by Mike Purdy | Feb 10, 2013 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Inaugurations
On February 11, 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln spoke to a thousand citizens gathered in Springfield, Illinois to wish him well before he departed that day for Washington, D.C. to assume the presidency. Lincoln’s remarks in Springfield: At...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 28, 2013 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Deaths, John F. Kennedy
Both Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy had premonitions prior to their deaths of dying by an assassin’s bullet.Lincoln: According to an account published by Lincoln’s former law partner, Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln apparently told the following...
by Mike Purdy | Dec 15, 2012 | Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Speeches
Tragedies in our nation’s history have historically tugged at the President of the United States to not only lead the government, but to act as Comforter-in-Chief to the grieving nation. This has become particularly a role for the President with the advent...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 15, 2012 | Abraham Lincoln, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Elections, Homes, Scandals, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant
Here’s a quick list of some just some of the new books on U.S. Presidential history, published in 2012:Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power: by Jon Meacham, published November 13, 2012 Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 17, 2011 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Franklin Roosevelt, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley
For more than 100 years, starting with the 1840 presidential election, every president elected in 20 year increments (1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, and 1960) died in office. Curse Broken: Only with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was the curse...
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