Grand Old Partisantag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-6117222009-07-15T00:13:00-04:00Welcome to the blog that celebrates the heritage of the Republican Party. See http://www.RepublicanBasics.com for more information.
TypePadNAACP president at the Republican National Conventiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-364555822009-07-15T00:13:00-04:002009-07-06T21:25:23-04:00On this day in 1980, NAACP President Benjamin Hooks addressed the Republican National Convention. Hooks had been the first African-American on the Federal Communications Commission, appointed by President Richard Nixon in 1972. Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican...Grand Old PartisanRepublicans condemn racist Democrat nomineetag:typepad.com,2003:post-364502102009-07-14T00:35:00-04:002009-07-06T21:22:25-04:00On this day in 1884, Republican leaders condemned the Democratic Party for nominating a pro-slavery Senator for vice president. Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) was one of six U.S. Senators (all Democrats) who nineteen years earlier had voted against the 13th Amendment,...Grand Old PartisanRepublicans gave us the Lincoln Pennytag:typepad.com,2003:post-526688302009-07-14T00:26:00-04:002009-07-06T21:23:52-04:00On this day in 1909, Franklin MacVeagh (R-PA), Treasury Secretary in the administration of President William Howard Taft (R-OH), approved the design for the Lincoln Penny. Several years before, President Theodore Roosevelt (R-NY) had decided to introduce a one-cent coin...Grand Old Partisan