Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:32 PM for 15h 03m 10s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1787, the Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
Whitewater, and all the area of the Kettle Moraine beyond, is a place of impressive natural beauty. We have, despite the skill of our own art and design, nothing so beautiful as the natural world offers us. The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards remind as much. Immediately below, see video award winner Liron Gertsman’s entry and his description of it. Sharp-tailed grouse have a wide range that includes northern Wisconsin —
Category: Professional Species: Sharp-tailed Grouse Location: Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada Camera: Canon EOS R5 with a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm lens and Canon EF to RF mount adapter; 1/60 second at f 5.6; ISO 5000
Story Behind the Shot: This clip from the pre-sunrise hours captures Sharp-tailed Grouse males dancing and chirping at a lek. Careful not to bother them, I filmed as they bent over, stretched their wings, and stomped their feet. It sounded like rapid drumming. Their tails standing straight up, they displayed again and again. As much as I love the power of photos to tell a story, some scenes need more than a frame to capture the bigger picture.
Bird Lore: All of North America’s prairie grouse have impressive courtship dances that have been inspiring humans for millennia. Many Native American peoples of the Great Plains and the Interior West have stirring, elaborate ceremonial dances based on those of the grouse. The Sharp-tailed Grouse is a close relative of the two species of prairie-chickens, but it’s less dependent on open grasslands, favoring habitats with more brushy cover, and often moving into wooded areas in winter.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:32 PM for 15h 04m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 97.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 4 PM and the city’s Public Works Committee meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1543, King Henry VIII marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and his wife paid his former chief of staff and his wife $280,000 in cash gifts while they worked together, an arrangement Democrats say is a breach of Senate rules, according to an ethics complaint filed Monday.
Noting the cash gifts in the complaint had been publicly available for years, Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning called the complaint frivolous and said the Oshkosh Republican hasn’t done anything wrong by gifting money to his former chief of staff and longtime friend, Anthony Blando.
Henning declined to specify why Johnson made the payments, but noted Johnson first contacted Blando in 2003 after Blando was diagnosed with cancer, and Johnson offered to pay for his continued treatment.
The Senate has ethics rules meant to limit how much congressional aides can be compensated and also how much and from whom they can receive gifts. The Johnsons’ cash gifts to Blando appear to follow one guideline allowing aides to receive gifts from senators, but appear to clash with another guideline saying cash gifts aren’t acceptable. They also raise questions about whether they are an attempt to circumvent the compensation limits.
Federal records reported on LegiStorm, a website that tracks congressional staffing, show Johnson and his wife gave Blando and Blando’s wife each $24,000 in fiscal year 2014, $28,000 in 2016 and in 2017, and $30,000 in 2018 and 2020, for a total of $280,000.
Blando’s salary was $168,999.85 in fiscal year 2014; $169,458.96 in fiscal years 2016, 2017 and 2018 — 4 cents shy of the maximum in those years; and $172,789.68 in fiscal year 2020, according to the complaint filed by Wisconsin resident Laurene Bach.
The origin of the complaint in this case matters less than whether this was a scheme to avoid compensation limits (and by consequence also avoid taxation). Libertarians would prefer changes to the tax code, but those preferences don’t excuse violations of current tax law.
And look, and look — one can be a critic of Johnson (as I am) and still find this odd. One can be a supporter of Johnson and still recognize (or at least should recognize) that this is another deviation from a senator who’s already a national oddity.
Monday in Whitewater will see a morning shower, then afternoon thunderstorms, with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset 8:33 PM for 15h 05m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Gilbert suggests that the WOW counties (Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington) may favor one candidate, while WISGOP primary voters may elsewhere may favor another. He’s right that that geographical split has happened in Republican primaries before.
That brings us to the 2022 gubernatorial primary, where the frontrunners are Kleefisch and Michels. A third contender, Kevin Nicholson, dropped out Tuesday after failing to catch fire.
We don’t have enough public polling to measure with much confidence the specific regional strengths and weaknesses of Kleefisch and Michels. But in simplified “insider vs. outsider” terms, Kleefisch is the more established candidate, having run with and served under Walker for eight years. She probably needs a very strong showing in southeastern Wisconsin, her home base, to win statewide.
Michels is not a complete outsider, since he ran for office once before, losing a U.S. Senate race to Democrat Russ Feingold in 2004. He also has some “insider” support. But he is a lifelong businessman (he runs a huge construction firm) and has never held office.
