Dusted off, presidential treasures shine.Reports on `The President's Attic,' exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum in West Branch, Iowa. The show features both gorgeous and gaudy collectibles from around the world.EBSCO_AspAmericana...
Ford's library and museum are in two different locations. The Gerald R. Ford Library is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Michigan. The Gerald R. Ford Museum is in Grand Rapids, 130 miles west of Ann Arbor, in Gerald Ford's hometown. The Fo...
Previous presidents were all born in the Eastern part of the county, but Hoover was the first to be born west of the Mississippi. He grew up in the very small town of West Branch, Iowa, and reportedly never even crossed the Mississippi until he was 22 years old. Advertisement...
Primary politics: Every four years, presidential wannabes spend months chatting up voters in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada and Michigan in hopes that winning the nation’s earliest primaries and caucuses will vault them into the White House come November. Each...
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Gerald Ford was the first president to recognize Black History Month in 1976 | Library of Congress So, first things first—and this will involve a few white presidents—how did Black History Month come into being? Gerald Ford first recognized Black History Month in 1976, the nation’s bicenten...
became the oldest president-elect in the country’s history. So quick and decisive was the verdict of the voters that Carter delivered hisconcessionspeech even before the polls had closed on the West Coast. “I promised you four years ago that I would never lie to you,” the president told...
That lead did not last long. Bush, who had gotten off to a poor start in the primaries, finishing third inIowabehind Robertson andDole, made an impressive comeback. He outpolled Dole and Kemp in the February 16New Hampshirevote and did well onSuper Tuesday. On March 29, after Bush won...
of his prominent stature, he found considerable support at the party’s convention in Chicago in late June, easily winning the nomination over David B. Hill, who had succeeded him as governor ofNew York, andIowaGov. Horace Boies. The Democrats’ vice presidential candidate wasAdlai Stevenson, ...
Kaine was a centrist Democrat, befitting a politician who was from a state that had aconservativerural sector in the south and west and liberal urban and suburban enclaves in the north and east. Virginia also had a large military presence, and Kaine took a strong interest in defense and vete...