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…
Tag: Thomas Jefferson
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…
186: A PRESIDENT’S HOME IS WHERE HIS HEART IS – ONE THROUGH FORTY-FIVE
During my travels, which began on July 10, 2013, I’ve had the honor and privilege of visiting hundreds of Presidential sites associated with every one of our Commander-In-Chiefs from George Washington to Joe Biden. While some of those sites consisted…
185: MY GRAVE SITUATION ONE THRU THIRTY-NINE
There are many folks who have a goal of visiting every Presidential gravesite in our nation, but only a few have accomplished the feat. As far as I know, I’m the only bobble head who has been to all 39…
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…
182: ‘HAIR’OWING EXPERIENCE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE
On Saturday morning February 5, 2022, Tom’s alarm went off at 5:20am and his groggy wife didn’t hesitate to question the earliness of the wake-up call. Vicki seemed to accept Tom’s rationale once my photographer told her we needed to…
181: SCHLEMIEL, SCHLIMAZEL, HASENPFEFFER INCORPORATED!
Legendary rock star Alice Cooper once said of Milwaukee: “It’s pronounced “mill-e-wah-que” which is Algonquin for ‘the good land.’” For the three of us, there wasn’t a better day to head for “The Good Land” than on Friday February 4,…
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…