After Tom and I presented four ‘Hail to the Chief’ episodes of rather obscure and lackluster Presidents (Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan), the moment has arrived where we salute the greatest President in American history – Abraham Lincoln. I even…
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189: THE BACHELOR PADS OF JAMES BUCHANAN ON HAIL TO THE CHIEF
Although James Buchanan, our 15th President, is considered by most historians to be the worst Commander-In-Chief in American history, my photographer and I were honored to have walked in his footsteps where he lived, worked, and died. Buchanan’s biggest claim…
188: A TOAST TO AMERICA’S SADDEST PRESIDENT – FRANKLIN PIERCE
Our 14th President Franklin Pierce was handsome, dashing, and very debonair. Secretly, however, Pierce was extremely depressed and became afflicted with alcohol consumption – especially after he witnessed his 11-year-old son get killed. Or did his wife drive him to…
187: CAN’T CALL FILLMORE “MR. IRRELEVANT” AFTER ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’ SHOW
On St. Patrick’s Day, the ‘Luck of the Irish’ was shining bright on a President who had been considered by most historians to be irrelevant; and quite feasibly inept. I’m talking about our 13th President Millard Fillmore. Since 1850, poor…
184: IS JEFFERSON ON THE PATH TO HALL OF FAME INDUCTION?
On Friday February 4, 2022, I had the opportunity to visit the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My photographer mentioned to the H.O.F. staff worker on duty that I’m the most famous bobble head in the world…
183: ZACHARY WAS TAYLOR-MADE FOR ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
It once was said “Life is a bowl of cherries”. For President Zachary Taylor, however, death may have been a bowl of cherries instead. That’s right – when our 12th President Zachary Taylor was in attendance at a Fourth of…
180: ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’ FEATURED THE FANTASTIC JAMES K. POLK
One of the greatest Presidents in our history always seems to “come up short” in the minds of most Americans when they discuss the best of the best. But after my photographer and I had visited many of the sites…
179: WATCH ME TIP MY CANOE WITH TYLER, TOO ON ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
On February 11, 2022, the talented folks at GBS Media in Port Huron, Michigan published another episode of my show ‘Hail to the Chief’. In that segment, my photographer and I paid tribute to our tenth President John Tyler. Please…
176: W.H. HARRISON FEATURED ON MY SHOW ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
Yesterday, February 5, 2022, I returned home from my ‘Winter Dance Party Tour’ where I visited several sites and saw a concert associated with the 1959 Winter Dance Party. During my five-day adventure that took me 1,376 miles through Indiana,…
174: MY HAIR-ROWING EXPERIENCE WITH MVB ON ‘HAIL TO THE CHIEF’
Most people don’t know a lot about our 8th President Martin Van Buren; mainly because the biggest thing he was famous for was his unruly sideburns. However, my photographer and I have visited a few sites associated with ‘Old Kinderhook’…