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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… Read More ›
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First Ladies Voting: An Illustrated History of the Right to Ballot
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… Read More ›
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Thomas Jefferson’s Eerie Warning about Donald Trump
Thomas Jefferson was not merely the third President of the United States (1801-1809), scientist, architect, horticulturist, philosopher, lawyer, and student of religion but perhaps, most importantly, a prophet of democracy. In fact, the person who envisioned the American colonies as… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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Nancy Reagan’s Funeral Follows 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… Read More ›
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Nancy Reagan & Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Their Untold Story
“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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›
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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… Read More ›