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Truman's Poor Post-Presidency Pension

11/30/2016

At a time before ex-presidents received pensions and benefits, upon leaving the presidency Harry Truman’s only source of income was his army pension of less than $200 a month, which didn’t even include his eight years as commander-in-chief.

Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009), 12.

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Mid-Ocean Missile Photography

11/23/2016

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To verify the Soviet Union removed its missiles from Cuba at the conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Soviet ships pulled up next to a U.S. ship so the missiles could be photographed.

Peter A. Huchthausen, October Fury (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002), 225.

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Paying Respect to MLK

11/16/2016

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Approximately 120 million Americans watched Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral on television.

Clay Risen, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009), 205.

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Harrison's Electoral Triumph

11/9/2016

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Although Grover Cleveland received nearly 100,000 more popular votes than Benjamin Harrison, Harrison won the presidential election of 1888 by wining 233 Electoral College votes compared with Cleveland’s 168.

Fon W. Boardman, Jr., America and the Gilded Age: 1876 – 1900 (New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1972), 26.

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Coughlin's Campaign Promise Reneged

11/2/2016

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In the 1936 presidential campaign, radio priest Father Charles Coughlin promised to leave the airwaves forever if his newly created Union Party’s candidate got less than 9 million votes; when he got only 891,858, Coughlin went off the air on November 9, 1936, but returned two months later.

Albert Fried, FDR and His Enemies (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 120, 145.

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Truman's Poor Post-Presidency Pension

Mid-Ocean Missile Photography

Paying Respect to MLK

Harrison's Electoral Triumph

Coughlin's Campaign Promise Reneged

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