Project President

by Ben Shapiro

44. J. F. Feeks, “Hey! Uncle Abe,Are You Joking Yet? Tune- ‘Johnny Cope.’ J. F. Feeks, 26 Ann Street, and 636 Broadway,New York. [n. d.].” (1864) America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets, Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/ampage?collId=amss&fileName=as1/as105320/amsspage.db&recNum=0& i temLink=D?amss:2:./temp/~ammem_UU50::.

  45. Dole, supra note 4 at 38–39.

  46. Dole, supra note 4 at 56.

  47. Chris Matthews, American: Beyond Our Grandest Notion (Free Press, 2002), 97.

  48. Dole, supra note 4 at 59.

  49. Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (Modern Library, 2002), 233.

  50. Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness:Who Makes History and Why (The Guilford Press, 1994), 350.

  51. Morris, supra note 49 at 244–245.

  52. Hugh Sidey, “Puritan in the Cabinet Room,” Time, 16 November 1981.

  53. Peter McGrath, “The President’s President,” Newsweek, 7 September 1981.

  54. Alan Brinkley, “Calvin Reagan,” New York Times, 4 July 1981.

  55. Alistair Cooke, ed., The Vintage Mencken (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1955), 220–222.

  56. Dole, supra note 35 at 56.

  57. Malcolm Lee Cross, “Calvin Coolidge” in William C. Spragens, ed., Popular Images of American Presidents (Greenwood Press, 1988), 301.

  58. Ruth Tenzer Feldman, Calvin Coolidge (Lerner Publishing Group, 2005), 47.

  59. John Hiram McKee, Coolidge Wit and Wisdom: 125 Short Stories About “Cal” (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933), 4.

  60. Henry Mitchell, “Presidential Levity and the Old Coolidge Try,”Washington Post, 16 January 1981.

  61. Dole, supra note 4 at 67.

  62. McKee, supra note 59 at 75.

  63. Ibid., 92.

  64. Dole, supra note 4 at 72.

  65. McKee, supra note 59 at 9.

  66. Ibid., 35–36.

  67. Henry Mitchell, “Presidential Levity and the Old Coolidge Try,” The Washington Post, 16 January 1981.

  68. Dole, supra note 4 at 67.

  69. McKee, supra note 59 at 123.

  70. Ibid., 125.

  71. Ibid., 124.

  72. Dole, supra note 4 at 70.

  73. McKee, supra note 59 at 99.

  74. Boller, supra note 25 at 236.

  75. Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (Simon & Schuster, 2006), 108.

  76. Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (Public Affairs, 2003), 284.

  77. “Acceptance Speech by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chicago, July 2, 1932” in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed.,History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968: Volume III (Chelsea House Publishers, 1971), 2791.

  78. Alter, supra note 75 at 90.

  79. “Speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,Washington, September 23, 1944” in Ed. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., History of American Presidential Elections 1789-1968: Volume IV (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1971), 3081.

  80. Alter, supra note 75 at 263–264.

  81. Black, supra note 76 at 276–277.

  82. Alter, supra note 75 at 221.

  83. Dole, supra note 4 at 77–78.

  84. Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), 423–424.

  85. Dole, supra note 4 at 81.

  86. Ibid., 423.

  87. Ibid., 424.

  88. Philip Potter, “Political Pitchman: Richard M. Nixon” in Eric Sevareid, ed., Candidates 1960:Behind the Headlines in the Presidential Race (Basic Books, Inc., 1959), 69.

  89. Frank Holeman, “The Curious Quaker: Richard M. Nixon” in Ibid., 134.

  90. Dole, supra note 4 at 78.

  91. Gerald Gardner, The Mocking of the President (Wayne State University Press, 1988), 203.

  92. Boller, supra note 25 at 306.

  93. Ibid., 306–307.

  94. Potter, supra note 88 at 71.

  95. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1996), 257, 293–301.

