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Open For Questions

dersins — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:06:20 -0800

Open For Questions. Metafilter's Own™ box and klangklangston "skim the White House's Open For Questions, posting the best and brightest queries the American public can manage." [via mefi projects] NB: "Best and brightest" may be used facetiously.

Washington to Obama

Glibpaxman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:09:04 -0800

America has come a long way. There is the official version of history or the peoples' version. There are artifacts and rankings. They had some quirks and were occasionally men of their time. If you prefer audio or visual references those are available as well. Common knowledge has it that one GW was our first President but the title of first is under dispute. 230 years later another GW is making a run for worst. That is also under dispute by the nations best brains. For better and worse, the story of the Presidency is the story of America.

Thomas Jefferson's Library On Exhibit

Rykey — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:42:07 -0800

WWJD (Which Words Jefferson Digested) Some Flash

"NIXON-AGNEW", in red and in blue.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:49:33 -0800

United States election logos, 2008-1960.

The story of the Democratic primaries so far, boiled down to seven minutes.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:10:22 -0800

The Democratic Primary Season in 7 Minutes.

US Presidential Greatness as a Function of Experience

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:25:50 -0800

Is an Experienced President a Good President?

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it

Terminal Verbosity — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:15:23 -0800

The changing role of the U.S. presidential science adviser. (PDF) Wartime tends to bring the White House and scientists together, and this was evident with Franklin Roosevelt's National Defense Research Committee, headed by Vannevar Bush. It was during America's next war in 1951 that Harry Truman created a more stable body in the Science Advisory Council. The launch of Sputnik heightened Cold War animosity and led Dwight D. Eisenhower, fifty years ago last week, to bring the council deeper into the White House inner circle by upgrading it to the President's Science Advisory Committee. The presidential science adviser was a thriving role until tensions over the board's findings spurred Richard Nixon to dissolve the post. It took an act of Congress to reestablish a science advisory board, though the new Office of Science and Technology Policy would never again have the intimate access of its predecessors. This is the form the U.S. science adviser has held to this day. Occasionally there are still disagreements between the president and his adviser.

President John Hanson

mcsweetie — Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:11:22 -0800

America's first president was not George Washington, but in fact its third: John Hanson. (Scroll down to "Who Was the First President of the United States?") [via The Greatest Stories Never Told]