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… Read More ›
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Barbara Bush, Early 90s Icon: The Simpsons 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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
John Eisenhower’s 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… Read More ›
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…. Read More ›
Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: Lincoln(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… Read More ›
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…. Read More ›
Chaplin, Streisand, Sinatra & More: The Inaugural Gala That Was
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… Read More ›
The Twinges and Twang of George W. Bush’s 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… Read More ›
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