heck yeah presidents

JFK and kids with Macaroni the pony, a gift to Caroline from LBJ. I wonder if JFK approved this gift beforehand.

A childhood letter to LBJ from NBC’s Brian Williams (In my opinion, it’s Brian Williams’ NBC) might make for the single most adorable internet post of all time. The “Do they do this each day?” refers to this enclosed photo.

greatestgeneration:

JFK swagger

todaysdocument:

Welcome to Lyndon Johnson’s birthday pool party. 

This comes to us via another great National Archives blog called “Our Presidents”

Here’s how he spent his birthday in 1968 - in the swimming pool with his dog, Yuki, and grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent. August 27, 1968.

Learn more about the life and times of our 36th president here.

Does anyone who follows me NOT follow ourpresidents? If you don’t, do.

ourpresidents:

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a rather large gift - a 500 pound globe from the U.S. Army.  The giant globe was believed to be the largest and most accurate printed globe of its time. 

It took over 50 geographers, cartographers, and draftsmen from the Geographic Division of the Office of Strategic Services to compile the information to make the globe.

Two identical globes were produced at the same time. One was presented to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The other was used by General Marshall and Secretary of War Henry Stimson.

FDR had the globe placed by his desk in the Oval Office.  It rested on a series of rubber balls set within a steel stand which allowed the President to rotate it in any direction.

More at - In Roosevelt History

Attention, 2012 candidates: You need to track down Zachary Taylor’s street team.

09/18/1793: GW lays down the cornerstone for the Capitol building. He knew how to do things like that. Angles were involved.

Correct.

pour-moi:

polyesterspectre:

A+

Future child (children) will say things like this. 

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Oh, those scamps.