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Feb 10 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bathroom of a dictator (Ceausescu), Bucharest:
“Only Palace in the world where the Queen stands guard,” 1987:
Bedroom in Saddam Hussein’s palace, 2003:
Gold-encrusted palace of the dictator, Bucharest:

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Feb 9
Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan Show (CBS) tonight 1964:
"Ed Sullivan Show” (CBS) came from this theater, now home to “Late Night with Stephen Colbert”:
Beatles rehearse for Ed Sullivan Show of tonight 1964: #AP
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Feb 8
Newsweek of today 1970. The answer to Newsweek’s question was, sadly, no. Image
Alas it wasn’t. Image
The “Nixonettes” of 1968: Image
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Feb 2
Winter Dance Party, today 1959:
One of last photos of Buddy Holly, today 1959, performing at Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa, Winter Dance Party, before his death with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in plane crash the next morning:
Surf Ballroom, where Holly, Big Bopper and Valens gave final performance today 1959, still stands and is still used in 2022:
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Feb 1
Jacqueline Kennedy and her children on sleigh, South Grounds, White House, sixty years ago this month: #JFKL Image
White House stables, late 1850s: Image
White House stables burned this month 1864. A guard in the East Room recalled that President Lincoln wept, noting that one of the horses killed had belonged to his dead son WIllie. Lincoln had rushed to the stable trying in vain to save his son's horse.
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Jan 28
CBS News Special Report on sudden fatal fire on Cape Kennedy launchpad that had just killed three Apollo 1 crewmen, fifty-five years ago tonight—program anchored by Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite:
LBJ’s letter to parents of Apollo 1’s Roger Chaffee, killed in Cape Kennedy launchpad fire fifty-five years ago tonight:
Apollo 1 catastrophe of fifty-five years ago tonight, reported next day by New York Times:
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Jan 27
LBJ deliberately created a Supreme Court vacancy so he could appoint Thurgood Marshall as first Black Justice, 1967.
Did so by asking Ramsey Clark to be his AG and telling Ramsey that his father, Tom, would have to thus quit SCOTUS in order to avoid conflicts of interest:
LBJ no doubt also enjoyed manipulating Ramsey Clark to reveal an aspect of his character by forcing his own father, Tom, to resign from SCOTUS, a job Tom loved, in order for Ramsey to achieve his ambition of becoming Attorney General.
Once Ramsey Clark became LBJ’s Attorney General in 1967, the President grew disenchanted with Clark and largely stopped speaking to him. He thenceforth communicated with Ramsey through Clark’s embarrassed deputy, Warren Christopher, so I was told by the latter.
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