This article is part of an ongoing series about the racial, religious and ethnic identity of First Ladies, beginning with the recent discoveries about First Lady Michelle Obama and her ancestry from both an Irish immigrant family of Georgia slave-owners… Read More ›
Politics
Reagan Campaigns for Truman
Thirty-two years before he was elected as the most popular Republican President since Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan was out campaigning for one of his favorite Presidents – Democrat Harry Truman. In his capacity as President of the Screen Actors Guild,… Read More ›
Michelle Obama’s Slave Ancestry & Presidential Identity Politics
The recent news, emerging from the new book American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, by New York Times reporter Rachel L. Swarns, finally provides in a detailed history how the First Lady‘s… Read More ›
The Munching President
Some seek to preserve their dignity. Others to ensure that they seem like one of the people. However gregarious and easy they seem in public, Presidents are always highly self-consciously aware of how they appear in public and who is… Read More ›
Two Legitimate First-Generation Presidential Candidates For the First Time in History: Obama & Romney
They’re both long gone but the fathers of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have unwittingly created an unprecedented aspect to the 2012 presidential election. For the first time in American History, both major party candidates are legitimate first-generation Americans. Unlike… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Romney & Santorum: Still Channeling Dewey & Goldwater, Throwing Caution to the Crowds & Selling Sex
On the eve of the Michigan and Arizona primaries, the two leading Republican Presidential Candidates, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum may be looking to the future, but they often still look like the past. Specifically, both… Read More ›
When a First Lady Battles a President’s Chief of Staff
The conflict between First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s first Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel exposed in the book The Obamas by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor may offer new insights into the popular presidential wife’s political acumen… Read More ›
When Mitt Romney’s Father Ran For President
While his smiling demeanor, groomed appearance and great wealth all suggested that George Romney was something of a privileged aristocrat, the truth was quite the opposite. And while it might also be easy enough to presume the son is a… Read More ›
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