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# Carl Anthony Online

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- [Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part II](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/12/29/liz-taylor-meets-jackie-kennedy-tabloid-fantasy-to-chance-encounter-the-only-photos-of-them-together-part-ii/) - Just in case Photoplay’s dismissive March 1964 headline about Liz and Dick had suggested the wedding was a dull afterthought, the tab’s April cover made up for it, featuring the couple kissing with the lure of exclusive photos. The affirmation of life of New Bride Liz was in stark contrast to her tab companion, New Widow
- [Jackie Kennedy's Last White House Days & What She Found in JFK's Desk](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/06/jackie-kennedys-last-white-house-days-what-she-found-in-jfks-desk/) - Two weeks to the day that her husband was assassinated, presidential widow Jacqueline Kennedy moved out of the White House. It was December 6, 1963. This article has been converted into a pay-per-view ePublication, and is available here for reading and download in PDF form. It tells the real story of Jacqueline Kennedy's last days in
- [The Gifts That Jackie Gave: The Artful Gift-Giving of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Ebook)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/12/23/the-gifts-that-jackie-gave-the-artful-gift-giving-of-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-ebook/) - THE GIFTS THAT JACKIE GAVE: THE ARTFUL GIFT-GIVING OF JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS From childhood to the end of her life, the world’s most famous woman would rather paint, draw, compose, search out something utterly unique - even regift to her second husband a present once given to her first husband – to ensure that she
- [Jackie & The Nixons: Mrs. Kennedy Returns to the White House, With New Images of the Visit](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2021/02/03/jackie-the-nixons-mrs-kennedy-returns-to-the-white-house-with-new-images-of-the-visit/) - Fifty years ago today, on February 3, 1971, former First Lady and widow of President John F. Kennedy, by then remarried, made her first and only visit back to the White House. After the trauma of her first husband's assassination on November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis vowed to never return to the executive mansion.
- [Jane & Jill, Potential First Ladies: Lots in Common Between the Wives of Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2020/03/04/jane-jill-potential-first-ladies-lots-in-common-between-the-wives-of-joe-biden-bernie-sanders/) - Jane or Jill? Before speculation begins about potential vice presidential candidates of the two leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, their marital partners Jill and Jane deserve an introduction. They share numerous biographical facts. Both women are overtly political in terms of advising their spouses on political strategy. Jane is as involved
- [Who is Carl Anthony?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/10/author-biography/) - Writing and History. Though a half hour by rail to New York City, when Carl Anthony grew up in Bayside life there was similar to many other towns across the country: Memorial Day parades down Bell Boulevard, July 4th band concerts and fireworks in Crocheron Park and winter ice-skating and sledding across the street at
- [The First White House Valentine's Day Dance: the McKinleys, Ragtime, Racism & The Romance  of the "Ghost Girls"](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2019/02/12/the-first-white-house-valentines-day-dance-the-mckinleys-ragtime-racism-the-romance-of-the-ghost-girls/) - On February 14, 1901, just over three months after he won re-election to a second term and eighteen days before his second inauguration, President William McKinley and his wife, First Lady Ida McKinley hosted the fourth of the five White House dinners of the so-called "social season." The dinner was a routine annual event. To
- [The President as King: A Political Cartoon History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2020/01/28/the-president-as-king-a-political-cartoon-history/) - George Washington made it clear he didn't want to be treated, addressed or in any other way thought of as a King. He was the President of a democracy. And although regal in his public demeanor, he took no actions that smacked of monarchy or usurping the constitutional boundaries of the executive branch. His immediate
- [Jackie Kennedy’s Television Tour 50 Years Ago Today](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/14/how-jackie-kennedys-television-tour-50-years-ago-today-changed-the-american-image/) - Fifty years ago today, Valentine’s Day 1962, one in three Americans finally heard the voice of their First Lady. On that night, Jackie Kennedy led a television tour of the restored rooms of the White House, which she’d been working on for over a year. She’d done a few brief interviews during the 1960 campaign,
- [All The Presidents' Birthdays: Dance Balls to Movie Star Fundraisers in 90 Rare Photos](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2019/02/18/all-the-presidents-birthdays-dance-balls-to-movie-star-fundraisers-in-90-rare-photos/) - For several generations a popular story about St. James Church made the rounds of the Hudson River Valley community. One Sunday, an old Republican matriarch member was mortified to find her pews crammed with complete strangers, gawking and waiting for someone who was about the enter the church. Why were all these people here!? she
- [A White House Super Bowl Party Menu of Favorite Presidential Foods](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/02/a-white-house-super-bowl-party-menu-of-favorite-presidential-foods/) - Whether it’s been an isolated President and First Lady at Camp David, their First Family and First Friends in the White House private quarters or a large rollicking crowd with conflicting team loyalties, White House Super Bowl parties are a relatively new tradition. The first gathering to watch the game that can technically be called
- [“Hello Lyndon!” How Carol Channing Helped LBJ Win the Election](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/13/hello-lyndon-how-carol-channing-helped-lbj-win-the-election/) - They were both accused, at times, of being corny caricatures, but as human beings the legendary President from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Hollywood and Broadway actress Carol Channing were exuberant and enthusiastic about what they loved most. And in an historic convergence over a half-century ago, they loved each other more than anything else.
- [The Greek Epiphany Day...in Florida](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/03/the-greek-epiphany-day-in-florida/) - Everyone in every State of the Union know the Big Dozen: New Year’s Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. In between these primary holidays there still persists many smaller ones and nothing better reflects the Regional Diversity of the United States
- [Abraham Lincoln to Pee Wee Herman: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/31/abe-lincoln-to-pee-wee-herman-eight-degrees-of-separation-on-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Abraham Lincoln - Ulysses. S. Grant - Mark Twain - Nikola Tesla - Albert Einstein - Charlie Chaplin - Alla Nazimova - Nancy Reagan - Rodney Dangerfield - Pee Wee Herman
- [Pancho Villa to Donald Trump: Five Degrees of Celebrity Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/12/30/pancho-villa-to-donald-trump-five-degrees-of-celebrity-separation/) - He was arrogant, belligerent and bragged that nobody could get in his way of succeeding at whatever he determined to do. He became extremely wealthy, yet was beloved by the poor and held up as a folk hero. In his fight to lead his nation, he was a genius at using the most cutting-edge social
- [Five First Families Celebrate New Year's Eve](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/29/five-first-families-celebrate-new-years-eve-the-greatest-white-house-party-ever-held/) - 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 House. Of course, until eighty years ago, they rarely left Washington at this time of
- [Liz Taylor Meets Jackie Kennedy: Tabloid Fantasy to Chance Encounter & The Only Photos of Them Together, Part I](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/12/29/liz-taylor-meets-jackie-kennedy-tabloid-fantasy-to-chance-encounter-the-only-photos-of-them-together-part-i/) - Take a time machine to the Jet Age, that sweet thin spot in the 60s and two brunettes stare you down from every corner newsstand or grocery checkout line. For every Khrushchev, or John Glenn, Ringo, George, Paul the new Pope or Princess Grace on a magazine, there were five of “Liz” and
- [President Claus: The Chief Executive as Santa](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/12/08/president-claus-the-chief-executive-as-santa/) - Both are invested with powers that reach mythological proportions. Simply by the title they hold, each represents a long history of various traditions and customs which is nothing less than their duty to carry out. Within the seemingly secret realms of their kingdoms behind tall locked gates, they are expected to show levels of compassion
- [The Santa Claus You Must Never See, If Yule Dare](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/12/11/the-santa-claus-you-must-never-see-if-yule-dare/) - It's the most wonderful time of the year. So the song claims. Family arguments. Memories of emotional loss. Fruitcake. Credit card debt. Office party inappropriateness. Humor gets humanity through the worst of times. And at Christmastime, humor beget from horror seems to work even better. Given the nonfiction and historical nature of this website, it may
- [Melania Trump v. John Kelly: First Ladies & West Wing Personnel, A Brief History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/11/14/melania-trump-v-chief-of-staff-first-ladies-west-wing-personnel-a-brief-history/) - The news reports which broke yesterday caught even the most assiduous chroniclers of the man occupying the presidency and his wife by surprise. It was the First Lady Melania Trump, regarded as functioning independently from the words and deeds of her husband, who was being credited in the mainstream media as the driving force seeking
- [The Nixon Family's White House Halloween Parties of the Seventies: Pumpkin Pictures](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/10/30/the-nixon-familys-white-house-halloween-parties-of-the-seventies-pumpkin-pictures/) - In the post-World War II era of consumerism that marked the 1950s, American children began heading out to trick-or-treat on Halloween by the hundreds of thousands, redefining ancient Celtic rituals marking All Hallow's Eve that were first brought to the United States by Irish immigrants in the middle of the 19th century. The young children
- [Ari & Jackie Onassis: The Video & Five-Part Series, with New and Rare Photos](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/06/23/ari-jackie-onassis-the-wedding-yacht-island-the-end-the-movie/) - Several years ago, this website ran a series of articles on Ari & Jackie Onassis. The series can be found at the following links: Ari & Jackie Onassis: Wedding, Yacht, Island, Bedroom and the End, Part 1 Ari & Jackie Onassis: New Photos of Their Private Rooms, Part 2 Ari & Jackie Onassis: Their Blended
- [Jackie Kennedy's Surprise Party for Nancy Tuckerman, Her Confidential Friend of a Lifetime](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/30/jackie-kennedys-surprise-party-for-her-confidential-friend-of-a-lifetime/) - She has never been fully credited with the lifetime of devoted friendship and trust she provided for her friend, who happened to be the world's most famous woman, but public acclaim was always the last thing which Nancy Tuckerman sought. Serving as the confidante of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis through the best and worst times
- [Melania Trump' Hospitalization: What the Public Is Told About a First Lady's Health](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/05/14/melania-trump-hospitalization-what-the-public-is-told-about-a-first-ladys-health/) - The news breaking on Monday, May 14, 2018 that First Lady Melania Trump was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for kidney surgery wasn't learned through leaks to the New York Times, nor revealed by a lawyer on cable news nor wild-eyed gossip on some chatty entertainment website. It was delivered straightforward and
- [A Centennial Gallery of Lady Bird Johnson & her First Lady Sorority"](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/22/a-centennial-gallery-of-lady-bird-johnson-her-first-lady-sorority/) - Today, just three days before Christmas as it always was, is Lady Bird Johnson's birthday. This year marks her centennial. She is rightly remembered, in terms of her public contributions, as a pioneer in raising public awareness about the encroaching danger posed to the natural world we all share by industrialization, poverty, and the population
- ["Yes, I am a Liberal," Barbara Bush's Politics: Gays, Guns & Equal Rights](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/04/23/yes-i-am-a-liberal-barbara-bushs-politics-gays-guns-equal-rights/) - At a press round table in March of 1989, the new First Lady Barbara Bush declared to the press corps who covered her activities: "Yes, I'm a liberal. I don't mean that as knocking the Republican Party, because I think of the Republican Party as liberal on social issues....You may not look at me
- [Barbara Bush, Early 90s Icon: The Simpsons to The Laptop](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/04/20/barbara-bush-early-90s-icon-th0simpsons-dogs-to-the-laptop/) - With the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush, 92, wife of one Vice President who then became President, mother of another President, recollections, analysis and tributes about her life and legacy have flooded the media on broadcast, print and online. Still, not even the most detailed of these can cover all those finer points,
- [Barbara Bush & Nancy Reagan: Their Contentious Relationship](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/04/20/barbara-bush-nancy-reagan-their-contentious-relationship/) - Barbara Bush had actually started out liking the color red, but when she was told that it was Nancy Reagan's "color," she was advised to take blue, a shade she so embraced as her own that "Bush Blue" became an official Color Association of the United States color. The feelings each woman had about the
- [Betty Ford's Centennial: A Vibrant Life in Videos & Hundreds of Pictures](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/04/08/betty-fords-centennial-a-vibrant-life-in-videos-hundreds-of-pictures/) - My work as an historian, researcher and author of books on the American First Ladies and the political power and cultural influence they possess overlapped a timeline during which nine women who held that unofficial position were alive and helped me, either in writing, by telephone, or in formal and informal interviews. There were several
- [In Their Easter Bonnets: The Crazy Gabors, Zsa Zsa, Jolie, Eva & Magda](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/04/18/in-their-easter-bonnets-the-crazy-gabors-zsa-zsa-jolie-eva-magda/) - Greedy, vain, impatient, superficial, obtuse, rude, selfish, imperious. In fact, there were likely even occasional evidences of those qualities in the real lives of the Gabors, the family of mother Jolie and her three daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda ubiquitous in the pop culture, half a century before the Kardashians. Acting out those personality
- [Five Forgotten Feminist First Ladies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/03/27/five-forgotten-feminist-first-ladies/) - Throughout March, many forgotten and overlooked women have been been credited with the bravery, strength, foresight, fairness and honesty they displayed and exemplified in their lifetimes, however belatedly, and who now offer the legacy of example. As happens with all historical figures, the fullest context of what individuals have said and done on behalf of
- [Betty Ford as I Remember Her: The Person and Persona](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/07/09/remembering-betty-ford-person-and-persona/) - In ruminating over the times I spent with Betty Ford over the years, on the record and off, be it during interviews, casual meals, a museum tour, work on a ghostwriting project, and backstage at her appearances, I shouldn’t be surprised that today my flight was cancelled, my car radiator exploded, a cabbie got stuck
- [Jerry & Betty Ford's Desert House & Other Homes](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/09/jerry-betty-fords-desert-house-time-to-preserve-it/) - With recent news that the family home of President John F. Kennedy will be preserved as an historic site, the fate of President Gerald R. Ford's equally important one, is less certain. Colleagues in Congress, Kennedy and Ford both served as President for less than three years each, but they bookend a ten-year period marked
- [Presidential, First Lady, White House Memorabilia Auction Sale Now On](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/02/20/presidential-first-lady-white-house-memorabilia-auction-sale-now-on/) - The auction of my presidential memorabilia collection on Everything But the House has begun. Nearly 200 lots, almost all with multiple items of Presidents, First Ladies, First Families representing those from George and Martha Washington to Barack and Michelle Obama, from handwritten letters and autographs, White House invitations, ephemera, official Inaugural invitations and illustrated programs
- [Presidents, First Ladies & February's Princess: Alice Roosevelt Longworth's Century of Chief Executive Friends](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/02/17/presidents-first-ladies-the-princess-alice-roosevelt-longworths-century-of-chief-executive-friends/) - This time of year was always one of milestones for the woman dubbed by the press as the nation's first "Princess," Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt, the wife of Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, first cousin of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Within a date range of just eight consecutive
- [Melania Trump's Independence from the President has First Lady Precedence](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/11/01/melania-trumps-independence-from-the-president-has-first-lady-precedence/) - On civil rights to gun control to women's rights, Jackie Kennedy, Pat Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nancy Reagan give context to the recent declaration that Melania Trump is "Independent" from the President Copyrighted, 2017 All media and individuals using this original research material or images must both properly credit and link to the website; no written
- [Cat & Bird: When Actress Eartha Kitt Challenged First Lady Johnson on the Vietnam War](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2018/01/18/cat-bird-when-actress-eartha-kitt-challenged-first-lady-johnson-on-the-vietnam-war/) - The year 1968 was one of the most tumultuous experienced among the American people; enormous social change was underway. Protests, pickets and riots that year marked the start of what emerged as the national Black Power Movement and the Women's Movement, both efforts to use radical words and deeds to jump the nation into focusing
- [Feast Beasts: Two Pilgrim Dogs At the First Thanksgiving](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/27/feast-beasts-two-pilgrim-dogs-at-the-first-thanksgiving/) - We know their breed, but not their names. We know they sailed over on the Mayflower and were part of the first settlement by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Plantation in December of 1620, but we don't know if they were at the first Thanksgiving eleven months later. Yet we don't know that they weren't at
- [Swinging Sixties Secretaries & Sexual Harassment: The 1967 Movie Musical That First Confronted It](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/10/18/the-swinging-sixties-secretary-1967-movie-musical-first-confronts-sexual-harassment/) - Sometimes a catchy tune can say it better than editorials or protest rallies. Among the most revelations about Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment towards women who worked for him or auditioned for a role in one of his films, is that accusations of his behavior reach back into the 1980s. With a patriarchal hierarchy supported
- [Ari & Jackie Onassis: X-Rated Movie, Nude Photos, the Kennedys & Paradise Lost (Part 5)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/20/ari-jackie-onassis-x-rated-movie-nude-photos-the-kennedys-paradise-lost-part-5/) - Forty-five years ago today, Sunday, October 20, 1968, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Many people still speculate about why she did. Often overlooked in the pondering is the fact that the wedding took place less than five months after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during his campaign for
- [Ivana Be First Lady: Trump Wives Tales, A President Who Married His Niece & Other Multiple-Wife Presidencies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/10/09/ivana-be-first-lady-a-president-who-married-his-niece-the-troubles-of-multiple-wife-presidencies/) - Most Americans are entirely unaware of the scandalous fact that a President lived in the White House at the same time with both of his wives. And there was that sensitive First Lady who was so jealous over the first wife of her husband that she ordered the woman's personal items never to be displayed
- [100 Forgotten Pictures of Presidential Family Life 100 Years Ago: The Tafts & Wilsons](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/10/02/100-forgotten-pictures-of-presidential-family-life-100-years-ago-the-tafts-wilsons/) - From the perspective of 2017, a hundred years ago seems might as well be the medieval age. Technology, globalization, medical science, really everything, has so permanently changed the way we all live that there seems to be little resemblance to how we lived then. It was true for the family of the President of the
- [How The Wedding of British Princess Created an American Queen](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/29/how-the-wedding-of-princess-diana-resurrected-the-queen-of-america-and-why-absence-from-princess-kates-is-good-for-obama/) - In the media maelstrom around today's wedding of England’s new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (more popularly known as Prince William and Princess Kate), the frequent note that Michelle Obama was not invited failed to recognize it as a lucky break, sparing her the position of having to turn it down or worse, accept. For the Obama
- [Melanie Trump, A Bess Truman for the Twenty-First Century](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/02/09/melanie-trump-a-bess-truman-for-the-twenty-first-century/) - Last week marked a new uptick on coverage of the new First Lady - not for where she was, but where she wasn't. She was only briefly spotted on the tarmac at Palm Beach, Florida, striking a pose, a political Garbo, thought the accent isn't Swedish. Consider the panting for some sign of interest from
- [The Real Turquoise Waterfalls at the Grand Canyon](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/08/23/the-real-turquoise-waterfalls-at-the-grand-canyon/) - I got my first "incomplete" in third grade, failing to properly answer a grammar school essay explaining how our favorite color made us feel. I wrote blue because it felt calm and green because it felt alive. No, snapped the teacher with what seemed even then to be the appropriate first name of Olga, " It's blue or green, not blue and green,
- [Long-Ago Dogs & Their Devoted Companions: The Days of the Dogs](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/08/09/long-ago-dogs-their-devoted-companions-the-days-of-the-dogs/) - We think we're so different because of either our age or the age in which we live. Mastercards, Hybrids, iPhones, eHarmony, we're just so damn with it that we often feel like just shoving it up the app and being done with it. We're not that different, really, than those from before. They had their
- [To Know Mrs. Onassis: Why Jackie Kennedy's Life as Art Endures](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/07/28/to-know-mrs-onassis-why-jackie-kennedys-life-as-art-endures/) - Her full name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, but from the start she was always just "Jackie" to both those who genuinely knew her as a real person, and to those who felt they truly knew her, so closely was she followed in the news for both the large, important events that she impacted
- [Marion Berry: Not the DC Mayor, the Oregon Pie](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/10/marion-berry-not-the-dc-mayor-the-oregon-pie/) - Washington, D.C.'s imprisoned and re-elected mayor (1979-1991; 1995-1999) is Marion Barry. Oregon’s longish, glossy, purple fruit is the Marion Berry. And that makes Marionberry Pie the unofficial though unchallenged State Pie of Oregon. Found in profusion along Willamette Valley vines each spring until about July, the Marionberry was created as a hybrid of the small highly-flavorful Chehalem Berry and the
- [Jefferson's Warning About the Current Man Occupying the Presidency](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/07/03/jeffersons-warning-about-the-current-man-occupying-the-presidency/) - A July Fourth tradition in the United States, until about the mid-Seventies, involved a public reading of the Declaration of Independence in town gatherings before picnics, games and fireworks. In 2017, it really should be read again. Read it on your iPad or Android. Or just listen to it read on Youtube. The words may
- [A Dozen First Lady Fourths: Presidential Wives' Independence Days Radically Diverse](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/06/30/a-dozen-first-lady-fourths-presidential-wives-independence-days-radically-diverse/) - Since that day of July 4, 1776. when its independence was first declared by the American colonies upon the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, the United States has marked Independence Day for 240 years. It was only thirteen years later that the American presidency was established and the Fourth of July began to be
- [Juneteenth: A Texan African-American Holiday Spreads Freely](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/18/juneteenth-a-texan-african-american-holiday-spreads-freely/) - It may be famous as a holiday established by the federal government to remember one man and one era, but well over a century before Martin Luther King Day was made official as a time to reflect on the strides of the Civil Rights Movement, there was one holiday which struggled its way up from
