It didn’t start out as his – but like so much else, Franklin Roosevelt claimed it for himself because he saw its value of association. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, his wife’s first cousin, loved telling the story of a couple in… Read More ›
Herbert Hoover
The Engineered Beat of Herbert Hoover’s 1928 Campaign Song
Having won the presidency in 1920 andĀ overcome a post-war economic depression, to thenĀ survive the Teapot Dome and other Harding Administration scandals to win the presidency again in 1924, the Republicans went for a third try in 1928, nominating a man… Read More ›
The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is a small book’s worth of stories about what one glimpses in the White House when one’s lucky enough to be among the few thousands of guests invited to the President’s… Read More ›
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