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3 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Trump is planning to give Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom tomorrow, reports @AshleyRParker.
Among recipients of first Presidential Medal of Freedom were Pope John XXIII and JFK.
@AshleyRParker And another Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to Jim Jordan, says @Axios.
@AshleyRParker @axios Robert Kennedy accepts posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for President Kennedy from LBJ, December 1963, State Dining Room, White House: #LBJL
@AshleyRParker @axios Presidential Medal of Freedom is supposed to be awarded to someone who has made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
@AshleyRParker @axios Maybe another Presidential Medal of Freedom will now go to the designer of the new White House Rose Garden and Tennis Pavilion.

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Any comment from Pence on the threat by twelve United States Senators to "reject the electors from disputed states” — or is he still on vacation and refusing to talk?
Mr. Vice President, any chance you could bother to express your reaction to the threat by twelve U.S. Senators to “reject" the Electoral College results?
Pence, we Americans don’t want to impose but it would be nice to hear at least something from you — sometime.
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On this day in 1808 was born Andrew Johnson, whom many scholars consider to have been one of the most atrocious Presidents in American history:
Andrew Johnson (born today 1808) insisted that when he died (1875), he should be buried swaddled in an American flag, with his head on a copy of the Constitution. But as a lame-duck President leaving office, even Andrew Johnson never tweeted heroic videos about himself.
Ticket to the Senate trial of Andrew Johnson, first President to be impeached (born today 1808):
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Next he will claim he was one of the astronauts on the first moon landing.
Or perhaps he will claim that he was supposed to be the fourth Beatle.
Really, he thinks he invented the light bulb?
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Why is Trump now tweeting a political commercial for himself, which claims that he “stands for American Justice”?
And with soundtrack based on music of the very progressive Aaron Copland, who would probably not be delighted to see his work exploited to lionize this President.
With Aaron Copland conducting, Adlai Stevenson as narrator of “A Lincoln Portrait,” 1964:
Newly-tweeted commercial also falsely implies that President has received what he would call a “Noble” Prize.
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Pence, any comment yet on who won the 2020 Presidential election, or do you need still more time to think?
And Pence, while we wait on you to decide for yourself who won the 2020 election, what is this about your reportedly looking for "a new home in the Washington suburbs?” We thought you loved Indiana and could not bear to be away from your home state.
In honor of Vice President, recall that “Indiana Wants Me” by R. Dean Taylor was a big hit a half-century ago this year. In its lyrics, Taylor sings,
"It hurts to see the man that I've become...
Indiana wants me
Lord, I can't go back there."
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After watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), President Harry Truman said, "'If Bess and I had a son, we'd want him to be just like Jimmy Stewart.’’ (Not sure if Truman knew that Stewart was a Republican.)
Truman also liked Harpo Marx — here 1950:
President Truman had no known opinion about that Marx Brothers stalwart Margaret Dumont:
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