- [Helping A Very Old Dog Live Well & Naturally: A Two-Part Series](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/06/02/helping-a-very-old-dog-live-well-naturally-a-two-part-series/) - On June 3, 2011, my very beloved canine companion Yeager died. I wrote this two-part article on what I learned about caring for a Very Old Dog, the genesis of a book by the same title I have continued to work on. I republish this as a way to help others who struggle with questions
- [A President's Residence Saved: The Kennedy Family Compound with Rare Photos of their Real Life There](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/07/a-presidents-residence-saved-the-kennedy-family-compound-with-rare-photos-of-their-real-life-there/) - From the two corners of the country comes recent news that one of the "Kennedy Compound" family homes in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts will be preserved as an historic site, and that another Presidential home, that of Gerald and Betty Ford in Rancho Mirage, California has a chance for a similar fate - if the potential
- [Will Ivanka Trump Melania? First Lady Tag Teams of History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/01/18/will-ivanka-trump-melania-tag-team-first-ladies-of-history/) - "I can do one of two things," President Theodore Roosevelt snapped after being informed that his First Daughter, Alice, had yet again been seen in that embarrassingly vulgar act of cigarette smoking. "I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot do both." The nation seems poised on the
- [Presidential Princess Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Her Little Thank You Note & A Rare Recording of Her Voice](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/12/presidential-princess-alice-roosevelt-longworth-her-little-thank-you-note-a-rare-recording-of-her-voice/) - Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, and scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth The bigger perspective, a rational cynicism, a sense of the ridiculous, self-deprecating irony, doing what comes naturally. The unreal reality of having a nation presume to
- [Those Seventies Women: Betty Ford on Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Tyler Moore at Betty Ford](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/01/27/those-seventies-women-betty-ford-on-mary-tyler-moore-mary-tyler-moore-at-betty-ford/) - Mary and Betty. Plain names, but when associated with two particularly famous women, both names can still become vivid enough to instantly recall their smiling wit and immediately place them in our collective memories, even for those not yet born or cognizant in that brief sliver of a sweet spot, the happy, funky mid-Seventies after
- [First Ladies On The Steps & In the Car Together: A Century-Old Tradition](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/01/21/first-ladies-on-the-steps-in-the-car-together-a-century-old-tradition/) - Yesterday's inauguration offered one new precedent - a lavishly iced Inaugural Cake in shades of red, white and blue, sliced by the new president at one of the balls. The Tiffany box gift presented by Melania Trump to Michelle Obama, however, followed a custom set by Mrs. Obama in 2009, when she gave a gift
- [Former Presidents Who Attended Inaugurations - And Didn't](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/01/13/former-presidents-who-attended-inaugurations-and-didnt/) - They may not like him, but they'll be there. Despite the fact that Bill Clinton's wife ran a hard campaign against the president-elect for the presidency, that Jimmy Carter spoke of him as a danger and that George W. Bush refused to vote or suggest any remote support for his fellow Republican, all three
- [Debbie Reynolds, Nixon, Nostalgic Politics & Recalcitrant Carrie](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2017/01/03/debbie-reynolds-nixon-nostalgic-politics-recalcitrant-carrie/) - Last week's news of the sudden death by heart attack of actress and writer Carrie Fischer, followed a day later by her beloved mother and Hollywood actress and legend Debbie Reynolds by stroke, provoked numerous recollections of their individual and joint lives. One neglected thread of their bumpy, devoted, prickly and often hysterical relationship was
- [The Presidents, Swimsuit Edition: Trunks to Tees to Plain Naked](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/05/29/the-presidents-swimsuit-edition-trunks-to-tees-to-plain-naked/) - Roosevelt wore one with a tanktop. Kennedy, Reagan, LBJ, Nixon and Obama sported the more familiar trunk suits. Truman slipped into what almost looks like a 1940s Speedo. John Quincy Adams, among others, wore nothing at all. In most parts of the country, it may still bit chilly to get into the water, but the
- [First Ladies, Swimsuit Edition: Bikinis to Bonnets to Bloomers](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/06/07/first-ladies-swimsuit-edition-bikinis-to-bonnets-to-bloomers/) - In the beginning, First Ladies were given no dispensation when it came to figuratively swimming in their bathing suits alongside the Presidents. Regardless of their nationally elevated marital status, they were expected to lead their countrywomen by example. So it was no skin for almost a century. Since ancient times, women enjoyed bathing in pools
- [Other Photos & Stars from Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday Night to JFK & His Reaction](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/19/other-photos-stars-from-marilyn-monroes-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 mis-impression has long been cast about that night being some sort of public display of
- [Melania Trump Won't Move to White House: Not Unprecedented](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/11/21/melania-trump-wont-move-to-white-house-not-unprecedented/) - Melania Trump, the president-elect's spouse and their 10-year old son Baron will remain at their New York apartment through at least the end of the spring 2017 school year, it was announced earlier this week. The decision does not necessarily mean she will be separated from Donald Trump, given his suggestion that he will use
- [The Train Accident that Broke A President, Estranged His Wife & Killed His Son](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/05/15/the-train-accident-that-broke-a-president-estranged-his-wife-killed-his-son/) - When unexpected tragedy occurs during what begins as a routine day, those affected are often likely to find that the course of their life is changed as a consequence. It happens to people from all walks of life. When it happens to a President of the United States, however, it can often be millions of
- [The First Ladies Tour in Photos, A Tradition Since 1908](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/11/10/the-first-ladies-tour-in-photos-a-tradition-since-1908/) - Michelle Obama hosted a "tea and tour" meeting today with Melania Trump, after the latter accepted the invitation of the former, to discuss living in the White House and public expectations faced by presidential spouses, and any secrets that may have been passed down since 1908, when this traditional ritual between First Ladies began. The first
- [Jackie Onassis Said JFK "picked" her Pink Suit for Dallas, 4 Years Before She Died](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/16/jackie-onassis-confirmed-jfk-picked-her-pink-suit-for-dallas-four-years-before-she-died/) - Very few articles of clothing are perhaps more famous than it. In just one still image, the sight of it carries a myriad of messages about so many aspects of not only American Culture It is a crystallization of an historical turning point and lost hope, a media metaphor for a naiver time often misleadingly
- [Presidents Voting Photos: A Clue to Chief Executive Ego](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/11/02/presidents-voting-photos-a-clue-to-chief-executive-ego/) - Living before a perpetual public eye, they're intensely self-conscious. And that's how most of them have wanted it to be. Before discovering they can literally get the attention of the whole world by slipping on a tarmac, carrying a garment bag, rocking a dance move, making believe they can't hear shouted questions, picking up beagle
- [EyePhone to iPhone, The Past's Perfect Future](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/01/16/eyephone-to-iphone-the-pasts-perfect-future/) - There was never a better time ahead in the past than the future as seen from the Jet Age, that slice of powder blue optimism running from about 1957 to 1965. Kids would fly to school with jetpacks and moving sidewalks promised to glide shoppers past a galaxy of storefronts. Nothing popped the imagination brighter,
- [First Ladies Voting: An Illustrated History of the Right to Ballot](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/10/30/first-ladies-voting-an-illustrated-history/) - First Ladies have not been voting as long as Presidents. It was not until the 1920 presidential election when there was "universal" suffrage, decreed by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and becoming the law of the land in time for the 1920 presidential election. This made Florence Harding the first woman in American
- [At the Heart of Hillary Clinton: A First Lady of the World's Core Values](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/27/at-the-heart-of-hillary-clinton-a-first-lady-of-the-worlds-core-values/) - It was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson who, upon Eleanor Roosevelt's 1962 death, called her a "First Lady of the World," a reflection of her years as Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (1961-1962), delegate to the UN General Assembly(1946-1953), US First Lady (1933-1945), and gubernatorial First Lady
- [Mae Day 1966: 72-Year Old Mae West Decides to Rock and Roll](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/01/mae-day-1966-72-year-old-mae-west-decides-to-rock-and-roll/) - The Psychedelic Sixties started with the Swinging Summer of Sixty-Six in Southern California, popularized by the Beach Boys and the Beach Party – certainly more a notion of the imagination and movies, perhaps than reality for most young Americans at the time. Especially those sending loved ones to Vietnam – or being sent themselves. Car,
- [Pink Lemons: A Cailfornia Original](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/06/10/pink-lemons-a-cailfornia-original/) - Among the myths of mankind, we have yet to discover the Holy Grail, and a live alien, but pink lemons can be found at Trader Joe's. The variegated pink lemon is not a hybrid but its own type. Freshly-picked the skin is striped green but as it matures, the peel goes traditional yellow while inside
- [Michelle Obama Soldiers On, Renewing a First Lady Tradition](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/05/20/michelle-obama-soldiers-on-renewing-a-first-lady-tradition/) - Michelle Obama went to West Point yesterday, the first incumbent First Lady to address a graduating cadet class. Some in-depth research shows, however, that she was not the first to visit the nation's most prestigious school for Army officer training. One hundred and forty years ago, Julia Grant became the first First Lady to make
- [All the Presidents' Campaign Posters: Stars & Stripes Every Which Way](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/05/08/all-the-presidents-campaign-posters-stars-stripes-every-which-way/) - The art of politics is a deft game, played in many shades of many colors. Unlike presidential campaign posters, which inevitably uses red, white and blue. There is an art to everything, certainly when it comes to electing a President of the United States, and the posters, banners, bumper stickers, decals and postage seals ever since
- [Whore, Hayseed, Bigamist, Bigot, Slut, Snob, Drunk: Candidate Wives As Campaign Issues](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/03/24/whore-hayseed-bigamist-bigot-slut-snob-drunk-candidate-wives-as-campaign-issues/) - Earlier this week, another malicious skirmish broke out on the presidential campaign trail. First came an advertisement from a wing of the Stop-Trump movement using an old advertising photograph of the the candidate's wife Melania Trump, a former model, showing her posed naked for GQ magazine on a fur carpet. Headlined "Meet Melania Trump. Your
- [Helping Yourself Help A Very Old Dog Live Longer and Well (Part II)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/14/helping-yourself-help-a-very-old-dog-live-longer-and-well-last-in-a-series/) - It’s understandable how striving to maintain a very old dog’s well-being may appear futile. Given a dog’s shorter life span, the time, energy and money expended on behalf of what may only be a matter of several weeks or months makes no sense to even many of those who loved sharing their lives with animals.
- [Nancy Reagan's Funeral Follows First Lady Tradition](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/03/10/nancy-reagans-funeral-to-follow-a-first-lady-tradition/) - There is at least one custom common among those who've lived in the White House and all who have not. Friends, family and colleagues of everyday folk gather for christenings, graduations, weddings and, yes, funerals. Presidents and First Ladies gather for Inaugurations, Presidential Library and Museum dedications and, yes, funerals. At today's memorial service for former
- [Nancy Reagan & Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Their Untold Story](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/03/09/the-untold-story-of-nancy-reagans-bond-to-jackie-kennedy-onassis-first-lady-to-first-lady/) - "What about Jackie?" The first person Nancy Reagan asked me about was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I'd never flown in a helicopter before, let alone the presidential one, but there I was in the sky, whirring through the lower stratosphere above a landscape of ancient Virginia forests being rapidly consumed into suburban housing developments. The chopper
- [Nancy Reagan: Untold Stories From A Speechwriter & Historian](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/03/06/nancy-reagan-untold-stories-from-a-speechwriter-historian/) - In light of the death of Nancy Reagan this morning and in response to media inquiries, Carl Anthony Online will be publishing a series of articles over the next few days giving focus to some of the untold, unknown or rarely considered aspects to her nuanced public role and the complexities of the great number
- [2016 Presidential Candidates Most Ethnically Diverse in History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/02/19/2016-presidential-candidates-most-ethnically-diverse-in-history/) - Love them or hate them, they're running for President. Apart from the obvious fact that one is a woman and one is an African-American, the current panel of presidential candidates facing off as either Republicans or Democrats during the 2016 primary and caucus races are not, beneath the surface, your father's old white guys. Throughout
- [Obama Fourth President to Visit Cuba: Coolidge, FDR & Truman Went Too](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/02/18/media-mistake-besides-coolidge-fdr-truman-went-to-cuba-too/) - News this week that President Barack Obama intends to visit the communist island nation of Cuba before his term is over in just over eleven months from now, has prompted the media to hail the pending visit as the first by an incumbent U.S. President since one made by Calvin Coolidge in 1928. Among
- [The President Who Kissed Six First Ladies - And Many Others](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/02/16/the-president-who-kissed-six-first-ladies-and-many-others/) - It would prove impossible to determine just which presidential candidate holds the record for kissing babies, that old campaign gesture dating back more than a century. But one can certainly award President Jimmy Carter as the U.S. President who kissed more First Ladies other than his own wife. This past three-day holiday weekend just ended,
- [Mae West, Sex, Love & Her Secret Valentine](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/02/15/mae-west-sex-love-her-secret-valentine/) - "Love and sex are best together," said Mae West. "But they ain't so bad on their own neither." On Valentine's Day each year, Mae West could count on getting a heart-shaped box of chocolates, figuratively speaking, from the one person who truly loved her. Love in the sense of patience, devotion, appreciation, respect, and forgiveness.
- [Jackie in Harlem, Mamie on TV & Other Former First Lady Campaigning](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/02/09/jackie-in-harlem-mamie-on-tv-other-former-first-lady-campaigning/) - Just posted on the National First Ladies' Library Blog is the first compact history of former First Ladies getting out on the presidential campaign trail on behalf of candidates other than their husbands. But it was still, largely, a family affair. In two cases, it was for their sons. Another was for a brother-in-law, another for
- [The Candidates' Spouses: Not All Cute Little Buttons](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2016/01/26/pinning-the-candidates-spouses-not-always-cute-campaign-buttons/) - For far longer than conventional wisdom would have us believe, Americans voting for a President et of the United States have given consideration to a matter that had - at least on the surface - nothing to do with policy. Who did they marry and how might they influence their spouses if there y're elected
- [Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays: Facts Bring It Together](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/12/24/merry-christmas-vs-happy-holidays-facts-bring-it-together/) - Republican and Democratic. Summer and Winter. Science and Religion. Men and Women. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas. Like so much of the national dialogue, even this festive period of the calendar has been reduced to a winner-take-all Team Red versus Team Blue game, where it is suggested that the sole purpose of one way of
- [Grace Coolidge, her White Collies, Coolidge Animal Love & Why JFK and Jackie Kennedy Liked Her: A Photo Essay](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/25/animal-loving-grace-coolidge-and-her-famous-white-house-white-collie/) - Any man who does not like dogs and want them about, does not deserve to be in the White House. Calvin Coolidge Few can question that Thomas Jefferson was the great gourmand to live in the White House. Jimmy Carter may be the most prolific to have lived there, even turning out a children's book
- [After Terror Attack, First Lady Fortifies Fearful Nation: Mrs. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Day Address](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/12/08/after-terror-attack-first-lady-fortifies-fearful-nation-mrs-roosevelts-pearl-harbor-day-address/) - Terrorism. Refugees. Homeland protection. Fascism. Wartime preparation. Words from the White House. Two days ago, Sunday, December 6, 2015, President Barack Obama addressed the nation on the burgeoning war on terrorism, following a deadly attack in California. Seventy-three years ago today, December 8, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation on the burgeoning war
- [The Two Faces of World War I: Before The Fighting & After](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/11/11/the-two-faces-of-world-war-i-before-the-fighting-after/) - No matter how empathetic a person may be who pauses today to remember the millions of American military forces who served in armed conflict, the experience of war can't help but remain an abstract one. Those who've known what it's like to begin a day realizing they may well be killed possess intrinsic bravery not
- [Cracking Plymouth Rock: Cold Stone Facts Behind the American Myth](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/23/cracking-plymouth-rock/) - It’s no Statue of Liberty on a New York Harbor pedestal or precious Constitution under low lights in Washington, but it’s the most ancient American relic. Or is it? Legend claims it’s the first bit of land that the first foot of the first of the permanent settlers touched when their rowboat hit the shoreline.
- [Our Speakers of the House: Violent, Drunk, Lying, Cheating, Cursing](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/11/07/our-speakers-of-the-house-violent-drunk-lying-cheating-cursing/) - This is an updated version of a previous, deleted version: One died of a drug overdose, another with his mistress. One spit on citizens, another made an ex-con jailed for attempted murder his closest aide. All had the power to change the nation and were in line for the presidency. A week ago the symbolic
- [Presidents in Drag: Under Cartoon Petticoats A Subversive Sexism](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/10/25/presidents-in-drag-under-cartoon-petticoats-a-subversive-sexism/) - In this Halloween season, there's no better time to look back at what is perhaps the most peculiar propensity of the past presidency. Unknown to most Americans is the custom, begun in 1840 of male Presidential candidates and Presidents cross-dressing as every possible type of woman. For some reason, only two, the consecutive Warren G. Harding
- [Pulaski Days in Grand Rapids: Michigan's Polish-American Holiday](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/10/12/pulaski-days-in-grand-rapids-michigans-polish-american-holiday/) - Yesterday, October 11, was once traditionally celebrated in cities with large Polish-American populations as the traditional Pulaski Day, marking the day that Count Casimir Pulaski, a native of Warka, Poland, heroically died in 1779 while fighting for American independence. By the late 20th century, Pulaski Day had became three Pulaski Days in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In
- [Mae West New Year's Eve, Partying Like It's 1899](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/12/30/mae-west-new-years-eve-partying-like-its-1899/) - Many people recall their childhood as idyllic. Forty years after the fact, however, Mae West, got to publicly relive her own Gay Nineties childhood, recreating it on a grandly romanticized scale and sharing it with generations to come. She only made twelve movies, but half of them are set in the 1890s. Rather artfully, Mae
- [The Duke of Surfing Who Got the Queen Mother to Hula](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/24/duke-the-father-of-surfing/) - Few people are frequently and fondly remembered almost fifty years after their death. Then again, few individuals so authentically embody the spirit and character of a place better than "The Father of Surfing," Duke Kahanamoku did for Hawaii. Duke was born this day in 1890 and though he died in 1968, his spirit can managed
- [Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/28/hooiser-sugar-cream-finger-pie-from-the-indy-500-to-the-quakers-pies-of-the-states/) - Yesterday during this last weekend in May, almost always on Memorial Day, is the traditional time for the famous Indianapolis 500 Race. What does it have in common with the Quakers? Both are quintessentially Indianian and part of the enduring legacy of the Hoosier State's famous and practically-official Pie of the Hoosier State. It's also
- [The Movie Mickey Mantle & Maris Made...with Fred Mertz](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/29/the-movie-mickey-mantle-maris-made-with-fred-mertz/) - One need not obsess over baseball stats to be struck by the fact that it was exactly 50 seasons ago that yesterday's World Series winners, the San Francisco Giants had also played the World Series - but lost. In 1962, the Giants were challenged not only the formidable New York Yankees but a centerfield player
- [Football Politics: Presidents & The Super Bowl](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/02/the-politics-of-presidents-the-super-bowl/) - Despite nearly fifty years of the vastly expanded focus of the entire nation on the annual Super Bowl game, none of the ten Presidents who have served since the first one, in 1967, have ever attended. For over a century now, Presidents have thrown out the first pitch to open the baseball season, but the
- [White House Halloweens: Jackie Kennedy, FDR, Reagan, Hillary & More in Costume](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/21/white-house-halloweens-jackie-kennedy-fdr-reagan-hillary-more-in-costume/) - (Photo Gallery of Presidential Families in Costumes follow below this essay) Halloween has been celebrated in the United States at parties for well over a century, but not until the 1950s did it go entirely mainstream with mass-produced costumes for children and packaged candy to give them as treats. So it was true among Presidential
- [Jackie Kennedy's Dogged Influence on JFK Jr. & Canine-Themed Homes](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/01/the-dog-paintings-of-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-at-the-white-house-and-1040-fifth-avenue/) - While yesterday's article, The Dogs of Jackie O: Jackie Kennedy's Lifetime of Canine Companions, detailed the First Lady's life alongside a series of pooches during almost fifty of her sixty-four years, even after there were no longer four-legged friends in her homes, there were constant reminders of them. As seen here, dogs were depicted in
- [A First Lady Survives Presidential Assassination Plus Rare Funeral Images](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/05/a-first-lady-survives-presidential-assassination-plus-rare-funeral-images/) - Four Presidents of the United States have been assassinated, each leaving a widowed First Lady. The most recent of these dark moments in history took place fifty years ago this month, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed almost immediately upon being hit while riding in an open car through the streets of
- [Ari and Jackie Onassis: The U.S. First Lady as Greek Wife & Paris Resident (Part 4)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/08/ari-and-jackie-onassis-the-u-s-first-lady-as-greek-wife-paris-resident-part-4/) - The 40th birthday of Jackie Kennedy Onassis on July 28, 1969 was celebrated at a raucous all-night bash in an Athens nightclub, hosted by her husband. It lasted until seven the next morning. Emerging into the daylight not only with the famous Apollo 11 jeweled earrings he gave her as a gift but also wearing
- [Ari & Jackie Onassis: Their "Blended" Family Adapts in Rare Photos (Part 3)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/08/20/ari-jackie-onassis-their-blended-family-adapts-part-3/) - As much as she was able to control his schedule, Jackie Onassis resisted inviting too many guests for too long a time to Skorpios, and usually did so only when she knew her husband would be away from her for an extended period. Her stepson and stepdaughter, Alex and Christina Onassis would drop in frequently
- [Why John F. Kennedy Took His Son to Arlington Cemetery](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/11/president-john-f-kennedy-takes-his-son-to-arlington-cemetery/) - (This is the first in a series of illustrated articles recounting the last days of the Kennedy family in the White House during November of 1963. Some will be made available for nominal purchase.) The President and Mrs. Kennedy with their children Caroline and John had spent the weekend of November 9 and 10 at