Michels is flooding the race with TV ads. And he has Donald Trump’s endorsement, which probably carries more weight in northern and western Wisconsin, where Trump performed well as a primary and general election candidate than it does in the Milwaukee suburbs, where Trump underperformed as a candidate.
While Michels may turn out to be very competitive in the southeast — also his home base — you would expect him to get his best numbers in other parts of the state.
I’m not sure a meaningful split will manifest. Michels will likely be “very competitive in the southeast,” diminishing a split between geographies.
Tim Michels, a wealthy businessman endorsed by both Trump and Thompson is an outsider who isn’t: while he’s not the former two-term lieutenant governor, there’s more than enough in his background to appeal to establishment Republicans in the southeast, while still appealing to Trump devotees. Thompson’s endorsement doesn’t add to Michels’s establishment credentials; Thompson’s endorsement merely acknowledges those credentials.
(Michels is also willing, as is common among Republicans in the Trump era, to jettison any prior positions that might seem too soft for the would-be alpha males in the WISGOP. Those men who’d complain about wearing a mask will find enough to be copacetic with Michels. A more serious generation rightly esteemed stoicism, but here we are.)
Tim Michels is, or will make himself, what WISGOP voters would like. It’s been working so very well for him, with less than a month until the primary.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:26 AM and sunset 8:33 PM for 15h 07m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this date General Henry Atkinson and his troops built Fort Koshkonong after being forced backwards from the bog area of the “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk. The Fort, later known as Fort Atkinson, was described by Atkinson as “a stockade work flanked by four block houses for the security of our supplies and the accommodation of the sick.”
It was also on this date that Atkinson discharged a large number of Volunteers from his army in order to decrease stress on a dwindling food supply and to make his force less cumbersome. One of the dismissed volunteers was future president, Abraham Lincoln, whose horse was stolen in Cold Spring, Wisconsin, and was forced to return to New Salem, Illinois by foot and canoe.
Two-term Lt. Gov. Kleefish has been, effectually, running for governor since she left office. Scott Walker, members of his family, and Walker operatives have supported her effort. She created a PAC to back likeminded candidates for local office. Kleefisch should be a clear frontrunner.
Instead, the polls are close.
Last year, she plunged into the high-profile recall race over the Mequon-Thiensville School Board, only to see her recall candidates lose. This spring, her candidates for that board’s spring general election lostagain.
Tim Michels, with a printing press in his basement, entered the race. Trump endorsed Michels. Kevin Nicholson dropped out, giving Michels an opportunity to consolidate non-Kleefisch support.
Now former Gov. Thompson (Tommy to the 7.96 billion people on this planet) has endorsed Michels:
Polls show Michels is in a tight primary race with former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
In an interview with WPR, Thompson cited longstanding ties with Michels’ family, specifically his parents Dale and Ruth, who founded the Michels Corp. construction firm based in Brownsville.
Thompson said Tim Michels and his brothers have built the firm into one of the largest construction companies in the Midwest.
“And I think he’ll take that same hard work, that same determination that he got from his father and mother and do the same great job as in the state of Wisconsin as governor,” said Thompson.
The Midwest and the Plains states don’t get hurricanes. They get derechos — sprawling thunderstorm complexes that can travel hundreds of miles and cover multiple states with the impact of a 100-mile-wide tornado. Parts of South Dakota and Iowa, as well as Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois, faced a derecho on Tuesday. It even turned the skies green in some areas.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 08m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 75.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
For his 1985 documentary about the Statue of Liberty, the filmmaker Ken Burns interviewed two Jewish boys sitting on a bench in New York City. They were twin brothers who had fled Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, with their father. Like generations of refugees before them and generations since, they had arrived in the United States hoping for a better life.
One of those boys, Alexander Vindman, would grow up to become a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and director for European and Russian affairs for the National Security Council. He was also a key witness at the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump. His brother, Yevgeny, would become a colonel in the Army and serve as deputy legal adviser for the National Security Council.
In recent months, as the Vindmans’ homeland has come under siege by Russian forces, Mr. Burns reunited with the brothers to make the Opinion Video above.
In this short film, the Vindmans argue that the refugee crises in Ukrainian and elsewhere demand a much stronger response from the Biden administration, including not just fully restoring a refugee system gutted by the Trump administration but expanding it further.
The nation’s policies, they contend, are not living up to its ideals.
4,084 people gathered in the Australian outback on July 7, to break the record for the world’s largest group ‘Nutbush.’
