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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:23 PM
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Book compiles doodlings of presidents (check out Kennedy's)
Book compiles doodlings of presidents
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
2 minutes ago

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"Presidential Doodles," just released by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, collects the random sketches and drawings of Hoover and most of his fellow commanders in chief, from Hoover's elaborate shapes and swirls to the isolated squiggles of Abraham Lincoln. The book expands upon an issue of Cabinet Magazine, a quarterly of "Arts & Culture" that featured the jottings of eight presidents.

"Just as our dreams and little Freudian slips can mean something about us, doodles can be indicative of the person and issues and things that he is dealing with," says Cabinet editor-in-chief Sina Najafi.

Personalities emerge at a glance: John Adams' hard, straight lines and precise geometrical patterns; Theodore Roosevelt's rugged sketch of two dogs staring across a campfire; Dwight Eisenhower's plain, practical illustrations; Ronald Reagan's childlike portraits, including of himself in a cowboy hat.

President Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments, would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. Events long after his death give one doodle an unintended chill: A small circle with the numbers "9-11" contained within. Just to the lower left on the page, the word "conspiracy" is underlined.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_on_re_us/books_presidential_doodles_2
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hippiechick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:26 PM
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1. 43 doesn't doodle ...
... instead, he doo-doo's in his Huggies.

:rofl:
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filer Donating Member (444 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:32 PM
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4. A portrait of his inner self, perhaps?
Albeit a more primitive art form.
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:15 PM
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12. instead, he doo-doos on the Constitution & Geneva Accords
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FuzzyDicePHL Donating Member (698 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:26 PM
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2. See examples of a few
at presidentialdoodles.com
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:14 PM
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11. thanks, wish there were more
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 08:09 PM
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21. Here are a couple more...

This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows an undated doodle by President Kennedy, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments, would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. (AP Photo/Basic Books)


This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows a doodle by President Kennedy, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. On stationery from Houston's Rice Hotel, it is thought to have been sketched the night before he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.(AP Photo/Basic Books)


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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 08:12 PM
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22. and a few more...
This is all I could find at Yahoo photos...


This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows a doodle by President Herbert Hoover, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. Trained as an engineer, Hoover sketched out designs that read like building projects gone awry, or one's own imprisoned thoughts -- circles within circles and diamonds inside diamonds, dark spirals reminiscent of spider webs or of wheels turning madly.(AP Photo/Basic Books)



This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows a doodle by President Herbert Hoover, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. Trained as an engineer, Hoover sketched out designs that read like building projects gone awry, or one's own imprisoned thoughts -- circles within circles and diamonds inside diamonds, dark spirals reminiscent of spider webs or of wheels turning madly.(AP Photo/Basic Books)



This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows a doodle by John Adams, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books .Adams leaned toward hard, straight lines and precise geometrical patterns in his doodles. (AP Photo/Basic Books)

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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 08:07 PM
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20. Thanks!
There are also a couple at Yahoo pics...


This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows an undated doodle by President Kennedy, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments, would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. (AP Photo/Basic Books)


This photo, supplied by Basic Books, shows a doodle by President Kennedy, from the book 'Presidential Doodles,' just released by Basic Books. On stationery from Houston's Rice Hotel, it is thought to have been sketched the night before he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.(AP Photo/Basic Books)

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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:27 PM
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3. hmmmm
:scared:
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:37 PM
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5. Aha - Kennedy assassination SOLVED!
It was Dick Cheney with a time machine...
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:53 PM
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6. That's way too freaky....
just another amazing "coincidence" I guess. I wish I could believe that.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 12:59 PM
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7. especially when you consider "certain" theories regarding
who was behind the Kennedy assassination.
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 01:08 PM
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8. Good point...
I've read speculation here on DU (not sure what the source of the info was) that 9/11 was actually an old plan of Poppy's that was shelved years ago, and picked back up again by Darth et al.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:34 PM
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16. Was the 9-11 Emergency Phone Number In Place Back Then?
IMO, the date was specifically picked because 9/11 means emergency to just about every American.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:02 PM
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17. No. It didn't exist. 911 meant nothing.
In 1958, the American Congress first investigated a universal emergency number for the United States and finally passed the legal mandate in 1967. The very first American 911 call was placed on February 16, 1968 in Haleyville, Alabama made by Alabama Speaker of the House, Rankin Fite and answered by Congressman Tom Bevill.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl911.htm
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:24 PM
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18. Now I have to go all tin foil...
and wonder what the significance of the numbers 9-1-1 are. Why were those numbers chosen for the emergency system, does it say. Sorry, I'm having Internets problems this eve, otherwise I'd look myself.

Maybe there is some secret society significance?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 07:34 PM
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19. Let me help you out here
The new emergency number had to be three numbers that were not in use in the United States or Canada as the first three numbers of any phone number or area code, and the numbers had to be easy to use.