- [Ari & Jackie Onassis: New Photos of Their Private Rooms (Part 2)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/08/11/ari-jackie-onassis-new-photos-of-their-private-rooms-part-2/) - "To Have a Home Here..." In June of 1961, following her famous visit to Paris with President Kennedy and further itinerary to Vienna and London, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister Lee Radziwill made their first visit to the nation of Greece. Jackie became especially excited about the visit after her conversations with Greek
- [Ari & Jackie Onassis:  Wedding, Yacht, Island, Bedroom & the End in Photos (Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/28/ari-jackie-onassis-wedding-yacht-island-bedroom-the-end-in-photos-part-1/) - First, the island. Now, the yacht. Three months ago, the private Greek island Skorpios, home to shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and his wife, former American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold for $TK by his 28 year old granddaughter Athina Onassis. The buyer is 24 year old Russian heiress Ekaterina Rybolovlevato, whose father built his
- [Jackie Kennedy's Notes Reveal JFK's 2nd Term Plans](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/22/a-second-jfk-term-jackie-kennedys-notes-on-what-was-planned/) - There were minor matters to be resolved and legislative agendas to be initiated. There were new directions she intended to take and a progression of efforts he had already begun. Whether President John F. Kennedy or First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy or both of them would have done all or part of what many journalists, colleagues,
- [How Texans Treated JFK](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/17/how-texans-treated-jfk/) - It was so darkly ironic and therefor all the more painful, recalled my late, great friend Liz Carpenter, a proud sixth-generation Texan, because "a real effort was made to inspire peoplei into giving President Kennedy the warmest and most enthusiastic welcome the Lone Star could muster." I first met Liz in 1990 to conduct an
- [JFK Shot: Other Presidents & First Ladies React](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/18/jfk-shot-other-presidents-first-ladies-react/) - Like millions of people across the globe, there was horrified shock among those who had once held the position of President of the United States and First Lady, and most of those who would someday follow, when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated. The dean of former Presidents at the time
- [The Kennedy Family's Last Weekend Together in Home Movies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/14/the-kennedy-familys-last-weekend-together-in-home-movies/) - Jackie Kennedy returned from her European trip on October 17, 1963 refreshed. In fact, President Kennedy telephoned Greece to speak directly to Aristotle Onassis, who had hosted the First Lady and her sister on his yacht, and profusely thanked the shipping tycoon for the hospitality shown her and the resulting optimism with which she had
- [Jackie Onassis Said JFK "picked" her Pink Suit for Dallas, Before She Died](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/16/jackie-onassis-confirmed-jfk-picked-her-pink-suit-for-dallas-four-years-before-she-died-2/) - Very few articles of clothing are perhaps more famous than it. In just one still image, the sight of it carries a myriad of messages about so many aspects of not only American Culture It is a crystallization of an historical turning point and lost hope, a media metaphor for a naiver time often misleadingly
- [The Kennedy Family's Last Public Appearance Together](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/13/the-kennedy-familys-last-public-appearance-together/) - Among the many public projects of Jacqueline Kennedy as First Lady which continue to be overlooked was her ongoing effort to use the expanse of the great South Lawn of the White House as an outdoor space to provide entertainment for various demographics of young people. She organized a lawn reception for foreign exchange students
- [The House that Jackie Built: Home Movie Inside the Kennedy Weekend Home](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/14/the-house-that-jackie-built-home-movie-inside-the-kennedy-weekend-home/) - Later in life she mused that she might have studied architecture, so interested was she in the design and flowing layout of rooms as the primary blueprint for creating the interior furnishings of a beautiful home. Jackie Kennedy came close to it in 1963. Among First Ladies, three women drew out the sketch of room
- [JFK's Children: John's Birthday on his Father's Burial Day & How Caroline Was Told JFK was Gone](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/23/jfks-children-johns-birthday-on-his-fathers-burial-day-how-caroline-was-told-jfk-was-gone/) - The absence of their mother during the shocking aftermath of their father's murder had led to several hours of uncertainty about who should first break the news to Caroline Kennedy and John Kennedy, Jr. and how it should be explained. Earlier that afternoon, Caroline Kennedy was being driven by the mother of her schoolfriend Agatha
- [The Day Jackie Kennedy Was President](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/24/when-jackie-kennedy-was-a-one-day-president-assuring-forging-allies/) - She held no Cabinet meeting, issued no orders and signed no legislation. Yet in a brief interim of several hours on the afternoon of Monday, November 25, 1963, with her late husband the President having just been buried and his constitutional successor purposefully keeping out of the White House, it was Jacqueline Kennedy who acted
- [Jackie Kennedy & JFK, Jr., Unique Mother & Son: A Photo Essay](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/05/19/jackie-kennedy-jfk-jr-unique-mother-son-a-photo-essay/) - Twenty years ago today, one of the 20th century's most legendary Americans and perhaps the world's most iconic woman died. Despite dying just two months shy before qualifying for Social Security benefits, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis's associative identification in the public imagination with an era which had ended thirty years earlier had so permanently affixed
- [Globe-Trotting Jackie Kennedy Onassis: A Picture Gallery for her 85th Birthday](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/07/28/globe-trotting-jackie-kennedy-onassis-a-picture-gallery-for-her-85th-birthday/) - The American First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt would, rightly, come to be known as "the First Lady of the World," for her tireless humanitarian work, especially the historic effort she made into the drafting and passage of the Declaration of Human Rights while serving as a U.S. representative at the United Nations. Since then, the former
- [St. Patrick's Day & The Presidents: Shamrocks, Leprechauns, and Some Visits to the Old Sod](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/03/17/st-patricks-day-the-presidents-shamrocks-leprechauns-and-some-visits-to-the-old-sod/) - Since the days of Thomas Jefferson, various, individual Presidents have chosen to commemorate St. Patrick's Day. For much of the 19th century and early 2oth century, it was a matter intended less to honor Irish-Americans and more to seek the support of their political power as it grew, particularly after the Civil War and particularly
- [First Ladies You Mightn't Know Were Irish, from Jackie Kennedy to Dolley Madison](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/03/16/first-ladies-you-mightnt-know-were-irish-from-jackie-kennedy-to-dolley-madison/) - Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, so the saying goes. The leaves of presidential family trees certainly prove this, especially when the definition is widened to include those popularly known as "Scotch-Irish," a general term which usually (but not exclusively) defines those of Protestant faiths from Scotland who settled in northern Ireland before immigrating
- [The Dogs of Jackie O: Thirty Pictures of Jacqueline Kennedy's Lifetime of Canine Companions](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/28/the-dogs-of-jackie-o-jacqueline-kennedys-lifetime-of-canine-companions/) - From her earliest childhood days on Long Island, through her youth in New York, Newport, Rhode Island and McLean, Virginia, to her public period as the wife of a U.S. Senator in Washington and in the White House as First Lady of the United States, to her life afterwards as the world’s most famous woman
- [When First Ladies Met Popes: A Photo Essay, 1841-2015](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/09/27/when-first-ladies-met-popes-a-photo-essay-1841-2015/) - Last week, Roman Catholic Pope Francis made his first trip to the United States. Upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Barack Obama welcomed the Pope to Washington directly at the airport, rather than wait for his arrival at the White House. His wife Michelle was also there, along with their two daughters. While
- [Mae West Nude, Getting Naked, Fighting Father Time...and Living](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/14/the-only-known-nude-picture-of-mae-west-what-she-though-about-getting-naked/) - In her later years, Mae West spoke out against nudity in feature films - not on a moral basis but because she felt it didn't allow the imagination to wander. "Never drop the seventh veil," she once said about actors appearing naked in film or on stage. She also felt that - well, as she
- [Growing Up at the World Trade Center with Previously Unpublished Photos](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/09/09/the-twin-towers-where-i-grew-up/) - Ten years ago, each time I watched the looping footage of the World Trade Center towers collapsing, my heart sank afresh with them. Not only because of the horror I felt over the many lives lost. I was also feeling melancholia about the actual towers. And yet, initially, it seemed peculiar to mourn the loss
- [Helping A Very Old Dog Live Longer and Well (Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/11/helping-a-very-old-dog-live-longer-and-well-first-in-a-series/) - In eight profound months, beginning in October of 2010, my perceptions of time, communication, dignity, and the power of intention were forever altered by the paradoxical process of helping my ninety-pound, 16 year old Weimaraner companion named Yeager live well as a very old dog, for as long as nature allowed. As it was, he
- [A Humbug President's Hubris: Take My Mountain Please!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/09/06/a-humbug-presidents-hubris-take-my-mountain-please/) - It was President Warren G. Harding who liked to tell a story about his fellow Ohio Republican President William McKinley that revealed his predecessor's character, about "the pose and love of the dramatic in McKinley that few people realized." While he was governor of Ohio, McKinley's daily act of devotion to his wife Ida, who
- [Sleeping with the President: A Peek at All Their Private Bedrooms & Beds](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/04/27/sleeping-with-the-president-a-peek-at-all-their-private-bedrooms-beds/) - It's the most private space in the home of us all, the bedroom. And yet, like everything else, when it comes to the Presidents of the United States, nothing is sacred - not even a peek inside their bedrooms and snapshot of the very beds where they slept at one point or another. Whether it
- [The Ignored Men Who Gave Women Their First Vote](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/08/27/the-ignored-men-who-gave-women-their-first-vote/) - Too often, the struggle for any form of legal equality is reduced to a shorthand of dramatic conflict between those seeking and opposing a change. Of course, it is the demographic forced to exist at a disadvantage (be it based on their race, gender, sexual preference, physical ability, date and place of birth, employment, marital
- [On 1981 Tape, Jackie Kennedy Recalls Life as Fifties Housewife: With Sixty Newlywed Images](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/08/13/on-1981-tape-jackie-kennedy-recalls-life-as-fifties-housewife-with-sixty-newlywed-images/) - In photographs and a television interview from the fall of 1953 and the spring of 1954, the 24-year old newlywed Mrs. John F. Kennedy seemed to be the quintessentially submissive and serene Fifties Housewife. In 1981, by the time she was a single, working 51 year old editor, Mrs. Onassis felt confident enough to laughingly
- [The Most Shocking Truth About JFK & Marilyn Monroe?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/18/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 exaggerated to the point where it has become mythologized. This might prove so damaging to
- [Jackie Kennedy's Four Dark Days in Rare Pictures](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/21/jackie-kennedys-four-dark-days-in-many-rare-pictures/) - From the moment it was announced on November 22, 1963 that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated until he was buried four days later, the world's attention focused on his widow Jacqueline Kennedy. Despite the First Lady's achievements as a goodwill diplomat, hostess, preservationist and arts advocate, it was the sudden role thrust on
- [A President in Alaska: Ninety Rare Images of Harding's Fatal Trip](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/08/03/a-president-in-alaska-ninety-rare-images-of-hardings-fatal-trip/) - This very day, ninety-two years ago, Americans awoke to newspaper and radio reports of the President's sudden death in San Francisco's Palace Hotel, while he was in the middle of what was intended to be a two-month tour of the nation. Even by the standards of today's far fitter presidential health and expedited modern travel,
- [Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Cartoon & Caricature: A First-Time Collection](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/07/29/jackie-kennedy-onassis-in-cartoon-caricature-the-first-collection/) - From the time she stepped onto the world stage as the spouse of the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960, the public persona of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy immediately began to solidify, the finer details planed away as she was shaped by the media into a modern-day American Cleopatra. Being unusually young, wearing her brown hair in
- [Private Pools of the Presidents: A Photo Essay](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/07/19/private-pools-of-the-presidents-a-photo-essay/) - Not every President has a private estate where they beat the heat of Washington by taking a running jump into a cool pool. But they do have the White House and Camp David. Both the primary presidential residence and the mountain retreat are equipped with pools. For some eighty years now, Presidents, First Ladies and
- [The Reassuring Flop of the Bubblegum Idol](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/02/02/the-reassuring-flop-of-the-bubblegum-idol/) - It is far too easy to bemoan the deepening shallowness of the American Pop Culture, but if an admittedly-shallow survey of what makes the American Teenage Girl scream and spend money is any gauge, then there is hope. It's a survey based on male pop stars and how they look. And how it seems they've looked for
- [New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade: An Important Early Image](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/17/newyorksstpatricksdayparade/) - New York's famous St. Patrick's Day Parade is perhaps one of the oldest traditions celebrating an aspect of American diversity, an annual event which dates back to 1762. By eighty years later, with the first wave of massive immigration of an impoverished Irish working-class escaping widespread poverty and starvation due, in large part, to Ireland's
- [Gooseberry Pie: The Bite of Pennsylvania's Rare Berry](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/01/31/gooseberry-fool/) - Nothing says Keystone State like....Gooseberry!? No, it is not what is fed to geese or does it have to do with the feeling your skin gets when a fright comes over you. And, a fool is a sort of fruit pudding with whipped cream - not a pie. A pie is much better. Of course.
- [The Inside on the Ex-President: Always Centered](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/01/16/the-inside-on-the-ex-president-always-centered/) - Far too many readers assume history is a quaintly irrelevant retelling of wars or migrations or depressions, and far too many such books bear that out by forgetting that it is ultimately individual human beings who direct society's fate.Among the annual crop of presidential biography and history, it's been some time since a work as
- [Cloroxing Martha's Wash](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/01/15/one-american-classic-exploits-another/) - The more wildly inaccurate the implication, the more ingenuous the television commercial. This morning, I saw one American classic product, Clorox brand bleach, sell itself by exploiting an American classic persona, Martha Washington. Here is a link to the commercial. Instead of the frowning, downtrodden housewives of the latter Twentieth Century, this ad depicts a chipper and
- [Songs Summarizing Summertime: Vote Your Favorite](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/07/16/songs-summarizing-summertime-vote-your-favorite/) - We're almost in the thick of it. For three weeks after Memorial Day Weekend, you could still technically claim it wasn't summer until the vernal equinox of June twenty-first. Two weeks out since Independence Day, however, it is high season, enough time to make good on the promise to get to the beach or host
- [Romney's Mormonism Might Mitigate Muslim Myth about Obama](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/03/romneys-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 find itself having to dispose of again. Religion. For over two centuries now, distraction from
- [The Truth Behind the Cherry Blossoms: A First Lady's Vision of Racial and Class Integration](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/01/the-truth-behind-the-cherry-blossoms-a-first-ladys-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 African-American churches driving down after Easter service, veterans wandering over from the war memorials, schoolkids
- [Eleanor Roosevelt's Mysteriously Missing Grandfather & was she part-Italian?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/02/eleanor-roosevelts-mysteriously-missing-grandfather/) - Despite her being born forty-five years before Jacqueline Kennedy, there is a similar pattern in the story of Eleanor Roosevelt's Irish immigrant heritage. It illustrates less the shame of humble origin than how the power of incredible wealth can lead people to override social dictum, even racial bigotry, on the condition that certain behavior is nonetheless
- [Blond Bigotry, Anti-Semitism & Why a Candidate's Wife Fabricated Her Family](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/11/blond-bigotry-anti-semitism-why-a-candidates-wife-fabricated-her-family/) - 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 and African slaves emerging from Rachel Swarns new book on the subject, American Tapestry. That
- [McGuire or Maguire: Who Fathered Labor Day?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/03/mcguire-or-maguire-who-fathered-labor-day/) - McGuire or Maguire? Peter or Matthew? New York or New Jersey? Could it be that even good old Labor Day, a time for parades and picnics was just an elaborate excuse for another good old struggle for power? Not working on holidays – but getting paid for it. Working on holidays but not getting paid
- [California Oktoberfest: Authentically German, Utterly American](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/26/california-oktoberfest-authentically-german-utterly-american/) - It's that time of year again. Cincinnati makes sense. Upper Midwestern cities certainly. East Coast bastions of ethnic immigrant history absolutely. But Oktoberfest in Torrance, California? That small city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County that's home to surfers, beachcombers, and a heavy Latino and Asian demographic? Sure, why not? After all,
- [An Immigrant Ancestry Hillary Clinton Shares with Ann Romney](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/28/ann-romneys-atheist-immigrant-father-what-hillary-clinton-shares-with-her/) - This article is the latest in a series examining the unknown ancestries of First Ladies including Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Florence Harding, Eleanor Roosevelt and forthcoming ones on Edith Wilson, Pat Nixon, Eliza Johnson and Mamie Eisenhower. They can be found on this website under the category of "Presidential Families." The 2012 presidential election has
- [Pat Nixon: First-Generation German-American & Her Lincoln Assassination Link](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/07/pat-nixon-first-generation-german-american-her-lincoln-assassination-link/) - There was irony to a small storyline running beneath the more important issues of the 1960 presidential race between Democratic candidate, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican candidate, Vice President Richard Nixon, involving some half-truths and hidden facts about the way in which their wives were presented to the public. As a previous article
- [Swedish Roots: Mamie Eisenhower's Iowa-Sprung Ancestry](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/20/swedish-roots-mamie-eisenhowers-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 House unveiled the hot, new holiday cookie of the season for the nation’s finicky food
- [A First Lady's Princess Complex: Royalty, Racism & Edith Wilson's Pocahontas Blood](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/18/a-first-ladys-princess-complex-royalty-racism-edith-wilsons-pocahontas-blood/) - This is the second to last article in a series on First Ladies' ancestral identities. Previous articles on Michelle Obama, Jacqueline Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Harding, Pat Nixon, Hillary Clinton can be found by searching at right, in the categories or archives box, or scrolling through the list of articles. Today, Edith Bolling Wilson remains
- [Mobile Mardi Gras: Alabama's French Catholic Holiday First-in-the-Nation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/12/mobile-mardi-gras-alabamas-french-catholic-holiday-first-in-the-nation/) - There may not be a trace of French in the Deep South accent of Alabamians and New Orleans may seem to have the lock on Mardi Gras, but it all started as a Catholic holiday in the first French colonial capital in the U.S., Mobile, Alabama. And that was fifteen years before New Orleans had
- [Indy-Chinese New Year: Early Chinese-Americans & The Holiday, Hooiser Style](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/13/indy-chinese-new-years-early-chinese-americans-the-holiday-hooiser-style/) - Seeing a dragon parade the streets of San Francisco or New York this time of year might not be shocking, being the symbol of Chinese New Year, which began several days ago, with festivities continuing for about two more weeks. Seeing a tiger dance in Indianapolis might be a bit more unexpected, though not to
- [The US Holiday Celebrating a King, Started by Royal Family: Kamehameha Day](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/10/the-us-holiday-celebrating-a-king-started-by-royal-family-kamehameha-day/) - If you only had one day to visit Honolulu, Hawaii, you are hopefully there today or about to arrive. June 11 is one of those rare holidays in the American Pop Culture which manages to serve as both a solemn remembrance and a festival, a little New Year's Eve and a little Veteran's Day. It
- [Milwaukee Marseillaise: Biggest Bastille Day in Wisconsin](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/14/milwaukee-marseillaise-biggest-bastille-day-in-wisconsin/) - Today, July 14 is celebrated with reverential pomp in France, where it is formally known as La Fête Nationale.In the United States, its easier to just call it Bastille Day and use it t0 party between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, a mid-summer festival of all things French. July 14 was the day in
- [American Hanukkah: How Pop Culture Created "Jewish Christmas"](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/19/american-hanukkah-how-pop-culture-created-jewish-christmas/) - This Holiday Season, many who celebrates Christmas might sense something is sorely missing. Hanukkah. In the store aisles, alongside the rock-and-roll animatronic Santa Claus shaking his belly and fake green wreathes with red glass ornaments, there are none of the menorahs, candles, draedles, greeting cards, gift wrappings and banners in white and the color which
- [Great Scots! Happy St. Andrew's Day](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/29/great-scots-happy-st-andrews-day/) - It may be the fact that its so close to Thanksgiving which accounts for it not quite making it onto the national radar, but the last day of November is St. Andrew's Day, the national day of Scotland when Americans of Scottish ancestry traditionally gather in celebration of their ancestral culture. Most often marked by
- [All Wales that Ends Welsh: The USA's St. David's Holiday](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/01/all-wales-that-ends-well-the-welsh-in-america-the-st-davids-holiday/) - San Franciscans may wear flowers in their hair, but if you spot someone with a leek in their hat today, it is more than likely they're among the small but increasingly visible number of Americans proud of their Welsh ancestry. And if daffodils, real, paper or plastic, are covering the front of their house, you
- [The Southern Belle Mother of Hanukkah & How the Festival Became a Holiday: An Archives Article](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/12/02/the-southern-belle-mother-of-hanukkah-how-the-festival-became-a-holiday-from-the-archives/) - She''s been entirely forgotten, but she was a feminist, a slaveholder, a spitfire, a spinster and a brilliant writer of wit, piety and iron will, and without her the United States and even the world would likely not be seeing a proliferation of blue candles in the coming weeks to mark the annual Jewish holiday
- [Never Forgetting A Dog's Birthday](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/07/07/never-forgetting-a-dogs-birthday/) - Has anyone truly met a Dog unworthy of serious consideration for sainthood? When you recognize how we all shape the way Dogs develop, who really can blame a Dog for just doing what they've learned to believe is natural? Growling, jumping, cowering, staying. Or eating their annual birthday "cake." Adopting, fostering, dog-sitting, visiting, rescuing. Weimaraner.
