This Day In History

I’ve missed two Super Bowls in my life. The first in 1967 while vacationing in the jungles of South Vietnam at the expense of Lyndon Johnson, and last Sunday.

Project Bullet set a transcontinental speed record. A Vought F8U Crusader flew from California to New York at 725.55 mile per hour. Who was the Marine pilot?

Due to the publicity surrounding the five shooting, four abortion doctors in upstate New York stopped the practice of providing abortions altogether.

America has made some major mistakes in our 200 plus year history but three land purchases stand out as being real bargains.

I’ve lived through 13 presidents and have seen more of President Trump on TV in the past 12 months than all the previous presidents combined.

We cry for the answer to a question that has no answer. The loss of so many innocent lives whose only offense was being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

On this date in 1913 Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine was on a ship traveling from Antwerp, Belgium to Harwick, England when he simply disappeared.

I was sitting on my bed, having my first cup of coffee before work, when I turned on the TV just in time to see the plane hit the second tower.

Many CEOs got wealthy on the backs of their lowly paid overworked employees. And why not? If someone left, there were 20 more waiting to take his or her place.

It has been a challenge to break the glass ceiling that was keeping women out of running for the presidency and vice presidency. That ended in 1984.