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Crisis Actor
Linda Brown, the young girl at the center of the Brown V. Board of Education decision and later civil rights leader, died on Sunday. For an era where civil rights were finally taking center stage, President Eisenhower was notably slow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?
Very Nice Things
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Trump’s national security advisors wrote “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in big letters on his briefing papers about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s re-election “win.” So of course the next thing Trump did was to call him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hayes Cabinet
Rutherford B. Hayes was a deeply religious man and would sing gospel hymns with his family every night. Clearly out of danger of any major consequential disasters, the administration, cabinet, and even Vice President William Wheeler would often join in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Birthday to James Madison! In April 1811, James Madison wrote a memorandum justifying the need for Secretary of State Robert Smith to resign. It included a long list of attacks including accusations that Smith was leaking intelligence to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…