by Mike Purdy | Dec 30, 2012 | Birthdays, Woodrow Wilson
Someone’s birthday – especially for someone as famous as our 28th President, Woodrow Wilson, who was born in the waning days of 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, should be an elementary fact, not subject to any dispute. December 28 or 29? And yet most...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 28, 2012 | Barack Obama, Dwight Eisenhower, Inaugurations, James Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Rutherford Hayes, Woodrow Wilson, Zachary Taylor
When Barack Obama’s second term as president begins on January 20, 2013, it will mark only the seventh time in our nation’s history that Inauguration Day has fallen on a Sunday. Traditionally, official inaugural ceremonies have not been held on...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 26, 2011 | Woodrow Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes November 7, 1916 was election day. President Woodrow Wilson was in a close battle in his quest to retain his lease on the White House. Wilson vs. Hughes: Former Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes had mounted a...