20 of our favorite Presdential images: JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Link, Obama, Reagan, Truman, Ike, Taft, Ford, Clinton

By Jack Brummet, Mona Goldwater, and Pablo Fanque, ATIT Editors

As you know, if you've been reading ATIT for long, one focus on this blog is the U.S. Presidency.  We've published hundreds of articles and photographs of the Presidents over the last seven+ years.  Here are 20 of our favorite images.

Dick Nixon, who would become President some years after this

photo, is lighter than air

President Lyndon Johnson plays with his cattle

President Ronald Reagan studies his crib notes before a speech

16 year old Bill Clinton meets JFK on a field trip to Washington, D.C.

President Dwight Eisenhower is lassoed at his inauguration

President Ronald Reagan goofs for the cameras

President Bill and Hillary Clinton sometime before

he took office

President Gerald Ford meets Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar

President Bill Clinton greets former President Gerald Ford at a dinner
celebrating Ford.  What a sweet picture.

President Jack Kennedy tried to restrain soon to be President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson gives his friend Abe Fortas (Associate Supreme

Court Justice) The Johnson Treatment

In an oddly-mirrored room, President Johnson gives his successor, President Dick

Nixon, the Johnson Treatment

President Abe Lincoln pre-beard

Soon to be President Obama, happy on the campaign trail.  We wish we could see

this look on his face again.

President Dick Nixon meets some actors in space garb.  Jack can't
track this down, but seems to remember it was taken at Disneyland

Paul Krassner's realist gave a twisted spin to this photograph of President Reagan at a meet
and greet.  This is Pablo's favorite Presidential photo, because Pablo is one sick biscuit.

President Howard Taft in all his voluminous glory

A bandaged President Jack Kennedy ekes out the last bit of a cigar

One of Jack's favorites - President Harry Truman serenades Lauren Bacall. After Truman's wife

Bess saw this picture, she hit the roof and forbade him any more shenanigans like this.  This is Mona's favorite, and she says she understands why Bess was angry.  Look at those pins on Bacall!

Maybe the most famous of the all - Blitzed out on goofballs, Elvis meets President Dick Nixon at the White House and asks for an honorary drug agent badge

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Alien Lore No. 219 — Did young Barack Obama visit Mars?

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Editor

photograph of Mars' surface courtesy of JPL/NASA

“Simply put, your task is to be seen and not eaten,” retired astronaut Army Maj. Ed Dames, told a young Barack Obama as he was sent on a mission to Mars.  Wired's Danger Room recently told of  a claim by Andrew D. Basiago and William Stilling (who say they were time-traveling government agents) that the CIA organized missions to explore Mars during the 1980's.  More than one of these missions included the 19 year old future President. 

Basiago and Stilling say that BHO was one of a group of young people selected to teleport and from Mars.  Mr. Obama is said to have visited Mars twice between 1981 and 1983 via a "jump room."

The CIA wished to “establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space” as well as a legal claim to “territorial sovereignty.”  "Obama’s CIA handlers needed him to 'acclimate Martian humanoids and animals to their presence' in order to secure the U.S.-Martian alliance."  

Tommy Vietor, a National Security Council spokesperson says that The President never went to Mars, unless you count "watching Marvin the Martian."

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Barry Goldwater pilots a 737 between Seattle and Everett, Wash.

Thank the Lord he wasn't piloting a bomber!  The original caption to this photo:

"1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater pilots a Boeing 737 twinjet during a visit to Boeing facilities. Goldwater flew the plane from Seattle to Everett, Washington, and back, including take-off and landings, while touring Boeing plants assembling the 737 and 747 superjet."

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Climber rappelling down Pinnacle Peak with Mt. Rainier in the background

click to enlarge - Image courtesy of the Washington State Digital Archives, photographer unknown

This is a great photo of a climber rappelling down Pinnacle Peak, with our neighbor Mount Rainier in the background.  The Nisqually Glacier is prominent.  Most of the largest glaciers in the continental U.S. are on Mount Rainier.  Near the bottom of the mountain, you can see the lodge at Paradise and the network of trails through the meadows.

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late penis growth

Drawing: Faces No. 261 - One line face drawn in 46 seconds

drawing by Jack Brummet

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A Puget Sound Tugboat Yarn – Vancouver to Ballard

By Jack Brummet, Seattle History Editor

[from the Library of Congress Washington State folk life archives]

"I was skipper of a tugboat towin' a boom of logs from Vancouver Island to Ballard in 1911. Most of the way down we had one of them frozen fogs, and it kept gettin' colder all the time. The seagulls had slim pickin's that time of year up the Sound, and they swarmed onto the log boom till you couldn't see the bark.

"One morning, about six hours from Ballard, one of the deck hands noticed that they were flapping their wings considerable without gettin' anywhere, and [?] we come to find out, be'jeeze their feet was frozen to the logs. When we got about opposite Meadow Point, somp'n went wrong with the engine. The Chief reported that it couldn't be fixed without goin' onto dry dock, and there we was, driftin' out there in the fog, with little chance of gettin' any help for twelve hours or so, and a darn good chance of fouling on the point and losin' the boom and our skins besides.

"It looked pretty tough until I got an idea. Then I says to the Steward:

“Charlie, how much sack coal we got left?”

"Charlie says: 'We got five sacks in the hole and one part sack in the galley.'

“That's fine, I think that will be enough to get us into port."

He looks at me an though I had somp'n wrong with my head, and goes off mutterin' to himself. Then I calls the two deck hands and tells them to get the sacks of coal out of the hole and carry them way aft. Then I order all hands an' the cook to stand aft and throw coal at the seagulls on the log boom. And bejeeze, them seagulls flew us and the boom into port."

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Indecision 2012

Are we “stakeholders,"

Helpless bystanders,

Hostages,

Or, just guests

In a political playpen

That doesn't really belong

To us at all?

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Painting: Broken

By Jack Brummet

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Faces No. 259 - faces along Second Avenue

By Jack Brummet

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Ron Paul Photographs

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

"about this long"

"no, maybe this long"

"actually, more like this"

RP with Kelly Clarkson at her endorsement event

The two Rons

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Newt nails down the coveted Todd Palin endorsement

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor

Ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich has secured the coveted endorsement of Todd Palin.  The Ex-Governor's husband told ABC news today that the Gingrich campaign has “burst out of the political arena and touched many Americans.”

Todd Palin, known as the "First Dude" during his wife's term of office, didn't have anything negative to say about the other Republican Presidential candidates, but that his "hat is off to everyone” in the race.

Palin's wife Sarah has yet to endorse any of the candidates for President.

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Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?

By Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Editor

The answer to the question in the display ad in the Austin Chronicle turns out to be no.  At least no one has come forward since this ad was posted last August, just after Governor Rick Perry entered the Presidential contest.  The advertiser *may* have had some takers had they, as Larry Flynt has in the past, offered a significant sum of cash for the story. [Ed's note: the advertiser is a Ron Paul supporter.]

At the time the advertisement appeared, publications like Salon duly noted the appearance of the ad, but also said  there is no evidence Perry has ever engaged in an extra-marital affair, as much as his opponents and the left wanted to believe otherwise.  The text in the ad reads, "Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a 'young hottie' impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? Contact CASH [Committee Against Sexual Hypocrisy], and we will help you publicize your direct dealings with a Christian-buzzwords-spouting, 'family values' hypocrite and fraud."

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