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Betty White with President Obama 6/11/2012. NARA ID 200283745.
#RIP BETTY WHITE
Betty White at the Truman Library! Betty White, Allen Ludden, and Tess White pose with Truman Library staff, 8/4/1964. Truman Library ID 65-164.
Betty White and Allen Ludden view Truman Library exhibit. Truman Library ID 65-160.
See also: Ed Asner in CIA Training Film 1956!
Popcorn truck 1941, NARA ID 283764.
Happy #National POPCORN Day!
NY Giant Harry Carson showers President Reagan in popcorn 2/13/1987, NARA ID 75855283
President Obama @ Oregon State v. GWU hoops, 11/28/2009, NARA ID 176553126.
Label for Cracker Jacks, 1/14/18, NARA ID 20737628.
"Real Food Value" pamphlet 1918. NARA ID 20737627. Description: Rueckheim Bros & Eckstein published this pamphlet which described the nutritional value of Cracker Jack and its benefits for food conservation.
Bullfight popcorn label 1901, NARA ID 44270997.
Product label/poem for Beech-Nut popcorn bars 1920. NARA ID 79443346.
Supreme Court Justice Nominee Sonia Sotomayor with White House staff, 6/24/2009. Photo by Johnny Simon, Obama Library, NARA ID 193688406).
President Obama with Judge Sotomayor and (then) VP Joe Biden, 5/26/2009, Obama Library, NARA ID 157649742.
President Obama Greets Justice Sotomayor 9/8/2009, image by Pete Souza, Obama Library, NARA ID 118817965.
Celina Sotomayor Cries During President Obama's Nomination of Judge Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, 5/26/2009, NARA ID 157649740.
President Obama and VP Biden with an ecstatic Judge Sotomayor, 5/26/2009, Obama Library, NARA ID 157649732.
We celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with a shout out to Sonia Sotomayor!
1st Hispanic Supreme Court justice
3rd female Supreme Court justice (after RBG & Sandra Day O'Connor).
1st Hispanic federal judge in New York State
1st Puerto Rican woman to serve as a judge in a U.S. federal court
"Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way — through the power of words — to change the world."---Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor's parents were born in Puerto Rico, but she was born and raised in the Bronx. After Princeton undergrad and Yale Law School, she worked as an assistant DA for New York County. In 1991, President Bush (41) nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY.
Sotomayor: "the judge who saved baseball." As a district court judge, Sotomayor ruled in Silverman v. Major League Baseball (MLB) Player Relations Committee, Inc. that the MLB could not enact a new collective bargaining agreement and use replacement players, thereby ending the 1994 baseball strike and ensuring the 1995 season began on time.
As a nod to her background, Sotomayor warned lawyers during the preparatory phase of the case, “I hope none of you assumed…that my lack of knowledge of any intimate details of your dispute meant I was not a baseball fan. You can’t grow up in the South Bronx without knowing about baseball."
President Obama meets with Judge Sotomayor in the Oval Office, 5/21/2009. Clinton Library photo by Pete Souza, NARA ID 176548508.
On May 26, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his nomination of Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. She was sworn in on August 8, 2009.
See our many Hispanic Heritage Month resources.
From the Bronx to the Bench: Sonia Sotomayor’s Trailblazing Journey to the Supreme Court, by Lynn Nashorn, archivist, Text Message blog.
Materials Relating to Sonia Sotomayor Released, Press release, 7/8/2009.
List of records re: Judge Sonia Sotomayor (includes records from the Clinton and Bush (41) Libraries.
White House Background on Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 5/26/2009.
During a White House tour for Wounded Warriors and their families, Alanah Poullard, age 5, asked President Obama for a note to excuse her from kindergarten that day. He kindly obliged. (9/19/2013, Obama Library, NARA ID 118817989)
Kindergarten kids, records of the Marshall Plan programs in France post WW2, NARA ID 19985711.
NATIONAL KINDERGARTEN DAY!
Ready for snack time? Play time? Nap time? Circle time?
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
We mark National Kindergarten Day with records showing Kindergarten kids in a variety of circumstances, including World War I refugees, Japanese-American World War II internees, and post-war children in France.
Kindergarten class, records of the Marshall Plan programs in France post WW2, NARA ID 19985707.
World War I refugee children in makeshift kindergarten, 12/1918. NARA ID 31483306.
Kindergarten children give pennies to the Red Cross, Children's World War I Relief Activities, Plainfield, NJ. NARA ID 31483142.
