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deadpresidents · 22 days

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At a time when success in the Presidency was defined by not being Richard Nixon, journalists put their usual skepticism on hold to celebrate "Grand Rapids homespun...a man who toasted his own English muffins for breakfast" -- a custom, it must be said, born less of Trumanesque simplicity than of Betty Ford's lifelong aversion to rising early ("I can't imagine anything worse than starting off the day with conversation"). "An unabashed lowbrow," according to Newsweek, [Gerald] Ford read the sports page before the rest of the paper. His personal tastes ran to double-knit suits, the Dallas Cowboys, Edgeworth pipe tobacco and bourbon and water. He addressed visitors as "sir" and took copious notes while conversing with Oval Office visitors. A reporter trailing Ford watched as Marines standing outside the West Wing snapped to attention at his approach. One of them opened the door and stood wordlessly by the threshold.

"Hi, I am Jerry Ford," said the President, extending his hand in friendly greeting. "I am going to be living here. What is your name?"

-- Richard Norton Smith, on the dramatic differences in the personalities of Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon and immediate change of atmosphere around the White House following Nixon's resignation, as recounted in Smith's An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO)

#History #Presidents #Gerald Ford #President Ford #Ford Administration #Richard Nixon #President Nixon #Nixon Administration #Resignation of Richard Nixon #Nixon Resignation #White House #Richard Norton Smith #An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford #Presidential History #First Families #Betty Ford #Presidential Personalities

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fictionadventurer · 1 year

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"What if the South won the Civil Wa--"

BORING!!

The only Civil War alternate history worth caring about is, "What if they fixed the sewage issue that was contaminating the White House water supply and killing presidents?"

How does the country progress if William Henry Harrison gets a full term? How do we handle presidential succession with no Tyler Precedent established?

If Zachary Taylor doesn't die, is there no Compromise of 1850? If Taylor lives to push for more strident anti-slavery measures, does this delay war or start it sooner? Does he try a different compromise just to keep the Union together? Or does he push his own ideas so strongly that the South secedes? Imagine if the war starts ten years early with a firmly anti-secessionist Louisiana plantation owner (who until like two years ago was a highly successful general) in the White House. Is this a Robert E. Lee in reverse situation--a man having to choose the Union over his people? There's no way to know, and no one else cares, but for some reason I do.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #i was looking forward to learning about the in-between presidents #but i didn't think i'd find it this interesting #i hoped i'd come out of this with a few unknown presidents catching my interest #but i never would have thought zachary taylor would become a historical blorbo #it's the lost potential that fascinates me i think #plus the contrasts both within his character/life and with his vp #actually his lack of political acumen would probably have made his presidency very boring in this au #which is why it's good you're not counting on me to write alternate histories #but really that sewage thing is so weird and had such an outsized effect on us history that i feel like someone should make use of it

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rabbitcruiser · 3 months

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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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tomorrowusa · 3 months

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Nikki Haley still doesn't get the US Civil War.

Some people flock to Haley as if she were some sort of savior from Donald Trump. While she is probably not the existential threat to democracy that Trump is, she would still be a terrible president. At best she would be George W. Bush in a skirt. She would give even more tax breaks to the filthy rich and appoint far right judges to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.

Not understanding why the Civil War happened should be a disqualification for president. Slavery was all about race. The inability and unwillingness of the US to fix things in the decades after the Civil War is a major reason for lingering inequality.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley claimed the US has “never been a racist country” during an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. Haley’s remarks were in response to MSNBC host Joy Reid’s comments on whether Haley could win the GOP nomination as a woman of color. Haley suggested Reid “lives in a different America than I do,” pointing to her own rise from the daughter of immigrants to governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations. [ ... ] When asked by host Brian Kilmeade if the GOP is a racist party, Haley made a broader point that the US has “never been a racist country.”

In all fairness, Ron DeSantis is saying pretty much the same thing.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is vying with Haley to become the top alternative to former President Donald Trump, was asked to respond to the former governor’s comments at a CNN town hall on Tuesday night. Though he did not initially address the claim directly – instead touting his opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs that he says promote unfair racial bias – he went on to say the US “is not a racist country.” “The US is not a racist country, and we’ve overcome things in our history,” he said.

Well, one major thing to overcome in 2024 is the threat to freedom posed by Republicans.

Don't let anybody get away with saying that both parties are alike. Nikki Haley's latest comment is just the latest reminder that they aren't.

#nikki haley #racism #slavery #us civil war #historical illiteracy #republicans #gop presidential nomination #vote blue no matter who #election 2024

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postcard-from-the-past · 6 months

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Presidential visit in Montpellier, Languedoc region of southern France

French vintage postcard

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tototavros · 3 months

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However you feel about Chevron (the judicial doctrine), the argument in Relentless v. Dept of Commerce has been a good & interesting dispute on American political theory. Much better, in my view, than almost all 'opinion pieces' on the subject.

