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WH Advent COMMS Dec 23rd: Taft, Skull & Bones, PAIN, Eisenhower, JFK & Truth
President William HowardTaft’schildren—Robert, Helen, and Charlie—were the first to place a tree in the Blue Room, but First Lady MamieEisenhowerwas the first to consistently place a tree there.
Only twice has the official tree not been in the Blue Room. It was displayed in the Entrance Hall in1962because of renovations, and, in1969,First Lady PatriciaNixonchose to display the tree again in the Entrance Hall, decorated with velvet and satin balls made by workers with disabilities featuring each state’s official flower.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/adventcalendar/?share_id=252177&utm_source=url#23
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Mention of Taft & Eisenhower in same COMMs sent me searching on the two, found this:
The 1952 contest between [Senator Robert] Taft and Eisenhower ended withdefeatfor those who wanted the Republican Party torestore the Republic to a nation of limited government, individual liberty, constitutionalism, free enterprise, and a traditional American foreign policy of America First.Technically, the Republican Party "won" back the White House in 1952, but it did so at the cost of transforming itself into a pale imitation of the big-government Democratic Party.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Taft+vs.+Eisenhower+1952%3a+the+GOP+loses+its+soul%3a+through+deceit%2c…-a0458159379
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Pat Nixon in a red dress suggests we connect Advent calendar 23rd [PAIN] to 13th [EVIL]. There seems to be a repeated emphasis on Nixon [FOLLOW THE WIVES] in 1969 (see >>12117237 & >>12117314 (both pb)).
The mention of President Taft (Skull & Bones) brings to mind the Taft political dynasty, starting with his father Alponso, who was a founder of Skull & Bones, Sec of War, Sec of …
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Searching on Skull & Bones (Yale) & 1962, I came across this JFK COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT YALE UNIVERSITY, JUNE 11, 1962:
Forthe great enemy of truth isvery often not the liedeliberate, contrived and dishonestbutthe myth–persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion withoutthe discomfort of thought.
Mythology distracts us everywherein government as in business, in politics as in economics, in foreign affairs as in domestic affairs. But today I want to particularly considerthe myth and reality in our national economy.In recent months many have come to feel, as I do, that the dialog between the partiesbetween business and government, between the government and the public–isclogged by illusion and platitudeand fails to reflect the true realities of contemporary American society.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/yale-university-19620611
[Alphonso] Taft was a member of theTaft family political dynasty.His son, William Howard Taft, was the 27th President of the United States and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, and was amember of Yale's Skull and Bones like his founder father;another son, Charles Phelps Taft, supported the founding of Wolf's Head Society at Yale; both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I (also Skull and Bones) and Robert Taft Jr., were U.S. Senators; his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007. William Howard Taft III was ambassador to Ireland;William Howard Taft IV worked in several Republican administrations, most recently that of George W. Bush.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_Taft
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Skull-and-Bones-Yale