My work as an historian, researcher and author of books on the American First Ladies and the political power and cultural influence they possess overlapped a timeline during which nine women who held that unofficial position were alive and helped… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Gerald Ford’
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 ›
JFK Shot: Other Presidents & First Ladies React
Like millions of people across the globe, there was horrified shock among those who had once held the position of President of the United States and First Lady, and most of those who would someday follow, when they heard the… Read More ›
The Last Original Campaign Song: Jerry Ford’s Bicentennial Tune
Yesterday, it was learned that The Silversun Pickups directed its attorney to request that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stop using its song “Panic Switch,” as a campaign song, for political reasons. In the last quarter of a century, this… Read More ›
Jerry & Betty Ford’s Desert House & Other Homes
With recent news that the family home of President John F. Kennedy will be preserved as an historic site, the fate of President Gerald R. Ford‘s equally important one, is less certain. Colleagues in Congress, Kennedy and Ford both served… Read More ›
Mae to Mao: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
It turns out that the world’s most Famous have had a virtual Facebook all their own which began about a century ago and continues on, cutting across the mortal limitations of time, moving in and out of the present to… Read More ›
The Revolutionary Moment of First Lady Betty Ford : Her October 25, 1975 Speech still Makes History
With news today of former First Lady Betty Ford’s death at age 93, it is easy to simply recall her as the leader of the national movement for substance abuse recovery because of the famous southern California treatment center which… Read More ›
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