Frank Sinatra Denounces Rock and Roll

According to Kitty Kelley, the impetus for this article was Elvis Presley:

“My only deep sorrow is the unrelenting insistence of recording and motion picture companies upon purveying the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear—naturally I refer to the bulk of rock ‘n’ roll.
It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd—in plain fact dirty—lyrics, and as I said before, it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. This rancid smelling aphrodisiac I deplore. But, in spite of it, the contribution of American music to the world could be said to have one of the healthiest effects of all our contributions.”
Frank Sinatra, Western World, October, 1957.

Vice President Richard Nixon drinks yerba mate from a mate gourd

Vice President Richard Nixon drinks  yerba mate from a mate gourd at a barbeque luncheon held at the residence of  Luis Batlle Berres in Montevideo, Uruguay

National Archives Identifier: 16915933 Local Identifier: A10-024.22.27.7
Creator(s): Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace (1990-7/11/2007)
Series: Photographic Materials, ca. 1926- ca. 1994
Collection: Richard Nixon Foundation Collection of Audiovisual Materials, ca. 1926- ca. 1994

Nixon and Kennedy on the Capitol Limited

There is a cornucopia of Nixonian delights in ‘The Richard Nixon Library Edition’ of his memoirs RN. He complained in the introduction about how he was forced to focus on Watergate and leave out the good stuff. JFK’s letter of congratulations after Eisenhower put him on the ticket is in the photo section, and he wrote quite movingly about the time as freshmen congressmen they shared a sleeper train from Chicago. 

“We took the Capitol Limited back to Washington… We drew straws for the lower berth, and– this time– I won. We sat up late, talking far more about foreign policy than domestic issues. Kennedy and I were too different in background, outlook, and temperament to become close friends, but we were thrown together throughout our early careers, and we never had less than an amicable relationship. We were both Navy veterans, we both came to the House the same year; and we were both committed to devoting enormous energy to our work. Our exchanges in committee meetings and our discussions in the cloakrooms were never tinged with the personal acerbity that can make political differences uncomfortable. In those early years we saw ourselves as political opponents but not political rivals. We shared one quality which distinguished us from most of our fellow congressmen: neither of us was a backslapper, and we were both uncomfortable with boisterous displays of superficial camaraderie. He was shy, and that sometimes made him appear aloof. But it was shyness born of an instinct that guarded privacy and concealed emotions. I understood these qualities because I shared them.”

RN The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, 1978.

Ice Famine Imminent, 1894

“Only One Day’s Supply of Congealed Water In Chicago”

CHICAGO, July 4. “There is but one day’s supply of ice in Chicago. An ice famine is imminent, and is the most serious result of the tieup of the railroads, more serious even than the threatened famine in fruits, vegetables, butter, eggs, and similar goods. Unless there is a let-up tonight will find no ice for any purpose in this city.

‘We have 25 or 30 carloads of ice melting on the railroad tracks,” said the manager of James P. Smith & Company, ‘Simply because the railroads cannot bring the cars into the city. Every business house that uses ice, as well as every home, is threatened with total deprivation by tonight. There has been no advance in price to the consumer, nor will there be; it is simply a question of getting the ice at all to deliver.

‘We have been in business here for over 40 years, been through fires, storms, bank failures and panics, but never experienced such a time as this, affecting every man, woman and child in the city, the sick in hospitals and in their homes.’

The situation as regards vegetables, fruits, and other perishable provisions is not so serious, though if the tie-up continues long it will become so.”

Ann Arbor Argus, July 4, 1894.
Photograph: NARA record: 544230, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration