For half a century, it was a quadrennial display of the performing arts, a time capsule of the nation’s pop culture, a snapshot too of the varied entertainment tastes of the President about to assume office. It was called the… Read More ›
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike’s Mid-Century Cold War Show & High Visibility Veep: The 1957 Sunday Inauguration, Part 6
It was precise and orderly, with a sense of Cold War automatism. It was modern and moved along smoothly. It was the Mid-Century version of the Sunday Second Inauguration and it started and ended without a glitch. In fact, from… Read More ›
The Double Rarity of Obama’s 2013 Sunday Second Inauguration, Part 1
The ceremonies to be held two weeks from this coming Sunday and Monday, on January 20, 2013 (and January 21, 2013) marking the second Inauguration Day of President Barack Obama is only the seventh time in American history that the… Read More ›
Five First Families Celebrate New Year’s Eve
If Presidents and First Ladies seem to exclusively spend the Christmas holiday with members of their family, most of those in the last sixty years have celebrated New Year’s Eve with their friends, and almost always away from the White… Read More ›
Swedish Roots: Mamie Eisenhower’s Iowa-Sprung Ancestry
This article is the last in a series on First Ladies and ancestral identities. It began with Michelle Obama and has included Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Harding, Pat Nixon, Hillary Clinton and Edith Wilson. In 1953, when the White… Read More ›
Ike, Irving, Mamie & Merman: The Hit Song Which Elected a President
It was like a double-date between the entertainment and political world and while it resulted in helping a Republican, it had all been prompted by a Democrat. There’s No Business Like Show Business, Easter Parade, White Christmas: these are just… Read More ›
Keeping Clean with the Presidents
Yes, as they say, politics is a dirty business. And toiling as President can prove to be grimier and filthier than any political office. They promise to be pure. They promise to clean up the mess left by the fellow… Read More ›
The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?
Context is everything. Documentation, even better. It may be devastating to the American people to suggest that a romanticized story they have long cherished and held dear about a beloved President might be, in fact, utterly false or at least… Read More ›
Romney’s Mormonism Might Mitigate Muslim Myth about Obama
If former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney wins today’s Iowa caucus or proves to otherwise be the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, one element of his potential candidacy might prove a relief of at least one issue the Obama re-election campaign may… Read More ›
Sartre to Snookie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Everything has been figured out except how to live. Sartre Life is tough enough. Might as well do the easy… Read More ›
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