#granted listening to the Advisory Opinions podcast on it beforehand helped open my eyes to the fact that flipflopping #of agencies every presidential election was not foreordained but confirmed only recently -- in the Brand X case #permitting new agency interpretations to trump stare decisis in the circuits #also i haven't heard people talking about how Chevron importantly took power away from the *DC* circuit.#but maybe litigation against agencies has developed so they can now sue in their most favored circuit given modern forum shopping practices #but on the gripping hand i'm vaguely aware that the DC circuit has a privileged place in agency litigation in at least some contexts #but that awareness; vague as it is; might have been merely historical.

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stricklandvintagewatches · 1 year

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We remember President Washington on President’s day by highlighting his solid gold, key-wind pocket watch with virgule escapement crafted by none other than Jean-Antoine Lepine, watchmaker to Louis XVI. Washington commissioned his friend and fellow statesman Gouverneur Morris to purchase the watch in 1788 while Morris was on diplomatic duty to Paris. Washington paid 25 guineas for the piece, the equivalent of $10,000 today. Photos are courtesy of NAWCC

#george washington #presidents day #first american president #presidential watch #pocket watch #historic pocket watch #timepiece #historic timepiece #watches #men's watches #presidents watches #american history #horology #horological machines #vintage horology #lepine watch #early pocket watch

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presidentofacrater · 1 year

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Tubbo S. Underscore, former president of New L'Manberg, currently in Snowchester. He/Him, this blog is mostly for personal use, press questions will not be accepted. Ask me about nuclear physics or space or something idk

this is a canon divergent snowchester (formerly new lmanberg) era ctubbo rp blog for an rp group! all the rp blogs are from different universes. this blog is run by @phantoids

Icon is by @mothssoup and header is by @shrinkydiink

other rp blogs in the curtain callers (curtaincallverse): @oblitusglacies dsmp philza blog ran by @neonfading @buryyourcanaries jimmy blog ran by Toast @friendoftubbo dsmp tommy blog ran by @earmuffstar @symphoniecalando dsmp wilbur blog ran by @neonfading @daydreamnightmares dream blog ran by @phantoids @loyaltiesmaylie dsmp punz blog ran by @phantoids @oceans-blessings empires 1 lizzie blog ran by @earmuffstar @mezalean-mezzatinta empires 1 joel blog ran by @neonfading @saintedhands empires 1 pearl blog ran by Toast @bloodiedhands-witheredheart empires 1 sausage ran by @earmuffstar

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ruburnz · 1 year

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i know who you pretend i am

#edith! podcast #edith! (2021)#edith wilson #woodrow wilson #<- but like specifically the podcast versions not like. The Real Historical Figures #designwise i tried to take elements from the voice actors and stuff + also the historical figures #all this to say Please Don’t Come After Me For Drawing Dead Racists <\3 #anyway if you like this podcast and/or 20th century us presidential history you should like. Come talk to me. im like obsessed with it #i have nobody to meme on these dead old guys with #anyway sorry for ranting in tags kk bye #tagged as me

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xantia1997 · 2 years

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Presidential Debate

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deadpresidents · 5 months

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"He's All Right." was genuinely one of the slogans of Benjamin Harrison's 1888 campaign for President. They didn't even use an exclamation point. It was just "He's All Right." with a period.

He won!

Or maybe I should say: "He won."

(Photo courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society's website.)

#History #Presidents #Benjamin Harrison #President Harrison #Presidential History #Presidential Elections #Presidential Campaigns #Campaign Slogans #1888 Election #Harrison-Morton '88 #He's All Right.#Indiana Historical Society #Elections #Campaigns #Election History #Politics #Presidential Politics #Political History

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fictionadventurer · 11 months

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George Washington = Spock

Abraham Lincoln = The Scarlet Pimpernel

#history is awesome #presidential talk #follow me for more highly sophisticated historical analysis!

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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The Presidential Proclamation 2537 which required that Americans from Germany, Italy or Japan must register with the Department of Defense, was issued on January 14, 1942. Proclamation No. 2537 permitted the arrest, detention and internment of enemy aliens who violated restricted areas, such as ports, water treatment plants or even areas prone to brush fires, for the duration of the war. Roosevelt reluctantly signed Executive Order 9066, which sent many Japanese-American families into internment camps, on February 19, 1942.

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tomorrowusa · 8 months

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Being a dumb shit with neo-fascist sympathies seems to be a requirement for getting more than 5% in polls for the Republican presidential nomination.

Vivek Ramaswamy is the youngest candidate for the GOP nomination and Donald Trump is the oldest one. There are no significant differences in their positions on policy; age apparently has little bearing on how one would govern.

Ramaswamy and Trump both sound like they learned history from Madison Cawthorn.

#vivek ramaswamy #civics #historical illiteracy #citizenship #donald trump #madison cawthorn #gop presidential nomination #election 2024 #tristan snell

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postcard-from-the-past · 6 months

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Return from a Presidential visit to the Port of Dunkerque, French Flanders region of France

French vintage postcard

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nickysfacts · 2 years

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A reminder that Karl Marx was a strong supporter of democracy and freedom!

🇺🇸☭

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