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deadpresidents · 23 days

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"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

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rowanwillow06 · 28 days

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16th April 2024

29 days till first exam

I’m gonna be honest!!! I completely stressed out about thinking about revision which is why I stopped posting/ doing anything in order to avoid the problem. I’ve started buckling down again so I figured I would start posting and see what happens :3

I’m going to stop volunteering over the exam period which will feel weird but grades are important right now. Anyway here’s my work for the day:

Write an essay on the US presidency, To what extent is the president imperial?

Write up my Pulp Fiction essay, To what extent is narrative an experimental device in Pulp Fiction

Play some animal crossing (I need a break 😭)

Do my second to last volunteering session :3

I also got my grade back for my Film studies coursework, I got 33/40 which is an A so I’m very happy with that, we have a write up to do for it so I still have a chance on making that grade slightly higher. I’m glad it’s over because it’s been so much work and honestly I have not enjoyed it 💀

For now I’m staying at school to get my essays done and listening to the study with cats pomodoro timer (I’m obsessed w these atm)

Hope you’re all doing well and have a lovely day <33333

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quotelr · 4 months

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You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.

Marilyn Manson

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ijusthavequestions · 7 days

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So who is going to end up as president if neither Trump nor Biden do?

#presidency #donald trump #joe biden #2024 presidential election

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therealmillardfillmore · 3 months

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Happy Presidents’ Day to those who celebrate. On this day, it’s important to remember those who truly fought to hold their nation together, like me, who signed the Compromise of 1850, and uh. Uhmmmmm uhhhhh. Did other positive things for the nation. Uhmmmmmm uhhhh

#history #america #millard fillmore #president #american history #presidents #us politics #presidentsday #presidency

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deadboydetectivesknowitall · 28 days

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HOWDY!

Addressing the Tumblr community, I am the true deadboy detectives president. There is my rival upon this hellsite. I will not state their name for their safety because there is too much drama in my life right now, so thank you.

This is a complete joke, btw, BUT IF YOU DO HAVE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT DEADBOY DETECTIVES, I AM HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUERIES IF MR NEIL GAIMAN IS UNAVAILABLE :)

Most likely, I won't post anything original. I'm just here to stalk deadboy detectives and Neil Gaimans other works. And many different things.

HAVE A GOOD DAY :D

Laters Gaters!

#dead boy detectives #dead boy detective agency #neil gaiman #tumblr community #presidency #tumblr #inauguration #the sandman #good omens #coraline #neil gaiman what are you doing in my falafel #neil gaiman works #new here #writen by the secretary of this.

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here-a-lee-there-a-lee · 1 year

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James Madison at his Inaugural Ball in 1809

#margaret bayard smith #dolley payne todd #dolley madison #james madison #founding fathers #shitpost #thomas jefferson #inaugural ball #presidency #american presidents #colonial america #1809 #inauguration day #scrumptious meals

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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dougielombax · 5 months

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Does the White House have a basement?

If so, it begs the question.

What’s inside?

Aside from old items and documents I mean.

I wonder.

Hmmm…

Perhaps a bowling alley?

A secret library?

Storage and filing cabinets?

Kid Named The Monument Monster:

Shambling horrors living in the White House.

Bottom text.

No I didn’t draw them.

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youareinlovetv · 4 months

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Please look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 USA presidential candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and she is actively trying to help Palestine and to improve conditions for working class people. If you like her, please help spread her name

thank you anon! i hadn’t heard of her before and im always happy to spread the word. thanks for bringing her to my attention! :)

#claudia de la cruz #presidency #palestine #free palestine 🇵🇸#gaza #working class conditions #working class

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deadpresidents · 8 days

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Everyone knows about Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Kennedy, the quartet of America Presidents who fell victim to assassination. Even the most casual observers of Presidential history can probably name the four Presidents who were murdered while in office, and many even know the names of the four assassins responsible for their deaths: Booth, Guiteau, Czolgosz, and Oswald.

There have also been quite a few (in)famous unsuccessful assassination attempts, where Presidents barely escaped with their lives, that many Americans are familiar with, including (but not limited to):

•Richard Lawrence's miraculously unlucky double misfire on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in 1835 which left Andrew Jackson unharmed but resulted in Lawrence -- who would be found not guilty by reason of insanity -- getting viciously pummeled by the cane-wielding President Jackson until Davy Crockett intervened to save the would-be assassin from the 67-year-old President. •The shooting of former President Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee as he sought another term in the White House during the 1912 Presidential election. Despite being shot in the chest, Roosevelt decided to go ahead and deliver his campaign speech before being taken to the hospital where doctors discovered that the bullet lodged inside of TR had first passed through a case for his eyeglasses and the thick pages of his speech in his jacket's pocket, lessening the damage from the gunshot. •The attempted assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami in February 1933, just seventeen days in before FDR's Inauguration, which wounded four people and killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. •The ill-fated 1950 attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to storm Blair House (the temporary Presidential residence during the renovation of the White House) and kill President Harry S. Truman as he was napping. Truman was not hurt, but a White House Police Officer and one of the two assassins were killed during the wild shootout. •President Gerald Ford's trouble with two California women who separately tried to kill him in Sacramento and then San Francisco just two weeks apart in September 1975. •The shocking shooting of President Ronald Reagan in broad daylight from just a few yards away as he exited the Washington Hilton following a speech in March 1981, which left four people wounded and very nearly killed the 70-year-old Reagan just two months into his Presidency.

