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— Woodrow Wilson
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Feb. 12—Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday.
Feb. 22—George Washington’s Birthday
Third Monday of February between these 2 Dates:
President’s Day
A group of historians just the other day released a fresh list, ranking the “Greatness” of American Presidents. As has happened before in prior lists, Lincoln ranked #1. To be fair, our current #46, Joe Biden, gets an “incomplete” from the scholars, but even so, they rank him provisionally at #14. And at this website------- we KNEW IT ALL ALONG----but yes, #45 in his Golden Sneakers and his Eau d-Cologne (Essence of Bankrupt) does INDEED come in at #46, dead last. All three fans of James Buchanan are high-fiving and sending bouquets to Mar-A-Lago, thanking Melania’s husband for getting their man Jim out of Last Place at Last.
In honor of being the keeper of the History Corner in these parts and being something of History nut, this morning’s Round Up will feature Ponderable Quotes from, as well as Bar Trivia Stumping Nuggets about, American Presidents, suitable for reflection.
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
― James Garfield
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I’ve tried to sort out some of the stories under sub-headings (or, following a certain shape of elongated sandwiches, hero-headings, hoagie headings, grinder headings, torpedo headings, or po’-boy headings) and also added news of years past that event-ed (!) themselves on February 21sts of years of yore. In keeping with a Presidential trivia collection of Not Always Too Trivial Stuff, these sub/hero/po’boy/torpedo sub-sections will also feature Presidential contributions of events and glimpses of life and mind.
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry Truman
Good News in Society & Politics
>>>>>>> Day 5 since the New York civil case decision from Judge Engeron came down like a stone blizzard on the Trump organization. And you know what THAT means to Trump’s wallet, right? One of our Daily Kos readers of the accounting profession took the judgment of $363 million, AND the New York law (that Engeron applied) that imposes INTEREST of 9%/annum upon any outstanding judgment. Judge Engeron had his own accounting pros figure out that since the penalty started ticking from 2019 (!) that there is over $98 million in INTEREST also owing and added to the judgment.
But our intrepid accountant (an adjective RARELY applied to such a profession) calculated that the INTEREST clock is STILL TICKING…..at about $100,000 more EACH DAY. So, since Friday, the total amount owed has gone UP $500,000…..another half-a-million…..and counting. We need one of those ticking reminders at the top of the Round Ups these days, because Trump and his criminal organization OWING MORE every day makes all of us smile and feel better about life. YAY!
- When Jefferson became President he began shaking hands with visitors. Under Washington and Adams visitors to the President had always bowed upon arriving or leaving.
>>>>>» Oh, and since making the Rich pay their fair share for the privilege of living among us is perhaps the definition of income EQUALITY, 1 piece of the Biden-enacted Inflation Reduction Act included added funding for the IRS with the delightful task of collecting unpaid taxes from the wealthy. This CHEERING PIECE notes that Act added $80 billion to the IRS budget for this effort. Best estimates SO FAR is that the 1% have coughed up an additional $561 Billion-with-a-B to the US Treasury. My non-accountant math says that’s a 7 to 1 return on that $80 billion (and this is spread out over 4 years, so the Service has only digested the first $20 billion and started in on the second tranche here in 2024.) That is SERIOUS Good News in cold, hard cash for US ALL! YAY!
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>>>>>Warning! Only Certified Members of the Deep State are allowed to read the following. It is strictly eyes-only, need to know, Def Con 5, Double-Secret Probation important but SECRET! All you ordinary citizens can just go about your business and skip down to the next set of stars. No Fair reading in Between!
(WineRev glances around…..gives little nod to the passing Gnusies to follow him into the alley…...turns up collar on his trench coat…...) The Great Right Wing Propaganda Machine (known by the shorthand of the “Goebbels Gabble”) may finally be facing some genuine competition on American airwaves. The…….(whisper only) Deep State is quietly buying the 2nd largest radio network in the US. And as you can read in this CYBER DISPATCH…..it really is from the Deep State (as every RW nut knows.) Why? Looks like the deal is being financed by…..YES…..George Soros.
