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HISTORICAL FACTS: 8 - The Untold Story

From Truman to Biden, the queen's meetings with presidents were formal, fun or awkward

Over seven decades, the late queen met with 13 of the last 14 American presidents. Such moments highlight the close friendship between the U.S. and Britain, but there was also occasional awkwardness.

WEKU

Over 70 years Queen Elizabeth met 13 US presidents (and graciously overlooked several faux pas)

The Queen’s record reign spanned 14 presidencies, from Truman to Joe Biden – and met all but one

The Guardian - US

The Queen and US Presidents: From dancing with Gerald Ford to watching baseball with George Bush

The monarch played a pivotal role over the decades in the UK's relationship with the leaders of one of its closest allies.

Daily Record

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The Queen and US presidents: Riding with Reagan and ‘chemistry’ with Trump

The Queen encountered all but one of the 14 presidents of her reign.

The Independent UK

The Queen’s relationship with each US President:

Queen Elizabeth shared warm relationships with many US presidents

The Independent UK

The world leaders, presidents and prime ministers the Queen outlasted

She has ruled for 70 years

Wales Online

A Young Joe Biden Mocked Gerald Ford's 'Whip Inflation Now' Slogan. Now He Faces His Own Inflation Mess.

During his own inflation crisis, President Ford called on the American public to do their part through personal fiscal discipline.

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Salaries for top staffers at Obama Foundation are outpacing their counterparts at other presidential centers

CHICAGO — Even before Barack Obama left the White House, plans to build his presidential center in Jackson Park were met with resistance as nearby residents feared the center’s very existence would drive up costs in an area the former president says he wants to uplift.

Chicago Tribune

Trump's law: End presidential privilege

Americans wanted to get over Watergate by letting Richard Nixon slink away quietly. Trump will do no such thing

Salon

Prosecuting a president is divisive and sometimes destabilizing – here's why many countries do it anyway

Criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump and his allies could result from at least one of multiple investigations.

The Conversation

Commentary: Biden should consider pardoning Trump — for the sake of our nation

Among my earliest attempts at fiction was “The Misfit,” a short story about a brilliant, competitive, though anti-social and paranoid college student.

Chicago Tribune

Bobby Ghosh: Democracies can weather prosecutions of former presidents

If Monday’s FBI search at Donald Trump’s Florida home leads to the prosecution of the former president, as supporters fear and detractors hope, then citizens of democracies everywhere might ask Americans, “What kept you?”

Tribune News Service

Jackie Calmes: Donald Trump is dangerously close to proving that presidents are above the law

How many times have you heard it? “No one is above the law.”

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Prosecute Donald Trump: Evidence of criminal intent too damning to ignore

For those who’ve dismissed the proceedings of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol last year as more about political theater than accountability, the testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson should change their minds. The one-time top aide to Mark Meadows, then-President Donald J. Trump’s chief…

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Lynn Schmidt: Politically speaking, it is possible to walk and chew gum at the same time

Democratic President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said that then-Republican Rep. Gerald Ford “is so dumb that he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” The media sanitized the word that Johnson originally used and changed it to walk. The origins of this idiom may have more…

The Independent UK

The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: How a Watergate punishment might have averted our Jan. 6 hell

On June 17, Americans found ourselves at the convergence of two crises of shattering assaults on our democracy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Robert F. Kennedy’s speech on gun violence is still relevant today

“No one — no matter where he lives or what he does — can be certain who next will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours ... Why?”

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VIEWPOINT 1: 50 years later, the imprint of Watergate isn’t all negative

The 50th anniversary of the June 17, 1972, Watergate break-in — in which burglars inspired and funded by President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign attempted to bug the Democratic National Committee offices — stirs memories of a sorry chapter in American history.

The Independent UK

Worry about stagflation, a flashback to '70s, begins to grow

Stagflation

Daily Record

Platinum Jubilee: All US Presidents the Queen has met during her 70-year reign

Throughout the last seven decades the Queen has given official state visits to just three presidents.

Daily Mirror

Inside the remarkable lives of America's first ladies in exciting new TV series

A new TV series called The First Lady will look at the lives of Michelle Obama, Betty Ford and Eleanor Roosevelt – played by Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson

The Independent UK

Worry about stagflation, a flashback to '70s, begins to grow

Stagflation

Inverse

The first congressional hearing on UFOs in 50 years shows America’s interest in aliens will never fade

Analyzing UFOs, importantly, shouldn’t automatically mean assuming aliens or dimensional travelers.

Salon

Do cooking and politics actually mix?

While politicians eat on the campaign trail, most shy away from the kitchen. With AOC and Harris, that's changing

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