Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Peace 2009 - Nobelprize.org
Read the prize announcement, press release, and other information about the 2009 prize.
Peace 2002 - Nobelprize.org
Former President Carter accepted the award in person. The text of the lecture is available on tis website.
Peace 1919 - Nobelprize.org
Read the acceptance speech delivered by an American Minister since Wilson did not travel to Oslo to accept the award in person
Peace 1906 - Nobelprize.org
to read the presentation speech, the acceptance speech given by an envoy since Roosevelt did not accept the award personally, and a lecture given by Roosevelt in Oslo four years later.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Ohio senator Warren Harding ran against Ohio Governor James M. Cox in 1920. Both vice presidential candidates, Calvin Coolidge for the Republicans and Franklin Roosevelt, for the Democrats eventually became presidents themselves.
The election of 1920 saw the biggest popular vote landslide since records of the popular vote were recorded. Warren Harding's call for a "Return to Normalcy" played well with an American electorate weary of the disruption of the first World War. The election was seen as a sound rejection of outgoing president Woodrow Wilson's proposal for a new role for America on the world stage as a leader in the new League of Nations. 1920 was also the first election after the passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the vote nationwide. Harding supported women's suffrage, which helped him win that demorgraphic.
| Warren G. Harding (Ohio) J.Calvin Coolidge (Mass.) | Republican | 404 | 16,152,200 |
| James M. Cox (Ohio) Franklin D. Roosevelt (N.Y.) | Democratic | 127 | 9,147,353 |
Return to Normalcy Speech May 14, 1920"A return to normalcy" was presidential candidate Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. After the extreme disruption of World War I and its aftermath, the American electorate was quite receptive to the concept.
Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), research shows that the word normalcy was listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857.
The losing candidates . . .
A very young and vibrant Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the Vice Presidential candidate under the nominee, James M. Cox. Roosevelt had made a name for himself in the outgoing Woodrow Wilson administration as Secretary of the Navy. The Cox-Roosevelt ticket was soundly defeated.
Approximately a year later in August 1921, while vacationing at Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada, Roosevelt contracted an illness believed by his physicians to be polio, which resulted in his total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. He never walked again without assistance. Despite this, he went on to be elected president in 1932 and was re-elected three times.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Attempted Assassination of President Ronald Reagan
Squeaky Fromme Assasination Attempt Interview
The creepiest thing about this interview is when she says, "I could have shot him . . . "
GUITEAU'S BODY EXAMINED; THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PHYSICIANS. - Article from the New York Times, July 7, 1882, page 3
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The Death Of President Garfield, 1881 - EyewitnesstoHistory.com
Link to the article
This article provides a detailed account of President Garfield's demise after he was shot by an assassin's bullet.
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Scene from "Assassins" - a musical by Stephen Sondheim
The cast of this musical is comprised of presidential assassins and attempted assassins including Lee Harvey Oswald, Squeaky Fromme, Mary Jane Moore, John Wilkes Booth, etc.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Martin Van Buren Slept Here - New York Times (Travel)
Read the article
Visit Kinderhook, New York, the birthplace of President Martin Van Buren. One of the most common expressions in English - "OK" - is thought to derive from President Van Buren's nickname, "Old Kinderhook" (Special thanks to Jack Kenney for the idea for this post.)
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
American Experience: Nixon
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Richard Nixon was one of the most complex president in American history and probably has the most intriguing story. His foreign policy was a triumph, but his personal demons, his extreme paranoia and secrecy let him to abuse his power and ineptly try to cover it up.
This video from PBS is a fascinating look at his life and presidency.
Richard Nixon was one of the most complex president in American history and probably has the most intriguing story. His foreign policy was a triumph, but his personal demons, his extreme paranoia and secrecy let him to abuse his power and ineptly try to cover it up.
This video from PBS is a fascinating look at his life and presidency.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
First Post
This is my first post on this blog. The internet is full of great information about the most powerful job in the world - the President of the United States of America. The goal of this blog is to record the sites and the information that I find in exploring it.
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