My TV show “Fireside History with Michael Beschloss” (today, 5 PM Eastern on @MSNBC) shows the 1963 Christmas card JFK never lived to send:
@MSNBC “Fireside History with Michael Beschloss” (today, 5 PM Eastern on @MSNBC) includes behind-the-scenes movies and images of First Families (including dogs) as they observe the holidays and open gifts:
@MSNBC “Fireside History with Michael Beschloss” (today, 5 PM Eastern on @MSNBC) shows how FDR had Christmas dinner with his houseguest Winston Churchill at White House eighteen days after Pearl Harbor:
@MSNBC “Fireside History with Michael Beschloss — Holidays at the White House” (@MSNBC, 5 PM to 6 PM Eastern) starts in five minutes:
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Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley died forty-five years ago today:
One of last photos of elder Mayor Daley, taken today 1976 as he dedicated a Chicago fieldhouse, not long before he died of a sudden, massive heart attack:
Mayor Daley did not enjoy hearing “Gestapo tactics” of Chicago authorities denounced by Senator Abe Ribicoff from podium at 1968 Democratic convention. Note facial expression of Daley aide at right: #AP
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:
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):