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The Man Who Came to Dinner

January 23rd, 2009 | 4 Comments

“Booker T. Washington, the well known negro educator and President of the Tuskegee, Ala. institute , was a guest of President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt at dinner at the white house tonight.”
It was a day like any other when the White House Social Calendar, a regular column in the newspapers of Washington D.C, inserted a [...]

Tags: booker t washington, dinner, racism, theodore roosevelt, white house
Posted in African American, America, Heads of State, Men, Scandal, Washington D.C. | 4 Comments »

The Presidential Inauguration

January 20th, 2009 | No Comments

There is no other expression of American democracy than the exit of one President for another. Whether the President has served one term or two–or in the case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four–the inauguration ceremony is one of excitement, triumph and the bittersweet. The first inauguration was held on April 30, 1789, in New York [...]

Tags: celebrations, first lady, inauguration, president-elect
Posted in Amusements, Ceremonies, Heads of State, Politics, Washington D.C. | No Comments »

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