In Honour Of Republicans/Politicians

From the Teddy Roosevelt White House.
Very thick and soft paper.
Heavy paper stock, I guess is what you would say.
The card inside is written by the assistant of Mrs R,
declining a request to comment or attend some sort of event.

Addressee Henry Kuhn was the National Secretary of the Socialist Labor Party from 1891 to 1906.

Do ya'll think it's worth saving modern political covers like the one I posted earlier? The ones I'm specifically asking about are the fund-raising mail that is coming in the mail every day now that the elections are drawing near.

Yes! Everything like that is worth saving (if you have the room to store it, of course).

A couple of comments I would make about the Mitt Romney cover that I find interesting:

1. They could have used a "Postage Paid" indicia rather than a postage stamp.

2. It uses a precanceled stamp, which by its own name, suggests that no postmark was needed.

3. The postmark was merely applied by the Tampa, Florida "Station" as a means to make it look more "official" -- something to push the addressee to be more inclined to open it than just trash it as "junk mail".

4. Here's a minor trivia note: The USPS has in recent years done away with the use of a comma within an official postmark. In other words, the city/state name and the date do not use commas in postmarks anymore. However, in the example you posted, while no comma is used in the date, IT IS USED between the City/State name, which makes it something of a conversation piece at least.

1957 Presidential Inauguration



The 20th Amendment to the Constitution set January 20th as the official inaugural date. Because January 20, 1957 fell on a Sunday, President Eisenhower took the oath of office for his second term in a private White House ceremony. He repeated the oath and was formally inaugurated again in public on Monday, January 21 at the inaugural ceremonies held on the east portico of the White House. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren both times.

Ronald Reagan followed the same scenario in 1985 after winning re-election. January 20 falls on a Sunday four times in the twenty-first century; 2013, 2041, 2069, and 2097. It always occurs every 28 years.

It will be interesting to see if they follow that same inaugural routine in 2013.

Good question wt1

You'd think with the economy way it is, the winner of the upcoming election would do away with the expensive inauguration hoopla altogether, as a show of solidarity with the common man.
But that's just an outsider talking.

If this is accurate, the 2013 Inauguration will follow the same routine as those in the past (private ceremony on Sunday, January 20 followed by the official inauguration ceremonies on Monday, January 21).

It is also interesting to note that this will be the second inauguration held on a Federal Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) as that comes on Monday, January 21, 2013, and since the law making it a Federal Holiday only took effect in 1996, the year 2013 will represent the second time that Inauguration Day takes place on a Federal Holiday.

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