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garfield</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-20T05:42:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/09/04/ulysses-s-grant-reconstruction-and-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/us-grant.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>US Grant</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-09-08T21:43:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/08/28/donald-trump-andrew-johnson-and-impeachment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/andrew-johnson-1.png</image:loc><image:title>andrew johnson 1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-29T13:21:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/08/21/eisenhower-the-50th-state/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ike-and-flag.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ike and flag</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ike-and-hawaii.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>RICHARD NIXON ET DWIGHT EISENHOWER SIGNENT L'ACTE PROCLAMANT LES ILES HAWAII 50ème ETAT AMERICAIN EN 1959</image:title><image:caption>August 21, 1959: The President of the United States Dwight EISENHOWER signing the act which declares the islands of Hawaii as the 50th state of the United States of America. 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In the background are Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Speaker of the House Carl Albert.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ford-first-week.jpg</image:loc><image:title>grf_leaves_home_a0180-07a</image:title><image:caption>President Gerald Ford walks out of his house in Alexandria, Virginia with First Lady Betty Ford in the doorway on August 18, 1974, having concluded his first week in office.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ford-oath.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ford oath</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-15T23:59:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/08/09/happy-birthday-mr-president-the-herbert-hoover-edition/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coolidge-and-hoover.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Coolidge and Hoover</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hoover-crb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hoover CRB</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hoover.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hoover</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-12T12:38:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/08/07/preparing-america-for-world-war-ii-franklin-roosevelt-isolationism-and-america-first/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/churchill-june.jpg</image:loc><image:title>churchill june</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fdr-at-uva.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FDR at UVA</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fdr1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>FDR</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/null3.png</image:loc><image:title>null</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/null2.png</image:loc><image:title>null</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/null1.png</image:loc><image:title>null</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/null.png</image:loc><image:title>null</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-08-08T13:26:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/08/02/the-case-of-the-missing-monument-john-adams-and-historical-memory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/continental-congress_adams.jpg</image:loc><image:title>continental congress_adams</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-10-05T00:48:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/07/31/julia-grant-at-the-corner-of-history/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/mary-lincoln.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mary lincoln</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/julia-grant.jpg</image:loc><image:title>julia grant</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-31T22:37:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/07/16/happy-summer-from-history-first/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/obama-sunglasses.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Obama sunglasses</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-07-16T22:00:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/07/12/harry-truman-the-creation-of-nato-a-brief-history/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hst-nato-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HST NATO 2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/trump-nato.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TRUMP NATO</image:title><image:caption>Photo Credit: Politico.com (Matt Wuerker)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hst-nato.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NATO Begins</image:title><image:caption>29th August 1949:  President Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972) signing the North Atlantic Treaty which marked the beginning of NATO, behind him are (from left) Sir Derrick Hoyes Miller, Henrik de Kauffman, W D Matthews, Louis Johnson, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstienne, Henry Bonnet,  Pedro Theotonio Pereira, Dean Acheson, Jontchess reuchlin and Mario Lucienni.  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MAY 17:  Queen Elizabeth II and President George Bush meet baseball players after a baseball game during the Queen's official tour of America  (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-18T13:57:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/05/10/william-mckinley-the-red-carnation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/mckinley-assassination1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>McKinley-assassination</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/mckinley-assassination.jpg</image:loc><image:title>McKinley-assassination</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-08T01:38:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/05/03/reagan-the-radio-trump-twitter/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/reagan-radio.jpg</image:loc><image:title>C10716-14</image:title><image:caption>10/16/1982 President Reagan makes a radio address to the nation from Camp David</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-05-03T13:34:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/04/26/thomas-jefferson-emmanuel-macron-foreign-dignitaries-then-now/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/state-din-din.jpg</image:loc><image:title>state din din</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/jefferson.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jefferson</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/macron-arrives.jpg</image:loc><image:title>macron arrives</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-27T12:57:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/04/24/the-final-voyage-abraham-lincolns-funeral-train/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/tr-and-lincoln.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TR and Lincoln</image:title><image:caption>TR can be seen looking out the second story window, on the left side of the photograph </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/edwin-stanton.jpg</image:loc><image:title>istanto001p1</image:title><image:caption>Secretary of War Edwin Stanton </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/lincoln-funeral-train.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lincoln funeral train</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-25T12:43:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/04/19/of-war-and-poets-walt-whitman-and-abraham-lincoln/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/almanack-battle-fredericksburg-painting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>almanack-battle-fredericksburg-painting</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ralph-waldo-emerson.