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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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| Subject: | NANCY FALLS |
| Time: | 1:42 pm. |
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Nancy and John (too bad he was not there to catch her)
(CNN) -- Nancy Reagan, wife of the late President Ronald Reagan, is hospitalized in California after suffering a broken pelvis, according to spokeswoman Joanne Drake.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan is shown at an event in the nation's capital in September.
Reagan, 87, is in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Drake said in a written statement Wednesday.
The former first lady fell last week at her home, Drake said, but admitted herself to the hospital only after experiencing "persistent pain." Tests revealed a fractured pelvis and sacrum -- the triangular bone within the pelvis.
Reagan will remain hospitalized for a few days until "doctors are satisfied with her progress," Drake said. Reagan's anticipated recovery time is six to eight weeks, including physical therapy and a modified schedule.
"Mrs. Reagan is in good spirits, especially comforted to be receiving care from talented doctors in a world-class hospital named in honor of her late husband," the statement said.
She previously was hospitalized for two days in February following a fall at her home in suburban Los Angeles.
President Reagan died in June 2004 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Since his death, Nancy Reagan has remained involved with the national Alzheimer's Association and its affiliate, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois. However, she has appeared in public only rarely in recent years.
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| Subject: | DEBATE FACE OFF 3 |
| Time: | 5:28 am. |
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| Subject: | ELECTION YEAR EXHIBITS |
| Time: | 5:23 am. |
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By Leanne Italie
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
10/13/2008
From the home states of presidents to the birthplace of the Constitution, historic sites and museums are packed with watershed politics and White House moments this election year.
RUN FOR OFFICE, SORT OF
Become a candidate, campaign manager or journalist at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia through "Headed to the White House" — tinyurl.com/3vbqp5 — a fast-paced interactive display that includes role-playing and audiovisual presentations.
Make your own campaign ad, walk through a re-creation of a national convention floor and cast ballots tallied on a continuously updated Electoral College big board. The 3,000-square-foot exhibit ends in victory, with a trip down the inaugural parade route and a presidential photo-op in the Oval Office. The exhibit ends Dec. 14 and is appropriate for children as young as 4.
PRESIDENTIAL TIME PIECES
In Columbia, Pa., the National Watch & Clock Museum offers "Time in Office: Presidential Time Pieces" — www.nawcc.org/museum/museum.htm — with 30 objects on loan representing 20 presidents. Included is a pocketwatch from 1789 purchased at George Washington's request by his friend Gouverneur Morris on a trip to Paris. It was made by Jean-Antoine Lepine, the clockmaker of Louise XVI. Also on display is a night table clock given to Richard Nixon, an avid baseball fan, by California Angels star Don Baylor in 1979 as a thank-you gift for a White House visit. Nixon treasured the battery-powered Seiko until his death in 1994. The time pieces are on display until Dec. 31.
BRANSON MUSEUM DEPICTS AMERICA
In Branson, Mo., the American Presidents Museum is participating in "Picturing America" — picturingamerica.neh.gov/ — a National Endowment for the Humanities project that has placed images of famous American-themed art, photos and other work in thousands of schools and libraries throughout the country. The museum — www.americanpresidentialmuseum.com — put up the collection in September for a fall run. The poster-sized reproductions include a photo by James Karales showing 1965 voting rights marchers under an ominous sky in Montgomery, Ala., at the conclusion of a four-day, 54-mile hike, and Jacob Lawrence's "The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57," a painting invoking the black southern migration to northern cities in 1940-41.
LINCOLN'S 200th
Abraham Lincoln sites are giddy as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches in February. A variety of exhibits have already begun in Kentucky, Illinois and other locations where he lived and served.