Daily kindergarten demo, Child Welfare exhibit in France run by the American Red Cross. October, 1918. NARA ID 31483488.
Shigeko Tabuchi teaches Kindergarten in barracks 35-4F, Rohwer Japanese Internment Camp, AR, 11/24/1942. War Relocation Authority, NARA ID 538957.
Kindergarten class on the playground at Tule Lake Japanese Internment Camp, Newell, CA, 9/1944. War Relocation Authority, NARA ID 539600.
Kindergarten children at Gila River Japanese Internment Camp, AZ. War Relocation Authority, 10/25/1943, NARA ID 537377.
UNCLE SAM-I-AM: Happy B-Day Dr. Seuss!
Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, born #OTD, 1904.
Geisel's "Private Snafu" in "RUMORS", WW2 training film, NARA ID 35828. NARA Gif here.
From WW2 malaria awareness campaign, illustrated by Theodor Geisel, National Archives at Atlanta, NARA ID 784001.
Image from WW2 Newsmap story, 5/4/1942, NARA ID 66394991.
WW2 War Bonds poster by Theodor Geisel, NARA ID 515479.
Many WW2 soldiers were young, newly-enlisted men with minimal formal education. To both impart info and improve morale, the Army Motion Picture Unit – headed by Hollywood director Frank Capra – created nearly two dozen "Private Snafu" training films that featured a bumbling new recruit who routinely breaks rules (SNAFU = Situation Normal All Fouled Up). Many "Private Snafu" shorts were written by Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, voiced by Mel Blanc (infamous voice of Bugs Bunny), directed by animation legends Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, and produced by Warner Bros. Studios.
RUMORS Military Training Film
Dr. Seuss's unique and imaginative style is evident in this "Rumors" training film. Pvt. Snafu chats with another soldier in the bathroom about "nice bombing weather."
It was a bright sunny day, air fresh and clean Not a rumor was stirring, except... in the latrine!
The rumor spreads rapidly, taking the form of hot air.
The hot air is blowing. A rumor is flowing!
The hot air fills giant balloons that then go through the "rumor mill" and become animated flying sausages that swarm the training camp, leading to the base shutdown/quarantine for "RUMOR-ITIS."
Balloon juice - it's phony, but it makes nice baloney! That's right. Exaggerate it. Stretch it. Multiply it. Now shoot off your face, And baloney is flying all over the place!
Even worse, Private Snafu ends up straitjacketed in a psych ward's padded cell #13, where he is tormented by Napoleon Baloney (Bolognaparte?). Lesson learned...
From Theodor Geisel's Military Personnel File, NARA ID 40933952.
See also:
Uncle Sam-I-Am: Dr. Seuss’s Private Snafu, by Richard Green, Still Pictures archivist, The Unwritten Record blog.
Dr. Seuss Beyond Snafu: Your Job in Germany, by Audrey Amidon, Motion Picture Preservation Specialist, The Unwritten Record blog.
Dr. Seuss And The War Department, National Archives at Atlanta.
First Lady Michelle Obama reads from Dr. Seuss, White House East Room, Barack Obama Presidential Library, NARA ID 157649364.
Cool that he lived on "Wonderview Dr." in Hollywood! From his military personnel file, NARA ID 4093395
Lakers champ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar towers over President Reagan, 6/10/1985, Reagan Library, NARA ID 75854151.
#OTD in 1984, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke Wilt Chamberlain's NBA record of 31,419 points (31,421)!
Not only that, he's had the COVID vaccine and urges everyone to do the same! See his PSA here.
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wears Lakers socks at White house ceremony, 11/22/2016. Obama Library, NARA ID 200283935.
NBA's all-time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar helped lead the Lakers to 5 championships and the Milwaukee Bucks to another. In addition to his legendary basketball career, he's been an advocate for social justice.
Here's how great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was: 1967, he had spent a year dominating college basketball, the NCAA bans the dunk. They'd didn’t say it was about Kareem, but it was about Kareem. When a sport changes its rules to make it harder just for you, you are really good. And yet despite the rule change, he was still the sport's most unstoppable force. It's a title he'd hold for more than two decades, winning NBA Finals MVPs a staggering 14 years apart. President Obama, 2016 ceremony.
President Obama Honors 2009 NBA Champs LA Lakers, 1/25/2010, Obama Library, NARA ID 176544964.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents Lakers shirt to President Reagan, 6/10/1985, Reagan Library, NARA ID C29667-33A.
LA Lakers shirt gifted to President Reagan from head coach Pat Riley, Reagan Library, NARA ID 7865657.
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