Happy Valentine's Day: 10 Great Presidential Love Letters

Here is a collection of the 11 greatest presidential love letters of all time. If these don't get your creative juices flowing, we don't know what will. Hallmark's got nothing on these guys.

Ronald Reagan Tells Nancy How Much He Loves Her

“I more than love you, I’m not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I’m waiting for you to return so I can start living again.”

— Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan  -  One of the greatest presidential love stories

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/LoveLetters.html

Woodrow Wilson Talks Of His Perfect Love

“You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.”

— Woodrow Wilson to Edith Bolling

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-12/living/mf.love.letters_1_love-letters-lovers-story-pierre-abelard/4?_s=PM:LIVING

And His Precious Little Girl

"Please go to ride with us this evening, precious little girl, so that I can whisper something in your ear -- something of my happiness and love, and accept this, in the meantime, as a piece out of my very heart, which is all yours but cannot be sent as I wish to send it by letter."

— Woodrow Wilson to Edith Bolling

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-02-12/living/mf.love.letters_1_love-letters-lovers-story-pierre-abelard/4?_s=PM:LIVING

Andrew Jackson Stays Up Late

“It is now one Oclock in the morning the candle nearly out, and I must to bed, May the angelic hosts that rewards & protects virtue and innocence, and preserves the good, be with you until I return—is the sincere supplications of your affectionate Husband.”

— Andrew Jackson to Rachel Jackson

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/LoveLetters.html

Thomas Jefferson Woos His Love

“If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brimful of affection. I shall read them with the dispositions with which Arlequin, in Les deux billets spelt the words 'je t’aime,' and wished that the whole alphabet had entered into their composition.”

— Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=2221

John Adams Gets A Little Feisty

Massachusetts Historical Society

"Miss Adorable, By the same Token that the Bearer hereof sat up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 o'clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account..."

— John Adams to Abigail Adams

http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/aea/cfm/doc.cfm?id=L17621004ja

Teddy Roosevelt Could Almost Cry

"Sweetest little wife, I think all the time of my little laughing, teazing beauty, and how pretty she is, and how she goes to sleep in my arms, and I could almost cry I love you so."

— Theodore Roosevelt to Alice Hathaway Lee

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/1986_243372/teddy-roosevelt-s-love-letters-shown.html

LBJ Finds Inspiration In His Wife

“This morning I’m ambitious, proud, energetic and very madly in love with you. I want to see people—want to walk thru’ the throngs—want to do things with a drive. If I had a box I would almost make a speech this minute. Plans, ideas, hopes—I’m bubbling over with them.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson to Lady Bird Johnson

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/LoveLetters.html

Harry Truman Is Crazy In Love

“I suppose that I am too crazy about you anyway. Every time I see you I get more so if it is possible. I know I haven’t any right to but there are certain things that can’t be helped and that is one of them. I wouldn’t help it if I could you know.”

— Harry Truman to Bess Truman

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/LoveLetters.html

George H. W. Bush Celebrates 49th Anniversary

“Will you marry me? Whoops. I forgot you did that 49 years ago today. I was very happy on that day in 1945, but I’m even happier today. You give me joy that few men know. I’ve climbed perhaps the highest mountain in the world, but even that cannot hold a candle to being Barbara’s husband.”

— George H. W. Bush to Barbara Bush

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/barbara-bush-george-bush-crying_n_823186.html

George Washington's Love Will Never Fade

“...I go fully trusting in that Providence, which has been more bountiful to me than I deserve, & in full confidence of a happy meeting with you sometime in the Fall—I have not time to add more, as I am surrounded with Company to take leave of me—I retain an unalterable affection for you, which neither time or distance can change...”

— George Washington to Martha Washington

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-01/LoveLetters.html

Source:  Business Insider 

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DARING THE YOUTH TO PROTEST, IRAN BANS VALENTINES DAY!

Egypt‘s revolt has been credited to an energized and organized population of it’s very young citizens.  With more than half of the country under the age of 30, and 40% of that demographic unemployed, the potential for social unrest should have seemed obvious to intelligence sources. Apparently it wasn’t.  Now hop over to Iran where it is estimated that a staggering 70% of all Iranians are under 30 and a “day of rage” is being planned for Monday, Valentines Day AND just last month the government banned the production of anything to do with Valentines Day in Iran, stating;

“Printing and producing any products related to Valentine’s Day, including posters, brochures, advertising cards, boxes with the symbols of hearts, half-hearts, red roses and any activities promoting this day are banned,” read the instruction. “Authorities will take legal action against those who ignore the ban.”

Coincidence?    I think not.

Saturday’s Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece from Melik Kaylan boils it down for us;

The Iranian state has pronounced against unauthorized mingling of the sexes, rap music, rock music, Western music, women playing in bands, too-bright nail polish, laughter in hospital corridors, ancient Persian rites-of-spring celebrations (Nowrooz), and even the mention of foreign food recipes in state media. This last may sound comically implausible, but it was officially announced by a state-run website on Feb. 6. So now the true nature of pasta as an instrument of Western subversion has been revealed.

The regime’s posture turns the smallest garden-variety gestures into thrilling acts of subversion. Slipping a Valentine card to a girlfriend takes on the significance of samizdat. Every firecracker set off during Nowrooz diminishes the police state’s claims to omniscience. The mullahs have appointed themselves the enemy of fun; as a result, wherever fun herniates into view, it is a politicized irruption of defiance.

Pre-Revolution Iran was quite different than the country seen today.  Tehran was teeming with designer boutiques and at night the discos were thumping and packed with beautiful people from all over the globe, dancing the nights away.  Then came the Ayatollah Khomeini and his mullahs, changing the cosmopolitan country into fundamentalist Islamic state. Party over.  At least the “anything Western” party was over.

Well sir, 30 years have passed and much like Egypt, a young population is hungry for change. Following the contested and corrupt elections of 2009, Iran’s streets were filled with protests for days until government thugs managed to beat down any resistance.  Today we learned that Iran senses that Monday’s planned “Day of Rage” may cause the regime problems, so they have begun shutting down parts of the Internet and monitoring email, and social media.

(CNN) — Iranian authorities have blocked the word “Bahman” — the 11th month of the Persian calendar — from Internet searches within the country, according to an opposition website.

The measure appears to be an effort by Iranian authorities to obstruct access to several websites that are promoting a rally on Monday — the 25th day of Bahman — proposed by Iranian opposition leaders in support of the uprising in Egypt, Saham News reported Saturday.

Did anyone else just get an “uh-oh, here we go again” feeling?