by Mike Purdy | Aug 11, 2019 | Donald Trump, Elections, James Monroe
When the vice-presidential candidates squared off against each other in the 1988 debate, Lloyd Bentsen delivered one of the sharpest political blows ever landed on an opponent. Republican Dan Quayle was proudly touting his years of experience and equating them with...
by Mike Purdy | Sep 21, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Barack Obama, Books, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, James Madison, James Monroe, James Polk, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, John Tyler, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant, Warren Harding, White House, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson
“Under This Roof: The White House and the Presidency” is a delightful, well-written, and well-researched collection of stories about the White House and our Presidents. The book is highly readable and I strongly recommend it. White House and American...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 23, 2013 | Deaths, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
James Madison died on June 28, 1836. Had he lived for six more days, he would have died on July 4th. An Independence Day death for Madison would have meant that four out of the first five presidents would have died on July 4th. George Washington died on December 14,...
by Mike Purdy | Dec 27, 2012 | Elections, Electoral College, James Monroe
James MonroeIn the presidential election of 1820, James Monroe found himself riding a wave of popularity, what was known as the “era of good feeling.” He was so popular, in fact, that he almost unanimously swept the Electoral...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 28, 2012 | Barack Obama, Dwight Eisenhower, Inaugurations, James Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Woodrow Wilson, Zachary Taylor
When Barack Obama’s second term as president begins on January 20, 2013, it will mark only the seventh time in our nation’s history that Inauguration Day has fallen on a Sunday. Traditionally, official inaugural ceremonies have not been held on...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 10, 2012 | Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Elections, George W. Bush, James Madison, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson
The re-election of Barack Obama as president on November 6, 2012 makes him third president in a row to be re-elected to a second term, following the two term presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.The only other time our nation has had three two term...
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