by Mike Purdy | Oct 22, 2022 | Donald Trump, Scandals
The House Jan. 6 select committee forged new territory with its vote to issue a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for documents and testimony related to role in the Capitol insurrection. This is the first time a congressional subpoena has been issued to a...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 16, 2015 | Scandals, Warren Harding, Wives and Mistresses
President Warren G. Harding has a number of claims to fame (or infamy): He consistently ranks at the very bottom for presidential performance His administration was racked with the infamous Teapot Dome scandal that sent a cabinet secretary to jail He was known for his...
by Mike Purdy | Jul 21, 2014 | Scandals, Warren Harding
Warren G. HardingOn July 29, 2014, more than 1,000 pages of passionate love letters written by Warren G. Harding, the nation’s 29th President, to his mistress of 15 years, Carrie Phillips, will be unsealed from a vault in the Library of Congress where they have...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 15, 2012 | Abraham Lincoln, Books, Dwight Eisenhower, Elections, Homes, Scandals, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses Grant
Here’s a quick list of some just some of the new books on U.S. Presidential history, published in 2012:Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power: by Jon Meacham, published November 13, 2012 Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the...