A current meme on women running for President

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.


This image has been making the rounds. . .it originated on Common Culture (or, they added their name to it).

But where's Senator Warren?? Like Hillary, she doesn't probably have a *huge* shelf life either. If anything like this scenario plays out, Hillary will be a one term President. She will go one and done. Which leaves Elizabeth Warren in 2020, possibly thwarting the interwoven double dynasties of the Houses of Clinton and Obama.

---o0o---

Norman Rockwell's portrait of President Richard M. Nixon

By Pablo Fanque, Nat. Affairs Ed.

There is something kind of bizarre about Norman Rockwell's portrait of President Richard M. Nixon.  It feels like he captured the real essence of. . .someone else.

---o0o---

President Ronald Reagan aims a rifle in Air Force One

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

President Ronald Reagan aims a rifle out a window of Air Force One, circa 1983.  I guess he armed up after the assassination attempt.  Source: unknown.

---o0o---

Favorite Photos of the Post-WWII Presidents

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

This is a compilation of some of our favorite pictures of the post-WWII presidents, Including HST, since he was President both during and after World War II. . .

Harry S. Truman:

on piano with Lauren Bacall

Harry at a hootenanny?

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Ike cooks

Ike Lasso'd as part of the Inaugural festivities

John F. Kennedy:

Camelot

Jack

Jack attempts to stifle Lyndon

Lyndon B. Johnson:

Giving the Johnson treatment to his pal Abe Fortas

 Johnson, enjoyed spooking visitors at his Johnson City, Texas ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar, into his property's lake, shouting that the brakes wouldn't work.

Dick Nixon cornered by multiple LBJs

Richard M. Nixon:

Dick and Mao and history

Clowning for the press

The famous kitchen debate with Nikita Kruschev

Gerald R. Ford:

Watching election returns with his pal Joe Garagiola. He was stomped by Jimmy Carter. 

The President meets up with Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar

Near the end of his life, a sweet moment with President Clinton 

James E. Carter:

On a campaign stop at his notorious brother Billy's gas station

Five Presidents

Jimmy plays harmonica for his pal Willie Nelson

Ronald W. Reagan:

George Bush:

William J. Clinton:

George W. Bush:

Barack H. Obama:

---o0o---

LBJ drives his car into a lake

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

LBJ driving his amphibious car.  He liked to scare visitors to his ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar into his property’s lake, "while shouting that the brakes had broken.”

---o0o---

President Ronald W. Reagan rides a missle

By Jack Brummet

This is a 1981 photo of a statue of President Ronald Wilson Reagan of the United States on a missile. This was a protest sculpture on the street Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal (really?!) in Amsterdam.  RWR appears to be emulating the final Slim Pickins scene in Dr. Strangelove.

---o0o---

LBJ shows his gall bladder surgery scars at an impromptu press conference

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

In 1965, LBJ was released from the hospital after gall bladder and kidney stone surgery.  LBJ being LBJ, he stopped for the press, and instead of answering questions, pulled his shirt up and gave one of the strangest presidential photo ops of all time.  I can almost hear him narrating this...

---o0o---

Poem: Autopsy of a President

By Jack Brummet

Weak character coupled with an honored place,
Half-baked knowledge with big plans,

And limited reason with heavy responsibility
Will not escape disaster.

                          ---o0o---

Another rough day at The White House

By Jack Brummet 

They're having a lot of them of late.

 ---o0o---

Coincidences? JFK & Abe Lincoln

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Ed.

I don't know if you remember this ancient (pre-meme) meme, but here it is, slightly updated...

 ---o0o---

The complete (so far) painting oeuvre of George W. Bush (24 paintings and counting)

By Jack Brummet, Painting and American Art History Ed.

As you have possibly read, a hacker--Guccifer--purloined these photographs of Ex-President George W. Bush and his paintings by hacking into the Bush family's email.  He originally furnished the stolen photos to The Smoking Gun and recently, to Gawker.  Three batches have been released so far.  We already knew a little about POTUS 43's painting from his art teacher's website and interviews.

Guccifer hacked the accounts of Dorothy Bush Koch and at least five others with close ties to the Bush dynasty. To highlight his brilliance, he furnished The Smoking Gun with a series of paintings  by Ex-President George W. Bush.  He also included a string of emails about Bush’s ailing father, POTUS 41. And, this week, he sent along to Gawker a new batch of photos of Dubyah's oil paintings. 

A scary dog behind bars with a prospect of the White House

In a package on Georgia’s WAGA-TV, Bush 43’s art teacher, Bonnie Flood, said the president regularly opts to draw household pets.

“He started off painting dogs. I think he said he painted 50 dogs,” Flood said. “He pulled out this canvas and started painting dogs and I thought, ‘Oh my God, I don’t paint dogs!”

Cats, dogs, and a still life

a photo of the President's painting of his recently deceased dog Barney

The artist at work, painting a church

Self portrait in the shower

Bathtub self-portrait

Twelve photos of paintings that Guccifer gave to Gawker

---o0o---