BGuthrie Photos: Smithsonian Associates -- Other Presidents' Day (Arthur Schlesinger Jr, John Dean, etc)

Smithsonian Associates -- Other Presidents' Day (Arthur Schlesinger Jr, John Dean, etc):

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Description of Pictures: From the official description of the event: We know Washington and Lincoln so well that their birthdays merit a holiday. But for every American president whose name enjoys instant recall there are many about whom we have to scratch our heads a bit. What was important about James K. Polk? Interesting about Rutherford B. Hayes? History-making about William McKinley? Inspiring about Warren C. Harding?

Perhaps more than we expect.

In a jovial evening seminar, five authorities help us discover why and how we should remember four figures whose presidential tenures spanned everything from the annexation of Texas to the banning of Ulysses. John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, covers Polk. Hans Trefousse, professor of history emeritus at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, covers Hayes. Kevin Phillips, author of Wealth and Democracy and commentator for CBS and NPR, covers McKinley. John W. Dean, former White House lawyer for Richard Nixon, covers Harding. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal, presides over an eye-opening program that helps us, for once, expand the presidential birthday party.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SAOP_040216_001.JPG: Kevin Phillips
2. SAOP_040216_010.JPG: John Siegenthaler
3. SAOP_040216_041.JPG: John Dean @ Smithsonian Associates event
4. SAOP_040216_155.JPG: Hans Trefousse
5. SAOP_040216_239.JPG: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
6. SAOP_040216_297.JPG: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. @ Smithsonian Associates event.
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Featured Folk: Some of the people here can also be seen on other pages on this site.
- Dean, John appears on:
  - 2007_DC_Dean_070914 Politics & Prose -- John Dean ("Broken Government")
  - 2006_DC_Dean_060713 Olsson's -- John Dean ("Conservatives Without Conscience")
- Seigenthaler, John appears on:
  - 2012_DC_Deadline_120125 Newseum & Transcendent -- "Deadline" screening (w/Mark Ethridge and Curt Hahn)
  - 2010_DC_Faith_100308 Newseum -- First Amendment Center -- John F. Kennedy, Faith and Public Office (w/ Shaun Casey, John Seigenthaler, and Sander Vanocur)
  - 2010_DC_Hunter_100109 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Covering Africa)
  - 2008_DC_NARFK_080924 Natl Archives -- Panel -- 2nd Annual Charles Guggenheim Tribute Pgm (Robert Kennedy Remembered -- 40 Years Later)
2004 photos: Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Number of photos taken this year: 110,000.
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