Biden is now speaking from Roosevelt Room at White House, previously (before Nixon) called the “Fish Room” (here under JFK, including billfish he caught on honeymoon with Jackie in 1953): #JFKL
On wall of Fish Room under JFK was head of deer that LBJ had goaded him to kill on his ranch after 1960 election—Kennedy had hoped never to see it again but Johnson insisted that the head be mounted on Oval Office or other West Wing wall.
After the 1960 deer hunt on LBJ Ranch, JFK told a friend that deer hunting should not be considered a sport until the deer was given a gun.
LBJ as Senate Majority Leader after Texas deer hunt, mid-1950s: #Dietel
The woman at left after LBJ’s deer hunt looks as if she could have been in a Marx Brothers film.

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Sixty years ago, Newsweek warns of “Thunder on the Right," led by Major General Edwin Walker (who in 1963 was evidently shot at by Lee Harvey Oswald, who called himself “Hunter of Fascists," while at home in Dallas): Image
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Ticket ($7) to Woodstock, today 1969:
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, this week 1969: #Strathakis
Janis Joplin at Woodstock, this week 1969: #Diltz
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Astronauts Borman, Armstrong, Young, Slayton training in desert near Reno, 1964:
Scene from “Airplane!” (1980):
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