by Mike Purdy | Jun 4, 2019 | Bill Clinton, Books, Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Quotes, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Listen to this 22 minute radio interview between host Adam Lepp of WWGH 107.1 FM (Marion, Ohio – home of President Warren G. Harding) and presidential historian Dr. Ronald Feinman (author of Assassinations,Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew...
by Mike Purdy | May 8, 2019 | Constitution, Donald Trump, Impeachments, Richard Nixon
I recently wrote an Op-Ed for TheHill.com entitled “Impeachment without conviction plays right into Trump’s hands.” There are three broad options regarding impeachment: Impeach Now: The House of Representatives should impeach the president now...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 2, 2018 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Assassinations, Barack Obama, Books, Deaths, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Secret Service, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley
Many of us know that four presidents have been assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy). But what is less known is there have been numerous attempted assassinations and threats against not just presidents, but presidential...
by Mike Purdy | Jan 7, 2018 | Assassinations, Books, Campaigns, Chester Arthur, Elections, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, John Adams, John F. Kennedy, Presidential Sites, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson
There was definitely not enough time in 2017 to read. So many books, so little time! One of my New Year’s resolutions is to read more books. The following is a list of the books about the presidents that I read in 2017 (the titles below are linked to Amazon or...
by Mike Purdy | Dec 4, 2017 | Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
I recently ran across the paintings below by fine artist Andy Thomas, in which he imagines what it would be like if some our presidents were alive at the same time and got together to relax, laugh, and play poker with each other – separated by a political party....
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...