President Obama and first Lady Michelle Obama leave the White House en route to New York to take part in the memorial service at ground zero
Marine One helicopter, with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on board, prepares to land at the Wall Street landing zone in New York
President Obama greets well-wishers after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to attend campaign fundraising events, April 27
Got your back.
The right sure are original, eh? Irish-American Catholics, African Americans, so many people to hate….
President Obama greets people on the tarmac during his arrival at JFK International Airport in New York, April 6
AP: Caroline Kennedy unveiled the nation’s first online presidential archive Thursday, a $10 million project to digitize the most important papers, photographs and recordings of President John F. Kennedy’s days in office.
Users can sort through the drafts of Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you,” speech and see how he tinkered with the words of that most famous line from his inauguration. Or they can listen to his personal phone calls and read his letters.
….After four years of work, the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston has made that a reality. Archivists digitized over 200,000 pages, 1,200 recordings and 300 museum artifacts, as well as reels of film and hundreds of photographs….
….For students across the country, the online archive will mean access to primary documents for school research. They could examine Kennedy’s correspondence with Martin Luther King Jr. from the time they first met to the time King was jailed in Birmingham, Ala.
Drafts of Kennedy’s speeches show how he was writing and editing along with speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, giving people a sense of the president’s power as a writer…
…January 20 is the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s inauguration….
John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum here
