Ginger Rogers Interlude

Why not something, um,  pretty this evening?

Ginger Rogers and Doris Day, from the movie

Storm Warning.

Miss Rogers' musical accompaniment:
Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra.



Bonus Ginger Rogers:

Coming Up Roses -- Merman Interlude

And here she is singing the same number for, yes, Ronald Reagan.

Pope John Paul II Visits the White House -- This Day In History

October 6, 1979
Pope John Paul II Visits the Carter White House

Until today, rarely did a sitting President abide more in need of a holy visitor than did

The Peanut Farmer.

His Holiness did meet with a Real President and a real First Lady later.

At the Vatican:

And again in Fairbanks, Alaska -- though unknown to us at the time, at the home state of a future President...

Memory Lane: Yeah, I remember on one of those Vatican State visits, when I happened to be off the farm and down in Chicago, Grampa accused me of going to Chicago to see the Pope.

If only Grandpa had known what I was up to his, old Papist-hatin' Lutheran heart mightta prayed that it were the Pope I was hanging with, rather than my gang of friends. Just saying.

Great Moments In Billboarding -- Ronaldus Maximus

Another great billboard in Minnesota.

Previous great moments in billboarding.
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