- [The Seven Fathers Who Lived to See Sons Become President](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/06/20/the-seven-fathers-who-lived-to-see-sons-become-president/) - There was a homeopath who adored his son and a tanner who exploited his. Two were humble farmers offering practical advice that charmed the nation. Three were diplomats, two being Ambassadors to Great Britain, one of them being the first to serve in such a role, and one was the first American representative to communist China. They were
- [Liz Taylor's Bess Truman Shoe Story & Other White House Encounters](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/06/16/liz-taylors-bess-truman-shoe-story-other-white-house-encounters/) - When they came together on January 7, 1946 for a scripted public service announcement over the CBS radio network, live from the ground-floor broadcast room of the White House, it seemed like there couldn't be two more polar opposite individuals than the teenage movie star and middle-aged First Lady for one odd reason. In the
- [Bush Grandsons Entering Politics, Trying to Turn the Latino Vote Republican](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/01/bush-grandsons-entering-politics-trying-to-turn-the-latino-vote-republican/) - George P. Bush first became famous as the grandson of the forty-first U.S. President George Bush, the son of former Florida Governor James Ellis “Jeb” Bush, the nephew of forty-third President George W. Bush and great-grandson of the late U.S. Senator Prescott Bush (R-Connecticut), the original “P.” of the clan. He was only 12 years
- [Jimmy Carter's  Green "Country" Brand: His 1976 Campaign Song](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/10/jimmy-carters-green-country-branded-1976-campaign-song/) - Few run for President on a set of promises to the people which they then insist on keeping once they are elected, with such conviction that it then helps them lose re-election. It was an important storyline underlining the phenomena which swept former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter into the presidency during the 1976 election, yet led
- [Fighting Bigotry Shaped Truman's 1948 Campaign Tunes (& Carmen Miranda Sang One)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/08/fighting-bigotry-shaped-trumans-1948-campaign-tunes-carmen-miranda-sang-one/) - In the fall of 1945, six months after inheriting the presidency upon the April death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman was back home in his beloved state of Missouri, visiting the county fair in the small town of Caruthersville. Without too much coaxing, the new President took to the platform of the Methodist
- [FDR's Four-Times Happy Campaign Song & A Home Movie Showing Him Paralyzed](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/01/fdrs-trademark-sound-his-4x-campaign-song-his-color-family-home-movies/) - 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 Hyde Park, New York who were unable to fight a large crowd blocking their entrance
- [Fostercaring Dogs: An Often Ignored but Crucial Role in Saving Lives (Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/06/05/fostercaring-dogs-an-often-ignored-but-crucial-role-in-saving-lives-part-1/) - For four years now, I've marked the period around June third with some remembrance of my sixteen-year old Weimaraner named Yeager Meister, the very first Dog who permanently shared my life. On that day in 2011, I was lucky to be home and holding him on his favorite old blue lounge chair, as Nature simply
- [David Letterman to Mark Twain: 4 Degrees of Celebrity Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/05/22/david-letterman-to-mark-twain-4-degrees-of-celebrity-separation/) - Earlier this week, on May 20, David Letterman, television host, comedian, writer and producer, bid farewell to his thirty-three years of fans and hosted his very last program, The Late Show With David Letterman. The show ran on CBS since August 30, 1993, but before it Dave was on NBC, hosting The David Letterman Show,
- [Rich Celebrity First Mom: Franklin Roosevelt's Dominant Mother Sara](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/05/09/rich-celebrity-mom-franklin-roosevelts-dominant-mother-sara/) - Everyday must have seemed like Mother's Day to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Sara Delano Roosevelt wouldn't have permitted it any other way. "Am I proud of being an historic mother?!" she waspishly repeated a question rudely thrown her way by reporters. "Indeed I am!" When FDR was elected President in 1932, the national media lavished enormous publicity
- [One Tough Mother: George Washington's Miserable Mom](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/05/07/one-tough-mother-george-washingtons-miserable-mom/) - Long before Mother's Day became an official holiday, the women who gave birth to us were being held aloft upon the American pop culture pedestal, revered, beloved, honored and practically beatified. Thirteen moms in history, however, had that most rarefied swell of pride by living to see their sons grasp the golden prize of American
- [First Lady President: Hillary Clinton's Ignored First Lady Factor](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/04/12/first-lady-president-hillary-clintons-ignored-first-lady-factor/) - So much has been said about her. And yet, so much has barely been uttered. Specifically, the fact that even after four years as Secretary of State and six years as United States Senator, the most practical experience which provides Hillary Clinton with an unparalleled grasp of the nuances, conflicts and realities of what the
- [Betty Draper, Brach's Easter Candy & Sugar Daddy](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/04/05/betty-draper-brachs-easter-candy-sugar-daddy/) - Review the colorful caricatures lining the Twentieth Century Hall in the Pantheon of American Archetypes and its fairly easy to still recognize them by sight. There's the Humorless Suffragette, Gibson Girl, Flapper, Rosie the Riveter, Hippy Chick, Liberated Feminist, Boxy-Suited Boss Lady, and Multi-Tasking Yuppie. Dominating them all, however, is the strong-standing, high-heeled Mid-Century Housewife
- [White House Staff Reveal Private Life of Presidents & First Ladies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/04/09/white-house-staff-reveal-private-life-of-presidents-first-ladies/) - The new book, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by former Bloomberg News reporter Kate Brower, is making waves. The media dustup is not just over the book's personal revelations about recent Presidents and First Ladies, but for the very fact that publishing stories culled from household staff members, is an egregiously
- [Top Ten Weird Easter Candies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/04/02/top-ten-weird-easter-candies/) - Among the deliciously rich history of Easter Candy in the American Popular Culture, the Chocolate Bunny, Jellybeans and Marshmallow still reign as the standard-bearers, as defining of the Easter Basket as the basket itself. Jellybeans had been around since the Civil War, but if it took Ronald Reagan to make them part of Presidential History,
- [Terrifying Images on the Easter Bunny's Lap: He's No Santa Claus](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/04/01/terrifying-images-on-the-easter-bunnys-lap-hes-no-santa-claus/) - In the last half-century, there are few challenges which the ingenuity of mankind has not yet met. We're still waiting on the Jetpack, so we can fly in the sky to avoid traffic on the ground. What about a home desalination jug, like the ones from Britta, to turn all that salty ocean liquid around
- [The Father of the Jellybean's 1912 Black Peep Scandal: A Bittersweet Gem from the Archives](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/03/27/the-father-of-the-jellybeans-1912-black-peep-scandal-a-bittersweet-gem-from-the-archives/) - They are ubiquitous at this time of year, produced at a rate of over five and half million a day, a billion and a half being consumed, selling at a rate of 57 times more than an iPhone. Yes, the sugary, puffy, sweet little Peep is an almighty force of Eastertime. And they are expanding
- [The Black Peep Scandal: An Easter Candy Mystery & The Father of the Jellybean](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/30/secret-black-sheep-peep-easter-candy-mystery-scandal-father-of-the-jellybean/) - Fruitcake at Christmas, hot dogs on July Fourth, beer for St. Patrick's, turkey on Thanksgiving. And, the quintessential American food favorite for Easter? Surpassing the hard-boiled matter once those decorated eggs are cracked, not to mention asparagus, jellybeans, lamb or ham, and selling at an annual rate of over 5 million is the beloved, almighty and ubiquitous
- [Being There: Bill & Hillary Clinton's Millennium New Year's Eve Party](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/12/31/being-there-bill-hillary-clintons-millennium-new-years-eve-party/) - The Madisons went to bed early. The Nixons watched the annual T.V. special hosted by band leader Guy Lombardo. The LBJs had friends blowing plastic horns at their ranch. The Eisenhowers hosted a spiffy champagne party in their Augusta cottage. The Reagans always went to Palm Springs. To spend New Year's Eve with Bill and
- [First Family Photos on The Truman Balcony & the Myth Behind It](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/22/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 isn't the kitchen's phenomenal fruit pies. It isn't the cabins at Camp David. And it
- [Remembering Ellen McDougall, A Friend Indeed](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/02/13/remembering-ellen-mcdougall-a-friend-indeed/) - She didn't need to wait for the movie. She didn't even need to first read about it in the book. Long years before the general public was to learn of the clandestine romance between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his distant cousin Daisy Suckley, my magnificent friend Ellen McDougall figured something was up with the
- [White House Superbowl Lunch: LBJ Chili, Reagan Guac, Obama Cobbler & More: From the Archives](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/01/30/white-house-superbowl-lunch-lbj-chili-reagan-guac-obama-cobbler-more-from-the-archives/) - "Old Dogs" and "Jackie Kennedy" are the story topics, according to this website statistics, which draw the most readers but one which rises dramatically at this time of year is a previous article with ten favorite recipes of Presidents and First Ladies for the perfect Superbowl Sunday feast. The Superbowl has been part of the
- [First Ladies, Headscarves & History: A Photo Gallery](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/01/29/first-ladies-headscarves-history-a-photo-gallery/) - Simply put, it is much ado about nothing, which makes it a lot about something else. With all the global media attention focused on the fact that Michelle Obama did not wear a traditional Muslim head scarf to the funeral of Saudi King earlier this week, the simple fact remained that, while Saudi law requires
- [Inauguration, Swinging Sixties Style: LBJ's Big Day, 1965](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2015/01/20/inauguration-swinging-sixties-style-lbjs-big-day-1965/) - It was fifty years ago today, at three minutes after noon that the incumbent U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn-in for his own full term, elected in his own right as President in the 1964 election. As Vice President, LBJ had inherited the highest office in the land when President John F. Kennedy was
- [Y2K! The Last Millennium's Last New Year's Eve: A Photo Essay](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/12/29/y2k-the-final-new-years-eve-of-the-last-millennium-a-photo-essay/) - By the calendar, it was only fifteen years ago. Yet, with all that has radically changed since then, it seems like an entirely different century. And, of course, it was. People were using Blackberries. You could still buy an iPod Classic. There were no camera phones. Sure, most people were using email - but not
- [How A New Dog Brought An Old Dog Home](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/11/19/how-a-new-dog-made-an-old-dog-come-home/) - Doggy Adultery. That’s the only way of describing the odd pangs I first felt exactly a year ago today. Startling excitement. That’s what it felt like to have my fate cross that of Hudson, a rescue Dog who, despite having endured a previously horrific chapter, persisted in exuding irrepressible exuberance. I’d only intended to foster-care
- ["A Nation without Cranberry Sauce!" The Red Relish Panic of Thanksgiving 1959](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/11/25/a-nation-without-cranberry-sauce-the-red-relish-panic-of-thanksgiving-1959/) - It was a red the likes of which truly flipped out Americans for the last Thanksgiving of the decade. Just beneath the giddy Fabulous Fifties decade of I Love Lucy, hula hoops, bigger, better Caddies, Elvis and rock & roll was an intensely anxious fear that the most sacred American value, the freedom to eat
- [Sex Lives of the Pilgrims: Girls Gone Wild, Gay Guys, An Orgy, Incest & Goodwives Chasing Native Men](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/23/pilgrim-sex-girls-gone-wild-pregnant-brides-gay-guys-a-naughty-native-an-orgy/) - "Puritanism," said legendary wit H. L. Mencken, "is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." Clearly, Mencken never pawed through the court record of Plymouth Colony's first generations of Pilgrims. In them, one finds eye-popping details of every imaginable sexual encounter. It's enough to leave the most heathen of sinners gulping. Ultimately, it
- [Crazy Pilgrim Sex, Colonist & Natives, Straight & Gay, Incest & Orgies: An Archives Article](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/11/23/crazy-pilgrim-sex-colonist-natives-straight-gay-incest-orgies-an-archives-article/) - Discretion advised, forget that old notion of prissy Priscilla. Even the early 17th century Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation, the ones who gave us Thanksgiving sometimes couldn't help themselves. As old court records from the Massachusetts Bay Colony of that era prove, to be Puritan was not necessarily puritanical. Here's the full monty of a peculiarly
- [Mamie, Jackie, Lady Bird & Pat: Thanksgiving & Four First Ladies of the Mid-Century](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/11/22/mamie-jackie-lady-bird-pat-thanksgiving-four-first-ladies-of-the-mid-century/) - From Thursday, November 20 until Sunday November 23, 2014, the National First Ladies Library Blog is running a four-part series pegged to the upcoming holiday, "Thanksgiving and Mid-Century Modern First Ladies." Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon presided over that boom era when everything from packaged ingredients to advertising recipes, two
- [Mamie & Mame, The Rosalind Russell - Mamie Eisenhower Friendship](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/15/hollywood-meets-washington-mamie-meets-mame-the-rosalind-russell-mamie-eisenhower-friendship/) - One was First Lady of the Fifties known for her pink carnations and sassy asides named Mamie, the other a compassionate, wisecracking actress whose most famous role was named Mame. It’s hardly a wonder that Mamie Eisenhower and Rosalind Russell were friends. They first met when Russell and her husband Freddie Brisson, a World War
- [Humans Have Killed off Half the World’s Animals since 1970](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/10/04/humans-have-killed-off-half-the-worlds-animals-since-1970/) - This article was written by Christopher Ingraham, and appeared on September 30, 2014 in the Washington Post. Christopher Ingraham is a data journalist focusing primarily on issues of politics, policy and economics. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center. This is only the third time in nearly four years that
- [Joan Rivers to Etiquette's Amy Vanderbilt: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/09/07/joan-rivers-to-etiquettes-amy-vanderbilt-celebrity-degrees-of-separation/) - Amy Vanderbilt to Edwin Newman to Gene Simmons to Totie Fields to Eydie Gorme to Tony Bennett to Keith Richards to Chuck Barry to Joan Rivers One made a living helping others by laughing, with a brand of comedy noted for its coarse vulgarity; the other made a living helping others to behave with manners
- [First Ladies Live Longer: Top-Secret White House Fountain of Youth?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/07/09/first-ladies-live-longer-top-secret-white-house-fountain-of-youth/) - A quarter of a century has passed since Nancy Reagan was First Lady of the United States. Last week, she achieved another notable benchmark. Born in the working-class neighborhood of Flushing, Queens on July 5, 1921 to eventually live in the White House, Mrs. Reagan reached the age of 93. In three months time, she
- [The Dad Who Inspired Father's Day & Maybe the Pop-Up Card: From the Archives](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/06/14/the-dad-who-inspired-fathers-day-maybe-the-pop-up-card-from-the-archives/) - No greeting card historian has yet found the missing link to prove it, but some believe the claim that the "Pop" of Father's Day inspired the first true Pop-up cards, ignoring that some rudimentary form of it first appeared in Victorian Valentine's Day cards. One thing is for sure, however. It was one grown-up little
- [A Daughter's Fight for Father's Day & Why It Made Men Grumble](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/16/the-daughter-behind-fathers-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 Day in 1909, while listening to the Reverend Dr. Henry Rasmussen at Central United Methodist
- [What Happened to a Little Boy Who Defied the President?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/24/the-president-who-ignored-another-presidents-advice-dont-take-this-job/) - In the course of his often stressful, unpredictable days, President Obama welcomes the chance to meet many young children, who come with questions and blunt remarks known to amuse and delight him, to which he usually responds with some optimistic advice. But Presidents never know how the kids will take that advice – or who
- [Rats in the White House: Pestering Tales of Barbara Bush in the Pool & Others](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/06/01/rats-in-the-white-house-pestering-tales-of-barbara-bush-in-the-pool-others/) - As First Lady, Caroline Harrison was perhaps the first genuine Domestic Goddess of the White House. Her grey hair and round figure belied her sharp wit, interest in history, progressive ideas on health and women's equality, and activist personality. It wasn't merely the lack of living space provided for the presidential family (in the case
- [Memorial Day: Still a War Between the States](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/05/22/memorial-day-still-a-war-between-the-states/) - It was the expression those in the southern states called the Civil War, but a "War Between the States" still rages on about where the national holiday which resulted from that bloody conflict first started. In fact, just like the dispute over who deserves credit for that other anticipated three-day weekend, Labor Day, which marks
- [The Disabled First Lady with the Napkin-Covered Face Myth](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/04/disability-in-the-white-house-the-napkin-covered-face-myth/) - Only after he had died while he was President did the general public finally learn what most of the White House press corps knew, but had tacitly agreed not to disclose: while leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt was confined to a wheelchair. Having been struck by
- [Which State Started Memorial Day? An Archives Article](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/05/23/which-state-started-memorial-day-an-archives-article/) - Granted, for most Americans the three-day Mem0rial Day Weekend marks the beginning of yet another halcyon season of summertime, the chance to clean off and fire up the grill for the first time this year or hit the beach if only to sit and anticipate the ocean being warm enough to swim in. Of
- [First Ladies & Their Mothers](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/05/11/first-ladies-their-mothers/) - There was a time when the best a mother might hope for in terms of her daughter rising to the heights of political power was to be married to the President of the United States. There is no known image of the first American woman who had the experience of witnessing this happening, Juliana Gardiner
- [The Kooky Dame Who Started Mother's Day - Then Tried to Destroy It: From the Archives](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/05/08/the-kooky-dame-who-started-mothers-day-then-tried-to-destroy-it-from-the-archives/) - In recent months, a number of personal and professional obligations has limited the time necessary to generate the amount of new articles which have typically appeared on carlanthonyonline.com. In reviewing the several hundred original-content articles which are rather deeply buried in the archives here, however, a number of "evergreens" are apparent. From time to time,
- [In Bed with Jackie Kennedy & Other First Ladies: Some of Their Boudoirs](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/04/28/in-bed-with-jackie-kennedy-other-first-ladies-some-of-their-boudoirs/) - As the gallery of images in the previous article showing the beds and bedrooms of the U.S. Presidents suggests, they usually had a lot of room to share it. Most did so with their wives. Still, there was nothing to suggest friction when a First Lady maintained her own, separate bedroom. In the days of
- [Empire State Violet Pie: A Victorian New York Florality](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/04/20/empire-state-violet-pie-a-victorian-new-york-florality/) - Some people swear it tastes like soap and even its aficionados must admit that violet is an acquired taste. You can see it, as a color and you can pick it, as a flower - but taste violet? For nearly a century, New Yorkers and then the entire world came to taste (and sometimes choke
- [First Ladies Not Big on Bunnies: White House Easter Egg Roll No-Shows](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/04/17/first-ladies-not-big-on-bunnies-white-house-easter-egg-roll-no-shows/) - As National Mother, every First Lady has loved children more than any demographic. So, the history books would have us believe. Certainly that seems to be the case in observing the joyful interactions with little ones among the last seven presidential spouses (Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and
- [Princess Diana's Wedding Cake....The Recipe, Finally, Per Many Requests](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/29/princess-dianas-wedding-cake-the-recipe-finally-per-many-requests/) - By request of many people who've written to me from the February posting about how the cake tastes like, well...bit reminiscent of Sara Lee's Banana Cake, sold frozen in tin pans - but pretty addictive...finally, the recipe of Diana's cake....not Sara's. Princess Diana's Wedding Cake 1 1/4 cup oil 3 eggs, beaten with mixer 1
- [First Ladies in China: Jackie Onassis Kidnapped, Pat Nixon's Coat, Lou Hoover's Pistol & Other Tales](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/22/first-ladies-in-china-jackie-onassis-kidnapped-pat-nixons-coat-betty-fords-ballet-lou-hoovers-pistol-other-tales/) - On March 19, First Lady Michelle Obama became the fifteenth American First Lady who journeyed to China, six of whom went as incumbent First Ladies. She will be there until March 26. In telling the stories of her fourteen predecessors who have done so since 1879, the evolution of China itself from dynastic rule to
- [Presidents, the Irish & the Clinton St. Patrick's Day Parties](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/17/presidents-the-irish-the-clinton-st-patricks-day-parties/) - Even if it took a century and a half, there were hopes to make the White House green from the start. Just two years after George Washington took his oath of office as the nation's first chief executive, there was an effort to at least make the President something of an honorary Irishman, for he
- [Changing a Dog's Name: How Caesar Became Hudson](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/16/changing-a-dogs-name-how-caesar-became-hudson/) - Perhaps I've a Northeastern tone when I say "scee" that didn't quite correctly register with his Californian ear. Once he was ensconced in his new home, where he could clearly hear me without the exciting cacophony of his fellow Weimaraners the the Friends for Pets rescue shelter, however, he did not seem easy about being
- [A Movie Star First Lady: Nancy Reagan's Hollywood Acting Career](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/02/a-first-lady-who-first-was-a-movie-star/) - You might have caught Michelle Obama on Youtube during one of her television appearances with Jimmy Fallon or Ellen DeGeneres. Or maybe you caught the web episode of the kids show iCarly when she made a guest appearance. Perhaps you vaguely recall that Betty Ford once made a cameo appearance on the popular Mary Tyler
- [Jackie's Husband & the Onassis Mistress: JFK & Callas (& Marilyn Monroe) Get Together](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/14/jackies-husband-the-onassis-mistress-when-john-f-kennedy-and-maria-callas-got-together/) - In 1962, President John F. Kennedy, born on May 29, had his birthday turned into a massive Hollywood meets Washington convergence at a May 19 fundraiser held in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event proved highly successful, paying off the lingering $4 million debt of Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign with Lyndon B. Johnson as
- [The Little Rascals & George Washington: A Small Lift in the Great Depression](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/02/21/the-little-rascals-george-washington-a-small-lift-in-the-great-depression/) - There they were, big names among Little Rascals: Wheezer, Stymie and Spanky, along with lesser known Sherwood, (third from left), Kendall and Dorothy (second and third from right), clothes pressed and antics still long enough to gaze with well-behaved awe at Number One Himself, George Washington for his Birthday Bicentennial, February 22, 1932. Although,
- [Adams Snubs Washington's Birthday & His Snarky Top 10 List on GW](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/02/17/adams-snubs-washingtons-birthday-his-snarky-top-10-list-on-gw/) - The second President liked the first President well enough, but he wasn't all gaga about having The Great One's birthday celebrated with dance parties, fireworks and parades. In fact, if any one President would surely take fiendish pleasure in knowing that this three-day holiday weekend has morphed since the 1970s into what is now known
- [Inside Reagan's 1950s General Electric "Home of the Future"](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/02/05/inside-reagans-1950s-general-electric-home-of-the-future/) - Despite the fact that he'd served two full terms as governor of California, the nation's most populous and prosperous state, when Ronald Reagan was running for President in 1980 he was most frequently dismissed by the perception that he was nothing more than a 1950s actor. It may not, however, have merely been a
- [Joe Namath: The Happy Hipster who Made the Superbowl Happen](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/02/02/joe-namath-the-happy-hipster-who-made-the-superbowl-happen/) - There he was, today, once again making the football field he stood on the the center of the world's attention. In case twenty-first century eyes didn't recognize the seventy-year old man who tossed the coin kicking off today's Superbowl game, however, he offered some immediate visual cues. Once again, he was wearing a big
- [JFK, Joan Crawford & Why She was in Dallas When He was Shot](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/28/jfk-joan-crawford-why-she-was-in-dallas-when-he-was-shot/) - There's been some peculiar pairs among Presidents and Movie Stars: Harry Truman and Tallulah Bankhead, George Bush and George Clooney, Richard Nixon and Jackie Gleason, Calvin Coolidge and Tom Mix John F. Kennedy and Movie Star Joan Crawford, however, might have been the oddest coupling of a President and a Movie Star, not the least
- [Justin Bieber to Thomas Edison: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/24/justin-bieber-to-thomas-edison-eight-celebrity-degrees-of-separation/) - Justin Bieber to John Waters to William Burroughs to David Bowie to Liz Taylor to Joan Crawford to John F. Kennedy to Grace Coolidge to Thomas Edison On January 23, 2014, teenage pop music sensation Justin Bieber was arrested for driving drunk and resisting arrest in Miami, Florida. On December 3, 2010 the teenage pop
- [Elusive Cats of the JFK, Ford & Carter Daughters (Cats in the White House, Part 7)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/23/elusive-cats-of-the-jfk-ford-carter-daughters-cats-in-the-white-house-part-7-2/) - The Jazz Age Coolidge cats' meows were a distant echo in the White House by the time the John F. Kennedy family moved there in 1961. In the interim there was plenty a First Dog but nary a First Feline. In Hoover's single term alone there were nine White House dogs. Roosevelt's long dozen years
- [The Cool Cats of Coolidge (Cats in the White House, Part 6)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/22/the-cool-cats-of-coolidge-cats-in-the-white-house-part-6/) - This article resumes the series begun last autumn on Cats in the White House, previous installments covering the Fillmore, Lincoln, Hayes and Theodore Roosevelt Administrations. Coolidge liked cats. But you'd never know it from popular history. It's the startling vision of two snowy collies or the cautiously comical one of a raccoon that come to
- [Princess Diana's Wedding Cake: A 70s Tin-Pan Favorite](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/02/12/princess-dianas-wedding-cake-a-midwestern-american-70s-favorite/) - While in Michigan, I also got to taste what was allegedly the most requested confection of the 80s, a royal sweet. As is so often true with Americans, there is a mild obsession with the British Royal Family, and Princess Diana really took the cake, no pun intended. There’s currently an exhibit on her in
- [Michelle Obama: Methodical & Accessible (Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/15/michelle-obama-methodical-accessible-part-1/) - It's become something of an impossible problem, but it's hardly the first time for a First Lady. Unveil your ambitious plan to get your husband's new Administration to initiate the most sweeping national mental health care reform legislation in over two decades to a seemingly interested national press corps. The next day, however, media
- [The Teddy Cats: Slippers & Quartz Roosevelt, (Cats in the White House, Part 5)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/29/the-teddy-cats-slippers-quartz-roosevelt-part-3/) - 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. Along with five guinea pigs. one lizard, one badger, two snakes, one pony, one parrot,
- [The Never-Was McKinley Kittens: Neither Killed Cats (Cats in the White House, Part 4)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/23/the-never-was-mckinley-kittens-part-4/) - Presidents and First Ladies are often uncredited for many things which they do. And there are those who are blamed for many things they never did. Like the legend that Dolley Madison started the annual tradition of the Easter Egg Roll persisting, despite the fact that no documentation of any kind exists to even suggest
- [The Foreign Feline of President Hayes: First Siamese Cat in the U.S. (Cats in the White House, Part 3)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/09/the-foreign-feline-of-president-hayes-first-siamese-cat-in-the-u-s/) - The cat who lived in the White House as part of the family of President Rutherford Hayes and his wife Lucy is particularly significant on two accounts. First, the relatively brief life and times of the cat were well-chronicled during its incumbency as "First Cat." Secondly, it was the first Siamese cat to live in
- [Kitten-Loving Lincoln & His White House Cat Team (Cats in the White House, Part 2)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/07/kitten-loving-lincoln-his-white-house-cat-team-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 Lincoln looked ahead to his life as President in the White House and believed it
- [Millard Fillmore, the First Cat President? (Cats in the White House, Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/24/millard-fillmore-the-first-cat-president-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 House when Millard Fillmore was President. Did he bring them from his home in Buffalo?
