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Thursday, May 1, 2025

How many Executive Orders have past and Present POTUS officeholders written?

presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-orders

the American

Presidency Project

Who have 0 / null / nada?

William Henry Harrison

Who have 1 / a single one only?

John Adams

James Madison

James Monroe

Who have 19 or less?

James Buchanan had 16 (4-yr. term);

John Tyler had 17 (succeeded Wm Henry

Harrison who died after 1 month);

James Polk had 18; 

John Quincy Adams had 3;

Andrew Jackson had 12 (2 terms);

Martin Van Buren had 10; 

Zachary Taylor had 15 (died in office);

Millard Fillmore had 12 (succeeded

Taylor); 

James Garfield had 6 (died from Bullet 

wound); Chester Arthur had

96 (succeeded Garfield); FDR had

the most 3,725 over a 4-term period

when he died in office April 1945

as World War II was ending and

Hitler and his armies were being

defeated globally.


Presidential Portraits (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)

Have 47 Chief Executives of our

Constitutional Democracy (that is,

Presidents of the United States)

been great men of great achievements?

Terry Moran of ABC News division

got the tour from Trump 2.0 to see

the PORTRAITS of those featured

in the Oval Office visible from the Resolute

Desk :

Ronald Reagan,

Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

Abraham Lincoln,

George Washington

abcnews.com/ online coverage

of Trump hour spent at

100th day/evening (April 29, 2025)

Chris Krebs now denied Air Travel privilege of "Global Entry"

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

(part of Kristi Noem's Dept. Homeland Security)

has denied the cybersecurity expert the right

to participate and return as a low-risk world

traveler more quickly through U.S. entry air

travel.  This change in status comes 3 weeks after

Trump 2.0 and his lawyer (Pam Bondi) began to

search for evidence that Krebs provided classified

information to anyone not authorized to receive it.

Already in 2025, Krebs has been stripped of his

security clearance; a Republican official in the

Trump-Pence 1.0 administration / he has now 

resigned from the cybersecurity organization

he worked for and is working hard on behalf

of himself and others targeted by Trump 2.0

in their acts of retribution and revenge.

Grief, Anger, a Sense of Moving On

NHK (Japanese media platform)

covered 50th anniversary activities

in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -

April 30 - May 1, 2025

_________________________________

Few people in our country however

came to the Vietnam War Memorial

April 30, 2025

the 50th anniversary of the

1975 fall of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh

City) in our allied nation, Vietnam.

Christopher Magg story / coverage

NY Times online article : 

vietnam-veterans-memorial-50-anniversary.html

Gates Foundation (international mission on health - vaccines) - since 2000

Bill Gates met with

Trump POTUS 47 - elect at

Mar-a-Lago Golf Course and Dinner Club

December 27, 2024 (Wall Street Journal

reporting) and discussed Poliomyelitis

at length -- The tech billionaire has reached out

via the U.S. AID channels to many far corners

of the developing world to address the

goal of

cutting global child mortality

by half since 2000 --

the foundation spends about

$9 billion per year. . .

Gates since the Nov. 2024 election

has attempted to meet with then-

Senator / now Secy. of State Rubio

but to no avail . . .

nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/bill-gates-foundation-trump.html

America's proposed pact gaining Ukraine's mineral / mining rights to rare Earths (Uranium) as well as oil/gas monies NEEDS SCRUTINY

In exchange for oil-gas rights,

Uranium / Titanium / Lithium,

the People of Ukraine

have security (militarily

& diplomatically) by

"deal makers" (Trump-Vance,

Bessent of Treasury)

unclear

post-12:01 a.m.

1 May 2025

UPDATE: 7 a.m. Friday May 2

the agreement could provide a windfall for

U.S. pockets, but the resources could be hard

to extract and any progress is unlikely while

the war rages on and on and on. . .

Thunderstorms in May bring May Flowers?

Temperature 50 degrees F.

4 a.m. Lightning strike puts out

wi-fi

scattered storms over SW Michigan