by Jim Heath | Nov 23, 2021 | History
The presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey has become an annual event, but the peace pact between the fowl and the White House is a relatively new thing. And in fact, a few presidents actually ate their guests! The first president to unofficially pardon a...
by Jim Heath | Oct 25, 2021 | History, JimHeath.TV
‘When you meet him, you won’t like him very much.’ That was the prediction made to me by Steve Twist, a candidate for Attorney General in 1990. Twist was referring to his primary challenger Grant Woods, a former top aide to Sen. John McCain. I had...
by Jim Heath | Oct 18, 2021 | Book Excerpts, History
They made it clear: Absolutely no interviews. In late fall of 2012, former secretary of state Colin Powell, a Republican who had served in the Reagan and both Bush administrations, endorsed Barack Obama for reelection. Powell was a pathbreaker, serving as the...
by Jim Heath | Oct 9, 2021 | Headlines, History
Each year, the United States honors the explorer Christopher Columbus with a federal holiday, and many Americans incorrectly believe it’s because he discovered our country. He didn’t. Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492,...
by Jim Heath | Sep 7, 2021 | Headlines, History
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of the late New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D), has spoken out after the man who killed her husband was granted parole. In a statement to NBC News on Tuesday, Ethel said that her husband’s killer, Sirhan Sirhan, “should not be paroled.”...
by Jim Heath | Mar 3, 2021 | History, Obit
Marie Tippit, the widow of the Dallas police officer killed by Lee Harvey Oswald about 45 minutes after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. Tippit, 92, died today at a hospital in the East Texas city of Sulphur Springs after being diagnosed with...
