Helen Thomas has covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty years. She is known for her famous press conference closing line, "Thank you, Mr. President," but here she trades deference for directness. Thomas and veteran journalist Craig Crawford hold nothing back as they use former occupants of the White House to provide a witty, history-rich lesson plan of what it takes to be a good president. Combining sharp observation and dozens of examples from the fi rst presidency through the forty-fourth, the authors outline the qualities, attitudes, and political and personal choices that make for the most successful leaders, and the least. Calvin Coolidge, who hired the fi rst professional speechwriter in the White House, illuminates the importance of choosing words wisely. William Howard Taft, notorious for being so fat he broke his White House bathtub, shows how not to cultivate a strong public image. John F. Kennedy, who could handle the press corps and their questions with aplomb, shows how to establish a rapport with the press and open oneself up to the public. Ronald Reagan, who acknowledged the Iran-Contra affair in a television address, demonstrates how telling hard truths can earn forgiveness and even public trust. By gleaning lessons from past leaders, Thomas and Crawford not only highlight those that future presidents should follow but also pinpoint what Americans should look for and expect in their president. Part history lesson, part presidential primer, Listen Up, Mr. President is smart, entertaining, and exceedingly edifying.
In this exquisite new colouring book, you can follow the classic story of The Wild Swans while you colour in the story. Bring to life the storms, the birds and the stinging nettles. Colour in the journey that Elisa travels as she struggles to life the spell and free her beloved brothers.
Holly's husband runs away, leaving her in the soup. Little does she realise that her real life is about to begin.... This is a book which will make you thoroughly knowledgeable about Reality TV, giant jellyfish and the hazards of younger men, among many things.
As Reverend McBynum took her seat in the pulpit for the first time she realized she had also stepped into her Purpose. With that realization came such joy and peace within her that she had never felt before. She knew she was finally home where she belonged. This shy country girl from North Carolina was home. She had no idea that there was a pain that she would soon experience, and that it would be a pain that she had never felt before and only God would be able to take her through it, only he would be able to heal her spiritually and emotionally. She would learn how to endure great joy and great pain at the same time , on two different levels, the human level as a mother and on the spiritual as a child of God and her faith and trust in Him would bring her through stronger than ever.
By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1991, reprinted 2017, 270 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-453-0. In these abstracts, one will find local office holders being appointed, the levying and expenditure of local taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds & bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving estates, including probate of will, settlements of estates, and appraisement, as well as matters dealing with bastardy, and many other valuable bits of information.
Copied from the court records located in the Lincoln County Court Clerk's Office in Fayetteville, Tennessee and the State Library and Archives in Nashville, Tennessee"--Pref.
By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2019, 338 pages, maps, Index, ISBN #0-89308-238-4. Marshall County was formed in 1836 from parts of Lincoln, Bedford, and Maury Counties, to which was added a part of Giles in 1870. This book contains records from all the cemeteries in Marshall County. It includes the revised first book by Whitesell. There are more than 400 cemeteries found here, including the Lone Oak Cemetery in Lewisburg.
By: Helen & Timothy Marsh, Pub. 1986, 408 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-561-8. This was compiled as the result of a detailed study of the 1850 Federal Census of Texas, giving the birthplace and deaths of the inhabitants living in Texas in 1850. The book is arranged alphabetically by county for those persons who showed Tennessee as their birth state. Since the person showing Tennessee as the birth state is shown with the other members of his or her household, it becomes easy for one to see the migration patterns that many of these people took upon leaving Tennessee before their arrival in Texas.
Seven hundred years after the dissolution of the order, the trial of the Templars still arouses enormous controversy and speculation. In October 1307, all the brothers of the military-religious order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy and other crimes. In 1312, Pope Clement V, at the Council of Vienne, dissolved the order. Since the 1970s, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the trial, and a series of books and articles have widened scholars' understanding of causes of this notorious affair, its course and its aftermath. However, many gaps in knowledge and understanding remain. What were the Templars doing in the months and years before the trial? Why did the king of France attack the Order? What evidence is there for the Templars' guilt? What became of the Templars and their property after the end of the Order? This book collects together the research of both junior and senior scholars from around the world in order to establish the current state of scholarship and identify areas for new research. Individual chapters examine various aspects of the background to the trial, the financial, political and religious context of the trial in France, the value of the Templars' testimonies, and consider the trial across the whole of Europe, from Poland and Cyprus to Ireland and Portugal. Rather than trying to close the discussion on the trial of the Templars, this book opens a new chapter in the ongoing scholarly debate.
Here is a new research aid on Bedford County that until now has never been published or even available for the researcher looking for those lost relatives in this middle Tennessee county. This index is a true copy of a Registers notebook, kept by the Register of Deeds, immediately preceding the Civil War, in which an index of all transactions conducted in the office, were entered from 1852 to 1861 and served as an index to 9 books that were "LOST" in the courthouse fire of 1863. This "Burned Index" may prove to be both rewarding and at times a little frustrating. Rewarding, in the information it may disclose, however small, perhaps a piece of the puzzle. Frustrating, when one speculates about the important deeds that may have been forever lost.
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