Author Archives
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The Teddy Cats: Slippers & Quartz Roosevelt, (Cats in the White House, Part 5)
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon McKinley’s assassination in September of 1901, he brought not only his wife and five children but soon enough accumulated a breadth of other beings which constituted a bona fide White House zoo…. Read More ›
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The Never-Was McKinley Kittens: Neither Killed Cats (Cats in the White House, Part 4)
Presidents and First Ladies are often uncredited for many things which they do. And there are those who are blamed for many things they never did. Like the legend that Dolley Madison started the annual tradition of the Easter Egg… Read More ›
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Ari & Jackie Onassis: X-Rated Movie, Nude Photos, the Kennedys & Paradise Lost (Part 5)
Forty-five years ago today, Sunday, October 20, 1968, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Many people still speculate about why she did. Often overlooked in the pondering is the fact that the wedding took place… Read More ›
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Honoring the First Lady of the World in Cartoons
There are some individuals who, no matter how long they are gone, are worth remembering. Over half a century has passed since she died, but the vision and the work of Eleanor Roosevelt still reverberates. Coming to the White House… Read More ›
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New Study Proves Emotional Intelligence of Dogs, Makes Case for Rights
In nearly three years of publishing this website, this is the first article I believe to be of such importance and with so compelling a message, that I am reproducing it here in full. It appeared in the New York… Read More ›
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The Foreign Feline of President Hayes: First Siamese Cat in the U.S. (Cats in the White House, Part 3)
The cat who lived in the White House as part of the family of President Rutherford Hayes and his wife Lucy is particularly significant on two accounts. First, the relatively brief life and times of the cat were well-chronicled during… Read More ›
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Kitten-Loving Lincoln & His White House Cat Team (Cats in the White House, Part 2)
There was no question he was an intelligent man and a sensitive one. It is hardly a surprise how he reverentially treated animals. In fact, before he left Springfield, Illinois for what would be hist last time home, president-elect Abraham… Read More ›
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Miley Cyrus to Mahatma Gandhi: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Miley Cyrus to Kobe Bryant to Bill Clinton to Henry Kissinger to Andy Warhol to Gloria Swanson to Charlie Chaplin to Mahatma Gandhi One of them offered the world advice to, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn… Read More ›
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The President Who Loved to Beam: “Smiling Cal” Coolidge
“He looks as if he’s been weaned on a sour pickle.” It was one of the most aptly memorable and highly quotable quips ever used to describe a President of the United States, attributed to no less than the daughter… Read More ›
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