Monday, March 6, 2023

Presidential War #21 - George W. Bush Are Learning

Presidential War enters Season 3 with the addition of exciting new categories! When it comes to the nation's premier presidential educational card game, no one ever needs to ask: "is our children learning?" They certainly is. On this episode, we leave no child behind.      

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Monday, February 27, 2023

Top 5 Monroe Doctrine Invocations

2023 is the bicentennial of the Monroe Doctrine, announced by President James Monroe in his 1823 State of the Union address. To celebrate, we've put together a Top 5 that functions as a comprehensive history of this cornerstone of American foreign policy.   

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Monday, February 20, 2023

26 Theodore Roosevelt

In one of American history’s most epic life stories, Theodore Roosevelt began as a sickly child debilitated by asthma and went on to become a Harvard graduate, author, historian, NY state legislator, cattle rancher, big game hunter, conservationist, Civil Service Commissioner, NYC Police Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Spanish-American War hero, NY Governor, and Vice President. When McKinley’s assassination unexpectedly made him the youngest president in American history, his unbounded energy, unmatched press relations, and finely-tuned political instincts helped turn Theodore Roosevelt into one of our most successful, popular, and powerful chief executives. He became known as the Trustbuster for taking on the nation’s biggest corporations while crusading to secure a Square Deal for average Americans and make conservation of natural resources a national priority. On the world stage, he flexed the U.S.’s newfound imperial muscles by securing the rights to build the Panama Canal, aggressively enforcing an expanded Monroe Doctrine, and winning the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Declining a third term, he went on to have perhaps the most eventful post-presidency, which featured: hunting African big game for the Smithsonian, running for president yet again as a third-party candidate, surviving an assassination attempt, nearly dying on an expedition that put an uncharted Brazilian river on the map, and trying to volunteer to fight in two more wars. The Dead Presidents Podcast is thrilled to begin Season 3 with this chronicle of one of our most interesting presidents.

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Bayer Heroin – American Journal of Pharmacy – December 1901

From Poverty to Competence in Oklahoma – Randolph Enterprise (Randolph, KS) – September 19, 1901

Homes for Boys Wanted – De Soto Press (De Soto, MO) – September 21, 1901

Insist on Coca-Cola! – San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA) – June 10, 1908

Coca-Cola has cocaine – Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) – February 25, 1902

Coca-Cola now cocaine-free – Macon Telegraph (Macon, GA) – August 1, 1907

Burdick holds stockholders meeting – Buffalo Review (Buffalo, NY – February 11, 1902

Burdick dance party – Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) – December 27, 1901

Edwin Burdick brutally murdered – Buffalo Times (Buffalo, NY) – February 27, 1903

Monday, October 24, 2022

PWF #9 - PresidentialMania

The biggest pay-per-view event of all time features the most explosive card in presidential wrestling history:

  • Donald Trump vs. George Washington: The championship belt is on the line and so is ownership of the PWF--but if Trump wins, he gets to turn Mount Vernon into a casino.
  • Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: At the Confederate Championship Wrestling's flagship pay-per-view SecessleMania, Lincoln can win back the PWF's southern territory, but he has to put an important constitutional amendment at risk of repeal.
  • Teddy Roosevelt vs. William Howard Taft vs. Woodrow Wilson: The transcontinental championship will be decided in an epic three-way ladder match.
  • JFK and LBJ vs. James Madison and James Monroe for the tag team championship.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt vs. Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump in a handicap match. 


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Monday, October 17, 2022

Presidential War #20 - Jimmy Carter Is Still Alive

The epic season finale of Presidential War is a clash of titans. Who was the better statesman: Thomas Jefferson or FDR? Who would win in a fight: Abe Lincoln or TR? Who was the better-looking president: JFK or Franklin Pierce? Were Andrew Jackson's two vice presidents (John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren) more accomplished than William McKinley's (Garret Hobart and TR)? Also, we marvel at the still-aliveness of Nicest Guy category champion Jimmy Carter in the wake of his recent 98th birthday.      

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Monday, October 3, 2022

25 William McKinley

William McKinley was a middle-class Ohio boy who received an education-by-fire in the Civil War, where his commanding officer and mentor was future President Rutherford B. Hayes. After the war, he followed in Hayes's footsteps as a lawyer and politician, overcoming family tragedy while working his way up into the Republican congressional leadership and becoming Ohio's governor. In 1896, he had no serious rival for his party's presidential nomination, and defeated populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan in a hard-fought general election that pitted silver versus gold.  As president, his masterful grasp of economic policy boosted the nation's expanding industrial prowess—but when he was confronted with a war he could not avoid, McKinley became responsible for guiding the United States through its international debut as an imperial powerhouse. As the 20th century dawned, the world would never be the same.

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Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – The Ligonier Echo (Ligonier, PA) – August 28, 1901

Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – The Emporia Gazette (Emporia, KS) – June 14, 1901

Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy – Record Searchlight (Redding, CA) – July 13, 1899

Rattlesnake Pete’s snake oil – Stevens Point Journal (Stevens Point, WI) – November 19, 1897

Rattlesnake Pete – The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, MT) – September 12, 1897

Reward for garden hose thief – Abilene Weekly Reflector (Abilene, KS) – May 5, 1898

Reward for school vandals – Oroville Daily Register (Oroville, CA) – January 17, 1901

Reward for turkey killers – Daily Mountain Eagle (Jasper, AL) – August 21, 1901

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – September 6, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – August 23, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – August 1, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Columbus Republican (Columbus, IN) – October 25, 1900

Dr. Bell’s Anti-Pain – The Owensboro Messenger (Owensboro, KY) – June 24, 1900

Scott’s Emulsion – The Cherryvale Daily News (Cherryvale, KS) – December 15, 1897

Owensboro Fair – Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) – August 31, 1900