White House Thanksgiving Turkeys in the Roaring '20s
First families received turkeys as gifts long before the 1920s. Horace Vose, the “Poultry King” of southwestern Rhode Island, first sent...
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President Nixon accepts and "pardons" a gift Thanksgiving turkey in front of the West Wing colonnade on November 18, 1969.
First families received turkeys as gifts long before the 1920s. Horace Vose, the “Poultry King” of southwestern Rhode Island, first sent...
Dignified, tall, and handsome, with clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Chester A. Arthur "looked like a president." The son of a...
Son of a president, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints...
James Monroe was perhaps the most qualified citizen ever to serve as president of the United States. Born in 1758 in...
Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns,...
Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was probably more remarkable as a political philosopher than a politician. "People and nations are...
"I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it," declared Eliza Johnson when told how the Senate had voted in her...
Bringing to the presidency his vast experience as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II,...
1923, while visiting in Vermont, Calvin Coolidge received word that Warren G. Harding was dead and he was president. By the...
Abraham Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address, "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine,...
At his inauguration, James Madison, a small, wizened man, appeared old and worn; Washington Irving described him as "but a...
With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an...