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    Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States
    Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States
    Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States
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    Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States

    By Dr. Richard F. Felicetti

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    My name is Dr. Richard F. Felicetti. I have always been interested in the history of the United States, especially Presidents of the United States. In the early 1960s I started and still do today, collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons. My professional career was in the Field of Education. After two years of Military Service, I began my professional career. I was a Teacher, Principal at three levels-Grade School, Junior High School and High School, Director of a Head Start Summer Program, Adjunct College Professor and Superintendent of a Grade School District. I retired as Superintendent of School District 206, Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the high school district that I graduated from in 1951.

    When I graduated from high school, I went on to receive my Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Northern Illinois University. I received my Ph.D. from Walden University in 1993.

    When I retired from education in 1994, I asked myself what can I do that would be of interest. With my hobby of collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons, I thought it would be fun, exciting and certainly interesting to visit all the gravesites of the deceased Presidents of the United States. I began my journey in 1999 and completed it in 2012. During that time, I have visited every gravesite of our deceased presidents and in some cases I have visited them on many occasions.

    When I visited the gravesites, I would take thirty to forty photographs of them. From the very beginning, I knew that someday I would write a book covering my thoughts and experiences that I had while on was on my journey. I have now completed my book. I have written a story about each visit to the presidential gravesites. To go along with each story, I would like to have certain photographs printed of the presidential gravesites. In addition to writing about my visits to the presidential gravesites, I have written my Introduction, Epilogue, Acknowledgements, Dedication and also About the Author. I do feel my story will create interest, make a person smile and at times bring tears to the eyes of the reader. It is a story that was heart warming for me to do and I am hopeful that I may share it with the world.

    I presently live in Peoria, Arizona with my wife, Sharon. As we continue to travel, we will continue to visit presidential gravesites. Every visit is different, always meaningful, moving, sometimes sad, but always tells me that my story has to be shared.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 17, 2014
    ISBN9781491810415
    Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States
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    Dr. Richard F. Felicetti

    Dr. Rich Felicetti has always been interested in the history of the United States, especially Presidents of the United States. In the early 1960’s he started, and still does today, collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons. His professional career was in the field of education. After two years of Military Service, he began his professional career. He was a Teacher, Principal at three levels-Grade School, Junior High School and High School, Director of a Head Start Summer Program, Adjunct College Professor and Superintendent of a Grade School District. He retired as the Superintendent of School District 206, Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, the high school district that he graduated from in 1951. When he graduated from high school, he went on to receive his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from Northern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. from Walden University in 1993. When he retired from education in 1994, he asked himself what can I do that would be of interest. With his hobby of collecting Presidential Campaign Buttons, he thought it would be fun, exciting and certainly be interesting to visit all the gravesites of the deceased Presidents of the United States. The journey began in 1999 and was completed in 2012. He has visited every gravesite of our deceased presidents and in some cases he has visited them two or three times. While visiting the gravesites, Dr. Felicetti would take thirty to forty photographs of the gravesites. He had decided from the very beginning that someday he would write a book covering his thoughts and experiences of his visits with photographs that the took of each gravesite. Dr. Felicetti presently lives in Peoria, Arizona with his wife, Sharon. As they travel, they will continue to visit presidential gravesites because every visit is different, moving, sometimes sad, shows changes and always interesting.

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      Regardless, They Were the Presidents of the United States - Dr. Richard F. Felicetti

      © 2014 DR. RICHARD F. FELICETTI. All Rights Reserved.

      Copyright Registration Number: TXu 1-866-630

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 03/19/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-1042-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-1041-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902982

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgements

      Dedication

      About The Author

      George Washington

      John Adams

      Thomas Jefferson

      James Madison

      James Monroe

      John Quincy Adams

      Andrew Jackson

      Martin Van Buren

      William Henry Harrison

      John Tyler

      James Knox Polk

      Zachary Taylor

      Millard Fillmore

      Franklin Pierce

      James Buchanan

      Abraham Lincoln

      Andrew Johnson

      Ulysses Simpson Grant

      Rutherford B. Hayes

      James A. Garfield

      Chester A. Arthur

      Grover Cleveland

      Benjamin Harrison

      William Mckinley

      Theodore Roosevelt

      William Howard Taft

      Woodrow Wilson

      Warren G. Harding

      Calvin Coolidge

      Herbert Hoover

      Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      Harry S Truman

      Dwight D. Eisenhower

      John F. Kennedy

      Lyndon B. Johnson

      Richard M. Nixon

      Gerald R. Ford

      Ronald Reagan

      INTRODUCTION

      Like millions of Americans, I have always been interested in politics, especially the Presidents of the United States. When I was 6 years old in 1940, my mother, Teresa, was crying and I had tears in my eyes because I did not know what was bothering her. As I held her hand, she told me she was crying because of the presidential election. She thought Wendell Willkie, the Republican Candidate for president in 1940 would defeat the incumbent President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the election. I continued to hold her hand and rubbed her back reassuring her that President Roosevelt would defeat Wendell Willke. President Roosevelt won the election.

      I recall being with friends as we watched on television the results of the 1960 Presidential Election. We were up until early in the AM and the final results were still not determined. It was sometime the next morning that I found out John F. Kennedy had defeated Richard M. Nixon to win the election. That was fun and interesting. I understand that today we like to know results as soon as possible, but some of the fun, interest and excitement of watching election results on television is gone because of early projections and winners are declared.

      A stop in my professional teaching career was Elgin, Illinois. In the early 1960’s I taught sixth grade at Wing Elementary School. With my students, I would enjoy discussing history and the Presidents of the United States. It was during that time President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I am sure most everyone will remember where they were on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. I was in my sixth grade classroom at Wing School. The Principal came into my room and said the President had been shot. I asked if it was fatal and he said yes. I told my students what happened and asked each of them to bow their heads for a moment. The students were 11 and 12 years old, but they understood what happened and it brought a lot of tears. It was a sad day in the life of millions all over the world. The Board of Education and the Superintendent canceled school for two days. It gave us the opportunity to stay home and watch the funeral of President John F. Kennedy on television.

      On behalf of my family, I sent a sympathy card to Mrs. John F. Kennedy. On the envelope I received was a frank of Jacqueline Kennedy. The card read, Mrs. Kennedy is deeply appreciative of your sympathy and grateful for your thoughtfulness.

      It was at that time I started collecting presidential campaign buttons. I joined the APIC (American Political Items Collectors). One main purpose of the APIC was the collecting of Presidential campaign buttons. My membership number in the APIC is 685. Today the APIC has thousands of members and its mission has been greatly expanded. It is a wonderful organization and I am proud that I am still a member.

      In early 1963, I started writing letters to former presidents, former vice-presidents, presidential candidates, relatives of presidents, Mayors, the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee. To keep the list short, I wrote to most everyone I could think of requesting campaign buttons from them. Many answered my letters and I was always thrilled to receive a presidential campaign button, especially when the letter was signed by the person I wrote to. I would like to share some of my experiences. I share them and I am thankful and appreciative to the people responding to the letters that I wrote to them. My letters were positive and were not intended in any way to make a

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