Jackie Kennedy is back, but the world she knew as first lady is gone forever. The woman Mamie Eisenhower said looked "younger than Barbie," the fashion icon who didn't want to wear hats but capitulated at Jack's inauguration with a chic pillbox worn on the back of her head so it wouldn't ruin her bouffant hairdo, the widow who described her husband's administration as Camelot, a romantic notion as fanciful as the legend from which it was based, speaks again through a gossamer haze of prefeminist politics. The seven-part interview the former first lady gave to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., four months after the president was cut down in Dallas, has been published as a book and audio recording. "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy," was released by ...
When Mamie Eisenhower was first lady, expectations for political wives were simple: Smile for the family portrait, flanked by children, husband and pets. A half-century later, the wives of presidential candidates are part of the political apparatus, for better or worse. Their involvement in the campaign is obligatory, even if they are lukewarm to it. The job description now: chief character witness, with personal past as fodder.
You scream, I scream, and even Dolley Madison screamed for ice cream, serving it at the White House for the first time. Vanilla, of course, and she got the attention of voters with a sweet tooth. Rutherford B. Hayes banned liquor at the White House, trying to encourage Republicans to temperance, so his wife, Lucy, served lemonade. She became known as "Lemonade Lucy," and this embarrassed his secretary of state, accustomed to entertaining diplomats. He boasted after one official dinner that "the water flowed like champagne. Jackie Kennedy attempted to bring a little sophistication to the White House after Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower, whom she regarded as dowdy dames from the Midwest. She introduced French cuisine to state dinner parties, but someone - maybe even her husband - had t...
PUT MORE $IZZLE IN YOUR $TEAKS: Here we are, all out of summer vacation and so close to Labor Day we can hit the Tolpuddle Martyrs with a quarterstaff, and we've yet to write very much about barbecuing. That changes now, because our beloved wife of x number of years, Mamie Eisenhower, dragged home a pair of Wagyu steaks of the New York strip variety, except bigger, like about a quarter-acre a copy.
The Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Windy Gap Firming Project is available for public review. The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has evaluated comments and has identified Alternative 2 as the Preferred Alternative. The Preferred Alternative includes construction of Chimney Hollow Reservoir, pre-positioning of Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) water in the new reservoir, and a new pipeline to convey water to the reservoir from existing C-BT facilities.
... Broomfield, Mamie Eisenhower Public Library, 3 Community Park Road. ...
If [Hillary Clinton]'s tears were genuine (and that's a big IF), we need to ask ourselves whether or not she has the emotional strength to handle the job of President of the United States. If she nrcaks down into tears under the stress of simply running for the job, what can we expect from her under the awesome responsibility of actually doing the job? Some may say that's a cheap shot that's only being leveled at her because she's a woman, but actually, it's a sword that cuts both ways. If Barack Obama would have broken down under similar circumstances, his candidacy would have been over. So when we're discussing the most powerful job in the world, we can't think in terms of whether the candidate is a man or a woman, we must look at their character, strength, and stability alone-and tha...
... experience is completely analogous to if Mamie Eisenhower suggested that she was qualified to tak...
A great-great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Memphis this week with the book he's co-authored about this country's best address. Dream House: The White House as an American Home" (Acanthus Press, $75) describes the evolution of the atmosphere, style and tenor of the presidents' official residence, from its origin as a country estate for the chief executives of the early Republic to its incarnation as a middle-class retreat for 1950s occupants Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, who took their dinner on trays while watching television and barbecued on the roof of the south portico.
When Harvey Fierstein came to Las Vegas, he knew the Mamie Eisenhower joke had to go. The Tony Award-winning actor wrote 15 jokes to replace it for the Las Vegas version of the musical "Hairspray," the latest Broadway hit to find a home on the Strip. The show opened Wednesday at the Luxor hotel-casino.
Ah, Valentine's Day. A time to celebrate love, romance, affection. And what conjures up more passion than politics? (Feel free to fill in your own Mark Sanford or John Edwards jokes here.) Plenty of U.S. presidents have proven hopeless romantics. Dwight Eisenhower, for instance, had a tattoo of "Mamie" on his right biceps. Richard Nixon liked to sing The Captain and Tennille's "Muskrat Love" to Pat. Neither one of those assertions is true, by the way.
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