Do You Know Where the Vice President Lives?

by Mike Purdy | Jan 25, 2021 | Homes, Presidential Sites, Vice-Presidents

We all know the President lives in the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But what about the Vice President? Are they left to fend for themself? For most of our nation’s history, that was the case. With each new Vice President, new security features were...

Ohio’s Lost Presidential Birthplaces

by Mike Purdy | Sep 30, 2018 | Benjamin Harrison, Homes, James Garfield, Presidential Sites, Rutherford Hayes, Ulysses Grant, Warren Harding, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, William McKinley

Ohio boasts it is to home eight presidents. Seven were born in the Buckeye state and one adopted Ohio as his home. But starting with Ulysses S. Grant’s birth in 1822, all the presidential birthplaces have been lost to history in varying degrees, except for the...

The Shaping of Jimmy Carter

by Mike Purdy | Sep 10, 2018 | Books, Homes, Jimmy Carter

If you want to know what has shaped and made Jimmy Carter the man he is, you have to soak in the ambience of the small town of Plains, Georgia. It was here on October 1, 1924 that the future president was born. And it is in Plains that Carter has always returned, and...

The Spell of Reagan’s Ranch

by Mike Purdy | Apr 16, 2018 | Homes, Presidential Sites, Ronald Reagan

“From the first day we saw it,” Ronald Reagan said, “Rancho del Cielo cast a spell over us. No place before or since has ever given Nancy and me the joy and serenity it does.” Reagan’s Beloved Retreat: Rancho del Cielo (Ranch in the Sky)...

The Shocking Fact That Woodrow Wilson’s Boyhood Home Got Wrong

by Mike Purdy | Dec 27, 2015 | Homes, Presidential Sites, Woodrow Wilson

Birth Date Controversy:  Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia.  The actual date of his birth has been the subject of some controversy.  According to the family Bible he was born 45 minutes into the new day on December 29, 1856, although he always...

Presidential History Roundup #4

by Mike Purdy | Apr 15, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Homes, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, Warren Harding, White House

Presidential History Roundup #4:  Interesting news about Presidential history: 1st President to pay income tax:  On March 14, 1923, President Warren G. Harding became the first President to file an income tax return.  He filed his return for 1922 and paid $17,990 in...