With more than 40 counties in Kentucky laying claim to a piece of Lincoln, the premier exhibition in the state focuses on his backwoods boyhood in "Beyond the Log Cabin: Kentucky's Abraham Lincoln" — www.kylincoln.org/events/exhibit.htm — presented by the Kentucky Historical Society. Touch-screen computers allow young people to explore "AbeSpace," a playful look at Lincoln's personal and professional life. Among items on display is a "Free Soil, Free Men" campaign lantern dating about 1858. The exhibit opens to the public Oct. 21 at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort and travel to Louisville and Ashland, Ky., through 2010.
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., where he later moved with his family, put the nation's 16th president on the road in April with "Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America" — tinyurl.com/5xkrop — a free exhibit packed into a 53-foot-long double trailer. The exhibit on wheels is traveling around the United States through August 2010 and includes a photo re-creation of Lincoln's 1861 farewell address from a train car in Springfield on his way to the White House.
Also included is a video called "The Civil War in Four Minutes." Look for a very blue, very large tractor-trailer with Lincoln's unmistakable face on the side. Trips to major sporting events, schools and key bicentennial sites are planned.
Presidential Campaign Memorabilia Exhibit at the St. Louis University Museum of Art
Exhibit Features Remarkable and StrangeItems from Presidential Campaigns
By Walt Crocker
Conan O'Brien has a cup made in the likeness of President Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting on his desk. Several movies have bank robbers wearing Ronald Reagan masks while they are committing their crime and there have been no less than about a dozen movies that feature a mask or other likeness of Richard Nixon. One of the most popular Halloween masks of the 90's was of President Bill Clinton and the merchandise with images of President Bush is enough to fill several websites, most of it negative.
According to the Riverfront Times, (www.riverfronttimes.com), one of the reasons that Nixon, who had a hangdog expression and a real nastiness about him, was electable was that he made such an ideal cartoon character. His campaign team capitalized on this and made his likeness, (along with that of his running mate Spiro Agnew), into a matched set of erasers. It was ironic because they erased anything that was less than seventeen minutes long. Voting for an eraser makes perfect sense because a lot of voters turn a blind eye to the issues during an election and focus on one thing, usually trivial, and make their decision accordingly.
Sometimes what people will do to advertise their candidate makes you wonder if their intention is to help them or hinder them? There's one guy in our neighborhood that has Obama/Biden signs all over his yard and his car is covered with Obama/Biden bumper stickers. And whenever he goes out, he's usually wearing his short pants with his stomach protruding, thick coke bottle glasses, sweat socks that almost come up past his knees, and a dirty T-shirt that has literally every square inch covered with Obama/Biden buttons. And did I mention his hat? It makes you wonder whether you're voting for the right guy or not with supporters like this.
It's all abuzz here in St. Louis over the vice presidential debate scheduled between Democratic vice presidential nominee and Sarah Palin, the Republican at Washington University on Thursday. A lot of money is being spent on preparing for it. I think they will be playing before a sellout crowd that evening. It almost reminds me of a sporting event. We haven't seen this much excitement since the Cardinals last won the World Series. They didn't make the running this year and the Rams football team hasn't won a game yet, so I guess we have to have something. Now all we need is a bunch of venders outside hawking vice presidential memorabilia.
So if you don't care to fight the crowds and the media circus that is the vice presidential debate, then why not check out Persuasive Politics: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia, a selection of remarkable and strange items from the collection of Cecelia and U.I. "Chick" Harris. The exhibit opened with a free public reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday, September 5 at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art (3663 Lindell Boulevard; 314-977-2666 or sluma.slu.edu), and runs through December 21st. The exhibition features objects as familiar as lapel pins and as bizarre as an "I Like Ike" cigarette pack.
