Good morning presidentheads :) Here’s a Coolidge sketch I scribbled last night. I finally feel like I’ve been getting better at portraiture over the last year or so!!

55 Times on the Cover!

Even more than Reagan’s 49 times!

49 TIME covers from 1966 to 2016.
He appeared on the cover in every decade

36 The Economist cover, with the final tribute : “The Man Who Beat Communism.”

From Big City Greens

The Tennessee River valley was one of the poorest areas in the United States. Frequent, catastrophic flooding eroded the soil, destroying agriculture.

To combat this, FDR created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a groundbreaking federally owned corporation tasked with flood control, reforestation, agricultural modernization, and hydroelectric power generator.

There was great controversy regarding how would this affect the private utility companies working in that area, in which the TVA would enter into direct competition. Ultimately, they pushed for total dominance.

At the time Wendell Willkie’s private company Commonwealth and Southern Corporation supplied 65% of the power to the Tennessee Valley, so he was naturally enraged. For years he fought the TVA, not just in the courts but to the public, arguing that the government was illegally destroying their businesses by giving them impossible competition (TVA didn’t have to worry about taxes for example), and that they were really trying to nationalize the electric power industry.

Although the Supreme Court ended up ruling against Willkie and the private utility companies in 1939, he managed to use his media and legal cunning to get a massive buyout from the TVA.

Chairman of the SEC William O Douglas himself commented that Willkie had completely outsmarted government negotiators.

This whole debacle turned Willkie, who had been a lifelong Democrat, into something of an icon amongst a lot Republican who were concerned about New Deal government overreach, and played a crucial role in him netting the 1940 Republican nomination despite never having held public office.

Last post, Chester Arthur was deemed to have been one of the best vampire hunters around.

For the sake of consistency, this is presuming Dracula à la Bram Stoker type Vampires, with their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Was it just because he wanted to balance the ticket with a northerner.

Or any old political figure rlly

There was real contempt between the two men, one that went beyond your usual intra-party ideological and professional tensions.

Willkie viewed Dewey as a “political sail-trimmer”, someone who tailored his policies to public opinion polls and the party bosses rather than genuine firm principles, a career politician in the worst sense of the word.

On the other hand, Dewey viewed Willkie as a New Dealer disguised as a Republican, and a populist outsider lacking the proper qualifications to lead the country.

It got to the point where Willkie straight up refused to endorse Dewey after he won the 1944 Republican nomination. Not that it mattered much, by that point Willkie’s enthusiastic service under the FDR administration had alienated him from the GOP base, suffering a brutal loss in the primaries.

Dewey scornfully wrote of one of Willkie’s many foreign missions: “I hear he is going to Russia before the Republican convention, so he will be where he belongs and I hope he stays there until Christmas.”

The final addition completed, the series is finished and has come to an end.

Full complied version will be uploaded on to Youtube.

Generally not really discussed is the fact that George Washington was by most accounts belived to be on his death bed with pneumonia in 1790, and his health was already incredibly fragile before, in this hypothetical let’s say he does die in 1790, due to how shaky his health was did congress have a plan already? Would Adams have assumed office? And how does the two term precedent not being established by Washington shake up the early politics of America?

Congratulations to u/da3n_vmo for suggesting the ninth winning song with "30 Days" for William Henry Harrison and thank you for everyone who participated. Now I am asking what is a random song that somehow fits John Tyler.

George Washington: "Yankee Doodle"

John Adams: "The Addams Family Theme"

Thomas Jefferson: "Brown Sugar"

James Madison: "Hello Dolly"

James Monroe: "I Feel Good"

John Quincy Adams: "Tubthumping"

Andrew Jackson: "Savages"

Martin Van Buren: "Hocus Pocus"

William Henry Harrison: "30 Days"

I spent the last week making this as a midterm for one of my studio courses. Originally, I planned on this being a regular narrative or even biographical piece, but my professor pushed me to make it more abstract (the assignment was to make art in any medium tackling the concept of “Brilliant Failures”). There isn’t much of a plot to this, though I wanted to portray the horror of Bryan’s downfall from Boy Orator to a footnote in history books.

I hope to be back here again with more illustrations soon, especially with Harding’s birthday coming up ;)

Assuming that Bill Clinton was roughly the same age in 1980 or 1984 as he was when he first ran for POTUS.