I’m sure there are many of his breed who call San Francisco home, but to the many humans who live there in a particular neighborhood, there is no mistaking them for Whitmore, the ‘Frisco Whippet. I’d met him before, and… Read More ›
Archive for July 2012
Ronald Reagan & Bette Davis: Politically Oppositional Co-Stars
Unlike Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, or Obama, chronicling an unusual pairing between any Hollywood Actor or Actress and Ronald Reagan is almost an exercise in futility, a nearly moot story since Reagan was himself a professional Hollywood Actor… Read More ›
The Caricature-Building Comments of Ann Romney & Michelle Obama in Context
Reaction to the comment made last week by Ann Romney about what she meant by using the words “you people,” are much like the reaction four years ago to the one made by Michelle Obama about feeling “proud for the first… Read More ›
Inside the Winter White House: The 70s Nixon Florida Home
He came to Florida not just because California was too far, but because he loved it. The only President born in California, Richard Nixon had a lifelong enjoyment of warm climates and life near the ocean. In fact, despite their… Read More ›
Miami Golf and UFOs? Why Jackie Gleason Campaigned for Nixon and a Shocking Allegation
It’s absolutely certain that they shared two great passions. Miami, and golf. And, legend has it, actor and performer Jackie Gleason and President Richard Nixon had a mutual curiosity about UFO’s and extra-terrestrial beings. Yet in the public imagination, they… Read More ›
Washington & Monroe: No Love Lost Between the First & Last of the Virginia Dynasty
Except for the one four-year term of New Englander, John Adams, the American Presidency was held by what came to be known as the “Virginia Dynasty,” four Presidents who each, remarkably, were elected to two terms, or eight years each… Read More ›
McKinley & Roosevelt: Teddy’s Crack Behind Mack’s Back, Egotism & Death
William McKinley had seen war. It wasn’t about heroics, it was about blood. So much of his identity was linked to his years serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and he maintained strong ties to all of… Read More ›
Lime, Salt & Peggy Lee: The Texas Margarita Pie
It’s a long, winding trail to the Margarita Pie of Texas, with detours along the Mexican border, intoxicating flights of imagination to Bali, even speculation into the private life of the marriage of singer Peggy Lee and her husband. Among… Read More ›
Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn’t! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia
There’s good reason why Pennsylvania not only recognizes Independence Day as a national holiday, but also Flag Day as a state holiday. It ‘s all because of that Elizabeth Claypoole. Mrs. Ross, to you. Like Plymouth Rock and George Washington cutting down… Read More ›
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Mysteriously Missing Grandfather & was she part-Italian?
Despite her being born forty-five years before Jacqueline Kennedy, there is a similar pattern in the story of Eleanor Roosevelt‘s Irish immigrant heritage. It illustrates less the shame of humble origin than how the power of incredible wealth can lead people… Read More ›
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