I know we say this every year, but can you believe how quickly this year has flown by? It seems like just yesterday we were speculating on what the upcoming election campaign was going to look like, and now we've had several bushels of debates and are about to embark on the primaries and caucuses. The Obama presidency will soon begin in last full ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween 2015. Today is a good time for a ghost story, potus_geeks style, specifically one about a Presidential ghost. There have been several stories about the ghost of Abraham Lincoln revisiting the White House. It has been reported that Lincoln's Ghost, otherwise known as The White House Ghost, is said to have haunted the White House since his death ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween 2014. I thought that this might be a good time for a ghost story, specifically one about a Presidential ghost. There have been several stories about the ghost of Abraham Lincoln revisiting the White House. It has been reported that Lincoln's Ghost, otherwise known as The White House Ghost, is said to have haunted the White House ( Read more... )

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On Halloween of 1963 (50 years ago today), President John F. Kennedy had an event on his calendar that many would find to be a scary experience: lunch with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The lunch had been arranged earlier in the week after Hoover met with Senate leaders Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen in an effort to convince them not to pursue ( Read more... )

Author Thurston Clarke, in his recent book JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, notes that President John F. Kennedy was relieved on Tuesday morning October 29, 1963, that none of the newspapers were aware of any potential scandal involving him and Ellen Rometsch. Kennedy had a cabinet meeting ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween everyone. Carving pumpkins is nothing like carving a mountain, but on October 31, 1941 (71 years ago today) work on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial was completed. The faces of four presidents were carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota. The project was sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope it's a fun day wherever you are. Today I offer you this YouTube video showing the preparations involved in the transformation of the White House into Halloween mode. It also shows what the Obamas will be giving out to the trick-or-treaters.

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And here's one that shows how the Halloween decorations turned out:

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OK so this isn't really president related at all....but figured I had to include the last chapter.  :)

Originally posted by direcorrector at Presidential Tour Part V: There And Back Again
 I started my day with a scenic drive to Hell.  Hell turns out to be in a very lovely part of lower Michigan full of trees and lakes.....just normal water lakes, no lakes of ( Read more... )

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