- [A Cleveland Dog Resists Rescue for Two Years](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/12/a-cleveland-dog-resists-rescue-for-two-years/) - This article was written by Donna J. Miller, reporter of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and first appeared on www.cleveland.com on January 9, 2014, with accompanying photograps by Angeline Dzadony. An abandoned black dog held a lonely vigil for two years in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood, until she received a Christmas present from the 66-year-old woman
- [Michelle Obama's 50th Birthday: When First Families Party at the White House](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/01/01/michelle-obamas-50th-birthday-when-first-families-party-at-the-white-house/) - The Chicago Tribune reports that two weeks from this coming Saturday, the White House will be the scene of a birthday party for First Lady Michelle Obama, who will turn 50 years old the day before, having been born on January 17, 1964. Invitations were sent out by email from the White House to
- [Once Banned in Boston: Mince No Pie in the Old Bay State](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/29/once-banned-in-boston-mince-no-pie-in-the-old-bay-state/) - Cakes may rise and fall on matters as minor as baking powder but for some pies it is a matter of politics. Christmas Day is over but in earlier times, it was simply a highpoint of the long winter days and nights of celebration marked by the "twelve days of Christmas," and the American colonial
- [John Eisenhower's Death Makes Caroline Kennedy "Dean" of First Kids](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/27/john-eisenhowers-death-makes-caroline-kennedy-dean-of-first-kids/) - Five days before Christmas Day, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, the second and only surviving son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower died at his Maryland home. He was ninety-one years old. John Eisenhower was one of the last First Kids who was able to live a relatively anonymous life
- [Old Hollywood Movie Stars & their Holiday Greeting Cards](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/21/old-hollywood-movie-stars-their-holiday-greeting-cards/) - Romantic, ridiculous, egotistical, modest, perplexing, mundane, creative, funny. Like the Christmas cards once sent by Grandma and Grandpa, all those cousins, the neighbor and the business downtown, the Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year messages once sent by the most legendary names among Hollywood Movie Stars as their annual card of
- [A Dog Up For Fun: Fostercare Weimaraner #2: Weimy](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/01/dog-wants-fun-fostercare-weimaraner-2-weimy/) - In a one-year memorial marking the loss of my dog companion Yeager, all articles running from June 1 through June 3 will reflect that subject, including the last two of three dogs I recently foster-cared from the same rescue shelter where I met Yeager. The first such article in the series on foster-care dogs, "A
- [A Dog hurt by Neglect: Fostercare Weimaraner #3, Beamer](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/02/a-dog-hurt-by-neglect-weimaraner-fostercare-3-beamer/) - Sometimes, the problem isn’t just a matter of not enough love in the beginning, its too much love a little later on. Born in December 2005, he was called "Christmas Beamer." Save for the fact that he given up at the time of his sixth birthday, six months ago, with his lifelong companion, a yellow lab, little
- [The Agoraphobic Dog: Fostercare Weimaraner #4, Baron The Dichotomus](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/25/the-agoraphobic-dog-fostercare-weimaraner-4-baron-the-dichotomus/) - I've recently finished the fourth period of time for the fourth "unadoptable" Weimaraners I've had the privilege to fostercare from Friends for Pets, southern California's Weimaraner rescue and no-kill shelter. The first three were Paddington, Weimy and Beamer. This fellow is Baron, the dichotomous agoraphobic Weim. Inside the house, he's sweet, gentle, and seems to nearly be humming with blissful
- [Willfully Exuberant Dog: Fostercare Weimaraner #5, Ceasar](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/04/willfully-exuberant-fostercare-weimaraner-5-ceasar/) - We'd met twice before he became the next Weimaraner I would fostercare. In fact, he literally called me out, skillfully capturing my attention without resorting to the predictable old dog "bark." Instead, the fellow known as Caesar emitted a steady singsong of soft but persistent yelps, a peculiar enough sound to cut through the decibel
- [Yes, There was Turkey at the First Thanksgiving](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/28/yes-there-was-turkey-at-the-first-thanksgiving/) - Fiddling is fine for that old standard Turkey in the Straw, but not for that standard old turkey on Thanksgiving. Maybe a need to grab attention is what drives the effort to say what's always been fact is actually myth, or likely untrue. Or, at least cannot be proven. Yes, of course it is quite
- [Sooner Pecan Pie of Oklahoma! It's Official](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/26/sooner-pecan-pie-of-oklahoma-its-official/) - Georgians are affronted but politely just appear startled, having historically harvested the largest annual crop of pecans. The nut is the second leading crop of New Mexico, but as the runaway leading state for chili peppers, it hums along. Texans kick up the dust something good, however, having claimed the pecan tree as the official
- [Jackie Kennedy's Speech the Night Before JFK's Murder](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/17/jackie-kennedys-speech-the-night-before-jfks-murder/) - It really started with constituent mail. She was the new wife of a new United States Senator who represented the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with a constituency at the time of many first-generation immigrants. And she could speak and write well in French, Spanish, and Italian, and even could manage some German and Polish. So initially
- [Best Jock Prez: Jerry Ford, A Sportsman for Every Season](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/10/best-jock-prez-jerry-ford-a-sportsman-for-every-season/) - 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 was a student at Grand Rapids South High School in Michigan, as both the star
- [The White House in San Francisco](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/07/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 of August 2, 1923. Even fewer, however, might know about the fact that from Sunday,
- [The Remnants of McKinley's Canton, Ohio: Photo Gallery](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/03/the-remnants-of-mckinleys-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 of its golden age. After several years of researching and writing the new biography of
- [The "Lost Girls" Ghosts of a President & First Lady Who Affected Presidential Policy](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/11/01/the-white-house-lost-girls-ghosts-their-presidential-policy-influence/) - 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 of small shrines consisting of objects associated with the lost relative and candles kept lit
- [Barbara Bush Working the Pool Hall & Shooting Hoops](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/16/barbara-bush-working-the-pool-hall-shooting-hoops/) - It was supposed to be the familiar sort of First Lady event, a polite "drop-by" at a San Antonio, Texas Boys and Girls Club, but Barbara Bush had a knack for spiking the photo-op and sending the photographers into glee. So, on February 26, 1992, during the presidential primary season when her husband was seeking
- [Honoring the First Lady of the World in Cartoons](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/13/honoring-the-first-lady-of-the-world-in-cartoons/) - There are some individuals who, no matter how long they are gone, are worth remembering. Over half a century has passed since she died, but the vision and the work of Eleanor Roosevelt still reverberates. Coming to the White House in the depths of the Depression of 1933, she openly discussed both traditional and non-traditional
- [New Study Proves Emotional Intelligence of Dogs, Makes Case for Rights](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/10/new-study-proves-emotional-intelligence-of-dogs-makes-case-for-rights/) - In nearly three years of publishing this website, this is the first article I believe to be of such importance and with so compelling a message, that I am reproducing it here in full. It appeared in the New York Times five days ago. It is written by Gregory Berns. It is, perhaps predictably for
- [Miley Cyrus to Mahatma Gandhi: Eight Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/10/05/miley-cyrus-to-mahatma-gandhi-eight-celebrity-degrees-of-separation/) - Miley Cyrus to Kobe Bryant to Bill Clinton to Henry Kissinger to Andy Warhol to Gloria Swanson to Charlie Chaplin to Mahatma GandhiOne of them offered the world advice to, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."The other popularized a dance move defined by the Oxford
- [The President Who Loved to Beam: "Smiling Cal" Coolidge](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/30/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 of another President of the United States. In truth, however, the sharp-tongued Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
- [Peace of Green: Woodstock, New York](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/15/peace-of-green-woodstock-new-york/) - Most people hold in their mind the particulars of certain places where they've experienced that intuitive sense of not merely of belonging there but feeling entirely integrated into the environment about it. Its those places where one has a sense of being part of and being at home with not merely the natural landscape but
- [Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: LBJ (Part 5)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/13/five-presidents-who-went-to-war-killed-themselves-for-it-part-5/) - Lyndon B. Johnson and The Vietnam WarIt 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 an effort to help fight the encroachment of communists from the north of Vietnam.It was under
- [Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: FDR (Part 4)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/12/five-presidents-who-went-to-war-killed-themselves-for-it-part-4/) - Franklin D. Roosevelt, World War II Even before he was permanently paralyzed by polio in 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt had been inscrutable. He was sly in manipulating those around him with an infectious charm and wily in foreseeing long-range goals and subtle in laying the track to attaining his intentions. Above all else, FDR
- [Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: Wilson (Part 3)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/12/five-presidents-who-went-to-war-killed-themselves-for-it-part-3/) - Woodrow Wilson and World War I (this separate article appeared yesterday as part of one which considered William McKinley) A childhood dominated by the strict inculcation of pre-destiny by his father, a Presbyterian minister, and the deprivation of war which hit his Virginia family during the Civil War are believed to have been the primary
- [Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: McKinley (Part 2)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/11/five-presidents-who-went-to-war-killed-themselves-in-the-process-part-2/) - This is the second part of a three-part series looking at five U.S. Presidents whose own lives were forever altered, for the worse, as a result of engaging the U.S. military in combat missions, whether it was a matter of starting a war, entering one already in progress or escalating troops in an occupation of
- [Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: Lincoln(Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/10/five-presidents-who-went-to-war-never-recovered-from-it-part-1/) - It won’t be the first time – and it's likely not to be the last. If, as the currently unfolding situation suggests, President Barack Obama determines an incursion of military action into blood-soaked embattled Syria, he will join a long list of his predecessors that used military might in one form or another, attempting to
- [Bess Truman Rocks The Back Porch & Her Only Recorded Interview](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/04/bess-truman-rocks-the-back-home-porch-her-only-recorded-interview/) - Labor Day may have ended the ceremonial end of summer but its not official until September 21 and in certain parts of the country, the ninth month can be more beastly muggy than the eighth one. Few places seem more unbearably steamy than Washington, D.C., sometimes well into October. It's no wonder how back in
- [The Scruffy Dudes Who Got Wyoming Women the First Vote & Got Forgot](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/09/01/the-scruffy-dudes-who-got-wyoming-women-the-first-vote-got-forgot/) - It isn't a federal holiday and probably never will be declared one, considering how close it it to Labor Day, Still, every year, starting in the middle of August until the month's end, from Macomb, Illinois to Redmond, Washington to Charlotte, North Carolina, to Palm Beach, Florida, to Hollywood, California to Fort Rucker, Alabama, there
- [Smokey: A Dog I Knew but Never Met](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/08/25/smokey-a-dog-i-knew-but-never-met/) - From the moment I saw his generous grin and chestnut coat, I knew I’d like him. We had not yet met. And we never would. His name was Smokey, and I first came to know about him through his human companion Beth. I only came to know who Beth really is as a person through
- [When Three Presidents Ran Against Each Other But Whiskey Won the Election: The 1912 Campaign Songs of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/08/24/when-three-presidents-ran-against-each-other-a-whiskey-jingle-won-the-election/) - Historically, running for President against a President is always an uphill battle. Especially for someone unwary of Washington's wily ways. First of all, they know what they're talking about after four years of working on the job and trying to keep happy the perpetually arguing family that is our good nation of people. Secondly, they're
- [Obama's Regional Identity Conflict: A Matter of Presidential Legacy](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/08/05/obamas-regional-identity-conflict-a-matter-of-presidential-legacy/) - Perhaps President Obama's 52nd birthday yesterday may help prompt resolution of a conflict which hangs heavier with each passing day of his presidency's remaining three and a half years. His decision will forever frame his legacy, yet is ultimately a personal choice based on that most private sense of self, a core element of identity. It's
- [Weiner's Sexting, Media Manipulation & The Cost to Us](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/25/weiners-sexting-media-manipulation-the-cost-to-us/) - It's so trite nobody cares who ultimately profits and suffers. The male candidate commits some form of marital infidelity. The complicit female counterpart is aggrieved yet profits. The media ensures that obsessive coverage of the story obliterates boring analysis of the candidate's platform, drive up its readership, reassure its advertisers and proves its power by forcing
- [What Helen Thomas Really Thought of First Ladies she Covered](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/21/what-helen-thomas-really-thought-of-first-ladies-she-covered/) - For nearly an entire half a century, United Press International reporter Helen Thomas, who died yesterday at age 92, covered the White House. To those outside of the Washington political and social scene she was best known as the "dean' of the White House press corps, often being called on to ask the first question
- [The Dogs We Meet: Follow Their Lead](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/18/the-dogs-we-meet-follow-their-lead-2/) - [This article's first posting had a bad link. This repost will work.] You see them everywhere, day and evening, high-stepping amid urban decay, trotting through trim suburbs, meandering in the country. They may be in a store where clerks don't mind looking the other way, behind lawn fences low enough to catch their eyes, or tapping
- [Peace of Green: Fredericksburg, Virginia](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/11/peace-of-green-virginia/) - Among the greatest of all the many lessons I learned from My Very Old Dog came during our early evening walks. As he aged to a point of fragility, I had to focus all my attention on watching him, in case he stumbled or needed some help. I stopped taking along my Android. After about
- [Uncle Sam: Not the Man They Say He Is (Part 1)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/07/02/uncle-sam-not-the-man-they-say-he-is-part-1/) - Uncle Sam is a real man named Samuel Wilson, born from two brothers both named John. He was around before there was even a United States and only later became a sexist who overpowered an idealistic young woman who had always loyally followed his lead. He didn't always wear red, white and blue or a tall hat
- [First First Lady on the Radio: Lou Hoover & the Great Depression](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/28/first-first-lady-on-the-radio-lou-hoover-the-great-depression/) - With the advent of radio at the beginning of the Roaring Twenties and the introduction of sound to feature films and newsreels, Americans could finally hear what the famous people whose faces they knew really sounded like. The voice of Presidents and First Ladies, being national celebrities, evoked a great degree of public curiosity. Grover Cleveland's voice
- [US Pop Culture in A Globe? The 2020 LA World's Fair & a Peek at Expo 67's American Pavilion](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/24/us-pop-culture-in-a-globe-the-2020-la-worlds-fair-a-peek-at-expo-67s-american-pavilion/) - It's been a long time, but the first big American World's Fair is being planned for Los Angeles in the year 2020. What will one find in the U.S. Pavilion of the Future? A look back at one of the Pop Culture high points of World's Fairs, the one which took place in 1967 in
- [Super-70s Nixon Bowls to the Partridge Family on Super-8!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/20/super-70s-nixon-bowls-to-the-partridge-family-on-super-8/) - One need not have lived the Seventies to love them. It was a hideous period but it had a certain dash. Contrary to popular misconception, the tension which rippled American society and helped define the vibe of the 1970s did not stem from continuing conflict over the Vietnam War. The US had ended it military
- [Speculating on Presidential Sexuality & the first Lesbian First Lady](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/12/speculating-on-presidential-sexuality-the-first-lesbian-first-lady/) - As early as 1802, when journalist James Callendar first published snide suggestions that President Thomas Jefferson was conducting something of a romance and sexual relationship with African-American Sally Hemings, who was enslaved by him, there has been no hesitation by the media speculating about the sexuality of Presidents, First Ladies and their family members. Published
- [Frank's First Ladies: Sinatra & Jackie, Nancy, & Eleanor](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/07/franks-first-ladies-sinatra-jackie-nancy-eleanor/) - He started as an avid Democrat and ended as an active supporter of Republicans and through those ensuing decades the legendary entertainer Frank Sinatra befriended three very different women who happened to be married to Presidents. The most recent of the trio was Nancy Reagan. And while some thought their friendship was often flirtatious, the
- [Media Alert: Carl Anthony on C-Span First Ladies Series, Monday June 10, Ida McKinley](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/05/media-alert-carl-anthony-on-c-span-first-ladies-series-monday-june-10-ida-mckinley/) - On Monday, June 10, two days after her birthday (and a few days before his own) Ida McKinley's new biographer, author of this website, will appear on the C-Span First Ladies series, the second such one, following discussion of Lucretia Garfield, Ellen Arthur and Molly McElroy on May 20. The new book, Ida McKinley: Turn-of-the-Century
- [Remembering a Dog Who Helped Me Forget: Yeager the Weimaraner](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/06/03/following-a-dogs-broken-paw-to-forgive-forget-commit-yeager-the-weimaraner/) - June 3, is what I only half-jokingly call Yeager Memorial Day. Two years ago today, my great canine companion, 90-pound 16-year old Yeager the Weimaraner died. Despite the fact that the absence of his large presence still lingers as a factor in my life, the almost magical details of our final farewell never fails to
- [Sweet, Cool Taste of Arkansas Summer: Watermelon Pie](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/05/30/sweet-cool-taste-of-arkansas-summer-watermelon-pie/) - As a certain late 20th century U.S. President used to brag, no state grows them bigger, sweeter and juicier than does Arkansas. If fact, among the towns and cities of this northern Southern state (or is it southern Midwestern, or eastern Western?) no place is more famous for its delicious, cooling succulent watermelons than Hope,
- [In Memory of Old-School Memorial Day: Photo Essay](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/05/30/in-memory-of-old-school-memorial-day-photo-essay/) - As reported in the previous post, for the first century of Memorial Day, from 1868 to 1971, the holiday was always marked on the originally-designated day of May 30. Today being May 30, there's a valid opportunity to briefly remember that previous custom but show some images of the holiday on the more recently-designated one
- [First First Lady in Newsreels: Florence Harding's Jazzy Moves & Love of Hollywood](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/05/20/first-first-lady-in-newsreels-florence-hardings-jazzy-moves-love-of-hollywood/) - She knew she was never considered a beauty and she balked at having to pose for news photographers during her husband's 1920 presidential campaign, but when someone threatened to use a picture of her biking from the 1890s, she grinned for the cameras. She declared to the newsreel cameramen who set up their tripods to
- [Media Alert: Carl Anthony on C-Span First Ladies Show, Monday, May 20](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/05/18/media-alert-carl-anthony-on-c-span-first-ladies-show-monday-may-20/) - As part of the extraordinarily weekly "First Ladies Show" series, I will be appearing as the guest on C-Span's episode this coming Monday evening, May 20. The two Administrations and three women who will be covered are: *Lucretia "Crete" Garfield, wife of the 20th President James Abram Garfield *Ellen "Nell" Arthur, wife of the 21st
- [Michelle Obama's Chicago Speech in Historic Context](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/04/12/michelle-obamas-chicago-speech-in-historic-context/) - Michelle Obama's greatly-anticipated Chicago speech Wednesday, addressing the issue of gun violence in the city where she was born, raised and returned to after law school was a significant moment n her tenure as First Lady for several reasons. Foremost, beyond what it means for Mrs. Obama, the Administration or First Lady history is the
- [Happy Easter: Sponsored by Nature, in Blue & Purple](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/31/happy-easter-sponsored-by-nature-in-blue-purple/) - No matter how enjoyable the process of storytelling, not even pecking out patterns of words while chained indoors to a little electrified box of plastic and metal can trump the pleasurable sights discovered while strolling the streets of San Francisco on Easter Morning, led by my guide, Frisco's own wise and witty Whitmore the Whippet. I
- [First Photographed First Lady: A Girl Elopes with the President & Brands Her Image](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/27/first-photographed-first-lady-a-girl-elopes-with-the-president-brands-her-image/) - First Lady Michelle Obama has taken to Twitter to keep herself before the American public, updating them on her activities. Jackie Kennedy went on television, conducting a black-and-white videotaped tour of the White House. Eleanor Roosevelt made herself a national presence with a weekly Sunday night radio show. Florence Harding did the same by becoming
- [Lindsay Lohan to Madame Curie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/21/lindsay-lohan-to-madame-curie-celebrity-degrees-of-separation-jacko-jackieo-other-linking/) - March may be designated as a period to recall Women’s History but regardless of whether people are paying attention to the fact - women have always been crucial figures in all aspects of civilization, be they famous or unknown. Or, be they actress Lindsay Lohan, increasingly known for her dramatic partying instead of her dramatic
- [The first First Lady to Doll a Magazine Cover: "Hello.....Mrs. Madison."](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/03/06/the-first-first-lady-to-doll-a-magazine-cover-hello-mrs-madison/) - Elected to an unprecedented four terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt served as President of the United States longer than any one man, even in light of the fact that he died just less than three months into his fourth term, in 1945. One might naturally then assume that his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, a legend in her
- [Another First Lady at the Oscars (& President & First Daughter)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/24/another-first-lady-at-the-oscars-president-first-daughter/) - February 24, 2013 is definitely a footnote for FLOTUS history. Tonight's surprise appearance by incumbent First Lady Michelle Obama announcing the winner of the 2013 Best Picture of the Year Academy Award by live remote from the White House was indeed a first, technically, although.... On and off for a decade, from the early 1950s