Who knows, you might get some ideas about starting your own line of presidential memorabilia. The only thing I've seen so far this election besides the usual T-shirts and bumper stickers was a matching pair of Obama and Clinton bobble heads.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
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| Subject: | FLOATING CAMELOT FOR SALE |
| Time: | 8:29 am. |
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Kennedy 'floating White House,' carefully restored, is up for sale
By Matt Collette
BOSTON Globe Correspondent / October 12, 2008
President Kennedy and John Kerry (far left) sailed aboard the 62-foot yawl the Manitou in Narraganset Bay, Aug. 26, 1962. The yacht was commissioned in 1947 by James Lowe of Chicago. (John F. Kennedy Library/Robert Knutter Library)
The Manitou, a 62-foot yacht commissioned in 1947 by James Lowe of Chicago, was donated to the Coast Guard in 1955. According to the Kennedy Library's website, Kennedy selected the yacht in 1962 to be his "floating White House" and frequently captained it during trips to Hyannis Port.
"It had Bobby Kennedy on it. It had Teddy Kennedy on it. It may have even had Marilyn Monroe on it," said Bill Kilbourne, whose daughter bought and restored the yacht.
The boat was returned to the Coast Guard after Kennedy's assassination. In 1968, the Manitou was sold as surplus to the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship in Maryland for $35,000.
Lowe's granddaughter, Laurie Kilbourne, who lives in Calgary, Alberta, bought the boat, which had fallen into disrepair, back from the school in 1999 for $35,000. She is selling the boat for $1.3 million.
Kilbourne said the Manitou's historic significance was a regular topic of family conversation, so she enlisted the help of a nautical historian to track down the boat. "We lost her location. I thought she was in the Smithsonian," she said.
She said she approached the board of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, who sold her the run-down boat because of her strong family ties to it.
"It was barely able to float," said Bill Kilbourne, also of Calgary. "It was heavily rotted, in desperate need of either being sunk or saved, and Laurie was the savior."
The boat was painstakingly rebuilt at a shipyard on the Chesapeake Bay and much of the Manitou's original wood and hardware remain in use, the Kilbournes said.
The Manitou is one of the biggest draws this weekend at the boat show, said Bonnie Seidelmann, a spokeswoman for the show.
Kilbourne said she is optimistic she will be able to sell the boat. "Her speed and her beauty and, obviously, JFK using her adds to the intrigue," Kilbourne said.
© Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
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| Subject: | TEARS AND BEERS |
| Time: | 9:04 am. |
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| Subject: | THE HILLARY FACTOR |
| Time: | 9:01 am. |
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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| Subject: | TRUMAN'S RAILWAY CAR (OCT. 08) ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST |
| Time: | 8:05 pm. |
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| Subject: | BY (BUY) THE BOOK |
| Time: | 5:47 pm. |
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| Subject: | TOO COOL, TOO FLY FOR THEIR TIES |
| Time: | 5:44 pm. |
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| Subject: | IMITATION BUT NOT FLATTERING |
| Time: | 5:41 pm. |
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| Subject: | DAYTIME FRIENDS AND .....? (SORRY KENNY ROGERS) |
| Time: | 5:35 pm. |
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| Subject: | FAMILY ALBUM PAGES |
| Time: | 5:31 pm. |
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| Subject: | PRESIDENTIAL GOTHIC |
| Time: | 5:19 pm. |
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| Subject: | HATS OFF TO THE NEXT PRESIDENT |
| Time: | 5:18 pm. |
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| Subject: | IF THE PRESIDENT THING DOES NOT PAN OUT - DEEP DISH TO GO |
| Time: | 5:16 pm. |
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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| Subject: | MICHELLE ON LARRY K |
| Time: | 3:33 pm. |
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Larry King Interview
Michelle Obama not offended by 'that one' remark
October 8, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's wife commented on Senator John McCain's "that one" remark during the second presidential debate while speaking to Larry King on 'Larry King Live', and insisted she is not offended by it.
The second presidential debate is now over, with only one more to go. While polls showed that Barack Obama emerged as the winner, the more talked about of the two candidates seems to be John McCain.
While speaking on an energy bill during the presidential debate McCain used the term “that one” to address Obama. He said: “It was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies. And it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney. You know who voted for it? You might never know, that one. You know who voted against it? Me.”