Pass on the word through your usual channels. That is all.
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- James Monroe served 2 terms. The opposition party (Federalists) collapsed during his first term, so he is the only President re-elected basically unopposed.
Now living together in a common country with a common language, there have been political and social moments from years past and places near and far. Here’s a sample of STUFF that happened on February 21sts that made a difference for large swaths of people.
1613 Moscow The Patriarch of Moscow (Orthodox clergy can marry) has a son, Mikhail Romanov. The lad is 17 but does not follow dad into the ministry. Instead, this day he is elected czar of Russia. Mikhail was crowned on June 22 (much better weather). In his inauguration speech he opened a wormhole to the future, tuned in a fellow Russian among the stars and quoted Star Trek; Chekov, with thick accent: “And I am czar of all the Russians!” His family line ruled over 300 years, down to 1917.
- Meanwhile, unlike the czars of all the Russians, having already been President, John Quincy Adams later is elected to the US House, the only person to make that political move in that direction.
- While JQ Adams was the first President ever to be photographed, James Polk was the first to be photographed while in office. He was visiting in New York city and stopped in at the studio of Matthew Brady.
1866 Cincinnati, Ohio Lucy Beamon Hobbs was born and raised in upstate New York. Became a school teacher in Michigan for 10 years, then got the urge to become…..a dentist. Was turned down on her application to a dental college due to her gender but one of the professors (a working dentist) took her on as an apprentice. A couple years later she applied to a different school and was again turned down for being a woman and again a dentist-professor taught her as a private student so she was able to begin her own practice in Cincinnati. Moved to Iowa for the Civil War years and got good enough she was admitted to the Iowa Dental Society and so became a licensed dentist. She was then admitted to the Ohio School of Dentistry back in Cincinnati as a senior and on this day the 33-year-old Ms. Hobbs became the first woman in the world to graduate from a college of dentistry (and was awarded a doctorate to boot!) Moved to Chicago where she married James Taylor (not the singer, but another dentist!) and together they moved to Kansas where they built a thriving practice for the next 25 years. (In 1983 the American Association of Women Dentists established the annual Lucy Hobbs Taylor Award for AAWD members to recognize professional excellence and achievements in advancing the role of women in dentistry.)
- In the 1870s Rutherford Hayes mediated a peace treaty in South America. The nation of Paraguay was so grateful they renamed an entire province for him (Presidente Hayes) and named the provincial capital “Villa Hayes” (Hayes House)…...to this day.
- Grover Cleveland is the only President to get married in the White House.
- Woodrow Wilson is the only President to hold a Ph.D.
1958 Twickenham, UK The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is slowly gathering strength and is readying for a major public march, The Aldermaston March. (Aldermaston was a nuclear weapons research center and the march would between there and London, 52 miles.) Professional artist Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector in World War II, thought a logo or symbol might be a good way to focus the march. After several tries this day he brings a design to his local chapter. It is a circle divided vertically by a diameter line, and two additional downward branches in the manner of an upside-down letter “Y”. As a semaphore signal, one flag straight up and one straight down (like the center diameter) stands for “N”. Two flags apart and each down at 45 degrees stands for “D”, so the symbol signaled “ND” for “Nuclear Disarmament.” The March adopted it and it was soon on lapel pins and fliers everywhere. Holtom didn’t copyright it, and it became the 1960’s peace symbol worldwide.
- John Kennedy was the first US President to have served his military service in the Navy.
1980 Lake Placid, New York The Winter Olympics are on and over on the men’s hockey rink there may be a story developing. But other people and other countries care about other things. Liechtenstein is a tiny country (all of 61 sq. miles) in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria. With all that tilted landscape and winter snows you can figure Alpine skiing is the national sport. This day the entire Duchy (all 37,000 citizens) went bonkers as Hanni Wenzel wins the gold medal in the women’s giant slalom event. Her gold medal makes Liechtenstein the smallest country in the world to produce an Olympic champion. (How many Liechtenstein women turning 40, 41, 42 or 43 this year have a first name of Hanni…..?)
