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Tag Archives: Feather Schwartz Foster
VP John Nance Garner: “Cactus Jack”
The longest lived Vice President was FDR’s first VEEP, John Nance Garner. He lived to be just shy of his 99th birthday. JNG: Rural Texan John Nance Garner (1867-1965) lived between Johnsons: born during VP-turned-POTUS Andrew Johnson’s administration, and died … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Andrew Johnson, Cactus Jack, Cactus Jack Garner, FDR, Feather Schwartz Foster, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, history, John F. Kennedy, John N. Garner, John Nance Garner, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Franklin D Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, speaker of the House, TX, US history, Uvalde, Vice Presidential history, VP John Nance Garner
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Passionate Crusaders: A Book Review
All Presidents, no matter how great, wise or popular, will have some black marks on the escutcheon. Sometimes the exigencies of politics lead to decisions that later generations will decry. Such a decision, and such a political exigency is the … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading
Tagged anti-Semitism in State Dept., FDR, Feather Schwartz Foster, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Heather Voight, Henry Morganthau, Jews in Europe during WWII, Passionate Crusaders, Raoul Wallenberg, The Holocaust, The War Refugee Board, US Anti-Semitism in 1940s
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President Garfield’s Train
James A. Garfield, President for barely six months, was dying from an assassin’s bullet. Garfield: The Long Hot Summer The summer of 1881 had been one of the hottest ever remembered by Washingtonians. The temperatures soared over 90 degrees practically … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Garfield
Tagged American history, Charles Francklyn cottage in Long Branch, Charles G. Francklyn, Charles Julius Guiteau, Elberon NJ, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies history, First Lady Lucretia Garfield, Garfield's assassination, Garfield's train to Long Branch, history, James A. Garfield, James Garfield, James Garfield's assassination, Long Branch NJ, Lucretial Garfield, President Garfield's assassination, President James A. Garfield, Presidential history, Presidential history at Long Branch, US history, White House history
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Eleanor Roosevelt Looks In The Pot
Eleanor Roosevelt had a decade of social and political activity when her husband became New York Governor in 1928. But she still had lessons to learn. Eleanor Roosevelt: The Wilderness Years Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), born to an aristocratic New York … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tagged Alfred E. Smith, American history, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt visits prisons, Eleanor Roosevelt's uncle Theodore, FDR, FDR advisor Louis Howe, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady History, Franklin D. Roosevelt's polio, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, history, League of Women Voters, Louis Howe, NY Gov. Al Smith, Presidential history, Sara Delano Roosevelt, US history
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: On the Couch
A book review. Dr. Alma Bond has done it again, penning another psychological (sort of) look at a prominent woman. This time, it is Hillary Clinton, a living person, and as such, treated with kid gloves. The Device Dr. Bond … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Recommended Reading
Tagged American history, Author Alma Bond, Dr. Alma Bond, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton: On the Couch, Hillary Rodham Clinton, history, Jackie O: On the Couch, Lady Macbeth on the Couch, Marilyn Monroe on the Couch, US history, White House history
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Kate Sprague and Roscoe Conkling: Beauty and the Boss
Some of the juiciest gossip post-Civil War centered around NY Senator Roscoe Conkling and Kate Chase Sprague. Both were married, and the liaison was the stuff of scandal! The Beauty Kate Chase Sprague (1840-1899) was one of the best known … Continue reading
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Tagged America history, Chase son-in-law Sprague, Feather Schwartz Foster, Gov. Salmon P. Chase, history, Kate Chase, Kate Chase Sprague, Mary Lincoln, R.I. Gov. William Sprague, Roscoe Conkling, Salmon P. Chase, Sec. of the Treasury Chase, Senator Roscoe Conkling, Senator William Sprague, US history, William Sprague
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Mrs. Hoover’s Bad Habit: The “Surprise Supreme”
Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover started their marriage in China – with six servants. They didn’t need them, but it was customary – in China. The Mining Engineer Both Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were graduates of Stanford University, and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Herbert Hoover
Tagged American history, Belgiam Relief in World War I, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, Girl Scouts, Herbert Hoover, Herbert Hoover during WWI, history, Lou Henry Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover and the Girl Scouts, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential entertaining, Presidential history, Presidential wives, The Food Administration, The White House Surprise Supreme, US history, White House history, White House housekeeper Ava Long, World War I Belgian Relief, World War I Food Administration, WWI Belgian Relief, WWI Food Administration
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Mrs. Madison: The Most Popular First Lady Ever
Other First Ladies have been better looking, more intellectual or talented. But no one has ever been more popular. Everybody Knew Dolley Dolley Madison (1768-1849) was arguably the best known woman in the United States during the first half of … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James Madison
Tagged American history, Congressman James Madison, Dolley Madison, Dolley Madison the political hostess, Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Dolley Madison, George Washington, history, James Madison, Lady Washington's levees, Mrs. Madison, President James Madison, Presidential histor, The Great Little Madison, the Widow Todd, Thomas Jefferson, US history, White House history
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The Stewardship of the Second Mrs. Wilson
“Steward” was the word that Edith Bolling Wilson used to describe herself during the last 18-months of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, when he suffered a crippling stroke. Edith Bolling Wilson: A Conspiracy Theory? Modern historians, freed by the distance of a … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged "the first woman president", American First Ladies, American history, Dr. Cary Grayson, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Edith Bolling Wilson, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Ladies history, First Lady Edith Wilson, First World War, history, Joseph Tumulty, League of Nations, President Woodrow Wilson, Presidential history, Thomas R. Marshall, US history, Vice President Thomas Marshall, White House history, Wilson physician Cary Grayson, Wilson secretary Joseph Tumulty, Wilson VP Marshall, Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson's stroke, World War I
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