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 ›
Presidents
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 ›
What Franklin Roosevelt & Harry Truman Thought of Each Other
Distracted by his efforts to finish World War II in victory, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed into his presidential campaign for an unprecedented fourth term in 1944, seemed especially indifferent to who would be his running mate. Everyone around… 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 ›
JFK with the World’s Hottest Actresses and….Hazel the Maid?!
President John F. Kennedy is often perceived as the first sort of “Mr. Hollywood,” among the American Presidents when, in truth, most of his predecessors also maintained friendships with powerful entertainment industry figures both behind and in front of… Read More ›
A Daughter’s Fight for Father’s Day & Why It Made Men Grumble
It wasn’t long after Mother’s Day had begun that Father’s Day was sure to follow. In fact the first holiday directly inspired the second. And like the first, it was a woman who got i off the ground. On Mother’s… 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 ›
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 President Who Loved to Dance
Granted, you may think of him as the man who became President under the most tragic of circumstances, one of only four times during the course of the American Presidency. Or as the President who escalated the most unpopular war… Read More ›
Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction
Fifty years ago tonight, more happened than just Marilyn Monroe singing her famous sultry rendition of Happy Birthday to President Kennedy. With the need to reduce so much news and history to a single snapshot image or quotable line, the… Read More ›
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