Nutbush is a type of line dancing inspired by Tina Turner’s 1973 song, ‘Nutbush City Limits.’ Attempts to break the record for the largest group ‘Nutbush’ dance have become an annual tradition in Australia.
This year’s attempt, which shattered the previous record of 2,878 set last year in the same location, also raised $60,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, an Aussie nonprofit org.
Tuesday, July 12th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Death on the Nile @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Crime/Drama/Mystery Rated PG-13, 2 hours, 7 minutes (2022). Based upon the novel by Agatha Christie.
1937: while on vacation on a cruise on the Nile, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) investigates the murder of a young heiress. Among the suspects: Annette Benning, Gal Gadot, and Armie Hammer.
Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM for 15h 09m 39s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 65.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this date James Jesse Strang, leader of the estranged Mormon faction, the Strangites, was crowned king; the only man to achieve such a title in America. When founder Joseph Smith was assassinated, Strang forged a letter from Smith dictating he was to be the heir. The Mormon movement split into followers of Strang and followers of Brigham Young.
As he gained more followers (but never nearly as many as Brigham Young), Strang became comparable to a saint, and in 1850 was crowned King James in a ceremony in which he wore a discarded red robe of a Shakespearean actor, and a metal crown studded with a cluster of stars as his followers sang him hosannas.
On the national scene, assigning feelings of resentment to political factions ignores the ideological foundations of their actions. There are ideas underlying political behavior, and calling others merely resentful is a second-order description for a first-order matter. SeeResentment’s a Nebulous National Explanation.
First, an introduction. There’s a libertarian expression, that some libertarians are born (into libertarian families) and some are made (through tragedies at the hands of government). I fall, it should be needless to say, in the first category; I have no personal grievances, claim no personal injuries, and have no personal animus. It’s all ideological, down to the marrow, from being born into an OG libertarian family. (That has been, in my view, my good fortune and blessing, but it comes from a happy upbringing, not tragic experience.)
It’s true, however, that a daily commitment over time works its own will, and one becomes more of what one always was: one becomes more oneself, so to speak. Over years, a firm view becomes adamantine. Someone from Whitewater once criticized me for using that word, as she felt it too showy, too unusual. She was mistaken then and would mistaken now. (As it turns out, she’s no longer a resident, having left this town in need for another place. People should be free to come and go.)
Of Whitewater. And yet, and yet… Whitewater is the place, then and now, a place in need, and worthy of one’s devoted commitment. One would hope that others who see this would, each in his or her own way, stay and fight for the betterment of the community.
In this beautiful city, however, one can say that, for some other residents, resentment is sometimes a distinct local explanation for frustration. When those residents look at city hall, the school district, or the university, they feel exclusion and are resentful over it. (The libertarian talks of town squires and notables with ideological sarcasm and derision; for others, however, a feeling that a few officials fail to communicate or fail to include them leads to feelings of insult.)
For officials in this town: too little communication, toward too few people, often too late, and a selfish desire to separate themselves from the community they claim to serve. They seek to sit at a restaurant’s reserved table, feeling important with their own seating.
For the libertarian: there should be notice of the restaurant’s hours, and ample, open seating for any and all, as a matter of principle worth asserting and defending.
For many residents: a conviction (often accurate) that they don’t know the restaurant’s hours or menu, and when they arrive they are often consigned to a children’s table near the restrooms.
When a board in this town blames residents for dividing a supposedly unified community, that board has lost its way. This community has been divided by socio-economic forces since the Great Recession, and more so since the middle of the last decade. If there have been additional conflicts, the first place an official or professional should look is to himself or herself, not to ordinary residents. That initial introspection is a fundamental requirement of a professional life. The professional looks first to himself or herself, and sees that every day begins anew with that duty of self-reflection. SeeThe Better Approach of the Dark-Horse Underdog.
This duty is immanent within a profession. Always has been, always will be.
It matters not whether a board of seven or seven hundred insists otherwise. As several or as a horde: still wrong by any number.
When some residents complain about being pushed aside, they’re not wrong. It has been a problem for in Whitewater for years.
I may not feel resentment in matters as they do, yet as a consequence of moral sentiments I am sympathetic to their feelings.
Of a New Whitewater. These moral sentiments hold regardless of others’ similar or opposing ideological positions. Whitewater should be — and so must be — a restaurant with open tables, welcoming all, where the greatest duties and obligations rest with officials and professionals to assure government remains limited, responsible, and humble.
On this point, this libertarian blogger has, one might say, an adamantine conviction.
