Presidential Historian | Founder: https://xitter.gq/t.co/YG77VOndhj | Author of "Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History” | Speaker | Media commentator.
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My book “Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History” is now available to buy on Amazon, at bookstores, & online sources. In this 3 min. video I read from the beginning of one chapter. Cherish the friends in your own life. #newbook #friendship #potus #roosevelt #fdr #lbj
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James Madison’s last days were spent at his home, Montpelier, in his downstairs, his study turned bedroom. Why? He could no longer use the stairs. At 85, he was frail, weak, in poor health, slowing fading away. Poor as his health was, his mental faculties were strong.
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John Adams 🇺🇸 and George HW Bush 🇺🇸 were the only Presidents whose sons (John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 and George W Bush 🇺🇸) also became President.
#POTUS
#FathersDay
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John F. Kennedy and his grandmother, Mary Josephine "Josie" Fitzgerald, 1962:
📷: @JFKLibrary
Agreed that this is a great book!
📚 BOOK OF THE DAY 📚
An absolutely great book about the life and times of James Garfield 🇺🇸 - particularly the events and scientific worldview that existed at the time of his shooting and eventual death
10/10 recommend! ⭐️
#POTUS 📖
@GarfieldNPS
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This was a fun interview about my book “Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History.”
Watch it! Mike Purdy @PresHistory brings two pairs of U.S. presidents (Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft, FDR & LBJ) in "Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History." Thanks to @FeatherSFoster and @DPietrusza for their contributions. youtu.be/ikQUxbt9z5Y
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That was one hungry crowd at the White House!
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He made the time for it and avoided social media!
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Congratulations! Sounds like a fascinating book.
Final manuscript submitted for my next book, "The Memory of '76: The Revolution in American History," which explores the history of how Americans have remembered & fought over the meaning & legacy of the AmRev for nearly 250 years. They tell me it will be available next spring.
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Today in 1832, men from New Salem, IL, having volunteered to serve in the militia during the Black Hawk War, meet and elect Lincoln the captain of their company. He states in his 1860 autobiography that this gave him more satisfaction than any other success.
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60 Yrs ago in 1963 Future President Bill Clinton shook hands with President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden of the White House. Clinton was a 16-year-old attending the American Legion Boys Nation program – at Queens, NY
Impact of Trump's indictment on 2024 election 'remains to be seen,' local presidential historian says | king5.com king5.com/video/news/nationa…
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This is believed to be the last “posed” photograph of William McKinley 🇺🇸 before he was assassinated
(5 September 1901)
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History together.
Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, 2009:
📷: @GWBLibrary
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