Author Archives
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The House that Jackie Built: Home Movie Inside the Kennedy Weekend Home
Later in life she mused that she might have studied architecture, so interested was she in the design and flowing layout of rooms as the primary blueprint for creating the interior furnishings of a beautiful home. Jackie Kennedy came close… Read More ›
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The Kennedy Family’s Last Public Appearance Together
Among the many public projects of Jacqueline Kennedy as First Lady which continue to be overlooked was her ongoing effort to use the expanse of the great South Lawn of the White House as an outdoor space to provide entertainment… Read More ›
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Why John F. Kennedy Took His Son to Arlington Cemetery
(This is the first in a series of illustrated articles recounting the last days of the Kennedy family in the White House during November of 1963. Some will be made available for nominal purchase.) The President and Mrs. Kennedy with… Read More ›
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Best Jock Prez: Jerry Ford, A Sportsman for Every Season
Clinton jogged. Ike golfed. Obama shoots hoops. Bush biked. Jerry Ford did all that and more.For Jerry Ford, being physically fit through solitary exercise and competitive sports was as natural as breathing. His athletic prowess first drew attention while he… Read More ›
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The White House in San Francisco
Few people may know there was a President Warren G. Harding, let alone that he spent the last days of his life in the presidential suite of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where he died suddenly on the evening… Read More ›
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A First Lady Survives Presidential Assassination Plus Rare Funeral Images
Four Presidents of the United States have been assassinated, each leaving a widowed First Lady. The most recent of these dark moments in history took place fifty years ago this month, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed… Read More ›
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The Disabled First Lady with the Napkin-Covered Face Myth
Only after he had died while he was President did the general public finally learn what most of the White House press corps knew, but had tacitly agreed not to disclose: while leading the nation through the Great Depression and… Read More ›
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The Remnants of McKinley’s Canton, Ohio: Photo Gallery
It’s always easy to visualize a place one researches or reads about during a particular period of time. However illogical, it is still a bit jarring to realize how radically changed any one place will usually be from the period… Read More ›
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The “Lost Girls” Ghosts of a President & First Lady Who Affected Presidential Policy
November first, the day after Halloween, is the religious All Souls Day in the Catholic faith. In the Mexican culture, it has usually been marked with iconography of skeletons and other unearthly representations of dead family members as the centerpiece… Read More ›
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Jackie Kennedy’s Surprise Party for Nancy Tuckerman, Her Confidential Friend of a Lifetime
She has never been fully credited with the lifetime of devoted friendship and trust she provided for her friend, who happened to be the world’s most famous woman, but public acclaim was always the last thing which Nancy Tuckerman sought…. Read More ›
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