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Oct 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Defense bonds and stamps mural in Grand Central Terminal before World War II, 1941:
Grand Central travelers watch John Glenn launched on dangerous mission to become first American in earth orbit, sixty years ago this year: #Hausner
Westclox Keeps America on Time, Grand Central:
From now on…read Newsweek (Mike Wallace of CBS News in foreground), 1964: #Getty

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Oct 21
JFK reveals Soviet missiles in Cuba and his plans to get them out, Oval Office, sixty years ago tomorrow night:
Kennedy White House announces that President will speak from Oval Office "on a subject of the highest national urgency"--sixty years ago tomorrow:
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Oct 21
Could this be parody?
Maybe next she will demand that some British historical monument be renamed for her.
Her biofilm will be made by Monty Python?
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Oct 13
LBJ and RFK are allowed to campaign in Brooklyn this week 1964 while standing up in open Presidential limousine, surrounded by multi-story buildings, only eleven months after JFK's assassination in Dallas motorcade:
Almost as egregious, the open Presidential Cadillac chosen for LBJ and RFK to campaign this week 1964 in Brooklyn looked like the follow-up car (left) in JFK’s Dallas motorcade of the previous November:
LBJ had President Kennedy’s midnight blue Lincoln Continental parade car from Dallas gutted, rebuilt with a hard top and painted black, and rode in it in his 1965 inaugural parade:
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Oct 12
And then it got worse -- he started storing those classified documents near boxes of chlorine. . .
I wanted to go up to a disco in New York, but he just wanted to stay down there in that resort club, looking at his letters from North Korea and demanding that I do jigsaw puzzles of Greenland. . .
He made us drive by motorcade to parties with his elderly friends. . .
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John Connally was Nixon's private first choice to be VP after Agnew quit.
On July 29, 1974, Connally was indicted (later acquitted) on five charges of bribery, perjury, obstructing justice.
Eleven days later, he would have succeeded Nixon as new President of the United States.
Trump flew Nixon on his private plane to Houston for gala in honor of Nellie Connally and husband John, Houston, 1989: Image
Survivor of Dallas motorcade of November 1963 shows President Nixon his shotgun in Oval Office, 1971: Image
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Oct 12
Nixon announces nomination of Gerald Ford as Vice President to replace the disgraced Agnew, tonight 1973: Image
Responding to Nixon's request for suggestions on a successor to VP Agnew, Gerald Ford suggests John Connally, Melvin Laird, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller: Image
The Bagman writes Nixon about his resignation: Image
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