SUMMER GUIDE

Letter From the Editor

Today would the last Rundown until August, but instead Im doing a

Summer Guide what to watch for in politics and history over the

SUMMER!!!!

Have a good summer,

Gabe Fleisher

Editor, Writer, and Everything Else Imaginable

The Daily Rundown

Elections

Utah GOP Senate Primary On June 26, longtime Republican

Sen. Orrin Hatch will face a primary challenge to the right, former

State Sen. Dan Liljenquist.

Texas GOP Senate Runoff Primary Remember back in late May,

the GOP Texas Senate primary? And remember how nobody quite

got 50%? Well, on July 31, well see wholl prevail Tea Party or

the establishment. The two candidates are Texas Lt. Gov. David

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Drewhurst, the establishment candidate, and former Texas

Solicitor Gen. Ted Cruz, from the Tea Party.

Other Politics

SCOTUS decides on Obamacare In late to mid-June, the U.S.

Supreme Court will really decide what to do about President

Obamas health care plan. Keep it? Strike it down? Take away

some of it? Right now, nobody knows what will happen except for

nine robed symbols of justice and fairness. These nine men and

women will tell all SOON!

What to Do

Editors Picks! As you may know, I already visited Boston this

simmer. I visited the newly-renamed Bostons Trails to Freedom,

formerly known as the Freedom Trail. The new name was to

recognize the Black Heritage Trail, which used to be much farther

off the beaten path and less remembered. The new name was

unveiled just recently, on Memorial Day, when Faneuil Hall

reopened, a building that was home to patriots and abolitionists

alike.

I also visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and

Museum, also in Boston, for the THIRD TIME! That is a testament

to how fun both of these sites are, and I recommend to anyone

going to Boston!

Other Libraries Theres never a better time to visit our countrys

presidential libraries, the only museums dedicated to specific U.S.

Presidents. 13 of the libraries are administrated by the National

Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which does a

FANTASTIC job! I have visited the Adams, Lincolns FDRs,

Trumans, Kennedys, and Clintons.

All over the summer, the Libraries will be holding special events.

Clinton and George Bushs birthdays both occur in the summer,

August 19 and something respectively, and the libraries will be

holding celebrations then. Admission to Bill Clintons is free on

the day before.

Looking Back 150 Years As you know, The Daily Rundown

celebrates the 150th

anniversary of the Civil War, the

sesquicentennial.

The National Park Service (NPS) is celebrating the anniversary,

too, and you can visit any of their Civil War sites over the summer,

and there will be special events because of the sesquicentennial.

Here you can see a map of all Civil War sites owned by the NPS.

Find on near you and go! ROAD TRIP!

Happy Birthday To

Happy Birthday! Besides George Bush and Bill Clinton, other historical figures celebrate birthdays through the summer:

June 21 Martha Washington Our first First Lady, Lady Washington.

June 28 Leon Panetta This man has served as CIA Director, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the Office of Management

and Budget, and a Congressman, and now he is the U.S. Defense

Secretary.

July 10 George Dallas Although from Philadelphia, this Vice President is suspected of being Dallas, Texas namesake.

July 11 John Quincy Adams 6th

President of the United States,

and also Secretary of State for his predecessor, James Monroe (in

this entity, Adams wrote the MONROE Doctrine.)

July 14 Gerald Ford 38th

President of the United States, and

also Richard Nixons 2nd

Vice President. He wasnt elected to either office.

July 17 Elbridge Gerry The U.S. fifth Vice President (serving under Madison.) Also a Congressman and signer of the Declaration

of Independence and almost-signer of the Constitution (he was a

delegate to the Convention, but he refused to sign it), BUT he is

best remembered for his time as Massachusetts Governor, where

he started the practice of GERRYmandering (where a politician

redistricts to the favor of some political party. Anyways, hes the namesake of it.)

July 24 John Bryson Since October 2011, the Commerce Secretary. Just a few days ago, Secy. Bryson suffered a seizure and

got into multiple car accidents.

July 26 George Clinton Our fourth Vice President, one of only two to serve under multiple Presidents (he was Jefferson and

Madisons Veep). Clinton was also the first Governor of New York

August 18 -Tim Geithner Currently U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

Today (and other days) In

TODAY June 15, 1849 Just 3 months after leaving office, President James Polk dies.

June 17, 1775 One of the first major battles of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bunker Hill, takes place on Beacon Hill, near

Boston, Massachusetts. While the British win, at the end of the

fight, the patriots have clearly killed many of their number. If the

patriots had had more bullets, some think they could have won.

This is another cool place to visit: the Bunker Hill Monument at Boston National Historical Park.

June 18, 1812 EXACTLY TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, the War of 1812 BEGINS!

LOOKING BACK 150 YEARS - June 19, 1862 President Lincoln puts an end to slavery in the U.S. territories.

July 1-3, 1863 The famous Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the 3

rd, it ends with a Union victory.

July 2, 1881 President James Garfield is shot by a crazy/turned-down office seeker. He wont die until September of the same year.

July 7, 1898 The U.S. buys Hawaii as a territory (it wont become a state for a while.) July 7, 1958 60 years later, the other non-

contintel U.S. state has exciting news: Alaska becomes a state!

July 12, 1804 After being mortally wounded in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr the day before, Alexander Hamilton dies.

July 23, 1885 Former President Ulysses S. Grant dies in New York, just days after finishing his famous memoirs, creatively

names Memoirs.

GOOD BYE!

HAVE A GREAT

SUMMER