Too Early For Halloween

Tomorrow night, the Los Angeles Angels go into this year’s first round of the American League playoffs, facing the Boston Red Sox. Mike Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe recalls the days, three decades ago, when the Angels, in their first foray into the AL...

Annals Of The Obama Administration

The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on the 45 works of art chosen by the First Lady from various government collections to adorn the White House. Loaned art in the Residence • Josef Albers – Homage to the Square: Elected II – Hirshhorn Museum • Josef Albers –...

How RN Saved The Peace Corps

In 1961, President Kennedy started the Peace Corps from an ambitious idea and a Marshall redux of sorts, an all- American volunteer program with three simple goals: 1) to help people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, 2) to help...

Pat Nixon And The Golden Age Of The White House

White House renovator: First Lady Pat Nixon pictured with curator Clement Conger, daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, designer David Richmond Byers III (left, from left to right), and architect Edward Vason Jones (right) in the Green Room in 1971. Much has been written...

Laughing Matters

Saturday Night Live’s cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows — providing the basis of this week’s discussion about whether  and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell...

A Milestone For The White House Fellowships

Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships’s White House website describes the program’s origins: Declaring that “a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society,”...