Presidential Memento

Kaunas, Lithuania, July 7, 1928. The American Consul to Lithuania wrote, "At five o'clock, Lily and I called on Mrs. Smetona and played dice as usual, after having coffee. Lily bought a photograph of President Smetona a few days ago and she asked Mrs. Smetona to request the President to sign it. The adjutant went to his office and brought the picture back signed."

Thanks to the Consul's Granddaughter for making this photo available to us.

The Life Box (Part 11)

Suburban Chicago, Autumn 1967. I inserted this drawing in the back of the Austria project folder, so I assume I drew it in the fourth grade.

RIP Barney

The Scottie.

Inauguration Day question: When is it cool to refer to the First Lady as "regal?"

When you're British.

"You sense this extraordinary ability, I think, Michelle Obama has to be both regal and normal at the same time. And that's such a skill."

"It's complicated."

Presidential politics and diplomacy are the topics of opinion pieces in Lithuania, too.

"Badgers football coach Bielema had no idea Obama was on campus[.]"

That's one of today's Madison headlines.

Meanwhile, the UW—Madison Men's Basketball team secured an audience with the President.

Air Force One

Columbia, South Carolina, May 1990. President George H. W. Bush arrives in South Carolina's state capital, and ...

... Air Force One parks under the "Columbia, Home of the Fighting Gamecocks" sign.

Today's walk around Bascom Hill.

The staging continues for tomorrow's presidential campaign stop.

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More Presidential Politics

From our neighbors neighbours to the north.

(Thanks to my Toronto Cousin.)

Campaign stop.

The University of Wisconsin—Madison will host a presidential visit—no, wait! As Althouse notes, even the institution now openly casts the event as a campaign rally.

Do you want to get to work or to a class? Read the memo.

The "staging" began today on Bascom Hill:

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Madison, Wisconsin, October 2, 2012. The heart of campus prepares for the presidential visit.

 

It doesn't look disruptive? Not yet. Here's how things looked two years ago, when the President made a campus campaign stop:

 

 

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September 28, 2010. "Influence the results!"