Captions for front-page stories: 1) The National Park Service's online travel itinerary,"American Presidents," provides insight into the 43 men who have occupied the nation's highest post. 2) Interior renames a key asset of Grand Coulee Dam in memory of former Reclamation Commissioner John Keys III. 3) A National Park Service scientist shares the wonders of Denali National Park's winter weather.
Power of Place: Online Travel Itinerary Takes a New Look at the Presidents
Peering out from currency and official portraits, the American presidents often seem like the stuff of grammar school recitation, monuments, and the naming of public buildings. The truth, of course, is far different. Though some are largely forgotten by the American public, these men, whether in the country’s rough days as a frontier nation or as a nuclear superpower locked in cold war, breathed the rarefied air of the nation’s highest post, living in what was likely an exhilarating, and at times surreal, world.
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