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Christmas at the White House: First Families at Home for the Holiday, Part 4
This is the fourth and final article in the series Christmas at the White House. You can find the previous three at the links at the end of this article. If contemporary observers expect a “theme” each succeeding year of… Read More ›
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Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3
Living in the White House affords even Presidential families who neither earned nor inherited great wealth a privileged lifestyle and while many have privately and publicly supported various charitable organizations or risen to the occasion in the time of a… Read More ›
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Christmas at the White House: Trees, Gingerbread Houses, Mennorahs, Celebrity Santas & Other Innovations, Part 2
This is the second segment in a four-part article on Christmas at the White House. To read about The Presidents Presents, Getting & Giving Gifts, go to: https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/05/christmas-at-the-white-house-the-presidents-presents-shopping-giving-getting-gifts-part-1-of-4/ Whether gathering to mark Christmas and Hanukkah as holy days or just… Read More ›
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Christmas at the White House: The President’s Presents, Shopping, Giving & Getting Gifts, Part 1 of 4
No matter how much we may imagine them now as marbleized icons of history, even Presidents and First Ladies enjoy searching out the ideal gifts to give loved ones at the holiday season and sometime delight with an equal degree… Read More ›
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The Armistice, A Day My Grandfather Never Surrendered
Today was Veterans Day – but yesterday will always be Armistice Day. The November federal holiday honoring those who have served in the American military has been called Veterans Day far longer than the name it was first known by,… Read More ›
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The Grandsons of Bobby, Jack & Jackie Kennedy: A New Political Generation
Yesterday, the election of 32-year old Joe Kennedy to the U.S. House of Representatives marked the first of a fourth generation of the most famous political family for half a century to a position of public service. Born in October… Read More ›
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Ten Election Day Moments of Presidential Families
Which Presidential candidate wins on Election Day is obviously of importance to the nation and the world, as the citizens, financial institutions, losing political party and hundreds of other institutions, organizations and individuals anticipate the winner carrying out their campaign… Read More ›
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Who Won This Election? You Might Be Surprised
The early results are in already. We know who’s won the 2012 election as President…..with the best campaign song. After a summer and fall of endless stories about the campaign songs which won the presidency for candidates since 1896, and with… Read More ›
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The Movie Mickey Mantle & Maris Made…with Fred Mertz
One need not obsess over baseball stats to be struck by the fact that it was exactly 50 seasons ago that yesterday’s World Series winners, the San Francisco Giants had also played the World Series – but lost. In 1962,… Read More ›
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