Politics In The 1940's, 50's, and 60's
As I Remember Them
Some Food For Thought!
Apolitical Aphorisms ....(E-mail from Liz W.)
(Aphorism: An aphorism is a terse saying, expressing a general truth, principle, or astute observation,
and spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.)
If God wanted us to vote, he would have
given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they
get elected.
~Henry
Cate, VII~
We hang the petty thieves
and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop~
If we got one-tenth of what was promised
to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement
to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers~
Politicians are the same all over. They
promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody
could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~
Why pay money to have your family tree
traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~
Politicians are people who, when they see
light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~
Politics is the gentle art of getting
votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to
protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they
will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about
them.
~Adlai
Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay
down your life for his country.
~Tex Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that
politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys
to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~
There ought to be one day -- just one --
when there is open season on Congressmen.
~Will Rogers~
(Aphorism: An aphorism is a terse saying, expressing a general truth, principle, or astute observation,
and spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.)
If God wanted us to vote, he would have
given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they
get elected.
~Henry
Cate, VII~
We hang the petty thieves
and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop~
If we got one-tenth of what was promised
to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement
to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers~
Politicians are the same all over. They
promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody
could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~
Why pay money to have your family tree
traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~
Politicians are people who, when they see
light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~
Politics is the gentle art of getting
votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to
protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they
will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about
them.
~Adlai
Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay
down your life for his country.
~Tex Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that
politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys
to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~
There ought to be one day -- just one --
when there is open season on Congressmen.
~Will Rogers~
1933
32nd PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (/ˈroʊzəvəlt/ roh-zə-vəlt, his own pronunciation,[1] or /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/ roh-zə-velt) (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.[2] A Democrat, he was elected four times and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. A dominant leader of the Democratic Party, he built a New Deal Coalition that realigned American politics after 1932, as his New Deal domestic policies defined American liberalism for the middle third of the 20th century.
32nd President Of The United States
Franklin Delano Roosvelt
32nd Vice President
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33rd Vice President
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34th Vice President
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John Nance Garner
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Henry A Wallace
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Harry S. Truman
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1945
33rd PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the U.S. successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
Harry S. Truman
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Alben W. Barkley
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PRESIDENT TRUMAN, HIS WIFE BESS AND DAUGHTER MARGARET
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MARGARET TRUMAN
After operatic vocal training,Margaret Truman's singing career began with a debut radio recital in March 1947. Reviewers were not always kind, but her father was fiercely protective: when in 1950 Washington Post music critic Paul Hume wrote that Truman was “extremely attractive on the stage... [but] cannot sing very well. She is flat a good deal of the time. And still cannot sing with anything approaching professional finish,” President Truman wrote to Hume, "Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!"[9] A 1951 Time Magazine cover[10] featured Truman with a single musical note floating by her head. She performed on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s.
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Thought you'd enjoy this!
It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.
They won't believe this happened, but it DID.
It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.
They won't believe this happened, but it DID.
We will never see this again.
Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!”
I say dig him up and clone him!
If you agree, forward it. If you don't, delete it.
Enjoy life NOW! -- it has an expiration date!
IN GOD WE TRUST...GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)
Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.
Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!”
I say dig him up and clone him!
If you agree, forward it. If you don't, delete it.
Enjoy life NOW! -- it has an expiration date!
IN GOD WE TRUST...GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Do you have World War II veterans in your family? On May 8, 1945, the Allied nations celebrated Victory in Europe Day. Millions throughout Western Europe took to the streets to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Nazis, which effectively marked the end of World War II in Europe. The official act of military surrender was signed on May 7, 1945
and in the Pacific Theater.............
A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9.
THE WAR IS OVER
VJ Day: Japan Surrenders to Gen. Douglas MacArthur 9-02-45
On election day 1948, most experts picked Gov Dewey over President Truman. It turned out to be different
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In 1948 2,510,706 votes were cast in NYC in the Truman/ Dewey Presidential election; over 3 million votes were cast to elect Miss Rheingold that same year
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1953
34th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (pronounced/ˈaɪzənhaʊər/, eye-zən-how-ər; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of theAllied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[2]He was the last President to have been born in the 19th century.
