The Man With The Cowboy Hat & Tan Suit

03. Sep, 2019 1 Comment

Jim Leavelle

August 23, 1920 â€“ August 29, 2019

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Jack Ruby, JFK, JFK Assassination, Jim Leavelle, Lee Harvey Oswald, Oswald, Oswald Assassination

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THE Woodstock couple –Â Bobbi Kelly & Nick Ercoline, by Burk Uzzle

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preliminary design for the back of the 1935 dollar bill, the first to include the Great Seal of the United States, with Franklin Roosevelt’s note of approval and request for two changes. This initial version had the obverse of the seal on the left and the reverse on the right, but Roosevelt ordered them switched, and added the phrase “The Great Seal of the United States” underneath

and here she is as she is now

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Zoos or Lose

06. Nov, 2018 0 Comments

In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was running for president, his opponents were fond of referring to him as a jackass (if only such candid discourse were permissible today). Emboldened by his detractors, Jackson embraced the image as the symbol of his campaign, re-brandingÂ the donkey as steadfast, determined, and willful, instead of wrong-headed, slow, and obstinate. Throughout his presidency, the symbol remained associated with Jackson and, to a lesser extent, the Democratic partyÂ

In 1874, cartoonistÂ Thomas Nast, represented the Democratic press as a donkey in lionâ€™s clothing (though the party itself is shown as a shy fox), expressing the cartoonistâ€™s belief that the media were acting as fear mongers, propagating the idea of Ulysses S. Grant as a potential American dictator. In Nastâ€™s donkey-in-lionâ€™s-clothing cartoon, the elephant â€“representing the Republican voteâ€“ was running scared toward a pit of chaos and inflation. The rationale behind the choice of the elephant is unclear, but Nast may have chosen it as the embodiment of a large and powerful creature, though one that tends to be dangerously careless when frightened. Alternately, the political pachyderm may have been inspired by the now little-used phrase â€œseeing the elephant,â€ a reference to war and a possible reminder of the Union victory.Â Whatever the reason, Nastâ€™s popularity and consistent use of the elephant ensured that it would remain in the American consciousness as a Republican symbol

[Political Animals: Republican Elephants and Democratic Donkeys]

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