Bobby Smith grew up in North Texas. He had planned to go to Rice Institute since the seventh grade. It was the number one school in Texas and in those days everyone attending was on a tuition scholarship. Even so, Bobby's mother, a devout Baptist was opposed. She wanted him to stay home and attend Midwestern University, just on the outskirts of town. "Rice is full of heathens and Jews," she said. Even so, Bobby was accepted into Rice and got a NROTC scholarship to boot.High school t...

Modern Democrats from FDR in 1933 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven democratic presidents since 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, William J. Clinton, and Barack Obama.Are you aware that just 100 years ago, women in the United States were not even allowed to vote? 150 years ago, many African Americans in the United States were slaves and were traded like property and treated like sub-human.

Modern Republicans from Eisenhower in 1953 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven Republican presidents since 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.Eisenhower managed the initiation of the Interstate Highway Systems and ordered the U.S. Army to enforce the integration of the Little Rock Arkansas High School, the first public school integration in the United States.T...

Tom Murry said goodbye to Momma Kemp at the brothel in La Grange, Texas just down the road from the University of Texas in Austin. He drove with friends back to his room on campus. The following week, waiting in the line at the bookstore, he met his soul mate, Julie Monroe They dated in the remainder of the senior year and after graduation—they were married and ordered to Pensacola for Navy flight school. Julie just missed the U.S. Olympic team swimming the Breast Stroke.On completi...

These stories are fiction but they are based on my autobiography when I was a pilot in the Navy back in the 1950's. I have changed the names to protect the privacy of the characters and where needed I made up some of the events that are described. Most of the essence of the stories is real. War really sucks and I wish our leaders could find a way to settle disputes without just killing each other.The Cold War is the last war that the United States has won. It started at the end of W...

ISIS (or ISIL) conducts successful military attacks in Syria, Iraq and Libya. They conduct and inspire terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, and San Bernardino. Beheading, slaughter, and other unimaginable atrocities are carried out frequently by ISIS.This is unacceptable. President Obama has promised that defeating ISIS is his top priority but he wants to defeat them without additional "boots on the ground". He claims he will bring the perpetrators to justice. That's not enough. We n...

10th Street BaptistAs late as 1957, Jim Crowe segregation laws were dominant in the Southern States of the United States. People with colored skin were required to attend separate schools, churches. They had to live in separate parts of town from whites and sit in the back of the bus when using public transportation. Even at Kress's Lunch Counter they were not allowed to sit in areas where the white people ate. The Supreme Court of the United States, since 1896 had authorized "separ...

In the Senate Select Committee report on the Benghazi attack, Democratic Senator and Chairman Dianne Feinstein concluded: "The committee worked, on a bipartisan basis, to investigate the various allegations that have come out since the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in September 2012 and to get to the truth about what happened leading up to, during and after the attacks. I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Beng...

If you are 65 or even older, you can still get a good job if you want to work. Following these guidelines is your best bet. It might not be at the same pay you made in the past, but it should be fun and financially rewarding—supplementing your net worth so that you want have to worry if you live a long life—past 90 for example.I got a job with IBM at age 65. They hired me because of my skills which they needed. They paid me well—in excess of $1 million over the next seven years. It ...

I recently read that over 80% of people in the U. S. want to write a book but most of them don't do it. I was one of those, but I finally decided to sit down and write, publish, and market my first e-book. I want to share my successes and my mistakes with you to encourage you to get started and to be as efficient as you can be in the three major processes, Write, Publish, and Market. Like me, you probably have a message that you want to share with the world. This is your way to get started...

Last summer I celebrated my 80th birthday. That puts me about half way through my retirement years. It costs a lot to make it through retirement with dignity. I am estimating $1.75 million for 27 years from the time you are 65 till 92. The odds are good that you will need supplementary income above and beyond what you have saved. I am suggesting you start an online business which you run from your home to provide that extra income.This book describes step by step how to set up an at-home o...

My grandparents moved from Missouri to Texas in 1905 in covered wagons. Lida and Andrew J Smith, two boys and eight girls, the youngest, 6 and the oldest, 22. They sold their farm in Missouri and moved by three covered wagons with the kids, three dogs, two pigs, two cows and six horses. The trip took 7 weeks, and they were attacked by Indians in Oklahoma. The twin 14-year-old girls were kidnapped and raped, and the family ran through a tornado. Lida, nonetheless, spent her time taking care...