34th President Of The United States
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36 Vice President
37th President |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Richard M. Nixon
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Eisenhower ....5 Star General and Supreme Allied Commander during WWII
When I was young, Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union from 1953 – 1964, was famously quoted as declaring to the Free West, “We will bury you.”
1961
35th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly known as Jack Kennedy, or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Notable events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Space Race—by initiatingProject Apollo (which later culminated in the moon landings), the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and increased US involvement in the Vietnam War.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Kennedy during years before becoming president
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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After military service as commander of Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. Presidential Election. At age 43, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office,[2][a] the second-youngest president (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president.[3] To date, Kennedy has been the only Roman Catholic president and the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.[4]
Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis (pronounced /ˌˈdʒækliːn ˈliː ˈbuːvieɪ/)[1] (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis; they remained married until his death in 1975.
Jacqueline was the elder daughter of Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Norton Lee, who divorced in 1940. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature at George Washington University and went on to work for the Washington Times-Herald as an Inquiring Photographer.
In 1952, Jacqueline met Congressman John F. Kennedy. Shortly after, he was elected to the United States Senate and the couple married the following year. They had four children, two of whom died in infancy. As First Lady, she aided her husband's administration with her presence in social events and her highly publicized restoration of the White House. On November 22, 1963, she was riding with her husband in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, when he was assassinated. She and her children withdrew from public view after his funeral, and she remarried in 1968.
For the final two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a career as a book editor. She is remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, her style, elegance, and grace.[2][3] She was a fashion icon; her famous ensemble of pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat has become symbolic of her husband's assassination and one of the lasting images of the 1960s.[4][5] She ranks as one of the most popular First Ladies and in 1999 was named as one of Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th Century in America.[6]
Jacqueline was the elder daughter of Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Norton Lee, who divorced in 1940. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature at George Washington University and went on to work for the Washington Times-Herald as an Inquiring Photographer.
In 1952, Jacqueline met Congressman John F. Kennedy. Shortly after, he was elected to the United States Senate and the couple married the following year. They had four children, two of whom died in infancy. As First Lady, she aided her husband's administration with her presence in social events and her highly publicized restoration of the White House. On November 22, 1963, she was riding with her husband in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, when he was assassinated. She and her children withdrew from public view after his funeral, and she remarried in 1968.
For the final two decades of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a career as a book editor. She is remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, her style, elegance, and grace.[2][3] She was a fashion icon; her famous ensemble of pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat has become symbolic of her husband's assassination and one of the lasting images of the 1960s.[4][5] She ranks as one of the most popular First Ladies and in 1999 was named as one of Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th Century in America.[6]
President John F. Kennedy, His Wife Jacqueline and Their Two Children, Caroline and John Jr.
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Campaign Pins For the 1960 Presidential Election
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JFK's Inauguration and Inaugural Address 54 Years Later
14 DAYS IN OCTOBER
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis—known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de octubre), The Missile Scare or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, tr. Karibskiy krizis) was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
In response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missiles sites started later that summer.
An election was underway in the U.S. and the White House had denied Republican charges that it was ignoring dangerous Soviet missiles 90 miles from Florida. These missile preparations were confirmed when an Air Force U-2 spy plane produced clear photographic evidence of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missile facilities. The United States established a military blockade to prevent further missiles from entering Cuba. It announced that they would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the weapons already in Cuba be dismantled and returned to the USSR.
In response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, and the presence of American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July and construction on a number of missiles sites started later that summer.
An election was underway in the U.S. and the White House had denied Republican charges that it was ignoring dangerous Soviet missiles 90 miles from Florida. These missile preparations were confirmed when an Air Force U-2 spy plane produced clear photographic evidence of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic missile facilities. The United States established a military blockade to prevent further missiles from entering Cuba. It announced that they would not permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the weapons already in Cuba be dismantled and returned to the USSR.
After a period of tense negotiations an agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba without direct provocation. Secretly, the US also agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter MRBMs, which were deployed in Turkey and Italy against the Soviet Union but were not known to the public.
