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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Jackie Kennedy’s Notes Reveal JFK’s 2nd Term Plans
There were minor matters to be resolved and legislative agendas to be initiated. There were new directions she intended to take and a progression of efforts he had already begun. Whether President John F. Kennedy or First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy… Read More ›
Five Presidents Who Went to War & Killed Themselves For It: LBJ (Part 5)
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Vietnam War It was under Truman in the early 50s that the U.S. sent its first military advisers into what had been known primarily as Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) when under French colonial rule, in… Read More ›
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 ›
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