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Presidents, First Ladies & February’s Princess: Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s 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,… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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Melania Trump’s 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… Read More ›
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Swinging Sixties Secretaries & Sexual Harassment: The 1967 Movie Musical That First Confronted It
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,… Read More ›
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Ivana Be First Lady: Trump Wives Tales, A President Who Married His Niece & Other 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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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To Know Mrs. Onassis: Why Jackie Kennedy’s 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… Read More ›
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Jefferson’s 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… Read More ›