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The Truth Behind the Cherry Blossoms: A First Lady’s Vision of Racial and Class Integration
On one aspect of the Washington Establishment, there is universal agreement. Everyone loves the cherry blossoms. Annually, the trees burst in various shades of pink around the Tidal Basin at West Potomac Park. Day-tripping Pennsylvania senior citizens, members of local… Read More ›
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Songs & Music About First Ladies: Vote for the Best One
Loved and loathed, flowers and colors named for them, parodied on Saturday Night Live skits and Halloween masks, First Ladies are woven into the fabric of American Pop Culture. And, First Ladies have had songs written about them, being set… Read More ›
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What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?
Whether or not flesh-and-blood Leprechauns really do exist in the woodlands of Ireland, they have cropped up in ceramic forms, populating gift shops in the United States ever since the 1960s, when St. Patrick’s Day started to become an annual… Read More ›
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The First Lady a Nation Never Knew: Pat Nixon in Private Taped Phone Calls & 100 Pictures on Her Centennial
This weekend marks the centennial of First Lady Pat Nixon, whose story is as fascinating as it is largely unknown offering a dramatic example of triumph over struggle that genuinely exemplified the idealized “American Dream.” It is told here through… Read More ›
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The Greatest Forgotten Celebrity: What Did Admiral Dewey Do?
Everyone knows Adele. Nobody knows Dewey. At one time, everyone was daffy for Dewey or, as he was hailed and feted and revered and honored and celebrated and beloved and sold,, Admiral Dewey! Before he became the world’s most famous celebrity… Read More ›
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Drinking & Smoking With the Presidents
Every four years, there’s not only a race for either Presidents to hang onto the White House – or Presidential candidates to seize the keys from them, and move in. A parallel race is also run, however, by manufacturers and… Read More ›
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George & George Clooney & Bush, Wars & Hurricanes
From the 90s Tech Age into this century’s Uh-OOs, politically outspoken George Clooney aimed his anger on two primary targets – U.S. Wars in the Middle East and Republicans. In January 2003, the actor accused President George W. Bush of… Read More ›
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First Ladies & Actresses Who Played Them: Vote Your Favorite
Meryl Streep‘s portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has won her a nomination for Best Actress at tomorrow’s Academy Awards but the lack of any Oscar (or even Emmy) nomination for playing an American First Lady, however, doesn’t… Read More ›
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