Why Not Say What Happened Inside the White House?

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Why Not Say What Happened

Inside the White House by Betty Boyd Caroli (NY: Abbeville, 1992)

Why Not Say What Happened?: A Memoir by Ivana Lowell (NY: Vintage, 2010)

Surrational Images: Photomontages by Scott Mutter (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992)

Caricature: The Wit & Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song & Story, illustrated by America's Greatest Artists (?, ca. 1920s)

Wreckage Begins with a "W": Cartoons of the Bush Administration, drawn with all due respect by Jeff Danziger (Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2004)

Betty Page catalogue, Fall 2012

The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Kung by Mantuk Chia and Juan Li (Rochester, VT: Destiny, 2005)

Joe Weider's Body Building System, conceived and developed by Joe Weider (Woodland Hills, CA: Weider Health & Fitness, 1997)

Simply Tai Chi by Graham Bryant & Lorraine James (Dingley Victoria, Australia: Hinkler Books, 2003)

American Heritage 9:6, October 1958

Kodak Color Handbook: Materials, Processes, Techniques (Eastman Kodak, 1953)

Wir di jugend transparencies (Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich)

and other sources

Inside the White House?

"It is doubtful that any of the Masons, stonecutters, or others who came together that October day in 1792 could have imagined the interest their actions would arouse two hundred years later." (11) 

"Not all Americans come to the White House in celebration." (186)

Why Not Say What Happened Inside the White House —October 12, 2015--original blog post

This one took forever, with torturous moments, like four years in the White House.

I kept picking it up for a week or two, then losing steam.

Many other bibliolages in between sessions.

On and on, and it really was like different administrations of surrationality.

Term after term of tattered books.

No sample would quite capture it.

So what?