by Mike Purdy | Aug 7, 2014 | Richard Nixon
August 9, 2014 will mark the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation as President of the United States.Library releases new tapes: On August 5, 2014, the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum began releasing unedited videos from a June 10, 1983...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 4, 2014 | Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt
Here’s a collage of Presidents pointing and staring at their audience. Who do you think does it best? Top left to right: Carter, Obama, JohnsonMiddle left to right: Reagan, Uncle Sam, Theodore RooseveltBottom left to right: George W. Bush, Kennedy,...
by Mike Purdy | Jul 21, 2014 | Scandals, Warren Harding
Warren G. HardingOn July 29, 2014, more than 1,000 pages of passionate love letters written by Warren G. Harding, the nation’s 29th President, to his mistress of 15 years, Carrie Phillips, will be unsealed from a vault in the Library of Congress where they have...
by Mike Purdy | May 27, 2014 | Books, Richard Nixon
Mike Purdy drawing 3 names from a hat On Memorial Day, May 26, 2014, I pulled three names from the list of 218 email subscribers to this Presidential History Blog as the lucky winners of a free copy of the recently published book, Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 13, 2014 | Richard Nixon, Wives and Mistresses
In the newly published and highly readable book Pat and Dick – The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage, historian and psychologist Will Swift has written a riveting tale that recounts the career and crises of Richard Nixon as filtered through the lens of...
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