Project POTUS Pages

Just finished reading "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President" by Edward O'Keefe.

Flip through my sketchbook:
www.potuspages.com/blog/loves

Gift ideas for the history buff in your life. 🎁

www.potuspages.com/blog/gift-25

Hey, after you vote ... check out this list of 8 incredible Revolutionary Women, gathered by @beccagrawl.bsky.social

potuspages.com/blog/women

Election Day 🤝 New Book Tuesday

Few things beat treating yourself to a new book after voting to save democracy ✊

🤩Thank you for introducing me to these heroic women! (I mean... I knew a few of them. But definitely not some of the most incredible stories!)

Were there no mothers of the Revolution? Of course there were

Waiting for polls to close? Check out my most recent collaboration with @potus-pages.bsky.social - an introduction to eight Revolutionary women: www.potuspages.com/blog/women?s...

Just finished reading: Lincoln Circumlocutions galore

Finally finished Lincoln! open.substack.com/pub/potuspag...

HA! Thank you!!

Trying to get through "Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald this week so I can fast forward to "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward O'Keefe

George G. Rockwood We’re related. I just know it.

www.potuspages.com/blog/rockwood

Claim: Vote counts are inflated with millions of illegal votes. False: It is not illegal for women to vote yet.

Fact-Checking Trump On Voter Fraud https://theonion.com/fact-checking-trump-on-voter-fraud/

Extreme Home Makeover: White House Edition This old, fly-infested building needs some work.

One really deserving family is being surprised with a total home makeover! Perhaps this old White House could use more gold, or concrete slabs over the garden—anything to make Donald Trump's forever home perfect, @petridishes.bsky.social writes:

I just finished reading Killers of the Flower Moon by @davidgrann.bsky.social . which I read mostly like this 😲

It gave me an opportunity to learn more about that "slender bundle of high-charged electric wire," J. Edgar Hoover. Yikes.

More doodles (no spoilers!): www.potuspages.com/blog/flower-...

I just finished reading Everything is Tuberculosis by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social and gathered some doodles: www.potuspages.com/blog/tubercu...

Have you read it yet? 🤠

God of the Woods is sooooo good. I couldn't put it down.

Just finished reading: The Fish That Ate the Whale The Life and Times of America’s Banana King

www.potuspages.com/blog/bananas

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

Now reading:

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
by Rich Cohen

Just finished reading: Upstairs at the White House Flip through my sketchbooks!

Flip through my doodles from Upstairs at the White House... and find out which First Couple broke their bed. 😉

potuspages.substack.com/p/just-finis...

Currently reading:
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
by J. B. West and Mary Lynn Kotz

Mamie Eisenhower longed to be “In the pink” always.

Currently reading:

Upstairs at the White House:
My Life with the First Ladies
by J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz

Dick Picks [Richards, wrangled]

I gathered up a selection of Richards -- my Dick picks, if you will. Check 'em out:
potuspages.substack.com/p/dick-picks

Just finished reading: Hiding in Plain Sight 🐞

Flip through my sketchbook!

I just finished reading "Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight" by Julia Sweig. The more I learn about Lady Bird, the more fascinating I find her. 🐞

www.potuspages.com/blog/hiding

Now reading:

Upstairs at the White House:
My Life with the First Ladies
by J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz

Leslie, Thelma, and Hiram People We Know By Names Other Than Those They Were Born With

Know who Leslie King, Thelma Ryan, and Claudia Taylor were?

open.substack.com/pub/potuspag...

Almost done with “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight”
by Julia Sweig

Have you read The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi?
potuspages.substack.com/p/just-finis...

Love that!

Doodle of FDR saying "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" being cut off by a quote coming out of a book "The only thing we have to fear nowadays is not being afraid enough."

"The only thing we have to fear nowadays is not being afraid enough."

Not a recent quote. But it feels very timely.

Doodle inspired by The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power, by Steve Fraser

potuspages.substack.com/p/just-finis...