Seminar: Lessons Learned from the White House Reconstruction Project

by Mike Purdy | Apr 13, 2015 | Harry Truman, Uncategorized, White House

Seminar: Barely Avoiding Disaster: Lessons Learned from the White House Reconstruction Project During Harry Truman’s Presidency When and Where: April 21, 2015 (3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Seattle, WA (Bell Harbor International Conference Center) Sponsored by Puget Sound...

Which Untimely Presidential Transition Affected the County the Most?

by Mike Purdy | Mar 16, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Assassinations, Calvin Coolidge, Chester Arthur, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, John Tyler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Richard Nixon, Terms of Office, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William McKinley, Zachary Taylor

Lincoln by a landslide: The weary nation breathed a sigh of relief as the hostilities of the long and wrenching War Between the States closed that frightful chapter of history. But before the wounds began to heal, the bloodshed that had taken a generation of young...

The Hidden White House: 3 Lucky Winners of the Book

by Mike Purdy | Jan 3, 2014 | Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, White House

Mike Purdy and daughter, Janet Purdy On January 1, 2014, I put the email addresses of the 208 subscribers to this Presidential History Blog in a hat and had my daughter draw three names. Reconstruction of White House:  Three lucky individuals won a free copy...

Drawing for 3 Free Copies of New Book: The Hidden White House

by Mike Purdy | Dec 3, 2013 | Harry Truman, Homes, White House

In a newly published book, The Hidden White House –  Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America’s Most Famous Residence, Robert Klara has written the definitive, not to be surpassed, work on this sometimes overlooked major saving and...

Truman and Ford both Died on December 26th – 34 Years Apart

by Mike Purdy | Dec 27, 2012 | Deaths, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman

Harry S Truman and Gerald R. Ford both died on December 26th, but 34 years apart.  Harry Truman and Gerald FordTruman passed away on December 26, 1972 in Independence, Missouri at the age of 88.  Ford, who lived to be the oldest ex-president, passed...

9 Vice-Presidents Became President on the Death or Resignation of the President

by Mike Purdy | Dec 12, 2012 | Andrew Johnson, Calvin Coolidge, Chester Arthur, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, John Tyler, Lyndon B. Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-Presidents

Nine times in the history of the republic, a vice-president has ascended to the office of president due to the death or resignation of the president.  Here’s a list of these men:John TylerMillard FillmoreAndrew JohnsonChester ArthurTheodore RooseveltCalvin...