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ralph waldo emerson</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/walt-whitman-wikipedia.jpg</image:loc><image:title>walt-whitman-wikipedia</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-04-19T05:09:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/04/12/truman-fdr-and-the-day-that-changed-history/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dewey-truman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Harry Truman</image:title><image:caption>Victorious presidential candidate Pres. Harry Truman jubilantly displaying erroneous CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE w. headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN which overconfident Republican editors had rushed to print on election night, standing on his campaign train platform.  (Photo by W. Eugene Smith//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/truman-and-fdr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Harry Truman And Franklin Roosevelt In 1945</image:title><image:caption>UNITED STATES - APRIL 13:  The American Democrat Harry S. Truman (Left) Who Became President Of The United States After The Democrat Franklin Roosevelt Pictured During A Dinner At The White House On April 13, 1945.  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The next big issue in the national debate over guns _ whether people have a right to be armed in public _ is moving closer to Supreme Court review. A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling is somewhat at odds with those of other federal courts that have largely upheld state and local gun laws, including restrictions on concealed weapons, since the Supreme Courtís landmark ruling declaring that people have a right to have a gun for self-defense. LaPierre said, "Clearly, the individual right under the Constitution does not apply only to your home. People have lives outside their home and the constitutional right applies outside their home." 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funeral</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/pat-nixon.png</image:loc><image:title>pat nixon</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-03-07T01:33:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/03/01/part-iii-lincoln-and-the-last-years-of-the-civil-war/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2nd-inag-abe.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2nd inag 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olympic</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-08-17T16:04:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/02/20/political-second-acts-mitt-romney-john-quincy-adams-hubert-humphrey-and-life-after-defeat/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/romney1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>romney1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-20T05:06:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/02/15/theodore-roosevelt-and-persistence-in-the-face-of-tragedy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/roosevelt-and-alice.jpg</image:loc><image:title>roosevelt and alice</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rooseveltdiary.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rooseveltdiary</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-17T02:01:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/02/13/please-pose-mr-president-a-brief-history-of-presidential-portraits/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tr-portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tr portrait</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/bush-portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bush portrait</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/reagan-portrait.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reagan portrait</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/obama-portrait.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>obama portrait</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-17T03:34:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/02/01/my-fellow-americans-a-brief-history-of-the-sotu/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/bjc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bjc</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/gw1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gw1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/teddy-and-wilson.jpg</image:loc><image:title>teddy and wilson</image:title><image:caption>Teddy Roosevelt depicted reacting to Wilson's spoken SOTU </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2021-05-22T18:58:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/02/06/happy-birthday-mr-president-the-ronald-reagan-edition/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/aaronburr.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aaronburr</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sdo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sdo</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/maga-reagan-style.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>MAGA reagan style</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/reagan1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>REGULATION PENDULUM ANALYSIS</image:title><image:caption>** FILE ** In this July 17, 1980  file photo, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan stands before a cheering Republican National Convention in Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. Three decades after Ronald Reagan launched a determined campaign to ease government regulations on business, the pendulum is swinging the other way. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-02-10T16:06:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/30/martin-van-buren-and-the-myth-of-ok/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/whh.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>whh</image:title><image:caption>The inauguration of William Henry Harrison, 1840</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/martinvanburenolkinderhookok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Martin+Van+Buren+Ol+Kinderhook+OK</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-30T01:43:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/25/as-seen-on-tv-presidents-the-press/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/rooseveltandreporters.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rooseveltandreporters</image:title><image:caption>Roosevelt talking to reporters, 1906</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/fdrpress.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fdrpress</image:title><image:caption>Roosevelt greets reporters at his first press conference, 1933</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jfkatpressconference6-590x462.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jfkatpressconference6-590x462</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-30T01:22:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/18/the-road-to-freedom-lincoln-south-carolina-and-the-emancipation-proclamation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ep-lincoln.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ep lincoln</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-18T13:56:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/10/26/flake-a-welch-or-a-rockefeller/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/jeff-flake.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>jeff flake</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-17T18:36:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/16/warren-the-worst/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/harding-front-porch.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OHPREZ HARDING JH 1</image:title><image:caption>(Hallett) Historic photo of Warren G. Harding speaking from his front porch in Marion before leaving for the White House after winning the election.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/boyhood-home-of-harding.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BOYHOOD HOME OF HARDING</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/coolidge-and-harding.jpg</image:loc><image:title>coolidge and harding</image:title><image:caption>Harding &amp; Coolidge, in what looks like a presidential selfie </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/harding.