- [The Reagans Host Old Hollywood & New "Royalty" at the White House](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/24/the-reagans-host-old-hollywood-new-royalty-at-the-white-house/) - There seemed to be a time that, rather than go to Hollywood and take a tour bus through Beverly Hills hoping to glimpse one of the famous names of its Golden Era, one had a better chance of seeing them in Washington, D.C. That was when Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy were in the
- [The Untold Mary Lincoln Story Spielberg Couldn't Show & None Seem to Know](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/22/the-untold-mary-lincoln-story-spielberg-could-not-show-none-seem-to-know/) - A week after President's Day and during Black History Month, the Academy Award ceremony brings renewed focus on Best Supporting Actress-nominee Sally Field's portrayal of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in screenwriter Tony Kushner's and director Steven Spielberg's masterful feature film Lincoln. Still now, remarkably, as has been true in the century and a half
- [The Earliest First Lady's Recorded Voice: Theodore Roosevelt's wife Edith Speaks ](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/15/the-earliest-first-ladys-recorded-voice-theodore-roosevelts-wife-edith-speaks/) - So often in life when we're close to someone we know well or even closely follow the life of a public person, it is easy to assume we know how they will continue to conduct their life. And, the truth is, we never really know. The second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt (Administration 1901-1909), Edith
- [Obama's Girls, Teddy's Boys, Jackie Kennedy's Kindergarten: School Tales of White House Kids](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/02/08/obamas-girls-teddys-boys-jackie-kennedys-kindergarten-school-tales-of-white-house-kids/) - Three weeks ago, national media coverage of President Obama's upcoming Inauguration was briefly distracted when the National Rifle Association referenced the fact that his daughters are protected by Secret Service agents in its 35-second online ad opposing his plan for tougher gun-control laws. The ad opens with the provocative question, "Are the president’s kids more
- [President Grandpa: How The Lives of First Grandkids Play Out](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/31/president-grandpa-how-the-lives-of-first-grandkids-play-out/) - If his runs for and wins election to state office, 36-year old George Prescott Bush, or “P.” as he’s often nicknamed would be his family’s fourth-generation male to enter politics as a profession, a “dynasty” begun sixty-one years ago, in 1952. But his filing paperwork to pursue Texas elected office in November and his declaration
- [A First Lady Fears She Wouldn't Shut Up: Abigail "Mrs. President" Adams, January 29, 1797](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/29/a-first-lady-fears-she-wouldnt-shut-up-abigail-mrs-president-adams-january-29-1797/) - For a First Lady so famous, it’s amazing that during her husband’s one term in office that she was on the scene for less than two of his four years as President. The fact is, however, that Abigail Adams, wife of second President John Adams, spent a total of eighteen months with him in the
- [A Short History of First Lady Hair'Dos & its Big Bang Theory](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/24/a-short-history-of-first-lady-hairdos-its-big-bang-theory/) - In the one week since First Lady Michelle Obama had her hair cut and styled with bangs, this apparently momentous shift of the planetary system has generated a level of grave and serious reporting rivaling predictions on how the imminent impasse on the national budget will shake out. Who would really have ever thought that
- [Presidential Kids at the Inauguration](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/21/presidential-kids-at-the-inaugurations/) - At Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony today, as well as the private one held yesterday, his 2009 Inauguration as President and his 2005 oath as a United States Senator, it was not just his wife but his two daughters Malia and Sasha who were front and center, sharing the most public moment as a family. It
- [That Mysterious Woman at Obama's Sunday Inaugural Ceremony & Historical Context ](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/20/that-mysterious-woman-at-obamas-sunday-inaugural-ceremony-historical-context/) - In politics, you can never anticipate just who will pop into the pictures of history. Earlier today, January 20, 2013, President Barack Obama repeated the first of two oath-of-office clauses and was sworn into his second term as President. Tomorrow, January 21, 2013, he will take the second of these at the public ceremony on
- [Chaplin, Streisand, Sinatra & More: The Inaugural Gala That Was](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/18/chaplin-streisand-sinatra-nureyev-more-the-inaugural-gala-thats-gone/) - 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 Presidential Inaugural Gala and it was an even hotter ticket than one to the Inaugural
- [The Very First Inaugural Ball: Hot for Her, Not for Him](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/16/the-very-first-inaugural-ball-hot-for-her-not-for-him/) - Of all the traditional events associated with a Presidential Inauguration, the most frivolous one of the Ball is often equated with as much importance in the public imagination as the Inaugural Address, in which the new leader outlines his vision for the nation he will now guide. The first such event, held on Inauguration Day
- [Author Photography & Painting](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/12/author-photography-painting/) - The Loneliest House, Hall to Breezeway, 1984The Loneliest House, Grandpa's place, 1984The Loneliest House, Dinnertime 1984The Loneliest House, Missing Matrons, 1984The Loneliest House, Afternoon in the Breezeway, 1984The Loneliest House, Angel Babies, 1984 Hudson Blue Hour, 2006Night Dodger, watercolor on photography, 2005Intention, 2003Summer Rainwater Ceremony, New Mexico, 2000Side of center grove, 1982 Reagan
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- [Author's Contacts](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/12/authors-contacts/) - Carl Anthony had written hundreds of articles and a dozen books (see "Author's Books"), provided broadcast and other media commentary to all major broadcast stations, and participated in panel symposiums around the country. He has also delivered multi-media lectures in venues ranging from the White House, Smithsonian, Presidential Libraries, universities, private clubs, civic organizations, corporate
- [Author's Books & Media](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/12/authors-books/) - Carl Anthony has authored a dozen books, including three historical overviews and four full-length biographies. A link for purchase at Amazon is provided for each, including titles obtained through booksellers. First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power, 1789-1960, v. 1 (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 1990) First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives
- [Reagan's 1985 Big Chill Sunday Inauguration with Videos, Part 7](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/11/reagans-1985-big-chill-inauguration-with-videos-part-7/) - Unlike Eisenhower's private Sunday swearing-in ceremony in 1957, which banned television cameras and limited the recording of the event to two still black-and-white pictures, the first of Reagan's two second-term oath-taking on that day of the week was carried live in television.In fact, unlike any other previous presidential inaugurations, regardless of the day of the
- [Ike's Mid-Century Cold War Show & High Visibility Veep: The 1957 Sunday Inauguration, Part 6](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/10/a-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 the first organization of receptions and parties for special constituencies to multiple Inaugural Balls, this
- [Bomb Threats, Suffragists & Wilson's Broken Pledge: The 1917 Sunday Inauguration, Part 5](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/09/bomb-threats-suffragists-a-broken-campaign-pledge-the-1917-sunday-inauguration-part-5/) - Swear on a Sunday? No problem, if your Sunday Inauguration happens to also be your second Inauguration. Six of President Obama's predecessors also had Inauguration Days which fell on a Sunday, but only three were also being inaugurated for a second term: Wilson, Eisenhower and Reagan. Unlike the three 19th century Sunday Inaugurations, the Obama
- [The Secret Ceremony of Hayes & a First Lady Who Wouldn't Leave: The 1877 Sunday Inauguration, Part 4](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/09/murder-threats-a-secret-ceremony-the-first-lady-who-just-wouldnt-leave-the-1877-sunday-inauguraltion-part-4/) - The fact that the 1877 Inauguration fell on a Sunday was a pale factor in making it the most compelling stories of these historic occasions, compared to the drama leading up to it. By the time the calendars had fated a third American President to begin his Administration on a Sunday, officials were fully prepared
- [A Day With No President & Lincoln's Lost Coat: Zach Taylor's 1849 Sunday Inauguration, Part 3](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/07/a-day-without-a-president-a-day-with-three-presidents-ladies-gone-wild-lincolns-lost-coat-taylors-1849-sunday-inaugural-part-3/) - When Warren G. Harding was a candidate for the highest office in the land, his manager Harry Daugherty enthused that Harding might win simply because "he sure looks like a President!" Nobody ever said that about Zachary Taylor. In fact, he so didn't look like a President that when people encountered him as he made
- [Monroe's Inaudible Address & a Small Ball: The 1817 Sunday Inauguration, Part 2](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/06/monroes-inaudible-inauguration-rain-panic-a-one-day-prezzy-a-small-ball-sunday-inaugurals-part-2/) - After President Washington became so ill in his first term that many feared he might die, Congress realized it needed some sort of back-up plan beyond just a Vice President. On March 1, 1792, Congress sought to forestall an occasion when the nation’s President might die, be assassinated, impeached or resign at a time when
- [The Double Rarity of Obama's 2013 Sunday Second Inauguration, Part 1](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/01/04/the-double-rarity-of-obamas-2013-sunday-second-inauguration/) - 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 event will take place on a Sunday. The previous such occurrences were those of James
- [To All Readers: Help These Dogs, Please.](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/29/to-all-readers-help-these-dogs-please/) - For two years now, everything available on this website, be it articles that readers access for pleasure or research, images pinned on Pinterest and answered questions from even anonymous individuals has been provided without subscription. Nearly 240 magazine-length stories have appeared, an average of ten a month being published. All of them are based on
- [Christmas at the White House: First Families at Home for the Holiday, Part 4](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/10/christmas-at-the-white-house-first-families-at-home-for-the-holiday-part-4/) - This is the fourth and final article in the series Christmas at the White House. You can find the previous three at the links at the end of this article. If contemporary observers expect a “theme” each succeeding year of how Christmas and the holiday season is celebrated in the White House, the very first
- [Christmas at the White House: First Families & Holiday Charities, Part 3](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/08/christmas-at-the-white-house-first-families-holiday-charities-part-3/) - Living in the White House affords even Presidential families who neither earned nor inherited great wealth a privileged lifestyle and while many have privately and publicly supported various charitable organizations or risen to the occasion in the time of a humanitarian emergency. Even without the public expectation that they, at the least, provide the most
- [Christmas at the White House: Trees, Gingerbread Houses, Mennorahs, Celebrity Santas & Other Innovations, Part 2](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/06/christmas-at-the-white-house-trees-gingerbread-houses-mennorahs-celebrity-santas-other-innovations-part-2/) - This is the second segment in a four-part article on Christmas at the White House. To read about The Presidents Presents, Getting & Giving Gifts, go to: https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/05/christmas-at-the-white-house-the-presidents-presents-shopping-giving-getting-gifts-part-1-of-4/ Whether gathering to mark Christmas and Hanukkah as holy days or just to enjoy the Holiday Season without religious affiliation, there has long been a public interest
- [Christmas at the White House: The President's Presents, Shopping, Giving & Getting Gifts, Part 1 of 4](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/12/05/christmas-at-the-white-house-the-presidents-presents-shopping-giving-getting-gifts-part-1-of-4/) - No matter how much we may imagine them now as marbleized icons of history, even Presidents and First Ladies enjoy searching out the ideal gifts to give loved ones at the holiday season and sometime delight with an equal degree to receive them. In 1789, during his very first holiday season as President, George Washington
- [Thanks to Presidents Giving Us Turkey Day & Pictures of First Family Thanksgivings](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/11/20/thanks-to-presidents-giving-us-turkey-day-pictures-of-first-family-thanksgivings/) - It's often posited that how a President and his family live in the White House not only reflects contemporary Pop Culture but that news about otherwise mundane details of their choices can often lead the nation's people towards or away from a particular trend. In the case of Thanksgiving, the influence of Presidents was first
- [The Armistice, A Day My Grandfather Never Surrendered](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/11/12/the-armistice-a-day-my-grandfather-never-surrendered/) - Today was Veterans Day – but yesterday will always be Armistice Day. The November federal holiday honoring those who have served in the American military has been called Veterans Day far longer than the name it was first known by, Armistice Day. My grandfather, however, a veteran of World War I whose first name was
- [The Grandsons of Bobby, Jack & Jackie Kennedy: A New Political Generation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/11/07/the-grandsons-of-bobby-jack-jackie-kennedy-a-new-political-generation/) - Yesterday, the election of 32-year old Joe Kennedy to the U.S. House of Representatives marked the first of a fourth generation of the most famous political family for half a century to a position of public service. Born in October of 1980, he never knew he grandfather, Robert F. Kennedy, who died in 1968. If
- [Ten Election Day Moments of Presidential Families](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/11/06/ten-election-day-moments-of-presidential-families/) - Which Presidential candidate wins on Election Day is obviously of importance to the nation and the world, as the citizens, financial institutions, losing political party and hundreds of other institutions, organizations and individuals anticipate the winner carrying out their campaign promises and how it will change, impact or affect their own lives. And while the
- [Who Won This Election? You Might Be Surprised](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/11/06/who-won-this-election-you-might-be-surprised/) - The early results are in already. We know who's won the 2012 election as President.....with the best campaign song. After a summer and fall of endless stories about the campaign songs which won the presidency for candidates since 1896, and with the opportunity to listen and discern to all twenty of them, they were grouped into
- [Obama Rescues Campaign Tradition: Vote for President...with the Best Music](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/24/vote-here-now-for-president-with-the-best-campaign-music/) - In the eleventh hour President Barack Obama's re-election campaign for a second term seems to have unwittingly saved the grand tradition of campaign music from oblivion. At Obama rallies in Virginia, Ohio and Iowa this week and last, Bruce Springsteen initiated what is described as an "acoustic" and "off-the-cuff campaign song." Republican Presidential candidate Mitt
- [Yes He Did: Originality Returns with 2008 Obama Campaign Music](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/19/yes-he-did-originality-returns-with-2008-obama-campaign-music/) - Deals on plane tickets, finding old friends or potential spouses, webisodes, car parts, conspiracy theories, sea level updates, ancestral charts, cheap meds, Berlin Wall pieces, out-of-print books, new pictures of Neptune, way way too much information...and presidential campaign songs. And that's but a grain of sand's worth of the Internet's unfathomable content, its perpetual explosion and
- [The Twinges and Twang of George W. Bush's 2000 & 2004 Campaign Music](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/15/the-twinges-and-twang-of-george-w-bushs-2000-2004-campaign-music/) - All through the twelve years of his father's four campaigns for the highest national offices, George W. Bush was at his father's side: 1980, when he lost the presidential nomination but won as the vice-presidential candidate with Reagan, their 1984 re-election, the 1988 he won to become President and the failed 1984 re-election bid. As
- [Felix Baumgartner Left Earth Today to Free-Fall Thru the Sound Barrier...And History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/14/felix-baumgartner-left-earth-today-to-free-fall-thru-the-sound-barrier-and-history/) - Not as much of the world may, right now, be watching television as it did a half-century ago when, in 1961, U.S. astronaut John Glenn flew in the first space capsule to orbit the globe, or waiting by a radio as it did thirty-years before that, in 1927, when Charles Lindbergh flew the first trans-Atlantic
- [The Echo & Dissonance of George Bush's 1988 Campaign Music](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/13/the-echo-dissonance-of-george-bushs-1988-campaign-music/) - Although the 41st President George Bush had known and been involved in the presidential campaigns of his Republican predecessors since Dwight D. Eisenhower, his own in 1988 was singularly distinct for the echo rather than sounds of a strongly defining campaign song or musical theme. Referred to as "George H.W. Bush" or sometimes "George H. Bush" to
- [A Reagan Country Song & California Classic by ABBA: His 1980 & 1984 Campaign Music](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/11/the-reagan-country-song-a-california-classic-by-abba-his-1980-1984-campaign-theme-music/) - The presidential campaign year of 1980 marked the beginning of what might be termed "theme music" being adopted by presidential candidates, rather than the traditional campaign song.1976, the year Ronald Reagan lost his challenge to incumbent President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination was the end of a different era in presidential election music. It was
- [Nixon Then, Nixon Now, Connie Francis & His Changing Campaign Songs from 1960 to 1972](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/10/04/nixon-then-nixon-now-his-changing-tune-connie-francis-nixon-campaign-songs-1960-1968-1972/) - No question about it, Richard Nixon cut the widest swath when it came to presidential campaign songs, both in terms of on-message lyrics and musical genres. Then again, he ran for President three times over the course of a dozen years. The period of time marking his first campaign, in 1960, to his final such
- [The Engineered Beat of Herbert Hoover's 1928 Campaign Song](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/28/the-engineered-sound-of-herbert-hoovers-1928-campaign-song/) - Having won the presidency in 1920 and overcome a post-war economic depression, to then 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 who had never been elected to any previous public office, but whose name was known
- [Cool but Contemplative: Jolson Jazzes with Coolidge's 1924 Campaign Song](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/27/cool-but-contemplative-jolson-returns-with-coolidges-1924-campaign-song/) - He came back - with another song. This time, however, when the legendary screen and stage actor, Al Jolson first performed the official campaign song of a Republican presidential campaign, he didn't have to march the streets of small-town Oho and do it all from the front porch of a candidate (Warren Harding in 1920). This
- [The First President To Win With Actors: Al Jolson's 1920 Campaign Song for Harding](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/26/the-first-president-to-win-with-actors-al-jolsons-1920-campaign-song-for-harding/) - George Clooney, fundraising and providing thematic strategy for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign or Clint Eastwood speaking at the convention nominating Mitt Romney: neither story causes a blink in either Hollywood or Washington. Yet preceding even the famous efforts of Frank Sinatra for John F. Kennedy's candidacy in 1960, was the first, rudimentary one-time appearance
- [Sinatra at Jack's Back: The John F. Kennedy 1960 Campaign Song](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/24/sinatra-at-jacks-back-the-john-f-kennedy-1960-campaign-song/) - A Hoboken, New Jersey native and the son of Italian immigrants, Frank Sinatra was the Elvis, the Bieber, the Jagger, of the teenage generation during World War II. After a few years of bobbysoxer besiege, however, "Old Blue Eyes" slid before the Technicolor cameras and transformed into a film star of the Fabulous Fifties. From
- [The First President Captured on Film: McKinley's 1896 Campaign Song & Commercial](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/14/the-first-president-captured-on-film-mckinleys-1896-campaign-song-commercial/) - William McKinley is often seen as an important transitional President - at least to those interested in studying some of the real stories behind the headline version of history. It's true he didn't have the charisma or excitable speaking style of his immediate successor Theodore Roosevelt, who became President when McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
- [Bill Clinton's Song: He Never Stops Thinking 'Bout....](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/06/bill-clintons-song-he-never-stops-thinking-bout/) - Amid the din of cheering and the shift in audio from the microphone back to the voice-over of news anchors, one would have had to listen closely after former President Bill Clinton finished his speech yesterday at the Democratic National Convention but to those familiar with it - the strains were unmistakeable. "Don't stop thinking
- [Dynasty to Fantasy Island: An Eighties TV Star Galaxy at Ronald Reagan's White House](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/05/a-galaxy-of-eighties-sitcom-stars-old-hollywood-visit-the-reagan-white-house/) - Sometimes looking at just what famous faces came to meet a President can suggest the man in the White House as being one who knows what's up with the people outside the gates of what Harry Truman called, 'the great white prison. At the least, a glimpse of what celebrities (once known as "the celebrated")
- [The Road to Michelle Obama's Convention Speech: The First Ladies & Candidates' Wives Before Her](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/09/04/the-road-to-michelle-obamas-convention-speech-the-first-ladies-candidates-wives-before-her/) - Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the keynote speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, set to nominate her husband President Barack Obama for a second term. Stirring, emotional yet tacked by details of her own life and her husband's as a way of illustrating the character of the President she hoped to convey, as
- [When Ann Romney & Michelle Obama Sat Down To Talk](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/27/when-ann-romney-michelle-obama-sat-down-to-talk/) - Anti-Obama and anti-Romney voters won't like it but the truth is that Ann Romney and Michelle Obama quite naturally and spontaneously found they shared more of the same views and opinions than they didn't.At least that was the case five years ago when the 2012 presidential candidates spouses spent an hour together on stage in
- [The Last Original Campaign Song: Jerry Ford's Bicentennial Tune](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/16/the-last-original-campaign-song-jerry-fords-bicentennial-tune/) - Yesterday, it was learned that The Silversun Pickups directed its attorney to request that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stop using its song "Panic Switch," as a campaign song, for political reasons. In the last quarter of a century, this is hardly the first time that a contemporary musical performing artist or group has requested
- [My Chats with Gore Vidal on the Presidents & First Ladies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/13/my-chats-with-gore-vidal-on-the-presidents-first-ladies/) - I did not know Gore Vidal well, but I'd read some of his books, and he'd read some of mine. We met three times: once at the National Press Club in Washington, a second time at the White House, and a third time at a Hollywood party during the 2000 National Democratic Convention in Los
- [Ike, Irving, Mamie & Merman: The Hit Song Which Elected a President](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/08/02/ike-irving-mamie-merman-evolution-of-a-catchy-campaign-tune/) - 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 three of the many popular Americana songs of the 20th century penned by Irving Berlin.
