i could not love this picture more
the young lad was a pirate before he became our president
barackbeard
you never know when you’ll need those skills
or that mustache.
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image credit: bluesky
Oct31
Tag Archives: president
Feb16
all the presidents then.
not us, but similar free-ranging all-aged kids of the 60s
out on the suburban streets
of their neighborhood enjoying the day’s adventures
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I remember being president, or at least co-president, junior president, vice president, secretary of the president, checker president (who checked a list to see who was there), or some title with the word president in it more than once, in our neighborhood clubs that we made up. we had a book club, bike club, exploring scary old houses club, safety drill club, walking far club (we took canteens), detective club… we loved to have clubs and we loved to have job titles, without really having any jobs to do. today, all these years later, on president’s day, I honor all of the kids who held our presidential positions and did our best to have fun adventures every day and make sure everybody was okay and got home for meals on time with both shoes.
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‘i have no special talent. i am only passionately curious.’
-albert einstein
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image credit: facebook
Oct1
100.
President Jimmy Carter surrounded by school children in North Carolina, April 29, 1977.
Library of Congress/Thomas J. O’Halloran/via REUTERS
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happy 100, jimmy!
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Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
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‘we will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.’
-jimmy carter
Nov22
kennedy on kennedy.
jfk and family – the ones who i thought were my cousins
(a reblog from 10 years ago)
being born a kennedy, for as long as i can remember, i assumed that the other kennedys were just cousins who lived out east. when the killing of jfk happened, 50 years ago, (now 60 years), i had just turned 6, only 4 days before. i was in first grade and i remember being called in from recess and all of the adults were crying. that was the day i found out that i was not actually a cousin, and that people could die from things other than being very, very old. it was one of those days when my world changed forever.
my kennedy family
“the essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives forever. “
-john updike
Feb21
democracy on presidents day.
JFK in an open Studebaker on State Street in Ann Arbor – Oct. 1960
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happy president’s day to one of my favorites
whose words still ring true
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hoping we are relatives somewhere down the line
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“democracy is never a final achievement. it is a call to an untiring effort.”
-john f. kennedy
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credit: photo from the (Bentley Historical Society)
Nov5
counting.
and the counting continues…..
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“there’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done.”
-kenny rogers
Feb19
on president’s day.
“without debate, without criticism
no administration and no country can succeed
and no republic can survive.”
― john f. kennedy
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photo credit: national archives
Feb20
who will be our leader?
“if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader.”
-john quincy adams (U.S. president 1825-1829)
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on presidents’ day.
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image credit: attackofthecute.com
Nov9
after.
“history is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.”
-graydon carter
Sep26
truth.
john f. kennedy’s campaign appearance
at the train station
1960 ann arbor michigan
(with tom payne, patrick mcnamara, governor swainson, soapy williams)
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on this day of the first debate
by the candidates for the u.s. presidency
i look
back to the past
ahead to the future
and
hope for the truth
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“a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood
in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– john f. kennedy
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credits: ali van den broek, ann arbor townies, ann arbor archives