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>harding</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-17T04:11:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/11/the-great-emancipator-part-1-lincolns-backwards-backwoods-beginning/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/lincolndouglas.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lincolndouglas</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-11T03:39:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/09/trump-reagan-and-mental-health/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/reagan-mondale.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reagan and Walter Mondale Shaking Hands</image:title><image:caption>07 Oct 1984, Louisville, Kentucky, USA --- Original caption: 10/7/1984-Louisville, KY- President Reagan and Democratic candidate for President, Walter Mondale, shake hands as they greet one another before the start of their debate in Louisville. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ronald-reagan-health.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ronald reagan health</image:title><image:caption>Ronald Reagan</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-10T19:52:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/02/happy-2018-from-history-first/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/washington_crossing_cropped.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Washington_Crossing_cropped</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/monroegrave.jpg</image:loc><image:title>monroegrave</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wwjmtrue.png</image:loc><image:title>WWJMTRUE</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/monroewilson.png</image:loc><image:title>MonroeWilson</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/woodrowmonroe.jpg</image:loc><image:title>woodrowmonroe</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jamesmonroe1.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>jamesmonroe1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/woodrow.jpg</image:loc><image:title>woodrow</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wilson1.png</image:loc><image:title>wilson1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/wilson1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wilson1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-09T01:10:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2018/01/04/a-busy-day-for-jfk/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/inagjfk.jpg</image:loc><image:title>inagjfk</image:title><image:caption>January 1961. Nixon is standing behind Kennedy, to the right of the frame</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jfk-and-nixon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jfk and nixon</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jfkdeclares1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jfkdeclares</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jfkdeclares.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jfkdeclares</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/jfkrmn.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jfkrmn</image:title><image:caption>Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, circa 1947</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2018-01-04T04:51:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/21/a-brief-history-of-impeachment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/wsj.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wsj</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/wjc-impeached.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wjc impeached</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-28T20:52:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/14/rip-george-washington-and-the-tradition-of-life-masks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lifemask2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MAH-30575E.jpg</image:title><image:caption>1865</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lifemask1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lifemask1</image:title><image:caption>1860</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tj-life-mask.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tj life mask</image:title><image:caption>Perhaps this experience is why Jefferson looks so strained</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/bust-gw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bust gw</image:title><image:caption>The Houdon bust </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gw-life-mask.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gw life mask</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2020-07-18T23:41:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/12/lets-take-a-break-and-talk-jefferson/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/monticello.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>monticello</image:title><image:caption>Somewhere in this estate is a floor with a grove </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tommy-j.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tommy j</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:19:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/05/the-presidency-the-power-of-nature/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lady-bird.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lady Bird</image:title><image:caption>Lady Bird at the Wildflower Center</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tr-gc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TR GC</image:title><image:caption>Roosevelt at the Grand Canyon</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lbj-and-lbj.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>LBJ and LBJ</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:19:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/11/21/november-22-1963/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/jkf.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JKF</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:18:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/11/17/ma-ma-wheres-my-pa-roy-moore/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/mo-brooks.gif</image:loc><image:title>mo brooks</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/roymoore.jpg</image:loc><image:title>roymoore</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/hollande.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hollande</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ma_ma_wheres_my_pa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ma_ma_wheres_my_pa</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:18:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/11/09/only-nixon-could-go-to-china/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nixonchina2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>nixonchina2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/nixonchina.jpg</image:loc><image:title>nixonchina</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:18:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/11/07/tuesday-taft-trivia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/taft-bb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>President Taft Throwing the First Pitch at a Baseball Game</image:title><image:caption>09 Jun 1910 --- Original caption: 6/9/1910-President Taft tossing out the first ball. BPA2# 1968 --- Image by © Corbis</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/taft.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TAFT</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:18:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/11/02/voodoo-economics-the-myth-of-the-reagan-tax-cuts/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/paul-ryan-taxes.png</image:loc><image:title>Paul Ryan + Taxes</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:17:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/10/31/happy-282nd-birthday-john-adams/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/john-adams-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>john-adams-4</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:17:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/10/28/remember-him-legacy-and-historical-memory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/johnson-truman.jpg</image:loc><image:title>johnson &amp; truman</image:title><image:caption>Johnson &amp; Truman</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bush.