In latest pronunciamento from defeated ex-President, he calls himself a “wonderful person” and golf “champion.”
Maybe ex-President Nixon will now issue a proclamation declaring himself a “wonderful person” and bowling “champion.” (This photo wasn’t the only time in Nixon's career that he stepped over a line.)
Ex-President Nixon would also like you to know that he is a swimming “champion."
Ex-President LBJ has been in touch to tell us that he is a swimming “champion” too. (Here looking like a figure in a Gothic painting.)
LBJ has also just declared himself a dominoes “champion”:
The Black Sox want you to know that they were the “champions” of the 1919 World Series:
Rosie Ruiz falsely claimed to be the “champion" of the 1980 Boston Marathon after she cheated and “sneaked into it about a mile from the finish line”:
In 1958, Arthur Hardman, salesman of cemetery plots in Houston, claimed he was “champion” of the Irish Sweepstakes. He alleged that he had lost his winning tickets but deserved the prize money (more than $140,000) anyway.
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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"