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… Read More ›
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Jerry & Betty Ford’s Desert House & Other Homes
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… Read More ›
A President’s 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 … Read More ›
Grace Coolidge, her White Collies, Coolidge Animal Love & Why JFK and Jackie Kennedy Liked Her: A Photo Essay
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… Read More ›
Gemini Twins Jack Kennedy and Judy Garland
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… Read More ›
Recognizing Republican Candidates as Retro Replicas: Part 1, Perry and Romney
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… Read More ›
Playing Presidents: The Actor JFK (and Jackie) wanted to Play him in the Movies, Part III
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… Read More ›
Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and the Actor JFK wanted to play Him, Part II
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
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