by Mike Purdy | Feb 20, 2017 | Benjamin Harrison, White House
Watch this “live” TV news report from September 28, 1891 about what President Benjamin Harrison required his staff to do after he had electric lights installed in the Executive Mansion. It’s part of a series of short videos I’ve done about what...
by Mike Purdy | Feb 6, 2017 | Books, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Mothers
If we want to understand what made John F. Kennedy an admired and glamorous president – his innate sense of ease with people, his ready smile, his wit, his razor sharp intellect, his comfort with the media, and even his proclivities for frequent sexual encounters – we...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 29, 2017 | Books, George Washington
George Washington didn’t win the Revolutionary War because he had a superior fighting force. It was a ragtag army that was always in danger of either being wiped out by an engagement with British forces, or evaporating when enlistments were up. He didn’t...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 16, 2017 | Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Constitution, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Herbert Hoover, Inaugurations, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, John Quincy Adams, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, Thomas Jefferson, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft
As the United States prepares for the transfer of power between presidents, it’s a good time to pause and remember some interesting facts about previous inaugurations. Prior to 1937, the president was inaugurated on March 4 following the November election. That...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 28, 2016 | Campaigns, Elections, Electoral College
The 2016 presidential campaign and election was unlike any in our nation’s history. In so many ways, it broke all the rules and expectations. It was unprecedented. In a lecture on November 14, 2016 at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, Dr....
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