John Ford -- Presidential Medal of Freedom -- March 31, 1973

On this day in history*:

"John Ford, in his works, has depicted freedom in all of its profound depths....John Ford has fought for freedom, and for that reason it is appropriate that tonight, on behalf of all of the American people, he receives the Medal of Freedom."

-- Richard M. Nixon
    March 31, 1973

Perhaps because in part he knew the cost of freedom, Ford spent a lifetime interpreting his nation's heritage. He accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the country's highest civilian honors, with the words, "God Bless America."

Ethan Edwards. The Searchers.
*From the American Patriot's Almanac

Lauren Bacall and Harry Truman

Remember when we had a real President?

You forget, she sang for Bogart plenty:

Am I Blue

How Little We Know

And bonus Bacall, unembeddedly, again singing: 

And her tears flowed like wine…

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Updatery: 

Yeah, we received the Rule 5 linkage. 

Veteran's Day

Thank you all who serve and served in uniform. Thanks to your loving families.
Thank you Rogelio A. Ramirez and your Gold Star Family.
Thanks Dad, uncles, brothers-in-law, nephew, friends and colleagues.

North To Alaska

Despite their phony championing of “women’s issues” (i.e. abortion) there was not one Democrat woman who could win a head-to-head contest with Palin.

Especially not if we got to see their faces.

Democrats may have a fleet of women politicians, but they don’t have a deep bench of attractive ones. You don’t even think of most Democratic woman as women: Rosa Delauro, Nita Lowey, Patty Murray, Janet Napolitano -- and the list goes on. Oh, sure, there are the odd female Democrat sex kittens -- your Janet Renos, your Donna Shalalas -- but they're the exception to the rule.

Perhaps Palin’s year is 2012, but I would recommend that she take a little more time to become older and wiser. She ought to spend the next decade being a good governor, tending to her children so none of them turn out like Ron Reagan Jr., and reading everything Phyllis Schlafly, Thomas Sowell, Ronald Reagan and “Publius” have ever written.

Read it all here.
Be honest now, ain't you glad to see the Reno and Shalala and Reagan Junior names on a page again? Happy days are here again. Trooly.