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Predicting The Results: The Election of 2016

Private Venue

What is at stake in the election of 2016? Not much.  Unless you count the future of health care, Social Security, Medicare, voting rights, the economy, abortion, gay marriage, and the environment! Not to mention our potential involvements in Middle … Continue reading

The Patient Is The President – Deaths And Near Deaths

Park Ridge Public Library 20 S. Prospect Ave, Park Ridge, IL, United States

The shooting of John F. Kennedy shocked the nation. As the mortally wounded President was rushed to Parkland Hospital, surgeons scrambled to try and save him. When the patient is the President, the whole nation is watching the every move of … Continue reading

Hillary Clinton – Shattering The Glass Ceiling

College of Lake County 1120 S Milwaukee Ave, Vernon Hills, IL, United States

Hillary Clinton - Shattering The Glass Ceiling America has had powerful and polarizing First Ladies before.  Mary Lincoln.  Eleanor Roosevelt. But no First Lady has ever shattered the glass ceiling like Hillary Clinton.  She has been a lightning rod for … Continue reading

Hillary Clinton – Shattering The Glass Ceiling

North Shore Senior Center 161 Northfield Road, Northfield

Hillary Clinton - Shattering The Glass Ceiling America has had powerful and polarizing First Ladies before.  Mary Lincoln.  Eleanor Roosevelt. But no First Lady has ever shattered the glass ceiling like Hillary Clinton.  She has been a lightning rod for … Continue reading

Ulysses S. Grant – Warrior And President

Harper College, Main Campus 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine, United States

After three years of tremendous bloodshed, Union losses and a seemingly endless stalemate , President Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant to head the USA Army. The War was over less than a year later.  Grant saved the Union, crushed the terrorists … Continue reading

Grover Cleveland – The Greatest President You Don’t Know

Harper College, Main Campus 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine, United States

Here is a fun piece of political trivia. Name all the men who one the popular vote for president more than twice. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, obviously. Andrew Jackson did it after first being robbed of the presidency by a deal made … Continue reading

The Ten Greatest American Presidents

Harper College, Main Campus 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine, United States

The Ten Best American Presidents One recent poll of Americans found that they believed Bill Clinton is the greatest President of all time! A recent poll of Republicans showed that 5% of them thought George W. Bush was the greatest … Continue reading

Women Who Have Run For President

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What do Victoria Woodhull, Gracie Allen, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole have in common?  They are among the amazing and fascinating women who have run for President!  The election of a woman as President is not a mater of 'if' - it … Continue reading

America’s Greatest First Ladies

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Who were America's Greatest First Ladies? Nobody really knows! Today, the press and public pay great attention to the President's spouse. However, the role of First Lady was not given so much as a moment's thought by the Founding Fathers. In … Continue reading