The year 1968 was one of the most tumultuous experienced among the American people; enormous social change was underway. Protests, pickets and riots that year marked the start of what emerged as the national Black Power Movement and the Women’s… Read More ›
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The Gifts That Jackie Gave: The Artful Gift-Giving of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Ebook)
THE GIFTS THAT JACKIE GAVE: THE ARTFUL GIFT-GIVING OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS From childhood to the end of her life, the world’s most famous woman would rather paint, draw, compose, search out something utterly unique – even regift to her… 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 ›
Jackie Kennedy’s Last White House Days & What She Found in JFK’s Desk
Two weeks to the day that her husband was assassinated, presidential widow Jacqueline Kennedy moved out of the White House. It was December 6, 1963. This article has been converted into a pay-per-view ePublication, and is available here for reading and… Read More ›
The Day Jackie Kennedy Was President
She held no Cabinet meeting, issued no orders and signed no legislation. Yet in a brief interim of several hours on the afternoon of Monday, November 25, 1963, with her late husband the President having just been buried and his… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy’s Four Dark Days in Rare Pictures
From the moment it was announced on November 22, 1963 that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated until he was buried four days later, the world’s attention focused on his widow Jacqueline Kennedy. Despite the First Lady’s achievements as… Read More ›
How Texans Treated JFK
It was so darkly ironic and therefor all the more painful, recalled my late, great friend Liz Carpenter, a proud sixth-generation Texan, because “a real effort was made to inspire peoplei into giving President Kennedy the warmest and most enthusiastic… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy’s Speech the Night Before JFK’s Murder
It really started with constituent mail. She was the new wife of a new United States Senator who represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a constituency at the time of many first-generation immigrants. And she could speak and write well… Read More ›
Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: LBJ (Part 5)
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Vietnam War It was under Truman in the early 50s that the U.S. sent its first military advisers into what had been known primarily as Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) when under French colonial rule, in… Read More ›
Five First Families Celebrate New Year’s Eve
If Presidents and First Ladies seem to exclusively spend the Christmas holiday with members of their family, most of those in the last sixty years have celebrated New Year’s Eve with their friends, and almost always away from the White… Read More ›
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