But a new study, published Tuesday in the journal iScience, suggests that the reaction to catnip and silver vine might be explained by the bugrepellenteffect of iridoids, the chemicals in the plants that induce the high.
Researchers, led by Masao Miyazaki, an animal behavior scientist at Iwate University in Japan, found that the amount of these iridoids released by the plant increased by more than 2,000 percent when the plant was damaged by cats. So perhaps kitty’s high confers an evolutionary advantage: keeping bloodsucking insects at bay.
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In their most recent study, Dr. Miyazaki and his associates measured the chemical composition of the air immediately above leaves — both intact and damaged — of catnip and silver vine. Then they measured the iridoid levels in the leaves themselves. They found that catnip leaves mangled by cats released at least 20 times more nepetalactone than intact leaves did, while damaged silver vine leaves released at least eight times the amount of similar iridoids than did intact leaves. The cats’ interactions with silver vine also changed the composition of the plant’s bug-repelling cocktail, making it even more potent.
After rubbing their faces and bodies against the plants, cats are sure to be coated in a robust layer of Pest Begone.
This finding, paired with Dr. Miyazaki and his team’s previous research, supports nascent claims that at least part of the benefit of the kitty catnip craze is to stave off mosquitoes and flies.
Thursday in Whitewater will see scattered afternoon thundershowers with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:35 PM for 15h 10m 47s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 54.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. hold a business meeting at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1946, Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
Conservatives and the center-left both now claim Americans are in the grip of resentment (lit., indignation or ill will stemming from a feeling of having been wronged or offended).
And because G.O.P. extremism is fed by resentment against the very things that, as I see it, truly make America great — our diversity, our tolerance for difference — it cannot be appeased or compromised with.
Conservative Tom Nichols makes a similar point about resentment in the national political context:
The thing about resentment as a force in politics is that there is nothing you can do about it. You can try to be respectful, you can try to compromise. It won’t matter. Because it’s not about any of that. It’s about the itching sense of inferiority in the other guy.
Katherine Cramer, of the center-left, wrote an entire book about the Politics of Resentment (‘Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker’).
I was critical of Cramer’s book, in which she describes first-order ideological conflicts as cases of second-order resentment (that is, feelings of insult, etc.).
We’ve a national conflict over ideological positions, over fundamental principles, not a fuss over whether someone got the table he wanted at Denny’s. Perhaps people are resentful, but it matters why they are resentful. ‘They’re all simply upset’ doesn’t describe the seriousness of America’s conflict.
Perhaps it’s true that this conflict seems intractable, and that some feelings will not be changed. If they’ll not be changed, then they’ll not be changed…
What, though, prompts those intense feelings? Belief for and against, in favor and opposed, of convictions held and rejected.
Better to call something what it is, specifically and particularly, than to rest on vague claims that one’s opponents are simply put out.
If they are insulted because some of us insist on free markets in capital, labor and goods, individual rights, limited and responsible government, free trade, tolerance and acceptance of others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and orientation, then those others will have to go on being insulted.
Indeed, it diminishes the dedication of purpose of those on the other side of these issues, too, to see it all as resentment.
From a traditional libertarian view: wall-building, child-caging, book-banning, and closet-confining are challenges to individual rights, not spats over events at a sad family gathering.
Taking account of others’ resentments matters in a struggle of this kind only so much as it helps one’s cause.
Once the stakes are clear, and once one sees how implacable one’s political adversaries are, it serves only to deprecate the seriousness of the conflict to contend that it’s hurt feelings that drive others.
Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered morning thundershowers and a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:35 PM for 15h 11m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 43.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1933, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4–2.
Delafield business consultant Kevin Nicholson announced Tuesday that he’s suspending his campaign in the Republican Party primary for governor.
In a statement, Nicholson said he didn’t want to go negative as a way to catch up in the contest against the two front-runners, Hartland business executive Tim Michels and former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.
He added that he does not plan to make any endorsements in the primary.
In January, it was reasonable to predict that Kevin Nicholson would be a strong WISGOP candidate. See from 1.26.22 Kevin and Rebecca.
It’s now July, not January, and Nicholson hasn’t been a top-tier candidate in this race.
Turns out there was only one lane for businessman-types, and Connecticut-homeowner Tim Michels took that lane and hasn’t looked back.
While Nicholson was dependent on donor money, Michels has an ample supply of his own money (stocks, bonds, bank deposits, real property, money stuffed in mattresses, etc.).
