Clinton jogged. Ike golfed. Obama shoots hoops. Bush biked. Jerry Ford did all that and more.For Jerry Ford, being physically fit through solitary exercise and competitive sports was as natural as breathing. His athletic prowess first drew attention while he… Read More ›
Presidents
The White House in San Francisco
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 ›
The Remnants of McKinley’s Canton, Ohio: Photo Gallery
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 ›
The “Lost Girls” Ghosts of a President & First Lady Who Affected Presidential Policy
November first, the day after Halloween, is the religious All Souls Day in the Catholic faith. In the Mexican culture, it has usually been marked with iconography of skeletons and other unearthly representations of dead family members as the centerpiece… Read More ›
The Teddy Cats: Slippers & Quartz Roosevelt, (Cats in the White House, Part 5)
When Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon McKinley’s assassination in September of 1901, he brought not only his wife and five children but soon enough accumulated a breadth of other beings which constituted a bona fide White House zoo…. Read More ›
Kitten-Loving Lincoln & His White House Cat Team (Cats in the White House, Part 2)
There was no question he was an intelligent man and a sensitive one. It is hardly a surprise how he reverentially treated animals. In fact, before he left Springfield, Illinois for what would be hist last time home, president-elect Abraham… Read More ›
The President Who Loved to Beam: “Smiling Cal” Coolidge
“He looks as if he’s been weaned on a sour pickle.” It was one of the most aptly memorable and highly quotable quips ever used to describe a President of the United States, attributed to no less than the daughter… Read More ›
Millard Fillmore, the First Cat President? (Cats in the White House, Part 1)
For those who love and share their lives with Cats, this is the first in an anticipated series about those Presidential Families who did likewise. We know next to nothing about the plurality of cats that lived in the White… Read More ›
First Family Photos on The Truman Balcony & the Myth Behind It
“If you can’t stand the heat,” President Harry Truman famously remarked about political life in Washington, “get out of the kitchen.” “And head to the balcony,” he might well have added. Last fall, President Obama made it quite clear. It… Read More ›
Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: LBJ (Part 5)
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Vietnam War It was under Truman in the early 50s that the U.S. sent its first military advisers into what had been known primarily as Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) when under French colonial rule, in… Read More ›
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