#residential

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#clinton #first #hanging #her #hillary

In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year. ↗

— Baron Hill

#analysis #better #close #congressional #final

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#jefferson #libraries #lincoln #memorials #now

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#blame #campaign #candidates #complete #complete control

You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life. ↗

— John Heilemann

#politics #president-obama #presidential-election #change

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#begin #candidate #does #i #later

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american foreign policy #aspects #barack #battle #change

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln. ↗

— Russell Baker

#american #american public #commentators #conditioned #down

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#example #getting #had #hard #hard time

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#presidential #problems #rarely #terminal #unlike