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
―Calvin Coolidge
“Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.”
―Joe Biden
Good News in Science & Engineering
- The inventive President Jefferson is credited with inventing a dumbwaiter, a hideaway bed and…..a coat hanger. (Wall peg makers howled…..)
- The Baltimore & Ohio RR made its bid to be part of a Monopoly board back in 1828 by becoming the first US railroad. Not long after, Andrew Jackson became the first President to ride by train.
- In a far more private advance than by Jackson, Millard Fillmore installed the first White House bathtub.
One of the recurring features of the daily Good News Round Up on many days are…...cartoons! Jokes set to drawing. Puns in picture form. A tickle to the ribs. A chuckle for the mouth. Humor, and its reaction, LAUGHTER, are very human actions. Many have claimed that laughter is a uniquely human trait, that other species on this planet are far more prosaic.
And yet…….our dogs and cats have full bodied ways of showing what can only be called Delight. Some horses have a nodding whinny that…...daggone it, has a laughing sort of cadence and character. Yes, yes, the muscles of a dolphin’s face make the lips turn up at the corners, so it looks like they are perpetually smiling, and yet…..are some of those antics done just for the fun of it? To show off for the other members of the pod? Those screeches from apes and monkeys? Are they all lamentations, or mating calls, or forms of verbal aggression? Or are at least some of them…...snickering? Even joking?
Well now COMES A STUDY from UCLA that states 65 species express forms of laughter. They find things FUNNY. Things worthy delighting over. Things silly that look funny and earn a laugh. Now, studying laughter sounds like a serious matter, and to be taken seriously means maintaining a “professional detachment” from the data, observations and hypotheses. And yet, this team has done all that serious stuff and come out with a serious statement, with research and data supporting, that laughter has embedded itself across the Earth, for the Author of Joy would not have us laugh alone. The difference between “happy” and “joy”? You can be happy within yourself. When you share it with someone else, that turns it into joy…...and often the vehicle (and response) is laughter.
- Franklin Pierce made winters far more comfortable by installing the White House’s first central heating system. (Fireplaces became more ornamental…..)
- Christopher Spencer had invented a new rifle but couldn’t get the Union War Department to give it a look. He went to DC in 1863 and came to the White House uninvited to talk it over with President Lincoln. The two of them and a butler walked down to a bank of the Potomac River (about where the Jefferson Memorial now stands) for some target shooting and Lincoln tried out Spencer’s “repeating rifle” that fired copper-jacketed bullets from a 7-shot clip and the turn of a little wheel to load the next shot. (“Load it on Sunday and shoot it all week!”) They walked back to the White House and soon the Union cavalry was receiving shipments from Spencer’s shop/factory.
>>>>>>» It is an annoying fact of aging that body parts show wear and tear. Canes, permanent shawls, softer food, ear trumpets, and dentures are just a few of the ways humans have used to cope with biological mileage. Vision is another one. Now I’ve been near-sighted since I hit puberty, so I’ve been wearing glasses for decades. I had a long stretch with contact lenses, but the last decade or so its been glasses again. (Suave and stylish of course!)
And all along, my eyes have been changing, so every few years I need a different prescription.
But now comes THIS EXCITING STORY from France: a research and engineering team has developed a contact lens (and implantable ones are in the works) that feature a tiny spiral of material in the soft plastic. The effect is allow for multiple corrections, rather in the manner of progressive lenses in glasses, but far more effectively. Living in the future is fun!
- President Hayes had the first White House telephone installed (2 years after the patent for it), personally wired in by Alexander Graham Bell himself.
- Speaking of (and into) telephones, President Cleveland usually answered the White House phone himself whenever it rang.
- McKinley (in the 1890s!) was the first President to ride in an automobile, while Teddy Roosevelt, his successor, was the first to learn how to drive one.