Similar to the first debate, McCain appeared tense and refused to look at Obama throughout the entirety of the second debate, and, while making the comment, only pointed his finger across his chest in Obama’s general direction.
McCain’s somewhat dehumanizing comment towards his opponent showed the cracks in McCain and his campaign. Many viewers were left wondering what motivated McCain to use that term as opposed to addressing Obama by name.
While some have suggested the usage of "that one" highlights the candidates’ dislike for each other, Michelle Obama, speaking to Larry King on ‘Larry King Live’, says she is not offended by the term, and insists that it is only "pundits" that are interested in it.
Larry King Live excerpt from Thursday 9th October:
KING: Do you take offense to "that one"?
M. OBAMA: No, no. I mean, you know...
KING: People are talking about it.
OBAMA: Well, you know, I think there are two conversations that have been going on throughout this whole election. There is the conversation that has been happening with the pundits and, you know, the polls. And then there is the conversation that has been happening on the ground.
And the folks out there right now are scared. They are nervous about the economy. They don't care about the sort of back and forth between the candidates. They want real answers about we're going to, you know, fix this economy and get the health care -- health care benefits back on track.
So, you know, this is part of politics, how people rate things...
KING: So you think it's the pundits that are more interested in that term?
M. OBAMA: That's my sense of it, you know? I mean, I have traveled around this country. I was in a few states just in the last day-and-a-half. And no one asks about this kind of stuff. I mean, they want to know about the positions that the candidates have on the issues.
You know, what are we going to do with this war? How are we going to get our education system on track? And people really want to understand, you know, how this economy is going to really affect their bottom line.
KING: Did it in any way offend you?
M. OBAMA: No, no. I have to say that, you know, I -- in these debates, I am so focused on what Barack is saying, you know, and how he is phrasing his words. And I'm really trying to listen to the substance of what he is saying to make sure that I understand what it going on.
That these little, you know, sound bites don't register with me. A lot of times I'm looking around at the faces of the undecided voters in the room, I'm trying to see how they're reacting. So there is so much going on in a room that a phrase here or there just doesn't -- you know, it just doesn't resonate.
Source: CNN Larry King Live
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| Subject: | CINDY GOES AFTER OBAMA |
| Time: | 3:17 pm. |
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(AP) Cindy McCain has accused Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama of running "the dirtiest campaign in American history."
In remarks reported Tuesday by The Tennessean, she said she initially did not want her husband John McCain to seek the Republican presidential nomination after a brutal primary struggle in 2000 against George W. Bush.
"The days of Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill are what we need to look to: a divided government but a government that needs to agree to disagree," Cindy McCain told reporters after visiting children at a Nashville hospital and prior to the presidential debate. "We're now seeing polarizing factions, people politicizing things that should be about what's best for America. Instead, they're doing what's best for themselves."
The Obama campaign declined to comment.
In 2000, John McCain lost the GOP primary in South Carolina to George W. Bush due in large part to insinuations that he fathered an illegitimate child. The couple adopted one daughter, Bridget, from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh.
Her comments came as the McCain campaign's tone has become increasingly harsh.
Nearly every TV ad McCain ran last week was negative, compared to just 34 percent of those by Obama, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Advertising Project released on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, Cindy McCain criticized Obama for voting against a bill to pay for the troops in Iraq.
"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing the Arizona senator and his running mate Sarah Palin.
In fact, Obama consistently voted for Iraq troop financing except on one occasion. In May 2007, he voted against a troop-funding bill because it did not also specify steps for a withdrawal.
And McCain has not always voted for money for the troops. On one troop-funding bill supported by Obama, McCain missed the vote and encouraged President Bush to veto it, because it did call for withdrawal.
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| Subject: | BUTTONED UP FAMILY |
| Time: | 1:50 pm. |
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| Subject: | DRESS FOR SUCCESS (CINDY OR MICHELLE STYLE) |
| Time: | 1:36 pm. |
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