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… Read More ›
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Former Presidents Who Attended Inaugurations – And Didn’t
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…. Read More ›
A President in Alaska: Ninety Rare Images of Harding’s 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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Obama’s 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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
The Earliest First Lady’s Recorded Voice: Theodore Roosevelt’s 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… Read More ›
FDR’s Four-Times Happy Campaign Song & A Home Movie Showing Him Paralyzed
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… Read More ›
The Engineered Beat of Herbert Hoover’s 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… Read More ›
The White House Christmas Party in Rare Photo Glimpses
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… Read More ›
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