October 27, 2024
Tag: James Garfield
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Homes of Our Presidents – Part Five of Six – James Abram Garfield
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James Garfield’s term in office was a short 199 days. Presidential historians debate what could have been if an assassin’s bullet had not ended what was expected to be a bright future led by the new president from Ohio. Garfield’s home, Lawnfield tells part of his story.
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October 13, 2019 No Comments
I slept in a London hotel on a Saturday in May 2010. Sunday morning I went downstairs for breakfast a few hours before my flight to Philadelphia and while waiting for a full-English fry-up, I chose a newspaper from the rack by the door and found the following banner headline: After 467 years, Copernicus gets […]