  96. Christopher J. Matthews, Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America (Free Press, 1997), 117.

  97. Dinesh D’Souza, Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader (Free Press, 1999), 72.

  98. Ibid., 71.

  99. Ibid., 72.

  100. Ibid., 71.

  101. Edward J. Walsh, “Carter” in Richard Harwood, ed., The Pursuit of the Presidency 1980 (Berkley Books, 1980), 252.

  102. Richard Harwood, “Labor Day 1980” in Harwood, supra note 101 at 285.

  103. Ibid.

  104. Jamieson, supra note 95 at 410.

  105. Richard Harwood, “October” in Harwood, supra note 101 at 296.

  106. Boller, supra note 25 at 361.

  107. Ronald Reagan, An American Life (Pocket, 1999), 221.

  108. Boller, supra note 25 at 366.

  109. D’Souza, supra note 97 at 67.

  110. Ibid., 82.

  111. Dole, supra note 4 at 235.

  112. “Will Americans be Voting for Lesser of Two Evils Come Election Day?” The O’Reilly Factor Transcript, Fox News Channel, 24 October 2000.

  113. Ciro Scotti, “Chill George. It’s Kerry’s Turn,” Business Week Online, 29 October 2004.

  114. Noemie Emery, “John Kerry Is Different from You and Me,” Weekly Standard, 2 August 2004.

  Chapter Six

  1. Joe Mitchell Chapple, Life and Times of Warren G. Harding: Our After War President (Kessinger Publishing, 2004), 282.

  2. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Little, Brown, and Company, 2005), 72–73.

  3. “Biography of Warren G. Harding,” WhiteHouse.gov, http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presi-dents/wh29.html.

  4. Bob Dole, Great Presidential Wit . . . I Wish I Was in the Book: A Collection of Humorous Anecdotes and Quotations (Scribner, 2001), 211.

  5. Eugene P. Trani and David L. Wilson, The Presidency of Warren G. Harding (University Press of Kansas, 1977), 25.

  6. Dole, supra note 4 at 213.

  7. George Weigel, “Mencken Trouble,” The Weekly Standard, 4 November 2002.

  8. Chapple, supra note 1 at 123–124.

  9. Trani and Wilson, supra note 5.

  10. Chapple, supra note 1 at 126.

  11. Harry M. Daugherty, The Inside Story of the Warren G. Harding Tragedy (Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2005), 299.

  12. Bo Emerson, “Losing It in Atlanta,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 3 November 2003.

  13. Gladwell, supra note 2 at 76.

  14. James Brown and Bruce Tucker, James Brown: The Godfather of Soul (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003), 88.

  15. “American Experience: John and Abigail Adams: Part Two,” PBS Transcript, http://www.pbs.org/ wgbh/amex/adams/filmmore/pt_2.html.

  16. Henry Adams, History of the United States During the Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson: Volume I (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908), 452.

  17. David McCullough, John Adams (Simon & Schuster, 2001), 537.

  18. Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers (PublicAffairs, 2006), 354.

  19. John T. Morse, Thomas Jefferson (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899), 4.

  20. Adams, supra note 16 at 453.

  21. John T. Morse, John Quincy Adams (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), 229–230.

  22. Cyrus Townsend Brady, The True Andrew Jackson ( J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906), 136.

  23. Sean Wilentz, Andrew Jackson (Times Books, 2005), 1.

  24. John William Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age (Oxford University Press, 1962), 182.

  25. Robert Vincint Remini, The Life of Andrew Jackson (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001), 87.

  26. Ibid., 149.

  27. “Some Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of GENERAL JACKSON” (1828) in Bernard F. Reilly, Jr., American Political Prints, 1766-1866: Catalog of the Collection in the Library of Congress, http://lo
c.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/DisplayCartoonLarge.asp?MaxID=25&UniqueID =21&Year=1828&YearMark=182.

  28. Remini, supra note 25 at 164.

  29. Roger Bruns, Almost History: Close Calls, Plan B’s, and Twists of Fate in America’s Past (Hyperion, 2000), 49–51.

  30. Paul F. Boller, Presidential Campaigns (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 107.

  31. Paul F. Boller, Presidential Campaigns (Oxford University Press, 1996), 107–108.

  32. Ibid.

  33. Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001), 35–36.

  34. Bruns, supra note 29.

  35. Thomas Nast, “Leaders of the Democratic Party,” Library of Congress (1868), http://elections. harpweek.com/1868/cartoon-1868-Medium.asp?UniqueID=8&Year=1868.

  36. Thomas Nast, “Time, Midnight. – Scene, New York City Hall,” Harper’s Weekly, 5 September 1868, http://elections.harpweek.com/1868/cartoon-1868-Medium.asp?UniqueID=20&Year=1868.

  37. Thomas Nast, “Lead Us Not into Temptation,” Harper’s Weekly, 19 September 1868, http://elections. harpweek.com/1868/cartoon-1868-large.asp?UniqueID=21&Year=1868.

