Richard Brookhiser

Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

See Amrita Chakrabarti Myers The Vice President’s Black Wife for Johnson, Julys Chinn ( hud wife) et al.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@RBrookhiser He could have just let her go, married yet another slave, and if asked say he had done it because "it was big o' me."

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Thanks.

[EdReal @Ed_Realist]

@RBrookhiser It's been like for me for years. If you read X on your phone there's a setting you can change.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Collector bait.

[Eco Tradeoff @EcoTradeoff]

@RBrookhiser It looks like The Gambia has the best North American Indian postage stamps...

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

JA went hard. But in truth JQA and HA can match him.

[Dick Bertram @Dastardlyb247]

@myhist @RBrookhiser JA’s posthumous takedown of Hamilton might be the most beautiful examples of petty in American History. It is absolute art.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Technical Q: why all of a sudden can I not see the posts addressed to me? They return after a while, but how csn I get them back sooner?

[Eco Tradeoff @EcoTradeoff]

@RBrookhiser "The U.S. Postal Service has not issued a commemorative stamp for Charles Curtis, despite ongoing advocacy campaigns by historical and postal groups highlighting his status as the first Native American and person of color to serve as U.S. Vice President."

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser https://t.co/WR71dhD3Jm I have been looking for some time for a space in my good Husbands Letters to add the regards of an old Friend

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Loyalty, of a sort.

[Dick Bertram @Dastardlyb247]

@RBrookhiser After his wife died, he married another slave. She used the opportunity to escape and he sent slave catchers after her..

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser That was 1804, shut down by JA. by 1813 she was back on Team Thomas. Or at least a hearty, "If John says you are OK now, then OK."

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser Interesting. I suppose he got away with it b/c it applied to Members.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

And first veep, Charles Curtis ( registered Kaw).

[Eco Tradeoff @EcoTradeoff]

@RBrookhiser First ones honored with postage stamps?

Indian hunting buffalo 1898
Pocahontas 1907
Will Rogers 1948
Chief Joseph 1968
Sequoyah 1980
Crazy Horse 1982
Jim Thorpe 1984
Red Cloud 1987
Sitting Bull 1989
Geronimo 1994
Sacagawea 1994
Stand Watie 1995
Chief Standing Bear 2023

[Rob Waters @rawatersjr]

@RBrookhiser Which created a Tippecanoe & Tyler Too level campaign jingle:
Rumpsy Dumpsy,
Rumpsy Dumpsy,
Col. Johnson Killed Tecumsy!

[Wm. G. Hansen @WmGHansen]

@RBrookhiser Interesting.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

I see the pattern.

[FriendsofCharlieCoyle @TerriersFan]

@RBrookhiser https://t.co/sqX0GKQCrG

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Dark.

[Eric-Clifford Graf @graf_ec]

@RBrookhiser Like Christ that way.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

His Tippicanoe and Tyler too.
His career was derailed by drinking, and by his black wife.

[Dick Bertram @Dastardlyb247]

@RBrookhiser “Rumpsey Dumpsey, Rumpsey Dumpsey, Col. Johnson killed Tecumsee”

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

Scott and Houston debuted in the War of 1812, not specifically at the Battle of the Thames.
I forgot veep Richard Mentor Johnson, who was there-/ wounded five times.

[TMitcham @mitcham_tim]

@RickyBobWeaver @TheFirmTM @RBrookhiser There was a couple of Massachusetts shipping companies that used to outrun the British on a regular basis, but as a southerner I'm not suppose to point that out.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

We honor the red man when he is gone.

[Eco Tradeoff @EcoTradeoff]

@RBrookhiser 1/ R M Johnson became VP for killing Tecumseh, or he quickly took credit.

Named for Tecumseh...

Wm Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana (1822–1905)
Judy Garland’s grandfather
47069 Tecumseh, in 2024 a main-belt asteroid
towns
Navy ships
wildlife species

[Charles X Proxy™ @Charlemagne0814]

The Kidney Stones.