potus_geeks is three years old today! It was on March 26, 2010 that this community was formed. 1,297 journal entries and 197 members later, the geekery continues.
This past year has seen the first presidential election in this community's history (preceded by primaries and conventions), the year that I read the tea leaves wrong when I predicted that Mitt Romney would become POTUS 45, my visit to the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, movies about Abraham Lincoln (one award winning, another vampire hunting), this community's own ranking of the Presidents (with a top three of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt, but not the Roosevelt some expected), more terrific new books, an expanded
potus_geekslibrary, the completion of 
direcorrector's wonderful biographies of the presidents, the first potus_geekselection day poetry slam, another annual reading list, the first presidential inauguration in this community's history, profiles of the first ladies, and so much more. Thank you for continuing to follow this dorky presidential madness.
I need your help in deciding where this community goes next. For the past several months, a theme has been adopted for that month's posts (in addition to recognizing significant anniversaries). In December the theme was Christmas at the White House, in January it was past inaugurations, in February (expanding into the first half of March) it was the First Ladies, and this month it has been excerpts from Presidential biographies and histories. So what would you like to read about in this community in the next twelve months?
Finally, in keeping with this month's theme, I'll leave you with a couple of paragraphs from the new book by Jeffrey Frank about the strange relationship between Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon called Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage. I managed to read the first 82 pages on a flight I was on yesterday. This is from pages 77-78, describing how President Eisenhower had sent Vice-President Nixon off on 68 day tour of Asia on which Nixon gained some very positive press from. The author writes:
Eisenhower personally welcomed Pat and Dick on the North Portico of the mansion, and seemed so pleased to see them that he held out his hand in welcome even before the vice president was out of his limousine. In a handwritten note he said "We... have missed your wise counsel, your energetic support and your extraordinary dedication to the service of the country. On the purely personal side, it was fine to see you looking so well after the rigors of a trip that must have taxed the strength of even such young and vigorous people as yourself. I look forward to some quiet opportunity when I can hear a real recital of your adventures and accomplishments."
But that, as it turned out, was more or less that. The president then hurried off to attend a reception for the White House Conference of Mayors. There were no immediate invitations to a private meal, or even coffee, in the living quarters, where the president always had time to play a rubber of bridge with members of the gang. Nixon, though, did write and deliver a memorandum for the National Security Council in which he made a number of general observations (he seemed almost shocked that "Orientals" couldn't mingle at the racetrack with the British in Hong Kong) and called Afghanistan "a good, tough friend." As for Indochina, he said that "French troop morale is excellent, a lot better than realized," which he probably got wrong, and also that if the French left Indochina, "the only capable leadership at the time in Vietnam is Communist leadership," which he probably got right. ("Commies only one capable of governing them," his handwritten notes said.) After that, Nixon went back to being a top officer in Ike's private army, assigned to patrol the rogue Joe McCarthy.
The geekery continues for another year. Happy anniversary fellow
potus_geeks!