  38. Thomas Nast, “The Democratic Hell-Broth,” Harper’s Weekly, 31 October 1868, http://elections.harpweek.com/1868/cartoon-1868-Medium.asp?UniqueID=23&Year=1868.

  39. Hamlin Garland, Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character (Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898), 227.

  40. William Conant Church, Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897), 219.

  41. “Victory!” Harper’s Weekly, 3 October 1868, http://elections.harpweek.com/1868/cartoon-1868 large.asp?UniqueID=36&Year=1868.

  42. Matthew Hale Smith, Sunshine and Shadow in New York ( J. B. Burr and Company, 1869), 654-655.

  43. Boller, supra note 30 at 129.

  44. Thomas Nast, “Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm,” Harper’s Weekly, 21 September 1872.

  45. Thomas Nast, “H.G. ‘Let Us Clasp Hands Over the Bloody Chasm,’ ” Harper’s Weekly, 19 October 1872.

  46. Boller, supra note 30 at 129.

  47. Peterkin, supra note 32 at 67.

  48. Sir Harry Lauder, Roamin’ in the Gloamin’ (Kessinger Publishing, 2005), 218.

  49. Robert Sobel, Coolidge (Regnery, 2000), 161.

  50. John A. Barnes, John F. Kennedy on Leadership: The Lessons and Legacy of a President (AMACOM, 2005), 56.

  51. Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), 310.

  52. Ibid., 328.

  53. Ibid.

  54. Ibid., 330–331.

  55. Neil Steinberg, Hatless Jack: The President, the Fedora, and the History of American Style (Plume, 2004), 20–21.

  56. Ibid.

  57. Ibid.

  58. Barnes, supra note 49.

  59. John Hellman, The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK (Columbia University Press, 1997), 94.

  60. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1996), 139.

  61. Steinberg, supra note 54 at 21.

  62. Ibid., 22.

  63. Jamieson, supra note 57 at 158–159.

  64. Carolyn L. Funk, “Candidate Images When Things Go Sour” in Kenneth L. Hacker, ed., Presidential Candidate Images (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004), 69.

  65. Steinberg, supra 54 at xix–xxi.

  66. Ibid., 282.

  67. Jack McCallum, “Reagan Did a Number on Counter-Culture Generation,” Morning Call, 13 June 2004.

  68. Dottie Ashley, “When Clothes Were the Sign of the Times,” Post and Courier, 20 February 1998.

  69. Walter R. Mears, Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter’s Story (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003), 112.

  70. Mike Royko, “Poof! Go the Democrats; Candidate with Poofiest Hair Usually the Party’s Nominee,” Orlando Sentinel, 4 October 1991.

  71. Jamieson, supra note 57 at 324.

  72. Richard Harwood, “October” in Richard Harwood, ed., The Pursuit of the Presidency 1980 (Berkley Books, 1980), 291.

  73. Karon K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan and Martin Anderson, Reagan: A Life in Letters (Free Press, 2003), 79.

  74. Michael K. Deaver, A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan (HarperCollins, 2001), 14.

  75. George F.Will, “The Joy of Politics,” Newsweek, 26 November 1979.

  76. “Leading Man,” Newsweek, 1 October 1979.

  77. Lawrence Martin, “On the Road with Reagan: The Jelly Beans Tell the Story,” Globe and Mail, 13 September 1980.

  78. Michael Kernan, “Toupee or Not Toupee,” Washington Post, 17 September 1980.

  79. “A Man of Parts,” Newsweek, 7 May 1979.

  80. Howard Wilkinson, “Kerry, Edwards Claim They Have Better Ideas—and Hair,” Enquirer, 8 July 2004.

  81. Joe Blundo, “With Edwards in Race, Voters Might Split Hairs,” Columbus Dispatch, 15 July 2004.

  82. “Cheney: Preserving Freedom, Security ‘Greatest Challenge of Our Time,’ ” CNN.com, 2 September 2004.

  83. Roger Ailes with Jon Kraushar, You Are the Message: Secrets of the Master Communicators (Homewood, Illinois: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1988), 22.

  Chapter Seven

  1. Sol Barzman, The First Ladies (Cowles Book Company, Inc., 1970), 198.

  2. H. P. Jeffers, An Honest President: The Life and Times of Grover Cleveland (Perennial, 2002), 106–108.

  3. Ibid., 108.

  4. Ibid., 110.

  5. Alyn Brodsky, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 92.

  6. Ibid., 93–94.

  7. Barzman, supra note 1 at 199.

  8. Ibid., 200–202.

  9. William Ewart Gladstone, Roger Quarles Mills, James Gillespie Blaine, and Lloyd Stephens Bryce, Life of Hon. Grover Cleveland (1892), 90.