Of course, visual treats (as noted in the Round Up section featuring Art) have long been part of the human story too. While the February 21 science & engineering events of history are just one entry, it was a remarkable visual delight that many of us recall fondly:
1947 New York City The Optical Society of America is holding its annual meeting in town. Mr. Edwin Land, president of a camera company, gives them a demonstration of his company’s new invention, a camera that produces its own finished prints. The Polaroid Land Camera is the world’s first “instant camera.”
- President Harding was the first President to ever make a speech carried by radio.
>>>>>» One of the most heart-breaking conditions of aging is developing Alzhimer’s. That fear of slipping, seeing the confusion in those we love, or the pain in the eyes of them looking and listening to us…...well, even though we now have a name for this development, the hard news is there is little to be done to treat it. But now……..maybe…...just maybe, there may be something. Most treatments up until now have focused (rightly) on reducing the accumulation of so-called “tau” proteins in the brain, the precursors to the formation of that amyloid plaque that defines the disease. But now THIS HEARTENING ARTICLE reports on an odd protein that lives in the brain and the kidneys (!) and nowhere else in the body. Boosting levels of this “KIBRA” protein REPAIRS synaptic links and can recover memories. Yay for research…..that can’t come soon enough!
- President Truman was the first President to ever speak formally on television.
- Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane (in 1910! A Wright Brothers number.) He was out of office. His cousin Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to fly by plane while in office. Eisenhower was the first President to fly…..by helicopter.
"We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation."
— John Adams
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
― Barack Obama
Good News in Music, Arts and Literature
>>>>>>>>>>Did you enjoy the Super Bowl? The game itself was a good one, even enough so that it had to go into overtime to be settled. Part of the fun before and around the game was watching the on-line vapors and fury among the RWers about Taylor Swift. They thought a pop star white girl dating a macho man football player would certainly stand by her man as a RW prop. Too bad, so sad. Taylor has been outspoken in using her celebrity to give political fits to the knuckle-draggers.
“But at least,” the fur-faced ones could say to each other, “we got country music.” Well, yes they do, and so do a lot of other people. (I’m not partial myself but I recognize the talent and popularity.) But now, to honor their grandfathers’ dismay at baseball allowing Jackie Robinson to break the color line, their fathers’ fury at Arthur Ashe hitting overhead lobs for winners, and Obama being elected President, they have a newly ginned up (liquored up?) reason to be out loud racists. Now COMES WORD that Beyonce…...a 32 Grammy award winner…...Beyonce…..THAT black woman with moves and VOICE…...she has hit the Country Music charts with 2 songs. They are livid and they are loud….which means requests for playing and sales of downloads are booming. GOOD. Let them squirm, since it accessorizes their stupidity and hardness of heart.
>>>>>Presidents and…...music? The arts? Why yes, now and again, here and there. Jefferson could play violin, cello and the clavichord, and was also noted for his singing voice. John Tyler had the talent and interest to seriously consider a career as a concert violinist. Eventually went into law, and then politics, but also at White House dinner parties he would often play dinner music for the guests.
Lincoln played the fiddle and loved opera so much he was the first to invite a professional opera singer to the White House for a concert. Grant liked to paint to relax. Chester Arthur liked music too, of all sorts, and was the first to hold a White House performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the premiere black singing group of the late 1800s (Still extant and harmonizing….) And more to come…….
CS Lewis, a British veteran of the horrors of trench warfare in World War I, became something of an amateur theologian in the mid-20th century. Now enduring (as a civilian) another enormous war in the 1940s, he was asked to give a speech at a university on the value of going to get a higher education during wartime. He pointed out that art, music and literature (among other of the human arts and talents) strictly speaking have no “survival value.” “But,” he said, “they are what give value to survival.”
