Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base), photographed a few minutes ago. Anyone want to remind us of some of the history that has been made here?
Eisenhower welcomes Khrushchev for first US visit by a supreme Soviet leader, Andrews Air Force Base, 1959: #Getty
JFK and Jackie walk toward Air Force One, bound for Texas, at Andrews Air Force Base, 1963:
On inauguration day, when most Republican leaders are concentrating on new President Nixon, Congressman George Bush graciously goes to Andrews Air Force Base to shake hands with fellow Texan, departing President Johnson, January 20, 1969:
President Gerald Ford practices golf in hangar, Andrews Air Force Base, 1977: #NARA
At Andrews Air Force Base, 1961, JFK shows why he avoided hats: #Getty
Nixon in cap, Bolivia, 1958:
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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!"