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• Presidents Day Conclusion: Lessons for Barack Obama, 2012.

  

  I hope you have enjoyed our extended Presidents Day walk down memory lane with the eleven one-term presidents who failed to win re-election, from John Adams... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Finally: The Last One-termer, George H.W. Bush.

  

  George H.W. Bush taking the oath from Chief Justice William Rehnquist on January 20, 1989. Onlookers include House Speaker Jim Wright, Senator Ted Stevens,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• The Next Presidential One-termer: Jimmy Carter.

  

  Jimmy Carter answering questions as president. [Clirk here for (a) part I of this series, the first eight one-term presidents: John Adams to William Howard... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Next in the Pantheon of One-Termers: Herbert Hoover.

  

  President Herbert Hoover with wife Lou Henry. [Click here for part I of this series, the first eight one-term presidents: John Adams to William Howard Taft.]... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• The One-term Presidents: Role Models for Obama to Avoid.

  

  John Quincy Adams (image circa 1840), not a happy-looking man. Obama, don't be like him !!!Links to this entire series: (a) For part I (the first eight... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Blogger: Jewell Fenzi on the Notorious Tea Pot Dome Scandal.

  

  Original 1924 campaign poster for Democrats John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan, running for president and vice president vs. Republicans Calvin Coolidge and... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Presidents Day Warm-up 3: TR and the Panama Canal, 1906.

  

  "The President in Panama," by Clifford Berryman for the Washington Star, 1906.Just five more days till Presidents Day !!A good president should enjoy the job,... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• New Friend on the Internet -- The Washington Independent Review of Books

  

  Listen up !!! This is important !!! This morning, an important new journalistic venture made its first appearance on the Internet: the Washington Independent... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2011 CULTURE