SOOoooo…...for the betterment and value of our survival, for our hearts and souls and peace of mind and uplift of spirit:
1791 Vienna Birth of Carl Czerny, pianist, composer. From a line of Czech and Moravian musicians (both areas part of the Austrian Empire) Czerny learned music from an early age with talent to match. He was playing piano at age 3 and gave his 1st public concert at age 9, a Mozart concerto. The next year Beethoven heard him play and took him on as a student for several years, and the 2 formed a deep bond. Czerny’s ability was such that while visiting a Prussian Prince, the prince could call out just the opus number of a Beethoven work and Czerny could play it in its entirety from memory and without error. Began teaching at age 15; his most celebrated pupil was Franz Liszt, who astounded Czerny with his talent (!) Composed over 1000 pieces in his life (including 7 symphonies) and several piano method texts that are still in wide use to teach keyboard.
- In a “serious musical moment” Teddy Roosevelt took delivery from Steinway & Sons of the first White House grand piano. It was used when TR hosted internationally famous, professional concert pianist Ignacy Paderewski---who several years later turned from the piano to become President of Poland.
- Woodrow Wilson was constantly singing in office with an excellent tenor voice.
- Truman usually woke each day at 5 am to practice piano for 2 hours before turning to President-ing. He admitted he loved playing but wasn’t good at it…..but dreamed anyway.
1828 New Echota, Georgia This town is the capital of the Cherokee nation. On this day the initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper is printed, the first Native American newspaper. It uses the syllabary (an alphabet) invented by Cherokee wise man Sequoyah. The paper ceased publication in 1834 with the relocation/destruction of much of the Cherokee to what became Oklahoma. (In 1844 another newspaper appeared, the Cherokee Advocate, edited by Princeton graduate (and tribal member) William Porter Ross. This paper disappeared in the Civil War but was resurrected in 1975. In 2007 it added a web page, and lately a Facebook page and a Twitter feed.)
- Dwight Eisenhower only took up painting at age 58 (after stepping down as Supreme Commander of WWII) but then loved it. Produced 300 canvases.
- Historians and musicians generally agree Richard Nixon was likely the most talented piano player among all the Presidents.
1964 Across America A couple weeks ago, those 4 mop-top, sharply dressed young chaps were on The Ed Sullivan Show and 71 million Americans watched. Beatlemania went into orbit like, well, like John Glenn! And where there’s excitement like that, there’s money to be made! At least that was the assumption. On this day the United Kingdom flies 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper to the US for sale. No teen bedroom truly cool without it…..
- Bill Clinton could wail pretty well on saxophone (as the world discovered on the Arsenio Hall show) during his first run for President.
- Barack Obama is only 30 Grammys behind Beyonce, but he does have 2 (spoken word).
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
― James Garfield
Good News of the Offbeat and the Odd
OK, OK, so 24,000 rolls of Beatles wallpaper from just above here, strictly speaking, probably does NOT belong in a section of life labeled “Music, Arts and Literature.” (Although they were good Musical artists…...and the wallpaper had a pattern, an ARTISTic pattern to it…...and this artistry was on Paper, like literature has been for centuries…...)
But February 21st, while a bit historically thin for some reason in the Science & Engineering entries (the Presidents sturdily filled in, although their contributions usually did not happen on a February 21), also features some other events that are just…….head cocking. Eyebrow raising. Worth a “say what?” right out loud.
And, with 46 chances spread out over 235 years, yes, our Presidents have had their moments as well: sweet, tender, off-beat, and “Say what?”…..all good for your next Bar Trivia Contest to win that free beer AND the pretzels with cheese dip. (Your ability to impress that noisy uncle at Thanksgiving is always in our mind…..)
- Washington was a noted dog breeder and trainer. He liked to fox hunt and raised dogs to go along.
- John Adams in summer had a steady habit of going swimming in the Potomac every day….at 5am…..nude.
- Madison, the mighty author of the Constitution, stood 5’4” and weighed 100 pounds…..our smallest ever President.
