↓ Transcript Panel 1: Taft: "I never wanted to be president." Roosevelt: “Really, Taft? Who forced you?” Panel 2: Taft: “You did! I’m not built to be an executive. The pressure, the politics, the personal insults!” Roosevelt: “Who insulted you?!”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft are talking outside the White House. Roosevelt: "One of my biggest regrets was in 1904, announcing I wouldn’t run again." Panel 2: Roosevelt: "Now I no longer announce when I’m not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft are watching John Tyler give a speech. John Tyler: And that's why I have decided to not be a candidate for president in 2024. Roosevelt: "The ones who have to announce[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Birthday, James Buchanan ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Buchanan: "I don't typically let criticism bother me. It's important to put a positive spin on things." Panel 2: Buchanan: "People say that James Buchanan is the worst president in history—" Panel 3:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One more, from the response: I admire the Correctness of your history of the ten talents committed to the Subject of your letter. Upon the talent of his taciturnity Mr Liston gave me the following Anecdote, “that he was the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
George Washington’s “Ten Talents” according to the letter from John Adams, now in full: A handsome face. A tall stature. An elegant form. Graceful attitudes and movements. A large imposing fortune. Washington was a Virginian (this is equivalent to Five[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The adventures through a letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush, November 11, 1807, continues! Washington was proceeded by favourable Anecdotes. The English had used him ill, in the Expedition of Braddock. They had not done Justice to his Bravery[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From John Adams to Benjamin Rush, November 11, 1807: 6. Washington was a Virginian. This is equivalent to five Talents. Virginian Geese are all Swans. Not a Bearne in Scotland is more national, not a Lad upon the High Lands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
John Adams is always at his sharpest when he’s passionate. The source material for this comic comes directly from a November 11, 1807 letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush, in which he describes the many “talents” that George Washington[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the letter I’m using from July 16 1775, Abigail Adams quotes Don Sebastian by John Dryden to describe George Washington: I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
