In honor of Monday's Presidents Day and its fabled mattress sales, here is a photograph of President Truman’s White House mattress in 1952:

Born 130 years ago today, Babe Ruth at first game in New York City’s new Yankee Stadium, 1923:

VP Harris and Speaker Johnson chat as the January 6 certification is about to get underway.

Today 1961:

Carter was first US President born in hospital.

Joined @NBCNews special report on passing of President Carter: youtube.com/watch?v=RpSWVHHgQaw @

What I said about the Carter marriage: "When Jimmy Carter was told that he was very sick...he was told, probably the best thing is for you to go into the hospital...Carter said, 'No, I want to be home, and be in bed with Rosalynn, and just sit holding hands.'"

Nixon suddenly flies to Los Angeles by commercial airliner, a first for an incumbent President. reported fifty-one years ago yesterday by New York Times:

New York Times today 1991:

Boston tonight:

Christmas 1954 menu at Alcatraz Prison included playing of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”:

General George Washington and his Army arrived Valley Forge this week 1777:

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Sunrise in DC this morning:

Harry Truman flips coin at Army-Navy Game 1950:

George Washington died 225 years ago tonight at Mount Vernon. Anxious about being buried alive, he told his aide, “Do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand?”

Marketing Seven-Up for infants, 1955:

Pat Nixon and Justin Trudeau, 1972:

As first U.S. President to visit Damascus, Nixon with Hafez al-Assad, 1974:

Seven weeks before resigning the Presidency, Richard Nixon and his wife Pat fly to Syria 1974 for a visit with President Hafez al-Assad and his family, including 8-year-old Bashar:

Nancy Reagan and Mr. T at White House, Christmas 1983:

Sunset in Washington DC right now:

USS California on fire after Pearl Harbor attack, today 1941:

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Trump meeting now with Macron and Zelensky in Paris.

Pearl Harbor attack was eighty-three years ago today:

White House Monroe Room (as it was under Mamie Eisenhower) was changed by Jackie Kennedy into a Treaty Room. Which First Lady's work do you prefer?

Which do you prefer? White House Red Room under Mamie Eisenhower (left) or as changed by Jackie Kennedy (right)? And why?

Prefer White House Green Room during time of Mamie Eisenhower or that of Jackie Kennedy?

White House private library under Eisenhowers (left) and then as changed by Jackie Kennedy (right)--any preference?

Election Day was a month ago today.

February 1989–WASHINGTON -- “Former Sen. John Tower, seeking to remove obstacles to his confirmation as defense secretary, swore Sunday he was never an alcoholic and pledged not to consume any alcoholic beverages while in office.”

In final inaugural (1945)--near end of World War II--FDR quoted this: "Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights. Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward...Remember...that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."

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After JFK assassination, new President Johnson talks to reporters, Oval Office, this week 1963:

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New York Times last week 1963:

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Rosa Parks’ arrest today 1955 was reported by Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser in tiny article at bottom of page nine—“Negro Jailed Here for ‘Overlooking’ Bus Segregation”:

Rosa Parks, who refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, Montgomery, Alabama, today 1955:

Boston Common this week:

Boston Common ice rink, this week:

Beacon Hill Boston this week:

Uncle Sam in Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, Times Square, 1940:

2024 Election was only three weeks ago today.

Chicago Tribune, which had been critical of JFK while alive as President, calls him a "hero!" today 1963: