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Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC

Author, PRESIDENTS OF WAR, 9 other books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. @PBS contributor. Born Chicago.

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May 31
Michael Beschloss delivers 2026 Commencement Address at University of Pennsylvania--video link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ISH15d…

Michael Beschloss 2026 Commencement Address

Honorary degree recipient, author, and Presidential historian Micha...

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Anodyne in 1952, this slogan may seem controversial to some in 2026:
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New York Times, fifty years ago this morning, reporting on previous day, when millions of Americans "joyously" hailed Bicentennial celebration:
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Sears ad for leisure suits, mid-1970s:
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Fourth of July fireworks over DC, 1954:
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President Ford, House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and House Minority Leader John Rhodes in period golf costumes, 1974:
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President Gerald Ford in full-1975 regalia:
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Fifty years ago tonight, in 1976-appropriate leisure suit, President Gerald Ford and Betty on Truman Balcony of White House for Bicentennial fireworks:
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“The founders envisioned an American political system of honesty, candour, competence, high ethics, compassion, decency and self-sacrifice,” writes Michael Beschloss. In a guest essay, the historian asks how the country is doing in 2026 economist.com/by-invitation/…

What remains of the city upon the hill?

America cannot serve as an example if its founding principles are discarded, writes Michael Beschloss

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General Eisenhower wept in 1952 while discussing soldiers who had died under his command:
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Lincoln at Gettysburg:
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Our Flag Was Still There:
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Statue of Liberty photographed as it was dedicated a hundred and forty years ago this fall:
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Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of our Declaration of Independence (with revisions by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin), 1776:
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