#POTUS History

[deadpresidents]

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

Letter from a citizen to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, November 25, 1860.

I can't prove it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this citizen didn't vote for Lincoln.

[mysharona1987]

[bonnieura]

2004 just 4 months away ....time is going by so fast

[starredpoet]

first presidential gamer girl

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

Reminder that the President of the United States has complete, unilateral control over America’s nuclear weapons.

Back in 1945, Harry Truman had a bunch of trigger-happy generals who weee overexcited about the new technology that was the nuclear bomb and they basically wanted to bomb everyone so Truman decided that the President, alone, should have the power to decide when to use nuclear weapons and on whom. And that hasn’t changed to this day.

Just something to keep in mind when you’re deciding who to vote for.

[jacks-weird-world]

🪖Jack and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend at Arlington Cemetery, Virginia. Oct 17, 2024

[vintonvalens]

president john f. kennedy in the oval office (1960s).

[roanokesunset]

Picture of JFK sleeping on the campaign trail on the plane Caroline. JFK can also be seen wearing his wedding ring, which those close to him say he seldom wore.

[dick-nixon]

after a night swim at Miami Beach, 1952

[newagevictorianorphan]

george w bush is the kind of awkward funny jd vance thinks he is

[deadpresidents]

President Rutherford B. Hayes (far right), First Lady Lucy Webb Hayes, and their party visiting Yosemite -- which was still ten years away from becoming a National Park -- on October 21, 1880. President Hayes was not only the first President in American history to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office, but he was the first incumbent President to travel west of Salt Lake City and only the second to travel west of the Rocky Mountains (his immediate predecessor, Ulysses S. Grant had visited Utah in 1875).

The President's "Great Western Tour", which lasted from August 26-November 6, 1880 took the Presidential party through Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming Territory, Utah Territory, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, Colorado, and Kansas en route to the Hayes family home, "Spiegel Grove" in Fremont, Ohio in time for Hayes to cast his ballot for fellow Ohioan James Garfield to be his successor.

[mysharona1987]

[bonnieura]

president john f. kennedy photographed watching what is believed to be a james bond film in the white house screening room (c. 1961)

[starredpoet]

I wanted to do this the entire debate he looked so sleepy 😭😭😭

[john-fitzgerald-kennedy]

[tomorrowusa]

50 years ago this month, Richard Nixon resigned as president and Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in to take his place. Nixon was the only president to have resigned but he's not the only one who should have. 😉

Ford was the last truly moderate Republican president. He was a decent and humble man from the Midwest who would be disgusted by the Putin-loving and freedom-hating cult the GOP has become over the past decade.

When he was narrowly defeated by Jimmy Carter in 1976 he graciously conceded and didn't try to instigate extremists to assault the US Capitol.

In the 1980s and 1990s Ford and Carter occasionally appeared together at forums where they both exuded congeniality.

No politician is perfect and Ford is no exception. But the more one learns about the Ford presidency and post-presidency, especially with the past decade's political backdrop, the more there is to respect about him and his devotion to the rule of law.

@fordlibrarymuseum