The Evergreen Oak POSTCARDS: September 2024

Friday, September 20, 2024

California!

"We choose to drive 10 hours to work not because it's easy, but because it's hard." -John F.

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Friday, September 13, 2024

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Tuning in today at 9pmEDT for one of John F. Kennedy's biweekly live press conferences. 1961, when giants did debates whose preparation included hundreds of pages of facts and opinions, briefings with advisors and a president who could read 1200 words per minute. The reporters, millions of them were only red in tooth and claw, practically harmless. At the end, they asked the president why he loved being president. His answer: "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." #ThankYouMrPresident

Monday, September 9, 2024

The Green Piano

The Kennedys Miniseries

McNamara: Sir, may I suggest we stay at DEFCON 2 sir?

JFK: Okay fine, but no provocative action. Khrushchev just stood up the hawks in the Kremlin, I don't wanna give him a reason to regret it.

McNamara: Very good sir.

RFK: So, how would you like to proceed?

JFK: Well, I wanna prepare a private response to Mr. Khrushchev's letter, no public statement I don't wanna rub his nose in it...

RFK: Alright, I'll put something together.

JFK: Bobby, you tell McNamara and that general, alert the entire chain of command nobody moves against the Russians without my expressed order. I don't want this --- thing to unravel because some second lieutenant didn't get the word.

RFK: Absolutely.

JFK: Could you try Mrs. Kennedy in Virginia?

Mrs. Lincoln: Yes sir.

JFK: Those ships will not be permitted to cross that line, use whatever means necessary to stop them. Bobby, talk to Dobrynin, he needs to get word to Khrushchev, those ships will be stopped!