Green Eggs And The White House

  Ever since Easter Monday 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House grounds to children for an egg roll, the White House has observed this springtime tradition. The Washington Times’ Mark Silva reported on plans for this year’s event: Now...

Annals Of The Obama Administration

  The President and First Lady leave St. John’s Church after Easter Sunday services this morning. The First Family attended Easter Sunday services at St. John’s Episcopal Church —“the President’s —and Presidents’—...

Bow Wow

 Bo, the FPOTUS (First Pooch Of The United States), is clearly going to thrive in Washington — he already has his own White House website. The hypoallergenic puppy is already a savvy pol — having covered bases from the Kennedys to the animal shelter...

Don’t Forget Winona…Kingman….Barstow…

Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...

Paging The Hardball Desk

At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about “Five Books That Haven’t Been Written Yet” (but, he continues,...