Presidential History Roundup #3

by Mike Purdy | Apr 8, 2015 | John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Presidential Greatness, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Transportation

Presidential History Roundup #3 – Interesting news about Presidential history: Top 10 Presidential traits:  Click here to read article about speech by Presidential historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin on March 26, 2015 at Virginia Tech.  Air Force One:  Why...

Presidential History Roundup #1

by Mike Purdy | Mar 25, 2015 | Barack Obama, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Presidential History Roundup, Richard Nixon, White House

Presidential History Roundup #1:  Interesting news about Presidential history: Eisenhower:  So you think you know Ike?  What did former speechwriter William Ewald know about Eisenhower? Ewald passed away on March 16, 2015 at age 89. Nixon: Nixon’s secret and...

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...

Presidential Books I Read in 2014

by Mike Purdy | Jan 27, 2015 | Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, James Garfield, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson

The following is the list of nine books about the Presidents that I read in 2014: Thomas Jefferson – From Boy to Man, by Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox, 342 pages.  This book is more a personal account of Jefferson’s early years than it is a description of...

Did Eisenhower’s Wife Tilt the 1960 Election to JFK?

by Mike Purdy | Nov 3, 2014 | Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Wives and Mistresses

After an almost fatal heart attack and stroke during his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower was not in the best of health as his two terms came to a close in 1960. Ike’s wife, Mamie, was justifiably concerned about the President’s health. Oldest man in the...

Watch Nixon’s Resignation Speech from 40 Years Ago

by Mike Purdy | Aug 9, 2014 | Richard Nixon, Terms of Office

On August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon became the first President to resign. Click here to watch his historic resignation speech from August 8, 1974. Mike Purdy’s Presidential History Blog © 2014 by Michael E. Purdy...