Michels and Kleefisch are polling close to each other, but if the Nicholson voters decide to pick someone similar to Nicholson, well, that means Michels.
There are still a significant number of undecided voters, apart from Nicholson voters (who may pick a new candidate or stay home).
About five weeks remain before the August primary.
Tuesday in Whitewater will see scattered afternoon thundershowers and a high of 94. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 12m 53s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 34.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this date, General Atkinson and his troops entered the area known by the Native Americans as “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk. The area was some 10 square miles and contained a large bog. Although the land appeared safe, it would undulate or tremble for yards when pressure was applied. Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.
In The Atlantic, U.S. Senator Mitt Romney writes that America Is in Denial. There are points in his essay over which one would disagree (and concern that Romney, himself, has not done more). The main contention, however, is spot-on: our country suffers from debilitating political and social maladies. The excerpts below from his essay on America’s denial are, to a sensible person, undeniable:
[W]hen a renowned conservative former federal appellate judge testifies that we are already in a war for our democracy and that January 6, 2021, was a genuine constitutional crisis, MAGA loyalists snicker that he speaks slowly and celebrate that most people weren’t watching.
What accounts for the blithe dismissal of potentially cataclysmic threats? The left thinks the right is at fault for ignoring climate change and the attacks on our political system. The right thinks the left is the problem for ignoring illegal immigration and the national debt. But wishful thinking happens across the political spectrum. More and more, we are a nation in denial.
I have witnessed time and again—in myself and in others—a powerful impulse to believe what we hope to be the case. We don’t need to cut back on watering, because the drought is just part of a cycle that will reverse. With economic growth, the debt will take care of itself. January 6 was a false-flag operation. A classic example of denial comes from Donald Trump: “I won in a landslide.” Perhaps this is a branch of the same delusion that leads people to feed money into slot machines: Because I really want to win, I believe that I will win.
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Bolstering our natural inclination toward wishful thinking are the carefully constructed, prejudice-confirming arguments from the usual gang of sophists, grifters, and truth-deniers. Watching angry commentators on cable news, I’m reminded of H. L. Mencken’s observation: “For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
Alas, Romney engages in his own brand of disappointing rhetoric by equating right-wing denial on the 2020 election and climate change (he could have added covid-19 and gun violence) with Democrats’ supposed denial about the debt and illegal immigration. Aside from the fact that deficits are projected to fall substantially in 2022 and Democrats have repeatedly offered comprehensive immigration reform, including border security, Romney’s lamentation of both parties smacks of, well, denialism.
Only one party has adopted as its default setting conspiracy theories and disinformation, from carrying water for Russia’s interference in the 2016 election to quack remedies for covid to the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen. Only one party rallies its base with resentment, anger and vitriol. And only one party relies on a propagandistic media that shields its base from disagreeable facts.
While he’s not wrong in the excerpts that I’ve chosen, she’s right about the broader point: America does not have two factions of equal-opportunity offenders. (It is for this reason that conservative and libertarian #NeverTrumpers are now part of a grand coalition with Democrats and independents in support of liberal democracy. If we truly thought both major factions were of equal culpability, then we’d not have made our commitment to one of them. We have made that commitment, and justifiably so. It is, in fact, the same commitment that Rubin sensibly made.)
Independence Day in Whitewater will be partly sunny, with afternoon thundershowers, and a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:22 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 13m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 24.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Independence holiday events continue at the Cravath Lakefront (Whippet City Mile, parade, live music, fireworks).
On this day in 1863, Gen. Grant is victorious at the Siege of Vicksburg as Confederates surrender after 47 days of siege:
The Confederate surrender on July 4, 1863, is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee’s defeat at Gettysburg by Maj. Gen. George Meade the previous day, the turning point of the war. It cut off the Trans-Mississippi Department (containing the states of Arkansas, Texas and part of Louisiana) from the rest of the Confederate States, effectively splitting the Confederacy in two for the rest of the war. Lincoln called Vicksburg “the key to the war.”
On this day in 1957, a New York radio station broadcast John F. Kennedy, then a United States Senator, reading the Declaration of Independence in commemoration of the holiday:
Sound recording of Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts reading the Declaration of Independence. A recording of Senator Kennedy’s reading was broadcast on WQXR Radio in New York, on July 4, 1957, as part of the station’s observance of the Fourth of July. JFK Presidential Library.
Members of The United States Army Field Band perform three Revolutionary War era tunes on fife and drum. Featuring Chester, Drummond’s Rant, and of course, Yankee Doodle.
