Happy Presidents Day

If you have the day off I hope you are enjoying it. Here are a few presidential items I have in my collection.

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Happy Presidents Day!

I'm gonna celebrate the day (it's also both my wife's and my late mother's birthday) by getting the oil changed on my wife's car, taking her to a movie and making breakfast tacos. But first I'm gonna post some cards from my Presidential card collection. In no particular order:

1952 Bowman Abe Lincoln. Our greatest President. If you are real quiet you can hear him spinning in his grave at this very moment.

2011 Obak John Kennedy mini

Jerry Ford graces the flip side of JFK's card.

A bunch of my favorite Presidents from the 2011 Panini set. These are sweet cards. First up...Honest Abe.

Teddy Roosevelt

LBJ My favorite President.

Bill Clinton

Here is the 1972 Topps LBJ

2015 Topps Presidential Chronicles Jimmy Carter

And JFK form that same set. Photo taken at Rice Stadium in Houston.

1956 Topps Calvin Coolidge.

And last but not least is my newest Presidential card. This is from the Barack Obama hosts the Cubs Topps now cards. I think there are three. I have this one.

If you have off today I hope you enjoy it. Again, Happy Presidents' Day!!

Oh how I long for those heady times when we actually had a President!

Newest Presidential Pins

I'd been ignoring my presidential pin collection lately, probably because I'd been chasing the State/Territories Quarters set. I finally finished that one off so I picked up a couple of new pins.

The one at the top is of Averell Harriman, the quintessential career diplomat. I don't normally chase pins  of candidates who didn't get their parties' nomination except for a select few. I'd heard Harriman's name so much growing up that I bid on this one and won it cheap. As mentioned in his Wikipedia entry (sampled below) he was a two time Democratic hopeful in the 1950's. Pretty unremarkable pin overall.

Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman and later as the 48th Governor of New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, and again in 1956 when he was endorsed by President Truman but lost to Adlai Stevenson both times. Harriman served President Franklin D. Roosevelt as special envoy to Europe and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and U.S. Ambassador to Britain. He served in numerous U.S. diplomatic assignments in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He was a core member of the group of foreign policy elders known as "The Wise Men".

And I can never turn down a Kennedy pin. Next to LBJ he takes up more pages in my binder than any other president.

Reading is Fundamental

A little while back I bought what I thought was a pair of mini Obak cards off eBay. They were some sort of promo cards from the Obak booth at the 2011 National. 'They' were cheap and featured U.S. Presidents playing college sports so I figured 'What the heck? Why Not?'

Turns out the 'two' cards were just one two-sided card. LOL @ me. That'll teach me to shop late at night and not read the whole description. 

No big deal because I still can show off a couple of my presidential campaign buttons. First a slightly scarred and 1960 Kennedy/Johnson with a rusty back.

And a plain jane President Gerald Ford from 1976. Did you know that President Ford is the only man to serve as president without being elected either president or vice president? 

Gerald Ford replaced Spiro Agnew as VP when Agnew resigned in 1973 and became President when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. He lost his re-election bid to Jimmy Carter in 1976.