- [Watching Whitmore: The 'Frisco Whippet Who Brought Me Places](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/30/watching-whitmore-the-frisco-whippet-who-brought-me-places/) - I'm sure there are many of his breed who call San Francisco home, but to the many humans who live there in a particular neighborhood, there is no mistaking them for Whitmore, the 'Frisco Whippet. I’d met him before, and even watched him for a week in March, but spending nearly a month around the
- [Ronald Reagan & Bette Davis: Politically Oppositional Co-Stars](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/26/ronald-reagan-bette-davis-oppositional-co-stars/) - Unlike Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, or Obama, chronicling an unusual pairing between any Hollywood Actor or Actress and Ronald Reagan is almost an exercise in futility, a nearly moot story since Reagan was himself a professional Hollywood Actor for over forty years by the time he became President of the United States in
- [The Caricature-Building Comments of Ann Romney & Michelle Obama in Context](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/23/the-caricature-building-comments-of-ann-romney-michelle-obama-in-context/) - Reaction to the comment made last week by Ann Romney about what she meant by using the words "you people," are much like the reaction four years ago to the one made by Michelle Obama about feeling "proud for the first time...being proud" of her country revealed less about those two political wives than it did
- [Inside the Winter White House: The 70s Nixon Florida Home](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/20/inside-the-winter-white-house-the-70s-nixon-florida-home/) - He came to Florida not just because California was too far, but because he loved it. The only President born in California, Richard Nixon had a lifelong enjoyment of warm climates and life near the ocean. In fact, despite their differences, Nixon drew as much sustenance from the sea as did his House colleague and
- [Miami Golf and UFOs? Why Jackie Gleason Campaigned for Nixon and a Shocking Allegation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/19/miami-golf-and-ufos-why-jackie-gleason-campaigned-for-nixon-and-a-shocking-allegation/) - It's absolutely certain that they shared two great passions. Miami, and golf. And, legend has it, actor and performer Jackie Gleason and President Richard Nixon had a mutual curiosity about UFO's and extra-terrestrial beings. Yet in the public imagination, they were polar opposites. Gleason could pop off into a rageful rant and let his temper
- [Washington & Monroe: No Love Lost Between the First & Last of the Virginia Dynasty](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/17/washington-monroe-no-love-lost-between-the-first-last-of-the-virginia-dynasty-2/) - Except for the one four-year term of New Englander, John Adams, the American Presidency was held by what came to be known as the "Virginia Dynasty," four Presidents who each, remarkably, were elected to two terms, or eight years each - for a total of thirty-two years. George Washington, was the first President and the
- [McKinley & Roosevelt: Teddy's Crack Behind Mack's Back, Egotism & Death](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/13/mckinley-roosevelt-teddys-crack-behind-macks-back-egotism-the-grim-reaper/) - William McKinley had seen war. It wasn't about heroics, it was about blood. So much of his identity was linked to his years serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and he maintained strong ties to all of the various veterans groups, their unqualified support for him as the Republican Presidential candidate in
- [Lime, Salt & Peggy Lee: The Texas Margarita Pie](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/06/lime-salt-peggy-lee-the-texas-margarita-pie/) - It’s a long, winding trail to the Margarita Pie of Texas, with detours along the Mexican border, intoxicating flights of imagination to Bali, even speculation into the private life of the marriage of singer Peggy Lee and her husband. Among the tall tales of Texas is how that most historic of documents, a certification that
- [Red, White & Betsy Ross: No, She Didn't! (Did She?) Plus Bizarre Betsyabilia](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/03/red-white-betsy-ross-no-she-didnt-did-she-plus-bizarre-betsyabilia/) - There's good reason why Pennsylvania not only recognizes Independence Day as a national holiday, but also Flag Day as a state holiday. It 's all because of that Elizabeth Claypoole. Mrs. Ross, to you. Like Plymouth Rock and George Washington cutting down the cherry tree, the tale of Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag was played-out
- [Keep Grandma Upstairs: Jackie Kennedy's Family Secrets & The Lie Her Mother Told](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/07/01/keep-grandma-upstairs-jackie-kennedys-family-secrets-the-lie-her-mother-told/) - 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 and African slaves emerging from Rachel Swarns new book on the subject, American Tapestry. That
- [Reagan Campaigns for Truman](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/28/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, the then-actor Reagan joined other Hollywood actors at a rally for Truman's 1948 presidential election
- [Michelle Obama's Slave Ancestry & Presidential Identity Politics](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/27/michelle-obamas-slave-ancestry-ann-romneys-atheist-immigrant-father-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 ancestry, like that of millions of other African-Americans who have had ancestors who were both
- [What Franklin Roosevelt & Harry Truman Thought of Each Other](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/25/what-franklin-roosevelt-harry-truman-really-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 him seemed worried about his failing health except F.D.R. who continued to give off a
- [The Munching President](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/22/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 watching them. Those displaying this trait the least, however, have been Presidents thrust into office
- [Insult Comic Dog Triumph Poised for 2012 Election](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/20/insult-comic-dog-triumph-poised-for-2012-election/) - He’s back, and better than ever. Yes, that Dog. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who made his first public appearance in 1997 on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and began insulting every self-righteous celebrity and ridiculous non-celebrity among us, seems to be back just in time for the 2012 election. For those non-insomniacs unfamiliar
- [JFK with the World's Hottest Actresses and....Hazel the Maid?!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/17/jfk-the-worlds-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 the camera. JFK, however, had known Hollywood and many of its leading stars well since
- [Two Legitimate First-Generation Presidential Candidates For the First Time in History: Obama & Romney](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/15/foreign-born-fathers-of-obama-romney-makes-a-first-generation-historic-first/) - 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 the majority of “first-generation” Americans, the candidates didn’t have fathers who followed the familiar pattern
- [Flagging the Lost Holiday & A Gallery of past Flag Day Joys](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/14/the-lost-holiday-that-was-today-flag-it/) - You could have had off from work today - - if only you made some waves. You could be standing outside, rallying it up, with some blue-red dyed cake in hand. Summertime starts with Memorial Day, ends with Labor Day and crescendos with Independence Day and although we've every right to hit the holiday high
- [Orange Pie Here I Come: California's Sweetest Slice of Sun](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/13/orange-pie-here-i-come-californias-sweetest-slice-of-sun/) - There's something to the magic alchemy of golden sun and cool air of California that makes its oranges all the plumper and shinier. The sweet fruit has proved to be not only the crucial draw of the initial masses of Easterners, Midwesterners and Southerners who first filled it up right after the Civil War, but
- [Mourning in Hooterville: The Nicest Guy Is Dead](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/12/mourning-in-hooterville-the-nicest-guy-is-dead/) - Hooterville and Petticoat Junction suffered a tragic loss today with news that Sam Drucker, owner and manager of Drucker’s General Store has died. He was also postmaster, editor of the Hooterville World-Guardian and Justice of the Peace. He was known as a rational, kind and understanding figure in a land run amuck with quirky characters
- [Michelle Obama & Her White House Garden Book: First Ladies As Authors](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/10/first-lady-michelle-obama-her-white-house-kitchen-garden-book-in-context/) - It had been forty-four years since a First Lady had given much attention to the White House grounds and significantly re-landscaped them when Michelle Obama broke ground for what has become, in the four years since, her White House Kitchen Garden. She was just 15 months old when Lady Bird Johnson cut the ribbon of
- [Keeping Clean with the Presidents](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/09/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 before them. They won't muddy the waters with their objectives. Well, some Presidents have done
- [Jackie O'loha: When Jacqueline Kennedy Lived in Hawaii for Seven Weeks](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/05/jackie-oloha-when-jacqueline-kennedy-lived-in-hawaii-for-seven-weeks/) - She was forever associated with New York, Washington, Boston and Paris and she knew London, Newport, Rome, Athens and Palm Beach like the back of her hand. On this day in 1966, however, the world's most famous woman, President Kennedy's widow and a Jet-Set global celebrity her own right by then, Jackie Kennedy fulfilled a
- [How A Dying Neighbor & Dying Dog Helped Each Other Live: The Tale of Snackhouse](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/06/03/how-a-dying-neighbor-dying-dog-helped-each-other-live-the-tale-of-snackhouse/) - Introduction A year ago today my great daily companion of ten years, Yeager the Weimaraner, died. Of all the "Yeager epistles," the one I've decided to set down on my own "Yeager Memorial Day" is one about that universal reality most humans don't approach eagerly - the fact that we are all dying as we
- [The President Who Loved to Dance](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/30/the-dancing-president/) - 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 in recent memory. Or the Chief Executive who played all his chits to ensure the
- [The first First Lady's first Day](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/27/the-first-first-ladys-first-day/) - It only takes 45 minutes to take the shuttle to New York from Washington's Reagan National Airport, located in Virginia on the Potomac River, but it took eleven days for Martha Washington to make the same distance of a trip in 1789. Perhaps it was just as well. What she later called a "pleasant journey"
- [Super-Seventies Movie! The Nixons & John Wayne, the Gabors, Mary Tyler Moore, Glen Campbell, Lawrence Welk & More!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/26/super-seventies-movie-the-nixons-john-wayne-the-gabors-mary-tyler-moore-glen-campbell-lawrence-welk-more/) - Plaid sport-jackets, bell-bottom pants, wide ties in eye-popping patterns, macrame shawls, wedge heels, massive patent-leather handbags, frosted hair, pompadoured hair, seersucker suits, rayon everything, white belts, hot pants, wrap skirts, Maude-like whatever-they're-called shoulder-to-floor vest-skirts. It was the ubiquitous vibe of The Southern California Super-Seventies! Every one of those fashion moments can be spotted being worn
- ["Aunt Esther" to Queen Victoria: Three Degrees of Celebrity Separation!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/25/lawanda-aunt-esther-page-to-queen-victoria-three-degrees-of-separation-from-fred-sanfords-junk-shop-to-windsor-castle/) - La Wanda "Aunt Esther" Page to Frank Sinatra to Richard Nixon to the Duke of Windsor to Queen Victoria It’s only a mere four degrees of separation from a Queen of Comedy, actress La Wanda Page to a Queen of England, the one and only Victoria. LaWanda Page was born in Cleveland but grew up
- [The Very First Online Hookups, Old-School Style](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/24/the-very-first-online-hookups-old-school-style/) - The latest generation of electronic tech promising the most reliable hookup for those looking to meet is always new. Human desires for love and lust is not. Long decades before the likes of hundreds of ubiquitous sites allowed the almighty us who live right now to check others out online, the kids were doing it
- [Tennessee’s Jack & Mary Fudge Pie](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/12/tennessees-jack-mary-fudge-pie/) - Many people recognize the taste of Jack & Coke from a sip. One bite will never let you forget Jack & Mary. Since it first filtered the fresh spring water of local caves through a sour corn mash into barrels in 1866, the Jack Daniels Whiskey Distillery, always based in Lynchburg, Tennessee, has helped define
- [A Dog on the Verge of Loss: Fostercare Weimaraner #1 Paddinginton](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/09/a-dog-on-the-verge-of-loss-fostercare-weimaraner-1-paddinginton/) - A year ago yesterday marks what became the last three-weeks of my dog Yeager's life. One can find on this website articles I've written about some of that experience (with links below). So much of what proved to be a poignancy of passing time, gratitude for the way he died, and epiphanies associated with the
- [Silent Cal & The Silent Era Cowboy: Coolidge Mix with Tom](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/06/silent-cal-the-silent-era-cowboy-president-coolige-mixes-with-tom-mix/) - Even in the era of bathtub gin, flappers and daredevils sitting atop flagpoles for days on end, it was a pretty startling sight. Here came a massive chestnut-colored horse galloping through the gates of the White House to pause beneath the President of the United States on the South Portico. Riding him was a world-famous
- [Twilight’s Robert Pattinson & Taylor Lautner to Laurel & Hardy: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/05/03/twilights-robert-pattinson-taylor-lautner-to-laurel-hardy-princess-diana-in-the-middle/) - Pattinson & Taylor to David Beckham to Prince Harry to Princess Diana to David Bowie to Bing Crosby to Laurel & Hardy It turns out that while these degrees of separation start and end with popular American feature film co-stars, all but three are British. Can you pick the three Yanks right off? In November
- [Tupak Shakur to Minnie Pearl: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/22/tupak-shakur-to-minnie-pearl-with-pee-wee-snoop-dog-in-the-middle/) - Tupac Shakur to Snoop Dogg to Pee Wee Herman to Minnie Pearl You might not know who Lesane Parish Crook, Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , Paul Rubenfeld, and Sarah Colley Cannon are, but you'd know their faces, voices, jokes and giggle if you saw and heard them. Last weekend's live performance at Coachella music festival
- [Coffee Break With the Presidents](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/16/coffee-break-with-the-presidents/) - If any professional career has an excuse for a pot or two of coffee a day, its the Presidency. What with oil spills, failed North Korean missile launches, closing down one war before starting a new one, unfair spin, untrue allegations, rising gas prices, falling market values, citizens, critics and charlatans, a java jolt can't
- [The Saucy Pie of Granite State Skinflints](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/10/the-saucy-pie-of-granite-state-skinflints/) - Massachusetts is the big, important state which dominates New England. Tell that to New Hampshire. When it comes to Marlborough Pie, at least, New Hampshire has the granite edge on the Bay State. Kevin Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book In New England (2011) write that "the first time the
- [The Mad Men Era White House Easter Egg Roll, 1961](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/06/the-mad-men-era-white-house-easter-egg-roll-1961/) - The familiar hot pinks and pale blues of the incumbent First Lady Jackie Kennedy were no where to be seen at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 3, 1961, but the adults and children attending the event more than made up for that. What nobody there could know was that the very
- [Lincoln Son's Concern for Disabled Boy Starts White House Easter Egg Roll](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/05/lincoln-sons-concern-for-disabled-boy-starts-white-house-easter-egg-roll/) - This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll marks what is likely the 150th anniversary of it as an event to which members of the public have been invited. It is a tradition not begun in 1878 by President Rutherford Hayes who always gets official credit for it, but in 1862 by a President’s Son with
- [The White House Easter Egg Roll: Traditions, First Families & A Day for Dogs](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/04/a-day-for-dogs-other-white-house-easter-egg-roll-memories/) - At next Monday's annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the American public will again get an annual chance to enter the White House grounds and perhaps catch a live glimpse of the President, First Lady, First Children and...First Dog. The one condition is that nobody of voting age is permitted in unless accompanied by someone not
- [Jack and Jackie Kennedy Home Movies & Pictures of their Presidential Easters](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/04/03/jack-and-jackie-kennedy-home-movies-pictures-of-their-presidential-easters/) - They're the most famous First Family, and it's the most famous White House public event - so why didn't President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and First Son John Kennedy, Jr. ever make an appearance at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll during their residency in the mansion in
- [Songs & Music About First Ladies: Vote for the Best One](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/29/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 to music in practically every genre, from jazz, country, rock, ballad, opera, show tune, reggae,
- [What Were Those Leprechauns Thinking?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/17/what-were-those-leprechauns-thinking/) - Whether or not flesh-and-blood Leprechauns really do exist in the woodlands of Ireland, they have cropped up in ceramic forms, populating gift shops in the United States ever since the 1960s, when St. Patrick's Day started to become an annual holiday celebrated by everyone, regardless of ancestry or nationalism. They seem to serve the purpose
- [The First Lady a Nation Never Knew: Pat Nixon in Private Taped Phone Calls & 100 Pictures on Her Centennial](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/16/the-first-lady-a-nation-never-knew-pat-nixon-in-private-taped-phone-calls-100-pictures-on-her-centennial/) - This weekend marks the centennial of First Lady Pat Nixon, whose story is as fascinating as it is largely unknown offering a dramatic example of triumph over struggle that genuinely exemplified the idealized “American Dream.” It is told here through one hundred images to mark her one hundred years, video clips and some of her
- [The Greatest Forgotten Celebrity: What Did Admiral Dewey Do?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/07/the-greatest-forgotten-celebrity-what-did-admiral-dewey-do/) - Everyone knows Adele. Nobody knows Dewey. At one time, everyone was daffy for Dewey or, as he was hailed and feted and revered and honored and celebrated and beloved and sold,, Admiral Dewey! Before he became the world's most famous celebrity in early May 1898, he was merely the 60-year old Commodore George Dewey, leader of
- [Drinking & Smoking With the Presidents](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/03/02/drinking-smoking-with-the-presidents/) - Every four years, there's not only a race for either Presidents to hang onto the White House - or Presidential candidates to seize the keys from them, and move in. A parallel race is also run, however, by manufacturers and marketers to place these Presidents and Presidential Candidates into Our House, and make these men
- [Romney & Santorum: Still Channeling Dewey & Goldwater, Throwing Caution to the Crowds & Selling Sex](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/28/romney-santorum-still-channeling-thomas-dewey-barry-goldwater/) - 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 men strike a tone to their agenda which echoes those of two previous Republican Presidential
- [George & George Clooney & Bush, Wars & Hurricanes](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/26/george-george-clooney-bush-wars-hurricanes/) - From the 90s Tech Age into this century’s Uh-OOs, politically outspoken George Clooney aimed his anger on two primary targets – U.S. Wars in the Middle East and Republicans. In January 2003, the actor accused President George W. Bush of making a backroom deal with Russia and France to ensure that the United Nations Security
- [First Ladies & Actresses Who Played Them: Vote Your Favorite](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/25/first-ladies-actresses-who-played-them-vote-your-favorite/) - Meryl Streep's portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has won her a nomination for Best Actress at tomorrow's Academy Awards but the lack of any Oscar (or even Emmy) nomination for playing an American First Lady, however, doesn't mean there's been a dearth of such parts in Hollywood. Being cast to play a
- [Rick Santorum Linked to Satanic Marilyn Manson: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/23/rick-santorum-linked-to-satanic-marilyn-manson-on-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Rick Santorum - Ron Paul - Jon Stewart - Marilyn Mansion Politics makes strange bedfellows as the saying goes, and lurking behind last night's February 22, 2012 Arizona Republican Presidential Debate was the dark shadow the leading contender is hoping will put him over the top. It is only a short three links away between
- [George Washington's Birthday: He Spent it Dancing](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/17/george-washington-loved-to-dance-it-up-on-his-birthday/) - It wasn't the Twist like Jackie Kennedy loved doing, or the Dougie as Michelle Obama has illustrated. It wasn't the foxtrot that the very large William Howard Taft moved to like a graceful battleship, nor even the frug as President Lyndon B. Johnson shook up one night with his daughter. around the dance floor. But good ole'
- [Kitschy, Kitschy Cute: Interpreting Old Valentine’s Day Vases](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/02/14/kitschy-kitschy-cute-interpreting-old-valentines-day-vases/) - Kitschy, Kitschy Cute. Throughout the Fifties and early Sixties, before they were sent in cheap papier-mâché and then expensive colored-glass vases, sweethearts sent Valentine’s Day flowers in highly-breakable ceramic ones with that once-ubiquitous label “Made in Japan.” How many ways can you really depict a red heart? You’d be surprised. On the premise that love's
- [Those Liberal Aristocrats Katharine Hepburn & Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/29/hollywood-meets-washington-those-liberal-aristocrats-katharine-hepburn-franklin-d-roosevelt/) - They were both unapologetically liberal Yankee aristocrats who used their cigarettes like theatrical props and delivered their crisp, taut opinions in the now-vanished “Mid-Atlantic accent,” that American upper-class tone popularly called “Locust Valley Lockjaw.” They were even distantly related through a common ancestor on The Mayflower. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt met actor Katharine Hepburn
- [Eleanor Roosevelt an  "I Love Lucy" Fan?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/27/5586/)
- [George Washington and his....Camel?!](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/27/george-washington-and-his-camel/) - They told us he had wooden teeth, that he threw a silver dollar across the Delaware River and that he loved cherries (more on that next month). Is George Washington’s myth expanding to make him an animal-lover – beyond his famous dog Hercules who hung out near the kitchen door? No – George Washington really
- [First Ladies & the State of the Union Address: Private Speech Editors and Public Policy Symbols](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/23/first-ladies-the-state-of-the-union-address-private-speech-editors-and-public-policy-symbols/) - Tomorrow's State of the Union Address, delivered by President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill, may seem like it has always been a part of American life, but in fact it is one custom of the American Presidencybegun by George Washington that was cut short just two Presidents later, by Thomas Jefferson. He thought it seemed
- [The Newt Gingrich “Open Marriage,” Adultery, Divorce, & Illegitimate Kids of Other Candidates](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/22/the-newt-gingrich-open-marriage-other-candidates-mistresses-illegitimate-children-and-divorces/) - Newt Gingrich’s sharp rebuke of CNN moderator John King’s probing into his second wife’s claim that he asked for an “open marriage” to accommodate the woman who became his third wife abruptly derailed further discussion of the issue then and there, but it won’t be dropped - especially since his surge and victory in the
- [The Del Rubio Triplets in Go-Go Boots & Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in Gloves](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/20/hollywood-meets-washington-the-del-rubio-triplets-mrs-woodrow-wilson/) - On the scale of Hollywood fame, the Del Rubio Triplets can’t compare to Elvis. Nor does evoking First Lady Edith Wilson’s name prompt the same range of reaction as does that of President Richard Nixon. Pair the bleached-blonde trio with the officious matron, however, and there’s no meeting of Hollywood and Washington more radically inexplicable
- [When a First Lady Battles a President's Chief of Staff](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/10/when-a-first-lady-battles-a-presidents-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 - but its the same old story about the boss’s wife. Any election year attacks
- [Jackie O to Jolie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/06/jackie-o-to-jolie-facebook-of-the-famous/) - The large round sunglasses, the long, tawny hair, the frequent presence of children being led by the hand, the perpetual globetrotting, the unrelenting speculation about their private lives - the similarities between the two women who are, arguably, the most famous in the world in their times, are obvious. Beneath the surface, however, certain core
- [Jimmy Carter and Marcel Marceau: Nothing to Say](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/02/hollywood-meets-washington-jimmy-carter-and-marcel-marceau/) - In June of 1977, President Jimmy Carter met the legendary mime Marcel Marceau backstage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Reportedly, nothing of note was spoken between them.
