Wowzers. Bo won again (back to back) and three times in one week.
With Presidents day next Monday I figured I would do a pre-lim post after all George Washington made 4 of the covers that I have. Not all of the articles are what we have been seeing this year. What I am going to do tonight is the short one plus what I would normally do on President's Day. Next week will be one of the full article/tidbits from a different cover.
George depicted wearing his Mason apron.
Okay now for the lengthy portion of the upcoming President's day celebration on this blog. Get your popcorn and something to drink.
Just kidding, I will be breaking up my "Presidents Collection" over the course of the entire week leading up to the big day, and maybe finishing it off with a bang next Monday President's Day.
This is obviously a place mat that ended with GW Bush. (look back a couple of scans).
Below are the individual photos and the write up on the back in reverse order (of those on the mat). There will be plenty of the other guys in the upcoming posts. You might learn something that you didn't know. I did.
Ronnie's back is missing and is supplemented with this.
Did you know that?
4 Term President.
Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President.
That is a tidbit. Did you catch that? The first lady was the president's sister, not his wife. I didn't check any of the others above, but I caught it here and thought that I would mention it. I had no idea. I am going back to check those, and will note the one below that came before.
Daughter is First lady. Also noting that he was Lincoln's 2nd term VP, and was a Democrat.
The Republican party is formed, and thus the political parties as we know today still intact.
Niece as 1st Lady. Here I get it, he was never married.
Another one.
4 in a row!
Whig vs Democratic party appears here. Also the third in a row of non-wife 1st ladies.
The 2nd non-wife 1st Lady.
Here we see the first non wife First Lady, as well as a split of Democratic-Republican party.
Here is where the political split began from Federlist to the Democratic-Reublican (notice they were one and the same back then).
