Day 24 of Women I Admire is Edith Cavell

 Edith Cavell was a remarkable British woman who served as a nurse in World War 1. She cared for German and Belgians alike, disregarding their nationality when it came to caring for them. When the Germans accused her of helping British POWs escape, she admitted to the charges and was sentenced to death. Diplomats from multiple countries requested her sentence be communed, but the requests were ignored, and she was murdered by a German firing squad.

38th President of the United States - Gerald Ford

 Gerald Rudolph Ford - 38th President of the United States - 11x14 - Graphite

Ford is generally one of the more forgotten modern day presidents. When Gerald Ford became president, the American people just knew he was going to assign a special prosecutor to look into Nixon, and when he didn’t, they said, “well, fuck you then!” and he was not elected for a second term. While I do think Nixon was a good president, it’s shit like this why politicians continue to get away with shit. They fuck up, and we give them a pass and then complain about political corruption.  

Anyway, while attending the University of Michigan, he could’ve played for the NFL, receiving offers from both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers but turned them down to be a head boxing coach and assistant football coach at Yale University. He refused to allow bone spurs to keep him from serving our great nation, and served in the Navy during WW2. He was the target of 2 assassination attempts, both by women (one was played by Dakota Fanning in a Quentin Tarantino film) and he was the only person to serve as both president and vice president who was never elected to either office. When Reagan offered him the opportunity to be VP, he turned it down. After the year 2000, CNN.com took the time to list his presidential life after leaving office, and his only real accomplishments, were being admitted to the hospital almost a dozen times. Great reporting CNN. 

You can read more exciting facts about President Ford and all the presidents for that matter, in my upcoming book, ‘The Big Book of Presidents for Adults’

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Day 23 of Women I Admire is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Day 23 of Women I Admire is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You don’t have to like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka AOC), and you may vehemently disagree with her (and that’s okay) but she’s fearless as fuck and a serious force in Washington. She unseated career politician, Joe Crowley in 2018, who’d spent nearly 20 years in congress. Small donations funded her campaign, and not large corporations. She loves the fuck out of the Bronx, and she didn’t take shit from representatives who verbally assaulted her. While the Democratic establishment was busy fucking Bernie Sanders over, she took on the entire local Dems and and won. When Ben Shapiro demanded she answer to him for $10k, she responded, “just like catcalling, I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions…who feel entitled to one.” 

 

37th President of the United States - Richard Nixon

 Richard Milhous Nixon - 37th President of the United States - 11x14 - Graphite

Nixon…his name is synonymous with scandal, and it’s actually kind of a shame. Prior to politics, he was an outstanding law student, graduating 3rd in his class at Duke Law. He was a lieutenant commander in the Navy during WW2, and just like Eisenhower, he saw no combat. When he became president, his trip to China was unique because just like the UN doesn’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for whatever fucking ridiculous reason they choose, the U.S. recognized Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. Crazy…

He earned the nickname “Tricky Dick” not because pimpin’ ain’t easy, but because he compared an opponent’s voting record to that of a left wing representative. While president, he ended the draft, founded the EPA, dedicated over $100-million to create national cancer centers, signed Title IX for colleges and universities (yeah motherfuckers, he’s responsible for that shit), desegregated southern schools, helped Stanley Kubrick create a fake moon landing so that he could fulfill JFK’s dream, eliminated organized crime (except for the CIA and FBI), made Andrew Jackson spin in his grave by giving Native Americans the right to return to their sacred lands, ended the war in Vietnam, helped avoid a second Cuban Missile Crisis, and helped save Israel by sending massive aid during the Yom Kippur War. Damn!

However, because of the Watergate Scandal, Tricky Dick is the only president to resign, and it’s the one thing people associate with him.

You can read more exciting facts about President Nixon and all the presidents for that matter, in my upcoming book, ‘The Big Book of Presidents for Adults’. 

The Lucky Strike pleinair courtyard

 This was the courtyard in between the apartments I used to live in over the summer. They had this beautiful water fountain that eventually became a cesspool for mosquitoes because while they charged a shit ton of money to live in the apartments, when things broke, maintenance didn't see this as a big deal. the Lucky Strike apartments love to have the "look" of luxury, but it just. ain't. that. way. Don't miss the place, but this courtyard was nice when I first moved in.