It really started with constituent mail. She was the new wife of a new United States Senator who represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a constituency at the time of many first-generation immigrants. And she could speak and write well… Read More ›
Very few articles of clothing are perhaps more famous than it. In just one still image, the sight of it carries a myriad of messages about so many aspects of not only American Culture It is a crystallization of an… Read More ›
Very few articles of clothing are perhaps more famous than it. In just one still image, the sight of it carries a myriad of messages about so many aspects of not only American Culture It is a crystallization of an… Read More ›
Jackie Kennedy returned from her European trip on October 17, 1963 refreshed. In fact, President Kennedy telephoned Greece to speak directly to Aristotle Onassis, who had hosted the First Lady and her sister on his yacht, and profusely thanked the… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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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