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Mike Purdy

@PresHistory

Presidential Historian | Founder: https://xitter.gq/t.co/YG77VOndhj | Author of "Presidential Friendships: How They Changed History” | Speaker | Media commentator.

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Joined August 2011
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Founders #POTUS 🇺🇸
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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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Good morning ☕ Have a safe #MemorialDayWeekend 🇺🇸 #StaySafe
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John F. Kennedy and his grandmother, Mary Josephine "Josie" Fitzgerald, 1962: 📷: @JFKLibrary
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Good morning ☕ Have a blessed Sunday 🙌 #BeLikeJimmy
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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
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Good morning ☕ #tuesdaymotivations #BeLikeJimmy
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This is believed to be the last “posed” photograph of William McKinley 🇺🇸 before he was assassinated (5 September 1901) #POTUS
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Mary Lincoln drives/rides from the Executive Mansion to the Soldiers' Home today in 1861, the reason not known. But the Home is destined to be their summer residence as well as where Mr. Lincoln will write his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.
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Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Richard Nixon at Hubert Humphrey's funeral, 1978: 📷: @USNatArchives
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Good morning ☕ Have a blessed Sunday!
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An enslaved worker at Montpelier left his or her fingerprints on this brick. The small size of fingerprints typically found on bricks suggests that #women or #children were among the enslaved brickmakers. 📸 by staff member, Zeb Gray
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WJC 🇺🇸 #POTUS
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Today in 1809 in a single-room log cabin near what is now Hodgenville, Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln is born to Nancy Hanks Lincoln and her husband Thomas. #AbrahamLincoln
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During his recovery from polio FDR spent several winters on a houseboat off the coast of Florida. First is February, 1926 w/ Maunsell Crosby and Oswald Mosley. Second with large fish 1924. @FDRLibrary @NormaIPresident @triviapotus @PrezWisdom
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"My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man..."
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Abraham Lincoln. The photograph is undated. Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809. Happy birthday to him!
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Good morning ☕ * Jimmy's Inaugural address: "As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say 👇
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