Pass the Reynolds Wrap.
During the lifetime of JFK, 911 meant nothing except...conspiracy.
Let me tighten up the tinfoil a little here and tell you that George H.W. Bush was one of the only Americans on earth who couldn't remember where he was on the day of the assassination, however, many swear he was in Dallas. There is actually a picture floating around to that effect.
Also...here is a great read for any enterprising tinfoilist...
http://www.tarpley.net/bush8b.htm (fabulous read by the way)
>>>snip
A body of leads has been assembled which suggests that George Bush may have been associated with the CIA at some time before the autumn of 1963. According to Joseph McBride of The Nation, "a source with close connections to the intelligence community confirms that Bush started working for the agency in 1960 or 1961, using his oil business as a cover for clandestine activities." 1 By the time of the Kennedy assassination, we have an official FBI document which refers to "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency," and despite official disclaimers there is every reason to think that this is indeed the man in the White House today. The mystery of George Bush as a possible covert operator hinges on four points, each one of which represents one of the great political and espionage scandals of postwar American history. These four cardinal points are:

1. The abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, launched on April 16-17, 1961, prepared with the assistance of the CIA's "Miami Station" (also known under the code name JM/WAVE). After the failure of the amphibious landings of Brigade 2506, Miami station, under the leadership of Theodore Shackley, became the focus for Operation Mongoose, a series of covert operations directed against Castro, Cuba, and possibly other targets.

2. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the coverup of those responsible for this crime.

3. The Watergate scandal, beginning with an April, 1971 visit to Miami, Florida by E. Howard Hunt on the tenth anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion to recruit operatives for the White House Special Investigations Unit (the "Plumbers" and later Watergate burglars) from among Cuban-American Bay of Pigs veterans.

4. The Iran-contra affair, which became a public scandal during October-November 1986, several of whose central figures, such as Felix Rodriguez, were also veterans of the Bay of Pigs.

George Bush's role in both Watergate and the October surprise/Iran-contra complex will be treated in detail at later points in this book. Right now it is important to see that thirty years of covert operations, in many respects, form a single continuous whole. This is especially true in regard to the dramatis personae. Georgie Anne Geyer points to the obvious in a recent book: "...an entire new Cuban cadre now emerged from the Bay of Pigs. The names Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker, Rolando Martinez, Felix Rodriguez and Eugenio Martinez would, in the next quarter century, pop up, often decisively, over and over again in the most dangerous American foreign policy crises. There were Cubans flying missions for the CIA in the Congo and even for the Portuguese in Africa; Cubans were the burglars of Watergate; Cubans played key roles in Nicaragua, in Irangate, in the American move into the Persian Gulf." 2 Felix Rodriguez tells us that he was infiltrated into Cuba with the other members of the "Grey Team" in conjunction with the Bay of Pigs landings; this is the same man we will find directing the contra supply effort in central American during the 1980's, working under the direct supervision of Don Gregg and George Bush. 3 Theodore Shackley, the JM/WAVE station chief, will later show up in Bush's 1979-80 presidential campaign.
To a very large degree, such covert operations (and the great political scandals attendant upon them) have drawn upon the same pool of personnel. They are a significant extent the handiwork of the same crowd. It is therefore revealing to extrapolate forward and backward in time the individuals and groups of individuals who appear as the cast of characters in one scandal and compare them with the cast of characters for the other scandals, including the secondary ones that have not been enumerated here. Howard Hunt, for example, shows up as a confirmed part of the overthrow of the Guatemalan government of Jacopo Arbenz in 1954, as an important part of the chain of command in the Bay of Pigs, as a person repeatedly accused of having been in Dallas on the day Kennedy was shot, and as one of the central figures of Watergate. (One wonders what secrets, after all, were contained in Howard Hunt's safe, the contents of which were so conventiently "deep sixed" by FBI Director Patrick Gray.)
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:02 PM
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9. OMG, that is freaky!!!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:05 PM
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10. You're just dying to get a look at Bush**'s, aren't you?
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-20-06 12:00 AM
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23. there's the "bathroom break" note too ...
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:16 PM
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13. where do you see Kennedy's?
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:27 PM
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14. There are no pics, just this excerpt that others are referring to
Snip~

President Kennedy, known for separating his life into compartments, would enclose words and numbers inside circles and boxes. Events long after his death give one doodle an unintended chill: A small circle with the numbers "9-11" contained within. Just to the lower left on the page, the word "conspiracy" is underlined. ~snip~

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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:28 PM
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15. We had a JFK doodle...
My uncle was able to bag a couple during briefings with the president. His jobs in civilian and military life were intertwined and he was often at the White House promoting one thing or another; he had enough clout and foresight to collect a few. One was given to my Mom and she framed it. It hung in our house for many, many years. Odd, when the house was closed down and Mom moved to a smaller place, I asked about the doodle and everyone in the family feigned ignorance like it never existed. It never existed, yeah right...
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