- William Harrison (68 when elected; oldest until Reagan) gave the longest Inaugural Speech ever (105 minutes), without coat or hat in a driving, cold rainstorm. He caught cold, which became pneumonia and he died after 31 days in office. Shortest term ever. No one has ever tried to go close to 105 minutes after this bad example…...and he still finished ahead of Trump in the standings…..
1846 Lowell, Massachusetts Samuel FB Morse demonstrated telegraphy in 1838. In 1844 he gave a public demonstration for Congress on the steps of the capital, sending and receiving messages from far away Baltimore at the speed of electricity. Telegraphy boomed as the cutting edge of high tech and created an immediate demand for telegraph operators. You needed to learn/know Morse’s code and understand something of the mechanism, neither task exclusively male. On this day Sarah Bagley clicked onto the telegraph line as the 1st US woman telegrapher.
- Zachary Taylor never voted before being elected (at 62). A career Army man he was moved often from post to post, never giving him a long enough stay to establish residency. Grazed his horse on the White House lawn.
- Millard Fillmore and the entire Cabinet turned out one afternoon to help fight a major fire at the Library of Congress.
- Franklin Pierce was the first to put up a White House Christmas tree.
- James Buchanan welcomed the Prince of Wales for a formal visit. The Prince’s entourage numbered so many attendants Buchanan had to sleep overnight in a corridor in the White House.
- Grant signed legislation establishing Yellowstone as the world’s first-ever National Park. (the idea went global….)
1878 New Harbor, Connecticut Mr. Bell’s invention of the ‘telephone’ (patented 2 years ago) is spreading steadily, and more and more subscribers are getting the device installed, mostly at their business but sometimes (among the wealthy) even at home. Who has the device? Can one ask the operator for a connection….and by what name? There are only so many numbers one can remember so on this day the world’s first telephone directory is issued. All 50 subscribers in this burg are listed. (Could become an annual list, even a book, you know?)
- Garfield was not only the first known President to be left-handed, he was ambidextrous and brain-wired differently. He could hold a pen in each hand and simultaneously write in Greek with one and Latin with the other.
- In contrast to 5 am early-bird Presidents Adams and Truman Chester Arthur was a night owl who usually went to bed at 2 am and liked to go for solo night walks around DC. (Security risk? Lincoln had been killed 20-some years before, and Arthur became President from VP after Garfield was shot. When you gotta walk, you gotta walk…..)
- McKinley was the first President to use the telephone to make personal political phone calls to voters while campaigning for office.
- Teddy Roosevelt, the First Lady and all 5 of their children each had a pair of wooden stilts for walking around the White House for fun and exercize.
- William Taft was the first President to throw out the First Ball to open the baseball season.
- Iowa’s only President, Herbert Hoover was a wealthy man. He refused to accept Presidential pay and donated his salary every two weeks to a charity.
- Franklin Roosevelt was distantly related (rather closely to Teddy) by family tree to 11 other US Presidents. His wife Eleanor was also a distant cousin.
- Lyndon Johnson graduated from high school at age 15.
- Richard Nixon was such a good poker player in the Navy in World War II his winnings financed most of his first campaign for local political office after the War.
- Gerald Ford was a handsome, excellent college football player, so good that after graduation he turned down contract offers from both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Instead, his features made him a fashion model, and he appeared in the pages and occasional cover of Life magazine and Cosmopolitan.
- Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived (99) of any President (and still with us as of this morning.)
- Ronald Reagan and the Trumpster are the only 2 divorced Presidents.
- Barack Obama broke the color barrier in the White House...for 2 terms.
- Joseph Biden is the oldest President elected, Inaugurated at age 78. (Reagan left office at only 77, the oldest to live there until now.)
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OK friends and neighbors! Again, welcome to the Good News Round Up for this Wednesday and thank you, one and all, for putting up with Presidential Madness Month. Happy reading and many warm comments and thoughts to you all!
For the living out of our days (like especially since 2016):
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.”
― Dwight D Eisenhower
May all your News be Good, comforting and inspiring.
Shalom
