"Thousands of businesses end up going bankrupt!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, James Buchanan: The bachelor and the bloodshed, Presidential #Presidential #LillianCunningham
"Alexander Graham Bell had tried to help find the bullet by using his new metal-detector device, but he failed!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, James A. Garfield: Shot down, Presidential #Presidential #AlexanderGrahamBellDay #LillianCunningham
"But Benjamin Harrison manages to win the election, and he bumps Grover Cleveland from the White House." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Benjamin Harrison: The president as conservationist, Presidential #Presidential #BenjaminHarrison #HappyBirthdayBenjaminHarrison #LillianCunningham
"Garfield enters the White House on March 4th, 1881, and from the day he walks in the door, he starts getting barraged by requests from office seekers." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, James A. Garfield: Shot down, Presidential #LillianCunningham
"He declared himself the actual president." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency, Presidential #Presidential #PresidentsDay #LillianCunningham
"Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Ronald Reagan: Myths and truths, Presidential #Presidential #RonaldReagan #LillianCunningham
"FDR had four terms in office!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Through Eleanor's eyes, Presidential #Presidential #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #HappyBirthdayFranklinDelanoRoosevelt #FDR #LillianCunningham
"Where we choose to stop this story can either reinforce or undercut the narrative you were expecting." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, The Dark Moon, Moonrise #Moonrise #LillianCunningham
"And by 1946, JFK has won a seat in Congress, representing a district in Boston." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal, Presidential #Presidential #NationalBostonDay #LillianCunningham
"It was originally Alexander Hamilton's idea to have a national bank that would hold federal funds." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency, Presidential #Presidential #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #LillianCunningham
"He celebrated New Year's Eve a week later." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, The Beyond, Moonrise #Moonrise #NewYearsEve #LillianCunningham
"It was winter in Siberia!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Inside the Gulag, Moonrise #Moonrise #WinterSolstice #LillianCunningham
"By winter of 1965, all of Korolev's projects were charging forward." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, The Beyond, Moonrise #Moonrise #LillianCunningham
"He was also the first American president to win a Nobel Peace Prize." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Theodore Roosevelt: Exuberance, Presidential #Presidential #NobelPrizeDay #TeddyRoosevelt #LillianCunningham
"And Van Buren fails to get himself reelected for a second term as president." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system, Presidential #Presidential #MartinVanBuren #LillianCunningham
"They took a stray mutt that was found on the streets of Moscow, and on November 3rd, 1957, the Soviets launched her into space!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Nightmare on the Hill, Moonrise #Moonrise #NationalMuttDay #LillianCunningham
"But then Mark Twain reaches out, and he convinces Grant to let him be the publisher instead." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Ulysses S. Grant: Lover, fighter, writer, Presidential #Presidential #HappyBirthdayMarkTwain #MarkTwain #LillianCunningham
"What a crazy idea!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, A New Frontier, Moonrise #Moonrise #LillianCunningham
"On Friday, November 22nd, 1963, JFK was shot and killed while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal, Presidential #Presidential #LillianCunningham
"When McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt went from vice president to president." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Theodore Roosevelt: Exuberance, Presidential #Presidential #TheodoreRoosevelt #HappyBirthdayTheodoreRoosevelt #LillianCunningham
"He was born in North Carolina 50 years before that, in 1795." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, James K. Polk: Getting it done, Presidential #Presidential #NationalNorthCarolinaDay #LillianCunningham
"Autumn set in." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, JFK and the Secret Tapes, Moonrise #Moonrise #FirstDayofAutumn #FallEquinox #LillianCunningham
"He was also getting reports that the Soviets might launch their satellite first, sometime in the fall." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, SPUTNIK!, Moonrise #Moonrise #FirstDayofAutumn #FallEquinox #LillianCunningham
"He died on September 19th, exactly two months before his 50th birthday." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, James A. Garfield: Shot down, Presidential #Presidential #LillianCunningham
"And this makes Nixon vice president at only 40-years old." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Richard Nixon: Looking inward, Presidential #Presidential #VeepDay #LillianCunningham
"John Tyler is the vice president who became president himself, when William Henry Harrison died in office after only 32 days." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency, Presidential #Presidential #VeepDay #LillianCunningham
"Then, they head down to San Francisco, and, on August 2nd, 1923, at the Palace Hotel, Harding has a heart attack." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Warren G. Harding: Love and scandal, Presidential #Presidential #LillianCunningham
"His cousin was James Madison!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Zachary Taylor: War heroes and conspiracy theory, Presidential #Presidential #NationalCousinsDay #LillianCunningham
"It was July 15th, 1969!" - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Magnificent Desolation, Moonrise #Moonrise #LillianCunningham
"He tries to edge out President Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination." - LILLIAN CUNNINGHAM, Ronald Reagan: Myths and truths, Presidential #Presidential #HappyBirthdayGeraldFord #PresidentFord #LillianCunningham