But what is amazing is that, in this age of instant information and the constant regurgitation of media coverage via the 24-hour news cycle, very few Americans know that there is a man sitting in prison in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for attempting to assassinate President George W. Bush. What even less Americans realize is how close Vladimir Arutyunian actually came to accomplishing his task.

On May 10, 2005, President Bush spoke to a large crowd at an outdoor rally in Tbilisi, Georgia. In one of the photos at the top of this post, Bush is seen speaking from the stage in Tbilisi. The other photo is of Arutyunian holding a plaid handkerchief close to his chest. Wrapped in that handkerchief was a live hand grenade.

As President Bush spoke, nearby sat his wife, Laura, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and the Dutch-born First Lady of Georgia, Sandra Roelofs. They had no idea that, during the speech, Arutyunian tossed his handkerchief-wrapped grenade towards the stage. The grenade landed just 61 feet away from President Bush, well within range of causing serious injury, if not death.

Of course, the grenade did not explode. At first, it was thought to be a dud, but upon closer inspection it was discovered that the only reason the grenade didn't explode was because Arutyunian's handkerchief -- used to conceal the explosive as he stood in the crowd -- was wrapped too tightly around the grenade, preventing the firing pin from deploying. A Georgian security official noticed the grenade, grabbed it quickly and disposed of it as Arutyunian disappeared into the massive crowd and President Bush continued speaking.

After Bush's speech was over and once it was recognized that the President had only narrowly escaped a legitimate attempted assassination, Georgian police worked closely with the United States Secret Service, the FBI, and the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the assassination attempt and find the would-be assassin who seemingly melted into Tbilisi after his brazen, albeit unsuccessful attempt on Bush's life. Using DNA evidence and tips from informants, the Georgian police ultimately tracked down Arutyunian two months later. When they went to arrest Arutyunian, a gunfight broke out and Arutyunian killed Zurab Kvlividze, a top counterterrorism official with Georgia's Interior Ministry. Arutyunian was wounded before finally being captured with the assistance of Georgian Special Forces.

The Georgians tried Arutyunian on the murder of the police officer, as well as the attempted assassinations of President Bush and President Saakshvili. Arutyunian was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. A federal grand jury in the United States also indicted Arutyunian on the federal charge of the attempted assassination of the President of the United States, which is a felony. The U.S., however, has not attempted nor has any potential plans to extradite the failed assassin from Georgia, and Arutyunian will almost certainly spend the rest of his life in a Georgian prison.

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jfkkennedy · 1 year

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On this day in 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States, Senate Caucus room, Washington D.C.

#jfk #john f kennedy #john fitzgerald kennedy #jack kennedy #john f. kennedy #president kennedy #president john f kennedy #kennedy family #the kennedys #president #america #1960s #1960s history #presidency #presidential candidate

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todaysdocument · 1 year

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President Johnson called for a partial halt to bombing in Vietnam, and announced his decision not to run for a second Presidential term, in this speech [page 3] on March 31, 1968.

Collection LBJ-STMNT: Statements Files

Series: Statements Files

File Unit: 3/31/68 Original Drafts "Accordingly I Shall Not Seek - and Would Not Accept the Nomination of my Party for Another Term"

Transcription:

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[typed] What [crossed out] has been [handwritten, inserted] We [typed] won [crossed out] in the unity of all our peoples [handwritten, inserted] when we [crossed out] all our people united [typed] must not now be lost in [crossed out] division [handwritten, inserted] division distrust and selfishness [typed] among any of our people.

Believing as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. With America's sons in the field far away, with America's future under challenge here at home, with our hopes -- and the world's hope -- for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour of my time to any personal partisan causes or [handwritten, inserted] to [resume typed text] duties other than the awesome duties of this office.

Accordingly, I shall not seek -- and [crossed out] would [handwritten, inserted] will [resume typed text] not accept -- the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Let men everywhere [handwritten, inserted] however [resume typed text] know that a strong, confident, vigilant America stands ready to seen an honorable peace and ready to defend an honored cause, whatever the price, whatever the burden, whatever the sacrifice [crossed out] the duties of the future [handwritten, inserted] duty [resume typed text] may require.

#archivesgov #March 31 #1968 #1960s #Vietnam War #lyndon b. johnson #LBJ #presidency

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tenfingers-elevenpies · 1 year

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therealmillardfillmore · 10 months

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Some days I talk about my fascination with presidents like “none of them can be considered objectively good or bad people that can be judged by our modern understanding of what is or isn’t moral, history is complicated” and then I remember Lincoln lost his son in the beginning of the Civil war and then I’m like “history sometimes isn’t complicated, it’s just sad”

#presidency #millard fillmore #america #history #president #american history #presidents #abraham lincoln #lincoln #civil war

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sjerzgirl · 17 days

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Will it take an insanity diagnosis to fix this???

#immunity #presidency #44 presidents #whynow

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