
Jane or Jill? Before speculation begins about potential vice presidential candidates of the two leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, their marital partners Jill and Jane deserve an introduction. They share numerous biographical facts. Both women are… Read More ›
The President as King: A Political Cartoon History
George Washington made it clear he didn’t want to be treated, addressed or in any other way thought of as a King. He was the President of a democracy. And although regal in his public demeanor, he took no actions… Read More ›
Barbara Bush & Nancy Reagan: Their Contentious Relationship
Barbara Bush had actually started out liking the color red, but when she was told that it was Nancy Reagan’s “color,” she was advised to take blue, a shade she so embraced as her own that “Bush Blue” became an… Read More ›
Five Forgotten Feminist First Ladies
Throughout March, many forgotten and overlooked women have been been credited with the bravery, strength, foresight, fairness and honesty they displayed and exemplified in their lifetimes, however belatedly, and who now offer the legacy of example. As happens with all… Read More ›
Presidents Voting Photos: A Clue to Chief Executive Ego
Living before a perpetual public eye, they’re intensely self-conscious. And that’s how most of them have wanted it to be. Before discovering they can literally get the attention of the whole world by slipping on a tarmac, carrying a garment… Read More ›
Inauguration, Swinging Sixties Style: LBJ’s Big Day, 1965
It was fifty years ago today, at three minutes after noon that the incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn-in for his own full term, elected in his own right as President in the 1964 election. As Vice President,… Read More ›
Crazy Pilgrim Sex, Colonist & Natives, Straight & Gay, Incest & Orgies: An Archives Article
Discretion advised, forget that old notion of prissy Priscilla. Even the early 17th century Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation, the ones who gave us Thanksgiving sometimes couldn’t help themselves. As old court records from the Massachusetts Bay Colony of that era… Read More ›
In Their Easter Bonnets: The Crazy Gabors, Zsa Zsa, Jolie, Eva & Magda
Greedy, vain, impatient, superficial, obtuse, rude, selfish, imperious. In fact, there were likely even occasional evidences of those qualities in the real lives of the Gabors, the family of mother Jolie and her three daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda… Read More ›
Who is Carl Anthony?
Writing and History. Though a half hour by rail to New York City, when Carl Anthony grew up in Bayside life there was similar to many other towns across the country: Memorial Day parades down Bell Boulevard, July 4th band… Read More ›
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