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Best for Last?

January 15, 2009 – 9:41 pm

George W. Bush’s address from the East Room of the White House Thursday evening was among his best. To a degree almost unseen before, he was relaxed, calm, and comfortable at the podium. He looked like a man about to be relieved of a great burden – not the burden of making decisions (he seems to [...]

By Ed Walsh (WHWG) | Posted in General | Also tagged , , , | Comments

Whither the Weather?

January 14, 2009 – 11:58 am

A Girl with a Dead Canary

I’d forgotten that single digit temperatures drove Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration inside the Capitol.  And I never knew that in 1873, the weather was so cold for President Grant’s second inaugural that it froze the turkeys intended for the dinner banquet, and killed the decorative canaries that had been [...]

By Vinca LaFleur (WWW) | Posted in Inauguration | Also tagged | Comments