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Address to the Nation on Immigration. Oval.</image:title><image:caption>Address to the Nation on Immigration. 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Hard to chose just one!</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/billy-possum.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Billy Possum</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:15:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/28/but-who-holds-the-bible/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1965-johnson_1240711i.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1965-johnson_1240711i</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:14:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/26/panda-diplomacy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pat-nixon1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pat Nixon</image:title><image:caption>Pat Nixon (in red) observes D.C.'s newest resident</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/pat-nixon.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pat Nixon</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:14:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/21/any-last-words/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/jqa-death.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JQA death</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:14:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/20/chester-a-arthur-becomes-president/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/caa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>CAA</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:14:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/19/nixon-played-how-many-instruments/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/piano.jpg</image:loc><image:title>piano</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:13:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/19/the-first-cornerstone/</loc><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:13:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/17/happy-constitution-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/consitution.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Consitution</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-22T00:13:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/19/a-thousand-cracks-in-the-glass-ceiling-women-the-white-house-and-the-path-ahead/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ferraro.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ferraro</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jr-for-congress.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jr for congress</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hrc_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hrc_1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-19T14:26:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/12/07/compromise-harmony-lincoln-on-peacekeeping/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lincoln3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TE INAUGURALPG 097</image:title><image:caption>WASHINGTON, D.C. -- March 4, 1861 --  Abraham Lincoln Inauguration. Lincoln takes Oath of Office. Abraham Lincoln taking the Oath of Office for the first time in 1861, as shown from an old print. Photo by unknown/AP file photo (daily folder 01/11/09)      MANDATORY CREDIT:  Baltimore Examiner and Washington Examiner OUT</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/s-douglas.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Stephen Douglas</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lincoln2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lincoln</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lincoln1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lincoln</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/lincoln.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lincoln</image:title><image:caption>Depiction of Lincoln's Inaugural Address in 1861 </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-12-07T14:27:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/30/any-hope-for-the-nixon-ghost/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/gettyimages-57655832_wide-2fb573c1d1392bc47fe7bb904357239a1b820fb4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gettyimages-57655832</image:title><image:caption>Richard Nixon</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/kennedy-nixon-debate-nixon-only.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Richard M. Nixon</image:title><image:caption>FILE - This Sept. 26, 1960 black-and-white file photo shows Republican presidential candidate Vice President Richard M. Nixon wipes his face with a handkerchief during the nationally televised with Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kennedy, in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 26, 1960. In presidential politics, everybody's searching for "the moment." The campaigns don't know when or how it will come, but they watch for something _ awkward words or an embarrassing image _ that can break through and become the defining symbol of the other guy's flaws. Now all eyes are on the series of three presidential debates that starts Wednesday.  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Bush, Ross Perot, Bill Clinton</image:title><image:caption>FILE - In this Oct. 15, 1992 file photo, President George H. W. Bush, left, talks with independent candidate Ross Perot as Democratic candidate Bill Clinton stands aside at the end of their second presidential debate in Richmond, Va. President Barack Obama's "we can't wait" refrain is all about projecting a sense of urgency and bold action heading into his fourth year in office. It turns out recent presidents haven't had much luck with that. The fourth year is often a disappointment, particularly when a president facing re-election is trying coax action out of a Congress in the hands of the other party. The heady optimism of earlier years gets bogged down in partisan bickering, and big initiatives give way to less ambitious steps.  (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/bull-moose.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TR-SQUARE-DEAL</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/3rd-parties.jpg</image:loc><image:title>3rd parties</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-15T16:55:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com/2017/09/25/donald-trump-and-the-tetrium-quids/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/trump-and-cs1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trump and cs</image:title><image:caption>Trump deal with Democrats surprised and dismayed many conservatives </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/roberttaft2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>roberttaft</image:title><image:caption>Speculation of Taft's presidential ambition </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/trump-and-cs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trump and cs</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/djt-and-tj.jpg</image:loc><image:title>djt and tj</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/roberttaft1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>roberttaft</image:title><image:caption>Time speculates on Taft's presidential ambition </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://history-first.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/roberttaft.jpg</image:loc><image:title>roberttaft</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2017-09-25T13:41:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://history-first.com</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2025-12-29T14:09:30+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
