Living Presidents of the United States

By Pablo Fanque
National Affairs Editor
illustration by Jack Brummet
We have a pretty good crop of living Presidents right now.  In 2001-2004, there were six, and there were a couple of other groups of six in our history, some fives, and on and on.  There have been six Presidents who, while they were in office (or during their terms) were the sole living President (George Washington (1789–97), John Adams (1799–1801), Ulysses S. Grant (1875–77), Theodore Roosevelt (1908–09), Herbert Hoover (1933), and Richard Nixon (1973–74).

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The collected Weiner Tweets from All This Is That

By Pablo Fanque,
National Affairs Editor

Although we didn't write many (any?) pieces on ATIT about the Weiner Broil, we did indeed keep up and did a fair amount of tweeting on the subject (probably 2/3 of them were from Jack).  And with this, I don't think we'll be doing much thinking about The Honorable Representative from New York,  unless he announces he's running for President, hangs himself or something similarly drastic. 

The All This Is That Tweets:

I think the Weiner story cycle is finally detumescing. #WeinerGate #FadeToBlack

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@RickSantorumPRRick Santorum PR RT @RickSantorumPR "We may have our differences; but I'm impressed by how Nancy Pelosi handles Weiner." 

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"Pelosi Demands Removal of Weiner" #WeinerHeadlines #SexRehab 

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@AlecBaldwin I thought your piece on Weiner was sensitive, thoughtful, and apt. So, are the knuckleheads taking you to task?

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"Boehner Won't Bite on Weiner" http://bit.ly/lLUdy7 Yes, the real headline. #WeinerHeadlines 

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Borowitz on Weiner's press conference: “It’s tough to know what he was really thinking because he was standing behind a podium.” 

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Women Who Received Pictures of Weiner March on Washington ("Traffic snarled for miles") Borowitz--> http://bit.ly/l1wCFD 

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Ethics panel plans to grill Weiner. #Weinerheadlines

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"The congressman had a sex scandal and had to apologize to Bill Clinton? For what?! Copyright infringement?" —Jon Stewart
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Harry Reid:--"Senator, what advice would you give him if he asked you?" Reid: "Call somebody else." #deadmanwalking

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Glenn Beck, Anthony Weiner, John Boehner and remembering back to when Edmund Muskie's crying speech ended his Pr... http://bit.ly/j9xtNv

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Anthony Weiner: Dead Man Walking: In his delayed press conference this afternoon, Congressman Anthony Weiner sa... http://bit.ly/irLwjz

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RT@samsteinhp "were you fully erect!?" Reporter asks to close out press conference. PERFECT

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live from the press conf--[boohoos] Weiner: I lied. I did it all. I'm not resigning. #deadmanwalking 

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RT @BorowitzReport: What every parent needs to know: http://bit.ly/kZ0leE How to talk about Anthony Weiner w/ your kids! #Ick 

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Juli Weiner To Anthony Weiner, On Weiner Jokes: ‘It Gets Better’ http://bit.ly/k9fh2Q #AnyOneWantOdds? 

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Weiner's quote "I can't say with certitude [it's mine]" goes down w/ "I did not inhale" as feeblest ever... #DidntWorkForBill

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Scared Tweetless --http://www.webpronews.com/weinergate-scares-congressional-tweeters-2011-06
#ScaredTweetless #Weinergate #RunningScared

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Digital art: Five Presidents Standing

by Jack Brummet

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Faces No 221 and 222 - four scratchboard sketches from April, 2010, Udaipur, India

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Faces No. 220: 'cube mates - drawings by Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 218 - drawing by Jack Brummet

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From The Archives: The NYC Slides, Part 2

By Jack Brummet
Chief Archivist


A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983. I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there. I always intended to also put them on All This Is That. And, now, I am finally getting around to it. This new batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982). Coming next, Bellingham, Seattle, and Europe.

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Jerry, Vicki, Kevin in the garden next doot yo 158 W. 84th St.

collaped lung/double pneumonia, 1977

Frances, 1978, in NYC

Jack, Cheryl, and Keelin outside a cabaret

Colin and Karen ??, NYC, 1977

Vicki and Jack on the subway

Pinky and Jack at work @ Carl Fischer, 62 Cooper Square

Keelin at a dairy restaurant in Chelsea?

Jack, Julius Caesar, and Kevin/Franco

Jack and Jack at 158 W 84th St

Colin Curran, 1966

Jack on the Brooklyn Promenade with WTC in the background

Keelin on our rooftop of our loft at 351 Jay Street

Vicki, Jack, and Jerry at 158

Jack and Mary Durkan-Jones outside our apartment on Chrystie Street near The Bowery

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From The Archives: The NYC Slides, Part 1

By Jack Brummet
Chief Archivist

A couple of months ago, I began scanning a box of slides we have from the years 1973 to around 1983.  I posted them on Facebook because many of the surviving subjects/participants are on there.  I always intended to also put them on All This Is That.  And, now, I am finally getting around to it.  This first batch is from the years we lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn (1977-1982).

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Parade in Brooklyn, shot from our fire escape at 324 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Franco, Claudia Curran, Nick, and me at President Nixon's brownstone, 1980

Jack and Franco, late at night on the UWS

Me, Nick, and Franco on our stoop on West 84th Street

Me with a wonderful painting Pinky and Cheryl Loaned us for the entire time we lived on 84th St

Jerry Melin and Jan, Upper West Side, 1981

Me, with my gal and my pal.  In heaven, or what?

Keelin, across the street from our apartment in Brooklyn

Keelin, Jan, and Jack in Brooklyn

Franco posing near faux armor, NYC

Franco and Nick outside a theatre in NY?

Nick, Franco, Jack, and Topiary

Miya (heart)

'Moto. but not quote sure where...it probablyis not Manhattan

'Moto, Nick, Kevin, and Jack on our stoop @ 158 W. 84th St. NYC

Nick, 'Moto, and Franco aka Kevin

Sean, on our fire escape at the Atlantic Avenue Parade

Pinky, turning Japanese.

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An angry letter to President Harry S. Truman, and an angry letter he seemed to take to heart

By Jack Brummet
Democratic Party Affairs Editor

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This angry letter was sent to President Harry Truman in 1953 by George Banning's father.  Banning was killed serving in the Korean War.

I'm sure Presidents at war get letters like this all the time.  Now, HST had a pretty thick skin, but something in this letter must have gotten under his skin.  When HST died some 20 years later, the letter--along with the Purple Heart Mr. Banning sent--was found in his desk.

Scan of this letter is courtesy of the Truman Library.

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The DeMerits

Getting to meet, and cook dinner for, Sooz's parents was awesome. I'd never spent time with a baseball player from the bigs before (John DeMerit played with the Mets and Braves with Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn the year they won the World Series). He had some great stories. And both of them were complete sweethearts (photo on my/Susan DeMerit's page).  This night also confirmed what I've always felt about my friends from the middle of the country:  salt of the earth.

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Alien Lore No. 208 - a sketch of two UFOs from Great Britain

This sketch is one of many documents the British government released in the last couple of years from their vast collection of UFO files.

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Ruins: The Temple of Apollo at Corinth, and the Corinth Canal

By Jack Brummet, Travel Editor

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This is a photo from our first trip to Greece.  It is a distant view, at dusk, of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Corinth.  And one of the first (of many) ruins I would visit over the next 30 years.  As beautiful as this is, Corinth is also the site of the pretty amazing Canal of Corinth (see photo below), which was completed in 1893.  It is a pretty amazing thing to see--and think about what they had to do in the late 19th century to remove all that rock.

After 14 months without visiting any ruins or ancient sites, I am getting itchy feet...

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