by Mike Purdy | Oct 10, 2017 | Books, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman
The have been few times in history when shape of the geopolitical world changed more dramatically than during four world-shaking months in 1945: A fatal stroke ended Franklin Roosevelt’s dozen year presidency. The United Nations was founded. Nazi Germany fell after...
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 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 | Oct 9, 2016 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Campaigns, Elections, Electoral College, Franklin Roosevelt, Inaugurations, Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-Presidents, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Since George Washington was elected our nation’s first president in 1789, there have been a total of 57 presidential elections. While there has never been a presidential candidate that has been replaced after their nomination, there has been one...
by Mike Purdy | Jul 13, 2016 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Assassinations, Campaigns, Chester Arthur, Deaths, Elections, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, James Garfield, John Adams, Millard Fillmore, Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-Presidents, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Zachary Taylor
“My country,” a frustrated John Adams once wrote about the vice presidency, “has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” He has not been alone throughout our...
by Mike Purdy | May 3, 2016 | Benjamin Harrison, Campaigns, Elections, Franklin Roosevelt, James Garfield, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilson
Every four years, the American people elect a President. And while we hope that the voters look at the policy positions of the candidates, their temperament and suitability for the office, their experience, and qualifications, the fact is that running for President...
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