oldloves:

Joni Mitchell & Graham Nash, 1968

thingsorganizedneatly:

ed: Barbie utensils, I think. I really like this, I don’t care how straight it is.

noahtodras:

yep

retrocampaigns:

Abraham Lincoln 1860 Campaign Ribbon

from Heritage Auctions (HA.com)

Can’t. Stop. Reblogging.

poundoflogic:

Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession in New York City, 1965

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retrocampaigns:

I Like Ike Sunglasses

Novelty sunglasses promoting Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower for president in 1956. In a rematch of the 1952 election, Eisenhower again defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson.

(Source: well-fed, via isabellaalthoff)

retrocampaigns:

“Right here let me make as vigorous a plea as I know how in favor of saying nothing that we do not mean, and of acting without hesitation up to whatever we say. A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb, ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick – you will go far.’ If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting, and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words, his position becomes absolutely contemptible.

“So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power.

“Let us make it evident that we intend to do justice. Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done us in return. Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not which prepared to back up with deeds, and that while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good.”

— Then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at the Minnesota State Fair, September 2, 1901.

[Teddy Roosevelt inauguration ribbon from Heritage Auctions (HA.com)]

historical-nonfiction:

An 1863 photograph of Abraham Lincoln with his private secretaries John Nicolay (seated) and John Hay (standing). Both deeply admired Lincoln, and defended him as best they could. They co-authored the ten-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History. Nicolay was a former journalist with the Pike County Sucker and Pittsfield Free Press and a clerk to the Illinois Secretary of State (where he was in charge of the election records) at the time of Lincoln’s nomination for President. He served as a one-man transition committee for the Lincoln’s move into the White House. Signing his appointment was President Lincoln’s first official act after inauguration. Hay  was clerking his uncle’s law office in Springfield in 1859-60 when he came to know President-elect Lincoln. Nicolay insisted that Hay accompany them to Washington. Mr. Lincoln acquiesced in hiring the youthful graduate of Brown University. During Lincoln’s presidency, Hay was a social companion of Robert Lincoln when the President’s son was in the capital.

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thedailyfeed:

President Andrew Jackson was either lucky or preternaturally adept when it came to surviving assassination attempts. Here’s how he escaped an assassin’s point-blank pistol shots.

As soon as Jackson heard the first pistol explode, he started toward Lawrence, brandishing his famous hickory cane, “with which I knew I could give such a stroke as to break his pistol arm,” he said in one account. As the 67-year-old president charged forward, a Navy lieutenant knocked Lawrence down, with Jackson right behind him making sure his assailant was fully subdued. Legendary woodsman and Tennessee Rep. Davy Crockett was among the crowd helping to keep the peace. “I wanted to see the damnedest villain in the world,” Crockett would later say, “and now I have seen him.”

He used the same type of gun that Booth used to kill Lincoln.

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