- [The White House New Year's Day Reception: Good Riddance to a Miserable Tradition](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2012/01/01/the-white-house-new-years-day-reception-good-riddance-to-a-burden-and-painful-tradition/) - Resolutions, college football bowl games, parades, gym renewals, and January first’s first-born child: New Year’s Day customs give people hope, happiness or distraction. Swollen feet, pneumonia and confrontation do not. Which explains the silent death of the legendary White House New Year’s Day Reception. In old New Amsterdam, if Dutch kids got gifts on St.
- [The Yeager Fund for Special Need Dogs Who'll Never Be Adopted](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/30/the-yeager-fund-for-special-need-dogs-wholl-never-be-adopted/) - Today, 2011's last business day for tax-deductible charitable contributions I'm compelled to ask as many people as possible to take 45 seconds, click to a link and to PayPal and help keep alive and healthy some gentle, loving Dogs with special needs. Not by behavior, but rather circumstances like foreclosed homes, divorce and new jobs,
- [Old-School New Year's Day Food: From the South, North or Midwest - its Imported](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/30/old-school-new-years-day-american-food-south-north-or-midwest-its-imported/) - Holidays, as celebrated throughout the United States, are closely tied to annual feasts of traditional foods. Thanksgiving has its turkey and pumpkin pie, Christmas its goose, Hanukah its fried potato pancakes, St. Patrick’s Day is usually marked with plates of corned beef and cabbage, Easter its lamb, Independence Day and Memorial Day bring out the
- [More Photos From the 2011 White House Christmas Party (Part II)](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/21/more-photos-from-the-2011-white-house-christmas-party-part-ii/) - Here are some further captioned photographs to supplement the first photo-essay on 2011 White House Christmas Party hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.
- [Three Yeager the Weimaraner Singing Christmas Hat Videos](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/20/three-yeager-the-weimaraner-singing-christmas-hat-videos/) - It's somewhat ironic that someone who once was bewildered by people who plastered their work stations with snapshots of their red-eyed dogs, pooches, cats and kitties would have so eagerly become a personal photographer and videographer to his late, great Weimaraner, Yeager. This is my first holiday season without the old boy and one can
- [The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/20/going-to-the-white-house-holiday-party-twice/) - 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 annual holiday party. Along with me to experience this were friends who had never before
- [Sartre to Snookie: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/12/03/sartre-to-snookie-facebook-of-the-famous/) - 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 stuff to make yourself feel better. Snookie Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs
- [Evita to Elvis: Facebook of the Famous](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/30/evita-to-elvis-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Evita Peron – Juan Peron – Nicolea Ceauşescu – Jimmy Carter – Elvis Presley Born Eva Duarte but globally renowned as “Evita,” the First Lady of Argentina (1946-1952) initially found fame as a stage actor, model, film actor and radio star. Among her enduring radio broadcasts was a popular drama series, Great Women of
- [Update: Christmas Crazy Target Lady Sings "The Santa Rap"](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/26/update-christmas-crazy-target-lady-sings-the-santa-rap/) - How I missed including this one of the Christmas Crazy Target Lady (aka Christmas Champ as Target titles her ) I don't know, but it's too good to just insert into the longer article about her in the previous post, from yesterday. I've also since learned that, according to the commercial series producers, Wieden +
- [The Christmas Crazy Target Lady: Official Symbol of Black Friday](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/25/the-christmas-crazy-target-lady-the-official-symbol-of-black-friday/) - Cupid symbolizes Valentine’s Day. Easter has its Bunny. And now its official: The Crazy Target Lady is Black Friday. Since 2009, Target has well-targeted those shoppers anticipating the big holiday sales who skip Thanksgiving to stand in line for upwards of three days so they can be close to the front of a waiting line
- [The Four Best Presidential Pumpkin Pies: From the first Adams and Johnson, Ike & Reagan](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/20/the-four-best-presidential-pumpkin-pies-from-the-first-adams-and-johnson-ike-reagan/) - When it comes to Presidents, the quality of political policy is entirely inconsistent with that of their pumpkin pie. There’s not even a preference for pumpkin over mince, for example, among those regularly rated as either the “best" (like George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt) or the “worst” (like Warren G. Harding or James
- [Gemini Twins Jack Kennedy and Judy Garland](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/18/gemini-jack-judy-john-f-kennedy-and-judy-garland-as-pals-hollywood-meets-washington/) - She made much of the fact that they were both born under the same astrological sign. He did not. Making them both typical of Gemini duality. No matter when they were born, however, it’s not hard to see the factual and mythical commonalities of President John F. Kennedy (born May 29, 1917) and actor Judy
- [Marilyn Monroe to Saddam Hussein to Brittany Spears: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/16/marilyn-monroe-to-saddam-hussein-to-brittany-spears-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Marilyn Monroe to Ronald Reagan to Donald Rumsfeld to Saddam Hussein to Jacques Chirac to Shimon Perez to Madonna Ciccone to Brittany Spears In the spring of 1945, during World War II, when actor Ronald Reagan was Commanding Officer of the first Motion Picture Unit being run through Hal Roach Studios, he unwittingly helped set
- [Chelsea Clinton's NBC Job: Presidents' Daughters Evoking Their Father's Legacies](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/15/chelsea-clintons-nbc-job-like-president-like-first-daughter/) - There’s something new – and something old, in the news that former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton has been hired by NBC Nightly News as a special correspondent for its frequent "Making a Difference" segments which focus on volunteers striving to improve the lives of others confronting difficulties. What’s new is that those women whose fate
- [My Friendship with Hillary Clinton's Mother: The Influence of Observant, Worldly, Hopeful Mrs. Rodham](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/11/04/friendship-with-the-mother-of-hillary-clinton-the-influence-of-observant-worldly-hopeful-mrs-rodham/) - By 2005, Dorothy Rodham didn't need to walk to the National Zoo alone. After all, her son-in-law had been President and her daughter was then a United States Senator and an aide or companion could easily have been hired. The mother of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who died at age 92 on Tuesday this
- [Mao to Fred Mertz: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/22/mao-to-fred-mertz-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Mao Tse-Tung - General George C. Marshall - Lucille Ball - "Fred Mertz" Amazingly, there's only three degrees of separation between one of the world’s most dramatic dictators and one of the world’s most dictatorial dramatists. In December 1945, President Harry Truman sent General George C. Marshall to China to broker a coalition government between
- [Diana Ross Meets Romney!? Read the Preceeding Post to See Who, What, When, Where, Why...](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/14/diana-ross-meets-romney-read-the-preceeding-post-to-see-who-what-when-where-why/)
- [When Mitt Romney's Father Ran For President](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/14/the-first-romney-campaign-for-the-republican-president-nomination-honesty-killed-it/) - 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 modern version of his father, George Romney's struggle to success made him a substantially different
- [Mitt Romney Follows Father's Footsteps & Other Candidates' Kids Who Went for the Gold](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/13/mitt-romney-follows-fathers-footsteps-other-candidates-kids-who-go-for-the-gold/) - How do those kids feel, standing on podiums behind their fathers as they concede defeat in their race for the presidency? Nobody’s asked Mitt Romney. Yet. Not that he doesn't have a good politically strategic reason for avoiding the issue of his father George Romney's failed bid for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, at least
- [Republican Candidates' Retro Touch: Sarah Palin as Gracie Allen, Christmas Carol Campaign Song, Can Sex Sell Santorum?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/07/recognizing-republican-candidates-as-retro-replicas-part-3-gingrich-huntsman-and-santorum/) - This third in a series on 2012 Republican Presidential candidates and which previous candidates their campaign personae most resemble, begins with Sarah Palin and Chris Christie, who've just chosen not to run and comparisons which may suggest why: Former Governor Sarah Palin and Surprise Party candidate Gracie Allen, 1940 Laconic hubby in tow, she hawked
- [Republican Candidates as Retro Replicas: Part 2, Bachmann, Paul and Cain](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/06/recognizing-republican-candidates-as-retro-replicas-part-2-bachmann-paul-and-cain/) - Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Free Love Party candidate Victoria Woodhull, 1872 Head of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, lawyer Bachmann rose rapidly to public notice after she expounded on a string of contentious issues in often explosive language, yet leaving uncertainty about her specific opinion. In other cases she may have made "accidental" mistakes,
- [Recognizing Republican Candidates as Retro Replicas: Part 1, Perry and Romney](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/10/03/3460/) - If you include the two still-not-running candidates, there's eleven Republicans vying for their party's 2012 presidential nomination and making their case on unemployment, economic instability, banking reform, trade, terrorism, wars, foreign affairs, abortion, infrastructure, education, global warning, gay equality, immigration - to name the top dozen topics. With barely a minute to make their case
- [Michelle Obama at Target: Jackie Kennedy in wigs or Jane Pierce in mourning, First Ladies get Out, About & Undercover](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/09/30/michelle-obama-at-target-jackie-kennedy-in-wigs-or-jane-pierce-in-mourning-first-ladies-get-out-about-undercover/) - It may seem shocking, but really, it is only unexpected. Yesterday, after one enterprising photographer and one shocked checkout clerk let the cat out of the bag that First Lady Michelle Obama had spent about a half hour doing something she's on the record as saying she enjoys doing, the world media made it a
- [Nancy Reagan & Gary Coleman...and Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck & Brooke Shields](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/09/23/hollywood-meets-washington-nancy-reagan-gary-coleman/) - She wasn't the first First Lady to have worked as a professional actress, but Nancy Reagan's cameo appearance on the popular 80s television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" (which actually ran from 1978 to 1986), starring as herself, made headlines. Appearing in an episode titled "The Reporter," which aired on Saturday, March 19, 1983, the premise of
- [The Wright Brothers to the Kardashian Sisters: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/09/21/the-wright-brothers-to-the-kardashian-sisters-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Wright Brothers - Orville Wright – Charles Lindbergh – Will Rogers – Eleanor Roosevelt - Dorothy Height – Barack Obama – Khloé Kardashian - Kardashian Sisters Andrews, Marx, Kennedy, Jonas, Mitford, Del Rubio, Smothers, Rockefeller, Dolly, Baldwin. From business to politics to science to entertainment, brothers and sisters teamed in twos, threes and fours have
- [Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon...and Civil Rights, Part II](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/26/hollywood-meets-washington-how-harry-truman-and-tallulah-bankhead-bonded-from-civil-rights-to-bourbon-brand-part-ii-of-ii/) - In the weeks following Truman's defeat of Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, the actress Tallulah Bankhead was hitting a pinnacle of national fame. Already renowned for her work on stage and film, her political role only increased her visibility. She earned that era's mark of the pop culture's esteem by landing on the cover
- [Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon...and Civil Rights](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/22/hollywood-meets-washington-tru-and-tallu-civil-rights-to-strong-bourbon/) - One can’t find two names from politics and entertainment more seemingly dissimilar than that of President Harry S. Truman and actress Tallulah Bankhead. Yet apart from the fact that one was a marital monogamist and the other a bisexual minx, their politics made friendship logical. Today, Bankhead is largely known through reruns of of her
- [Mao to Lady Gaga: Celebrity Degrees of Separation](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/19/mao-to-lady-gaga-queen-elizabeth-in-between-the-facebook-of-the-famous/) - Mao Tse-Tung - Josef Stalin - Winston Churchill - Eleanor Roosevelt - Gary Cooper - Pablo Picasso - Brigitte Bardot - Queen Elizabeth - Lady Gaga
- [How I Came Up to See Mae West One Time, Got her Floor Lamps and Something Else](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/17/how-i-got-mae-wests-floorlamps/) - I once came up to see Mae West sometime. And I got her floor lamps. And something else. Having just been through an exhausting inventory of all the things I've inexplicably bought over the years and August 17 being her 119th birthday makes today an ideal time to reflect on the woman I came to
- [The First Lady Who Loved Dogs...and got Hell for Saving a Horse](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/15/the-first-lady-who-fought-for-animals-and-lost-her-reputation/) - She was married to a President unfairly but routinely considered among the worst, proving that no matter how much good a First Lady may accomplish, it can never supersede the perceived damage done by her husband. If that isn't a challenge to reputation, she was also the only First Lady accused of poisoning her husband. Little
- [Mae to Mao: Celebrity Degrees of Separation ](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/08/09/mae-to-mao-degrees-of-separation-among-the-facebook-of-the-famous/) - It turns out that the world’s most Famous have had a virtual Facebook all their own which began about a century ago and continues on, cutting across the mortal limitations of time, moving in and out of the present to the past, from fundraisers and rallies to dinner parties and costume balls, weddings and funerals,
- [The Heroic Astronaut: John Glenn is 90 Years Old Today](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/07/18/the-heroic-astronaut-john-glenn-is-90-years-old-today/) - A half-century ago, everyone knew the name of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. In his silver suit and white helmet beneath his crew-cut and blue eyes, the astronaut flashed a beaming smile as he crammed into a tiny space capsule. Images of him transmitted from space, however, showed him stoic
- [The Revolutionary Moment of First Lady Betty Ford : Her October 25, 1975 Speech still Makes History](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/07/08/the-revolutionary-moment-of-first-lady-betty-ford-her-october-1975-speech-changed-first-lady-history/) - With news today of former First Lady Betty Ford’s death at age 93, it is easy to simply recall her as the leader of the national movement for substance abuse recovery because of the famous southern California treatment center which bears her name. In fact, that was but one in a number of issues on
- [How An Old Dog Taught Me New Tricks: The Wisdom Revealed By Our Aging Canines](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/07/08/how-an-old-dog-taught-me-new-tricks/) - This is the second of what seems to be shaping up into a series that was not entirely envisioned until a day ago. I'm reluctant about indulging too much about a personal issue like the loss of a dog - until I began to realize a lot of it reflects the stories related to me
- [The World's Best Dog: A Tribute to Yeager the Weimaraner, 1995-2011](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/07/05/2148/) - The famous Dog-Whisperer Cesar Milan would’ve been appalled by how Yeager the Weimaraner led me down the path we shared, rather than me guiding him. I simply maintained a pledge to respect his wishes, as best as I could determine them, and to also return with equal vigilance and measure, the absolutism of trust and devotion he
- [Presidents, First Ladies, Kings & Queens](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/05/24/presidents-first-ladies-kings-queens/) - President Barack Obama’s European visit this week marks the second time he will meet with Queen Elizabeth of England. Although the British monarch’s constitutional power is not equal to that of the American president’s, they meet equally as heads of state, powerful symbols that affect the cultural and political climate of their respective nations. Despite
- [Mother's Day, the Guilty Daughter and Mamma's-Boy President Behind It](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/05/08/mothers-day-the-guilty-daughter-and-mammas-boy-president-behind-it/) - What many may think fuels Mother’s Day today is what seems to have fueled one woman to crusade for its creation – and then its destruction. Guilt. Never a mother herself, the “mother” of Mother’s Day, Miss Anna Jarvis, ninth of eleven children, clung to every word and act of her own mother Mrs. Annemarie
- [When First Ladies Dance: Before Michelle Obama's "Dougie" was Jackie Kennedy's Twist, Betty Ford's Bump, Eleanor Roosevelt's Glide and...](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/05/06/when-first-ladies-dance-before-michelle-obama-did-the-dougie-jackie-kennedy-did-the-twist-betty-ford-did-the-bump-and-eleanor-did-the-eleanor-glide/) - First Lady Michelle Obama demonstrates her "Dougie" dance, 2011. This week’s footage of a beaming Michelle Obama making a slicking-hair move as she danced the “Dougie” to Beyonce Knowles’ Move Your Body shows a First Lady having more fun than usual. She was at Washington’s Deal Middle School not to demonstrate her moves but lead students in
- [In the Future....Floating Cities! From The Seventies!!?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/29/1559/) - Lockheed Martin's Fifties Monorail for swift, quiet getting about town.Whether or not it was timed for Earth Day, word came this week that Lost Angeles will begin reconstructing the world premier mass transit system it destroyed a half-century ago, thus prompting a near-future of commuters liberated from solitary confinement, reduced air pollution and lower gas
- [Impossibly Rare Video Interview of Gone with the Wind’s Olivia De Havilland: at 94 years old, it’s “too much fun to live” A Big Scoop from Writer Tracey Jackson](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/11/impossibly-rare-video-interview-of-gone-with-the-winds-olivia-de-havilland-at-94-years-old-its-too-much-fun-to-live-a-big-scoop-from-writer-tracey-jackson/) - Champagne coursing through her veins, writer Tracey Jackson has a mind so provocatively exciting she could distract a stuck elevator full of strangers from panicking. Jackson listens tightly, one eye on detail, the other on the big picture, balancing self with others. Add this to the fact that she lives in the world of words
- [Beyond Rehab: Celebrating Betty Ford's Legacy As She Turns 93](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/09/1455/) - To the vast majority of people the words “Betty Ford” refer to the alcohol and substance abuse recovery center in Palm Springs. They should think that. The center was created in 1982 by the woman whose name it bears. It’s central to her legacy. But it is hardly all of it. In just two years, five
- [Playing Presidents: The Actor JFK (and Jackie) wanted to Play him in the Movies, Part III](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/07/the-actor-jfk-wanted-to-play-him-final-part-of-playing-presidents/) - No President has had more versions of aspects of his life played out in film and television more than John F. Kennedy. The JFK character has appeared in a supporting role in any number of television biopics about others, from Sinatra to LBJ, as well as by actors sitting in an open limousine waving to
- [Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and the Actor JFK wanted to play Him, Part II](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/06/1368/) - With so many events to bend into two hours, presidential biopics offer less chance to plumb the character of a President than do those films which focus on a specific conflict from their life. Critics faulted Amistad (1997) on both dramatic and historical points, but it presented former President John Quincy Adams with nuanced poignancy
- [Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and the Actor JFK wanted to play Him](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/06/playing-presidents-good-history-vs-good-drama-and-the-actor-jfk-wanted-to-play-him-part-one-of-three/) - With the mini-series The Kennedys in the midst of its consecutive episodes this week, the controversy it has engendered begs for a reminder of what it is – and isn’t. Good history does not always make good drama, and good drama rarely makes good history. A film or TV movie that achieves both is a
- [Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In...With Nixon?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/04/02/hollywood-meets-washington-rowan-martins-laugh-in-and-nixons/) - In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon was beaten by Senator John Kennedy by a thin margin for the Presidency. Barely recovered from the flu when they debated, Nixon’s television appearance in the debate contributed to his defeat. In 1962, having returned home to Los Angeles, he was trounced in his race for Governor by Pat
- [The first “First Lady” Never Married the President: Recently Discovered 1860 Magazine first to Use the Title “First Lady”](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/31/the-first-first-lady-never-married-the-president-recently-discovered-1850-magazine-first-to-use-the-title-first-lady/) - Germaine Greer suggested the United States abolish it and Jackie Kennedy said it made her sound like a saddle horse, but as a recently discovered 19th century magazine article proves, the title of “First Lady” has been part of the American Culture for over 150 years. Today the expression is what the incumbent U.S. President’s
- [Eleanor Roosevelt an  "I Love Lucy" Fan?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/19/hollywood-meets-washington-even-mrs-roosevelt-said-i-love-lucy/) - For nearly a century now, familiar faces of politics and pop culture have been crossing paths at the mythical corner of Sunset Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue, the boulevard of dreams and the corridor of power, pausing briefly to pose for history. Premiering as a regular feature, this inaugural posting of Hollywood-Meets-Washington unites the “First Lady of the
- [Michelle Obama's Recent Legislation: A Legacy Begun March 15, 1912 by Nellie Taft](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/17/michelle-obama-makes-first-lady-historyand-what-was-she-wearing-2/) - It was a grey dress. Enough said.More vital to the long-term interests of the nation than the clothes she wore one particular day this past December is the historic milestone Michelle Obama reached. That day, she joined President Barack Obama at a Washington school as he signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, a
- [This Old Dog Dons the St. Paddy's Green](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/16/this-old-dog-don-the-st-paddysgreen-for/) - As anyone with an Old Dog knows, as long as they want to eat, they want to live. Yeager the Weimaraner gets a dogfood cake on his Independence Day birthday and at Christmas parties he scavenges what he can from what drops out of a guest's cocktail napkins. On the 17th of March, however, this
- [Good Time Charlie: The Sheen of Hollywood's Resurrected Rogue](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/03/12/good-time-charlie-the-sheen-of-hollywoods-restored-rouge-archetype/) - In repossessing his previously successful persona, Charlie Sheen is now tweaking it into a narrative only Hollywood’s long-gone “Rogue” Archetype can play out. Whether search efforts for chards of the original Person have been abandoned only he knows; others only speculate. Even before Monday’s CBS announcement he was fired from their sitcom Two and a Half Men,
- [Upper Midwestern Fish Fry: The Walleye](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/02/11/upper-midwestern-fish-fry-walleye/) - While in Michigan, I had a chance to try a locally-famous freshwater fish, the Walleye. One finds it only in the upper midwestern states near where its fished, in the Great Lakes. It's a whitefish, and mine was served with a preztel crust, on a bed of asparagus and spinach risotto. Like all whitefish, its
- [An Old Dog's Last Runyon Run? A Walk in the Park](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/02/09/an-old-dogs-last-runyon-run-a-walk-in-the-park/) - When I officially adopted Yeager on New Year's Day 2002, he was six and a half years old, almost to the day. I was spared the frustrating joys of inculcating good behavior in a puppy and got to jump right to those fun years of a dog at their keenest engagement. With hunting breed
- [When Is a Dog Old?](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/02/02/when-is-a-dog-old/) - At one point in the life shared between human and dog companions, it will often belatedly dawn on the former that the latter has suddenly found his day to be perfectly fulfilling with just a deeper sleep and a Greenie. As is so more often the case with a dog, this transition is accomplished
- [Reign of King Fido Enters Tenth Year](https://carlanthonyonline.com/2011/01/01/reign-of-king-fido-enters-tenth-year/) - This new year of 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the installation of "King Fido," Yeager Meister I, America's Most Beloved Weimaraner, Protector of Foodstuffs in the Kingdom of Carlifornia. With the simply unscrolling of adoption papers, sealed by deliverers Friends For Pets (www.friendsforpets.org) the "Old Boy" as his intimate circle now more frequently dubs him, stepped onto

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