Favorite Celebrations ~  American Politics Paradox of American Power

"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics." ~ Charles Peguy

ADVOCACY

EVENTS
1775 Common Sense
1775 Paul Revere's Ride
1776 Declaration of Independence
1777 Battle of Germantown

1814 Star Spangled Banner
1863 Gettysburg Address
1863 Civil War ending
1868 14th Amendment
1892 Pledge of Alliegance
1895 America the Beautiful

1933 FDR's fireside chats
1944 D-Day Invasion
1947 Truman on Television
1951 Truman fires MacArthur
1960 Peace Corps
1963 Kennedy Assassination
1974 Nixon Pardoning
1996 War on Tobacco

LEADERS & HEROES

JOURNALISTS

PLACES
Jefferson Memorial
Library of Congress
Lincoln Memorial
Smithsonian Institution
Vietnam War Memorial
Washington D.C.
World Trade Center

POLITICAL FOLKS
17th Century
William Penn

18th Century
Samuel Adams
Henry Clay
Davy Crockett
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
John Hancock
Thomas Paine
Paul Revere
Betsy Ross

19th Century
Jefferson Davis
Belva Lockwood
Joesph Smith, Jr.

20th Century

ronald reagan

PRESIDENTS &
FIRST LADIES

QUOTATIONS
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