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Sep 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Presidents from 1969 to 1993, photographed in White House Blue Room before Nixon, Ford and Carter flew to Egypt for funeral of Anwar Sadat, October 1981: Image
At House Speaker Sam Rayburn's burial in Texas, November 1961, the Presidents from 1945 to 1969--Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy: #JFKL Image
Sam Rayburn's gravestone, Bonham, Texas, features an image of his House Speaker's gavel and his nickname "Mr. Sam": Image
Speaker Sam Rayburn kissed by his protege LBJ, 1956: #Getty Image

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Sep 26
New Italian PM says “we will never be slaves…at the mercy of financial speculators.” Sounds just like 1930s in Italy and Germany. No thanks for the memories.
Mussolini enjoyed publicly referring to Jewish people as “financial speculators” who needed to be controlled.
When a Fascist leader speaks, whether in Europe or America, never brush aside what you are hearing as meaningless rhetoric. Do not fail to learn from the history of the 1930s.
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Sep 26
Mussolini, 1943, by Ernest Hamlin Baker: #NPG
Mussolini loved to talk about his "iron fist":
In palmier days than 1945, Mussolini’s mistress Clara Petacci enjoying a boat ride:
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Sep 26
Jackie Kennedy watches 1st JFK-Nixon debate at home (with future Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox at left): #Chaplis
JFK, Nixon and moderator Howard K. Smith at first debate, Chicago, tonight 1960:
Year after premiere of “North by Northwest” (1959), which showed Cary Grant at Ambassador East in Chicago, JFK coincidentally stayed at same hotel and studied note cards on its roof to prepare for first TV debate tonight 1960 against Nixon:
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Sep 25
Lassen Volcanic National Park visited by JFK and California Governor Pat Brown, this week 1963: #JFKL
JFK greeted by Boy Scouts on Northwestern "conservation" trip this week 1963:
JFK in Las Vegas, this week 1963:
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Sep 24
President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock to keep peace as Black students attended high school, sixty-five years ago today: Image
Nine Black students had been prevented from attending Little Rock Central High School by Arkansas National Guard under Governor Orval Faubus, sixty-five years ago this month: #Miller Image
“Urgent”--Little Rock Mayor “pleading” with President Eisenhower to send federal troops to help avert violence as Little Rock Central High School is integrated, today 1957: “Situation Is Out Of Control And Police Cannot Disperse The Mob." Image
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Sep 24
Anyone want to suggest a sad song that might be played during his speech and recital of grievances at his next rally?
“Alone Again (Naturally)”
“You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two”
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