BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Glorious Burden

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Glorious Burden:

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1. SIAHGB_081124_003.JPG: The Grants received these objects while on tour. The gold casket was presented to them from the city of London, and the cloisonne vase was a gift from Chinese viceroy Li Hung Chang.
2. SIAHGB_081124_014.JPG: Surveyor's compass believed to be given to George Washington by David Rittenhouse in 1782. Washington was known to have surveyed and resurveyed his own land until the month before he died.
3. SIAHGB_081124_025.JPG: This easy chair was located near Washington's bed. He sat in it not longer before he died. The upholstery is not original.
4. SIAHGB_081124_042.JPG: Voodoo doll popular with those who criticized the economic policies of Ronald Reagan.
5. SIAHGB_081124_062.JPG: Teddy bear, after Teddy Roosevelt
6. SIAHGB_081124_065.JPG: "Crimony folks enough already! You aren't supposed to READ the thing. You're supposed to look at it!"
7. SIAHGB_081124_074.JPG: An Available Candidate. The one qualification for a Whig president.
8. SIAHGB_081124_081.JPG: "Whose Move?"
9. SIAHGB_081124_087.JPG: "Back to Normalcy" The Candidate for Reelection. "I'll have to figure out some kind of a new slogan." -- Alley in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
10. SIAHGB_081124_092.JPG: The Cinderella of the Republican Party and her naughty sisters
11. SIAHGB_081124_096.JPG: "Speaking of sanctuaries..."
12. SIAHGB_081124_100.JPG: Crisis in Washington Mr. Coolidge refuses point blank to vacate the White House until his other rubber is found.
13. SIAHGB_081124_109.JPG: A Presidential Touch "Brother -- can you spare about 72 billion dollars?"
14. SIAHGB_081124_116.JPG: "Come along. We're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt."
15. SIAHGB_081124_119.JPG: "Okay, bring in the new guy..."
16. SIAHGB_081124_124.JPG: Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968 on a campaign that promised to return "law and order" to the country. Yet a series of illegal actions and a misuse of presidential power undermined his administration. This 1974 cartoon by Robert Pryor suggests that Nixon became entrapped by the illegal web he himself wove. Nixon was forced to resign in 1974, in part by the content of tapes he had made of conversations in the White House.
17. SIAHGB_081124_130.JPG: The Reagan Safety Net. Hold on till we get in position. Okay, jump!
18. SIAHGB_081124_134.JPG: The Cash Register Chorus. "What a friend we have in Coolidge!"
19. SIAHGB_081124_140.JPG: Watch out for The Man on the White Horse! -- better vote for Stevenson
20. SIAHGB_081124_146.JPG: Born to Command. Had I been consulted. King Andrew the First. Of Veto Memory.
21. SIAHGB_081124_162.JPG: As the doctors struggled to understand the extend of Garfield's wounds, Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, used this machine that he called an "induction balance" to try to locate the bullet. When found, the machine was to send a sound to the attached telephone receiver. Despite attempts on July 26 and August 1, 1881, Bell could not situate the bullet.
22. SIAHGB_081124_177.JPG: Demitasse cup and saucer used by President McKinley just prior to his assassination. Much like the death of Abraham Lincoln, the loss of McKinley led many Americans to preserve or produce mementos reminding them of their lost president.
23. SIAHGB_081124_186.JPG: Along with his hat and cigarette holder, pince-nez glasses helped create the popular image of Franklin Roosevelt as a jaunty and vibrant president.
24. SIAHGB_081124_208.JPG: "To Furnish the Supreme Court Practical Assistance." This Act shall take effect on the 30th day after the date of its enactment.
25. SIAHGB_081124_212.JPG: Lincoln's hands
26. SIAHGB_081124_219.JPG: Thomas Jefferson's polygraph, made by Hawkins and Peale. Patents by John Isaac Hawkins in 1803, a polygraph's pens create simultaneous copies of a writer's manuscript.
27. SIAHGB_081124_246.JPG: George Washington, who served as convention president, used this small trunk to preserve the papers of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. In 1796, he deposited the documents and trunk at the Department of State.
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Description of Subject Matter: The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
This exhibition explores the personal, public, ceremonial and executive actions of the 43 men who have had a huge impact on the course of history in the past 200 years. More than 900 objects, including national treasures from the Smithsonian’s vast presidential collections, bring to life the role of the presidency in American culture.
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