February 2012
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“I’ve had many people ask me how I got interested in civil rights, and I said,...”
– — Hubert Humphrey (via janf)
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“My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in...”
– June 8, 1968, Senator Ted Kennedy, then 36, delivers the eulogy for his slain brother, Robert Kennedy, in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
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“Frankly, I’m fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us...”
– —Bill Clinton, 1992 (via laphamsquarterly)
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Letters of Note: I wish I could spare Nancy from... →
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How many episodes of our Presidents Collection... →
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President Reagan Buys a Valentine for Nancy
In 1981, before our first Valentine’s Day in Washington, I decided to buy a Valentine for Nancy and told the Secret Service that I wanted to leave the White House for a brief shopping excursion. Their response: a chorus of raised eyebrows. But I told them I had been buying a Valentine for Nancy for almost thirty years and didn’t want to stop now, so they drove me to a little gift store...
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WatchRichard Nixon’s 1972 “Nixon Now” campaign ad jingle Reaching out
To find the way,
To make tomorrow
A brighter day,
Making dreams reality,
More than ever, Nixon now
For you and me.
Nixon now, Nixon now.
He’s made the difference,
He’s showed us how.
Nixon now, Nixon now.
More than ever, Nixon now.
Listen America, Nixon now.
Reaching out
Across the sea,...
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“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge (via thetalkingelk)
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“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded,...”
– James Madison, Political Observations (4/20/1795)
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