The current Seal for the President of the United States made its debut at the 1949 Inauguration for Harry S. Truman.
A picture of the seal at the Inaugural Gala at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D. C. Harry, Bess, and Margaret Truman are seated in the bleachers. First row, at left. 01/19/1949.
-from the Truman Library
–President Kennedy, 1963 State of the Union Address, January 14, 1963 (via jfklibrary)
Candidates, 1960
Senator John F. Kennedy visiting Senator Lyndon B. Johnson at the LBJ Ranch in Texas during the 1960 Presidential campaign. November 16, 1960.
Barack Obama: I am told that the last three speakers here have been the Pope, Her Majesty the Queen and Nelson Mandela; which is either a very high bar, or the beginning of a very funny joke.
America this one is a keeper okay
lol.
(Source: flushedwithcash, via brooklynmutt)
On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech that electrified a crowd gathered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. As he paid tribute to the spirit of Berliners and to their quest for freedom, the crowd roared with approval upon hearing the the President’s dramatic pronouncement, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
President Kennedy used this handwritten note card while delivering his speech. On it, he phonetically spelled German phrases from his speech, including “Ish bin ein Bearleener.” Read More
May 29, 1917: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Born
On this day in 1917, John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Cape Cod served as the backdrop for Kennedy family gatherings over many years. Browse this gallery of Kennedy family photographs taken at the Hyannis Port compound.
Photos from the John F. Kennedy Library, Boston.
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JFK, Profiles in Courage (via jfklibrary)
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LBJ was impressed with the intellectual Kennedy advisors, even if he was something of an outsider among them. Later, LBJ told of how he had spoken admiringly of them to his mentor Speaker Sam Rayburn, who said:
“Well, Lyndon, you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.”
—Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest, New York: Random House, 1972, p. 41.
Top: Richard Goodwin, JFK and Dean Rusk. 2nd row, L-R: Larry O’Brien, McGeorge Bundy, and Ted Sorensen. Bottom: Robert McNamara and Pierre Salinger.
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Happy Take Your Child to Work Day! Here’s a photo of President Kennedy with his children, Caroline and John Jr., in the Oval Office. (Cecil Stoughton/White House)
Secret Service Nicknames for First Families
I told you it was Lace.
I question the advisability of posting the current administration’s names, though.
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