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#PotusGeeks' series on Religion and politics looks at Millard Fillmore's relationship with Catholicism, on the one hand sending his daughter to a Catholic school, meeting with a Pope, and running for President as the candidate for an anti-Catholic party. https://t.co/tjpaxh6hYM

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It was 58 years ago today, on June 6, 1968 at 1:44 a.m. that Robert F. Kennedy Sr. died. He was shot just over 25 hours earlier in a kitchen adjacent to the Embassy Ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel. #PotusGeeks looks back on that event. https://t.co/K2HYbPcvQS

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#PotusGeeks' series on Religion and Presidential Politics looks at the 1844 Nativist riots that were anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant and violent, and how they affected the outcome of that year's Presidential election. https://t.co/CW1J7osnU1

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#PotusGeeks series on Religion in Politics looks at how Ronald Reagan joined forces with Evangelical leaders in the 1980 Presidential election, against his advisors' recommendation, and how his decision changed the Republican party to this day. https://t.co/AdjDyjLhBA

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On June 5, 2004 (22 years ago today), Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th US President, died at his home in Bel Air, California at the age of 93, from pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's. #PotusGeeks looks back at the life and Presidency of "the Gipper." https://t.co/e1O05CF2l0

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#PotusGeeks looks at the American Party (better known as the "Know-Nothing Party") of the 19th century and how its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholicism policies affected the Presidential election of 1856. https://t.co/suICLYhMxb

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#PotusGeeks looks at the Presidential election of 1928 and how anti-Catholicism was used against one of the presidential candidates even though the other candidate claimed he had nothing to do with it. https://t.co/pAybjY25kr

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On June 1, 1868 (158 years ago today) James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, died at his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania at age 77 from respiratory failure. #PotusGeeks looks at his accomplished life, damaged by an abysmal presidency. https://t.co/oLG1SpALhk

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#PotusGeeks looks at how John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was used against him in the 1960 Presidential election campaign and how he countered the anti-Catholic tactics used by his opponents. https://t.co/zp2UyosDT5

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#PotusGeeks wraps up our series on political violence with a summary of some of the lessons that we've learned, including how the issue is not a new one and why the problem isn't likely to go away any time soon. https://t.co/B4lXWXp5qu

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#PotusGeeks' series on political violence looks at the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and how some of her political enemies failed to condemn the actions of the plotters. https://t.co/JMOQeLjCsN

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#PotusGeeks #BookReview: How the Democrats Lost America by Scott Ferson - not another election post-mortem, instead a look at what the average voter really thought and what was important in their lives and how that played into the result. https://t.co/AOCrQCEWZP

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 (109 years ago today) in Brookline, Massachusetts. #PotusGeeks looks back on his life, his presidency, and the tragic act of senseless violence that ended both. https://t.co/TPl2dObwbv

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#PotusGeeks series on political violence looks at the first attempted assassination of Abraham Lincoln, known as "the Baltimore Plot", a plan to kidnap and kill Lincoln on the train ride to Washington DC for his inauguration. https://t.co/iSjzoeq72w

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#PotusGeeks' series on political violence looks at the attempted assassination of Abraham Lincoln in August of 1864 when a sniper put a bullet through his stovepipe hat as Lincoln was riding to his cottage at the Soldier's Home. https://t.co/JonB0qSiC4

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#PotusGeeks' series on political violence looks at the attempted assassination of Representative Gabby Giffords in January of 2011, and President Barack Obama's appeal to the nation for civil political discourse. https://t.co/H0CBgJ2lKL

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#PotusGeeks' series on Political Violence looks at the recent shooting incident that occurred this past weekend near the White House. https://t.co/vAV5D9ohSA

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Today is #MemorialDay. #PotusGeeks looks at the history of the holiday and how it went from a day for honoring those who died in the Civil War to a day to honor all fallen service men and women. https://t.co/hzDynJsZga

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#PotusGeeks' series on political violence looks at how Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace, had made a previous attempt to kill Richard Nixon and even travelled to a foreign country to try to achieve his purpose. https://t.co/TBsMUgp6Jz