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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Happy 63rd, Mr. President
Happy 63rd birthday to former President Bill Clinton.Labels: Bill Clinton
Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 5:37 AM 
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
A Salute to the American Presidency Project
While researching our new profile of CIA nominee Leon Panetta, we came across this great resource from UC Santa Barbara: It's a monster collection of public papers of the presidents, plus assorted proclamations, remarks, press briefings, election notes, audio and video. (Want to hear Herbert Hoover address the Puerto Rican legislature? Now you can!)It's mostly a 20th-century affair -- the heavy detail starts with Hoover -- but there's still plenty from earlier days. A dreary special message from President Monroe, for instance. ("I transmit to Congress a proclamation, dated the 22d of last month, of the convention made and concluded at Madrid between the plenipotentiaries of the United States and His Catholic Majesty...")
Or, here's Panetta at work in a 1996 press briefing, giving background on the choice of Madeleine Albright as the Secretary of State for Bill Clinton's second term.
TAPP has an almost overwhelming amount of material. It's a great research tool. Highly recommended.
Labels: Bill Clinton, Herbert Hoover, James Monroe, Leon Panetta, Madeleine Albright
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Socks, Former First Cat, is Gravely Ill
Sad news: Socks the Cat is sick with cancer and isn't expected to live.
Socks roamed the White House as Chelsea Clinton's pet from 1993-2001. (The Clintons adopted him way back in 1991, when Bill Clinton was still governor of Arkansas.) When Socks left office in 2001, he went to live with Clinton secretary Betty Currie and her husband in Maryland.
Currie said this summer that Socks had become the Abe Vigoda of presidential pets. When people meet the cat, "'I didn't know Socks was still alive' is the first thing they say."
It's a bummer. But Socks has long since outlived his White House rival, Buddy the Labrador retriever, who was hit by a car in 2002.
Labels: Betty Currie, Bill Clinton, Buddy the Dog, Chelsea Clinton, Socks the Cat
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