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22 Nov, 8 tweets, 2 min read

Motorcade in Dallas, today 1963: #Time

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Michael Beschloss

16 Nov

Here is President Franklin Roosevelt's hasty sketch that led to design of Bethesda Naval Hospital (now Walter Reed) in late 1930s—he liked the Nebraska State Capitol tower and mimicked it: @thereidout. @joyannreid

@thereidout @JoyAnnReid FDR also got personally involved in infrastructure project of National Airport DC (now Reagan), opened eighty years ago this year—he also watched the first plan (DC-3) officially landing on its runway:

@thereidout @JoyAnnReid FDR encouraged the idea of basing the design of main National Airport terminal (1941) on nearby Mount Vernon as a tribute to George Washington:

Michael Beschloss

1 Nov

The immortal Katharine Graham (1917-2001) of the Washington Post will be honored by a U.S. postage stamp next year:

Had the honor of joining Katharine Graham to sign copies of Meg Greenfield’s posthumously-published memoir “Washington” (to which we had both contributed) at Politics and Prose bookstore DC three months before her passing in 2001:

Katharine Graham was one inspiration for “Mrs. Pynchon,” newspaper publisher in “Lou Grant” (CBS, 1977-1982):

Michael Beschloss

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“Democracy belongs to every American”—1952:

Adlai Stevenson campaigning with a future President in “Last Hurrah” Boston, 1952: #BPL

In a now-long-vanished age of Presidential campaigning, Stevenson meets reporters after landing in Boston: #BPL

Michael Beschloss

29 Oct

“Trick or treat for Unicef” — Eleanor Roosevelt and Captain Kangaroo at the UN, 1957:

How many in this photograph can you identify?

Video: Early version of opening of “Captain Kangaroo” (1955-1984):

Michael Beschloss

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Live from Oval Office, Cuban Missile Crisis revealed tonight 1962:

JFK’s Cuban Missile Crisis speech is viewed in Third Avenue bar, New York, with unintendedly ominous message above door, tonight 1962: #Getty

In private, JFK draws Soviet missile sites on map of Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962:

Michael Beschloss

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JFK and newly-elected Senator Ted Kennedy at Boston Democratic fundraiser to support President’s 1964 re-election, tonight 1963:

“All New England Salute Dinner” for JFK, Boston, tonight 1963, menu and program:

JFK in crowd at Harvard-Columbia game, Boston, today 1963: #JFKL

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