Tag: President of the United States

This is a shot of President Calvin Coolidge at an event for the Boy Scouts of America at the White House.

A great new site launched today and the GoDC community is going to love this one. It's called Bigwig Digs, put together by the...

In September 1955, President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while visiting Denver. He was rushed to Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, where he would spend seven...

This is great old film footage of John F Kennedy in the Oval Office. The narration is in German (I believe - correct me...

How tragic is this? On June 15th, 1966, President Johnson's beagle was accidentally run over by the White House limousine in the driveway of...

If you read this piece in the Washington Post on Wednesday morning, November 20th, 1963, you probably didn't think much of it. President Kennedy was...

The assassination of President Lincoln is one of the most, if not the most, tragic event in the history of Washington. Lincoln was shot...

If you know who POTUS 25 is off the top of your head, congratulations. You are an über history geek. Enjoy the Libary of...

GoDCer and long-distance reader Ben sent in a request to do a little digging on local favorite Old Ebbitt Grill. The restaurant has a...

This is a guest post by John (from The Lion of Anacostia), cross-posted here. While trying to confirm President Hayes visited Douglass at Cedar Hill, I came across this...

Last week, we did a quick post on Fort Lincoln Heights. Now, I'd like to focus a little more on Deanwood, the former neighborhood...

To satisfy your hunger for more Officer Sprinkle, I took a look into where he lived in 1900. At the time, he was 34...

If you're a history buff -- and a presidential history buff -- you're well aware of the 1876 U.S. Presidential election. This is not...

This is a great find. I was digging through old newspapers in the Library of Congress' Chronicling America archives and came across this from the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmMzhjgPxs This is a clip from President Johnson's speech before signing the bill into law. This was only a week after the assassination of Martin...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zeCxh_CjEQ You may not know this, but there was a very public assassination attempt on a President very near the White House and it wasn't...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WnsH06pGQ This is an excellent silent film from 1929. It begins with outgoing president Calvin Coolidge and Hoover entering a vehicle and being taken to...

Per a comment received on the Warren Harding slide show, here's a one for his successor, Calvin Coolidge. So, Kai ... here's a bunch of...

Warren G. Harding sure didn't look like a friendly guy. In just about every photograph I see of him, he looks like he's scowling....

This is pretty amusing and a nice short video to share on a Sunday. This is the opening of Ronald Reagan's first State of...

President Eisenhower needed a quick and effective way to travel from Washington to his summer home in Rhode Island. Air Force One was too...