When all missiles and Ilyushin Il-28 light bombers had been withdrawn from Cuba, the blockade was formally ended on November 20, 1962. The negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union pointed out the necessity of a quick, clear, and direct communication line between Washington and Moscow. As a result, the Moscow–Washington hotline was established. A series of agreements sharply reduced U.S.-Soviet tensions for the following years.
When all missiles and Ilyushin Il-28 light bombers had been withdrawn from Cuba, the blockade was formally ended on November 20, 1962. The negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union pointed out the necessity of a quick, clear, and direct communication line between Washington and Moscow. As a result, the Moscow–Washington hotline was established. A series of agreements sharply reduced U.S.-Soviet tensions for the following years.
The Berlin Wall
In 1963, Germany was enduring a time of particular vulnerability due to Soviet aggression to the east, de Gaulle's French nationalism to the west, and the impending retirement of West German Chancellor Adenauer.[142] On June 26 Kennedy gave a public speech in West Berlin reiterating the American commitment to Germany and criticizing communism. He was met with an ecstatic response from a massive audience.[143]
Kennedy used the construction of the Berlin Wall as an example of the failures of communism: "Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." The speech is known for its famous phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a citizen of Berlin"). A million people were on the street for the speech.[143] He remarked to Ted Sorensen afterwards: "We'll never have another day like this one, as long as we live."[144]
Kennedy used the construction of the Berlin Wall as an example of the failures of communism: "Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us." The speech is known for its famous phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a citizen of Berlin"). A million people were on the street for the speech.[143] He remarked to Ted Sorensen afterwards: "We'll never have another day like this one, as long as we live."[144]
"Ich bin ein Berliner" Speech
November 22, 1963.
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested that afternoon and charged with the crime that night. Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) agreed with the conclusion that Oswald fired the shots which killed the president, but also concluded that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.[5]
President Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, and Governor of Texas John Connally in the presidential limousine, minutes before the President's assassination
Most of us seniors will always remember where we were when the news of President Kennedy's assassination was broadcast. I know I do. I also remember the shock and disbelief when I heard it.
Lee Harvey Oswald
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ST-1A-1-63 22 November 1963 Judge Sarah T. Hughes administers the Presidential Oath of Office to Lyndon Baines Johnson aboard Air Force One, at Love Field, Dallas Texas. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Kennedy, Jack Valenti, Representative Albert Thomas, Representative Jack Brooks, Associate Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff (holding microphone) and others witness. Photograph by Cecil Stoughton, White House. Jack Ruby
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Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to five U.S. government investigations,[n 1]the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Oswald was a former U.S. Marine who defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in the Soviet Union until June 1962, at which time he returned to the United States. Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, who was killed on a Dallas street approximately 45 minutes after President Kennedy was shot. Oswald would later be charged with the murder of President Kennedy as well but denied shooting anybody, claiming he was apatsy.[1][2] Two days later, while being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and mortally wounded by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live. John F. Kennedy Jr.
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Jack Leon Ruby (born Jacob Leon Rubenstein; March 25, 1911[1] – January 3, 1967) was a nightclub operator inDallas, Texas. On November 24, 1963, Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, who was in police custody after being charged with the murder of John F. Kennedy two days earlier. A Dallas jury found Ruby guilty of murdering Oswald, and Ruby was sentenced to death. Later, Ruby appealed his conviction and was granted a new trial. As the date for his new trial was being set,[2] Ruby became ill and died of a pulmonary embolism due to lung cancer.
Many contend Ruby was involved with major figures in organized crime, and conspiracy theorists widely assert that Ruby killed Oswald as part of an overall plot surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy. Others have argued against this, saying that Ruby's connection with gangsters was minimal at most, or circumstantial, and also that Ruby was not the sort to be entrusted with such an act within a high-level conspiracy.[3] The Caparisoned horse is the riderless horse who follows the caissons (6 horses pulling the cart which carries the casket of the fallen soldier). The caparisoned horse represents the soldier who will no longer ride in the brigade. The caparisoned horse wears the cavalry saddle, the sword and backwards boots in the stirrups, symbolizing the end of his tenure. If you watch any footage of military funerals, you will see this horse.
JFK Funeral Procession
November 25, 1963 |