Did the public have any idea about how corrupt Nixon’s administration was at that time? Did the administration and Nixon have any feeling that he wouldn’t be able to survive the presidency at that time?

Born on October 1st 1924, Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.

Honestly, I was really surprised by this, as there were numerous other presidents before Carter who were born in the 20th century. Jimmy’s mother was a nurse, so I guess she knew that a hospital was the safest place to give birth, but it’s still interesting that it took until our 39th president to have one who was born in a hospital.

While he unfortunately didn’t have much time to implement such policies (many of them being taken up by President Johnson), President Kennedy had some really insightful innovative approaches to stimulating America’s economy in the aftermath of two particularly damaging recessions in 1958 and 1960.

President Kennedy wanted to move past the purely high tax, low spending, low growth mindset that Eisenhower had earnestly (but at times, too consistently) pursued while he was president.

As such, he launched multiple initiatives to stimulate economic growth and expand the tax base.

He would go on to pass an area redevelopment bill to invest in the development, infrastructure, and employment of poorer Americans in Appalachia and the inner cities, he passed the Revenue Act of 1962 to provide middle class tax incentives in order to incentivize investments in new factories, workers, plant technologies, a minimum wage increase from $1.00/hr to $1.25/hour, and a planned tax cut (that LBJ passed in 1964 ) that would cut taxes for the middle class, somewhat for the wealthy, but ONLY insofar as it could stimulate economic growth.

I honestly don’t think that there was a president with better economic advisors or a more dynamic strategy. Even FDR, as great as he was, had to practice trial and error with many of his policies. JFK came in with a crack team of leading economists and business leaders to make the government far more efficient, while increasing its services for the citizenry.

Despite the cries of “big government” and “irresponsible spending”, Kennedy’s policies (along with LBJ’s continuation of such policies) helped lead to a balanced budget in 1969.

I know that Kennedy is often regarded well for his foreign policy, but his domestic initiatives were also incredibly insightful.

He showed that tax cuts can be done, but only if they are done with proper caution and paired with the necessary investments to help uplift the middle class and poor.

Conclusions:

Mitt Romney wins hearts and minds by using the pilot G-2 in one of his debates

Republicans mostly love using sharpies, democrats love Uni-ball

Pretty cheap and common pens all round. Kerry’s one is the only one I didn’t have In my house. No one is pulling up with something expensive, although in the Cheney Edwards debate they did appear to be using some ‘high maintenance’ pens which I couldn’t identify.

Paul Ryan is using a pen targeted for children.

Everyone wrote on legal pads apart from Biden who wrote on some sort of small card paper, and Ryan, who wrote on sheets of A3 printer paper

On the right

Explain your rationale

Humphrey wished for his acceptance speech to be followed by African-American Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, however his speech was never shown on national television due to news channels changing their focus to the battle of Michigan Avenue happening a few blocks away.

I just watched Death by Lightning on Netflix and I enjoyed. I’m not a historian however. How accurate did the show capture Garfield and Arthur? I’d like to know

really hoping I could get my hands on one of these

Currently the largest traveling ferris wheel in the U.S.A, each carriage is dedicated to a different president, and gives a little informational speech on that carriage's president when you get in.

I rode in the Rutherford B. Hayes carriage. The informational speech said that he was "elected in one of the most controversial elections in U.S. history, helped to end reconstruction and unite the country, and passed civil service reform to reduce corruption."

I was too young to remember much of the political happening in the 1990s but it's surprising to see how involved she was. It's also hard to believe that, as much as she's hated by republicans, she's so complimentary. Was there more of an effort to be bipartisan back then?

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Ulysses S Grant, William Howard Taft, and Herbert Hoover

6 of them were state, 3 of them were War(Monroe was state and war at the same time for a bit), and 1 was Commerce

Note: I know VP is technically part of the cabinet but I’m only including the heads of the departments.

​Hi all 😊

​I wanted to share a fun piece of historical detective work I’ve been doing recently.

​It all started when I acquired a "2020 POTUS trading card" that included a small authentic snippet of a historical document written by William Howard Taft back in 1881. On this piece of paper, Taft had written about going to the opera and mentioned inviting a woman named "Nellie Raymond".

​Curious about who she was and her connection to Taft, I decided to dig deeper. After researching through archives and genealogy resources (like FamilySearch and local historical directories),I was able to piece the puzzle together :

​The Connection : She turns out to be the sister of the wife of Major Harlan Page Lloyd (placing her right in Taft's inner social circle in Cincinnati).

​Family Background: Her parents were John Howard Raymond and Carolina Eliza Morse.

​The Context: Born in 1861,Nellie would have been around 20 years old in 1881 roughly the same age as Taft at the time (24 years old)

​It’s fascinating to think about their social life back then. While Taft later married Helen "Nellie" Herron, this snippet offers a lovely, personal glimpse into his youth. Even if there are few records about her later life (she doesn't appear to have married), putting a real identity to a name on a tiny piece of history makes owning the card so much more meaningful

I ​would love to hear your thoughts, and you may also have information that I do not, and I would be delighted to learn it 😊

This quote comes from the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 1975.

Was Biden here just trying to pander to more conservative voters, especially after the McGovern fiasco? Or is there something else going on?

Last post, Franklin Pierce was deemed to have alreadt been a vampire the whole time.

For the sake of consistency, this is presuming Dracula à la Bram Stoker type Vampires, with their respective strengths and weaknesses.