Michael Phelps is an American Swimmer. That felt good to type - and it is sweet music to American Olympians. His story is remarkable. Some questions are posed because of changes in the technology of swim wear and the configuration of the pool in Beijing - we’ll get to those issues in a moment - first a little background on Michael Phelps. I am watching Phelps compete as I type - and will post the moment the race is over.

HE HAS DONE IT! Michael Phelps has TEN individual Gold Medals!

From Answers.com:

Teddy Roosevelt was the Vice President under McKinley. He went about the ceremonial duties of the Vice President of that time - accepting an invitation by Booker T. Washington to visit Tuskegee Institute. But fate interceded, McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became President. Roosevelt offered a dinner invitation to Booker T. Washington which was readily accepted. They dined in the White House. Then the press tried to take charge.

From H. W. Brands, T. R. The Last Romantic, BasicBooks, 1997, pages 422 - 423:

“The New Orleans Times-Democrat reported, “White men of the South, how do you like it? … White women of the South, how do YOU like it?”