  10. Barzman, supra note 1 at 203.

  11. William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast: Volume X (The Brann Publishers, 1898), 6–7.

  12. Barzman, supra note 1 at 4–5.

  13. Ibid., 92–100.

  14. Ibid., 110–118.

  15. “Biography of Harriet Lane,”WhiteHouse.gov, http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hl15.html.

  16. Barzman, supra note 1 at 146–147.

  17. Ibid., 59–61.

  18. Paul F. Boller, Presidential Campaigns (Oxford University Press, 1996), 46.

  19. Paul F. Boller, Presidential Wives (Oxford University Press, 2006), 65–66.

  20. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents’Wives and Their Power (1789–1961) (Perennial, 2003), 111.

  21. Boller, supra note 19 at 66.

  22. Robert V. Remini, The Life of Andrew Jackson (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001), 169.

  23. Ibid., 169–170.

  24. David A. Smith, Presidents from Adams Through Polk, 1825–1849: Debating the Issues Pro and Con Primary Documents (Greenwood Press, 2005), 37.

  25. Robert Vincent Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991), 340.

  26. Angus McLaren, Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2002), 81.

  27. Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (PublicAffairs, 2003), 98.

  28. Mary Winget, Eleanor Roosevelt (Lerner Publications Company, 2001), 47.

  29. Black, supra note 27.

  30. Ibid., 904.

  31. Douglas Brinkley and David Rubel,World War II: The Axis Assault, 1939–1942 (Times Books, 2003), 303.

  32. John Kenneth Galbraith, Name-Dropping: From FDR On (Houghton Miffling Company, 1999), 50.

  33. Steve Neal, ed., Eleanor Roosevelt, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (Kensington Publishing Corp., 2004), 17.

  34. Betty Houchin Winfield, FDR and the
News Media (University of Illinois Press, 1990), 61.

  35. Barzman, supra note 1 at 302.

  36. Rodger Streitmatter, ed., Eleanor Roosevelt, Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok (Da Capo Press, 2000), 8.

  37. Russell Freedman, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion Books, 1993), 93.

  38. Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Da Capo Press, 1992), 163.

  39. Barzman, supra note 1 at 303.

  40. Ibid., 304–305.

  41. “The Graceful Loser,” Time, 23 July 1965.

  42. Jean H. Baker, The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997), 331.

  43. Ibid., 329.

  44. Ibid., 329–330.

  45. Ibid., 330.

  46. Ibid., 331.

  47. Ibid., 430.

  48. Boller, supra note 19 at 352.

  49. Ibid., 343–345.

  50. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (Oxford University Press, 1996), 108.

  51. Ibid.

  52. Barzman, supra note 1 at 332.

  53. Fletcher Knebel, “Pulitzer Prize Entry: John F. Kennedy” in Eric Sevareid, ed., Candidates 1960:Behind the Headlines in the Presidential Race (Basic Books, Inc., 1959), 199.

  54. Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books, 2005), 328.

  55. Ibid., 293.

  56. Ibid., 299–300.

  57. Ibid., 300.

  58. Ibid., 302.

  59. Ibid., 695–696.

  60. Knebel, supra note 53 at 199–200.

  61. Carl Sferrazza Anthony, As We Remember Her: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the Words of Her Family and Friends (Perennial, 2003), 122.

  62. Randall Woods, LBJ: Architect of American Ambition (Free Press, 2006), 205.

  63. Ibid., 290.

  64. Ibid., 288.

  65. Ibid., 666.

  66. Ibid., 288.

  67. Ibid., 103.

  68. Ibid., 406.

  69. Barzman, supra note 1 at 345.

  70. Gary A. Donaldson, Liberalism’s Last Hurrah: The Presidential Campaign of 1964 (M. E. Sharpe, 2003), 273.

  71. Ibid., 276.

  72. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Back in View, a First Lady with Her Own Legacy,” New York Times, 31 December 2006.

  73. Boller, supra note 19 at 417–418.

  74. Elizabeth Peer, “Woman of the Year,” Newsweek, 29 December 1975.

  75. John Robert Greene, Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House (University Press of Kansas, 1994), 79.