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How Much Do You Know About Presidential Campaign Slogans?

1. Harry S. Truman’s campaign slogan in 1948 was: a) “I’m Just Wild About Harry b) “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry” c) “Pour It On ‘Em, Harry” d) All of the above Answer: All of the above. The first was derived from a popular song written in 1921 by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake; the second echoed the spontaneous cries of

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September 2012 by Bill Hogan 0
Washington History

Capital Cons

Throughout its checkered history, the nation’s capital has held special allure for the most sophisticated species of the American criminal class: the con artist. Nowhere else, save perhaps for Wall Street, has the confidence game been more comfortably practiced and its practitioners more handsomely rewarded. Disciples of Phineas Barnum, knights of the golden fleece, con artists have swindled their way through society soirées on Embassy Row and wheedled their way into

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July 2000 by Bill Hogan 0
Featured, Washington History

The Plague

The surest sign of impending death was the skin’s ghostly bluish tint, a pall of sickness that soon, even before the onset of rigor mortis, would turn deep purple and then slate gray. The technical term for the discoloration — first in the lips and ears — was cyanosis, a condition brought on by inadequate oxygenation of the blood.

December 1982 by Bill Hogan 0
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