Father's Day/Army Anniversary Tour Weekend, White House History, Friday June 13!

Father's Day/Army Anniversary Tour Weekend, White House Neighborhood, Friday June 13!

Examine 250 years of U.S. history in this unique walking tour, at the start of the weekend of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, and Father's Day weekend, around the environs of the home of America's Commanders-in-Chief!

MEET outside the White House Visitor Center on the corner of 15th and Pennsylvania Ave. We will proceed to Lafayette Square, the park of the Commanders-in-Chief.

Our packed itinerary will draw from:
o The locale where the most famous military anthem was written
o The World War One memorial park
o The Broadway star who was a war hero at Yorktown
o The humble woman who faced down an enemy general
o The wartime start of "Hooker's Alley"
o The official who brokered America's first Civil War--of 1794
o How Northern belles and Southern bankers saved the home of the first U.S. Army head
o Where Frederick Douglass worked after recruiting troops for the Union Army
o Lafayette's friend in the White House
o The Union sea captain who nearly lost the Civil War
o Where Dolley Madison saved what became the National Archives
o General Jackson's astonishing strategy to defeat the world's best military
o How Mt. Vernon was saved
o The Commander-in-Chief who saved the most lives
o The greatest of the early U.S. Navy heroes
o The secret of George Washington's martinet
o How the "Paul Revere of the South" saved the American Revolution
o The scoundrel who saved the Battle of Gettysburg
o The first Civil War 70 years before
o The "hero of three nations"
o The future President who cared for war-torn Europe
o The famed General who transformed defeated Japan.
o Assassination attempts on the head of the military
o The War and Navy department buildings, from 1799 to 1940.
o Young Lieutenant JFK
o A Veterans Administration scandal
o The greatest caregiver to America's soldiers.
o Thrilling monuments to the Army's most valiant units.
And more!

Pre-Pay and Pre-Register, via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fathers-dayarmy-anniversary-tour-weekend-white-house-neighborhood-tickets-1393156150549?aff=oddtdtcreator
You also can pay in cash at the tour's start: $22.

Your guide is a former Presidential speechwriter, former Tonight Show writer, and author of the World War Two spy thriller, Femme Fatalité:
https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel/dp/B0F5NPSKDS/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

And of The White House's Unruly Neighborhood:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7

And the Two-Term Jinx:
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-Presidents-Washington-Theodore-Roosevelt-ebook/dp/B01K0NT0CK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

MEET outside the White House Visitor Center on the corner of 15th and Pennsylvania Ave. We will proceed to Lafayette Square, the park of the Commanders-in-Chief.

Commemorate U.S. military history at some of America's most historic locales.