Here's one for you. After Minnie Cox, the first black female postmaster was pressured out of her post in Mississippi, president Theodore Roosevelt continued to pay her salary and punished the town by rerouting their mail 30 miles away until they gave her back the position.
Fun fact about Gerald Ford. He's the only President whose child appeared on a soap opera. Steven Ford is a former cast member of The Young And The Restless, playing private investigator Andy Richards.
Ronald Reagan's son Ron is the only child of a U.S. Present who has hosted Saturday Night Live. Not only did he host, he also performed in a skit parodying himself. The skit was an homage to Tom Cruise's dancing in his underwear scene in the film Risky Business.
Nixon was on the #1 show, Laugh-In. But List 25's liberal tendencies, "shine through". He would never mention a light moment involving Nixon, except when the joke was on Nixon(Louis Armstrong)
A case could e made for William Henry Harrison being my favorite president. Why? With a term only lasting 31 days, he didn't really have much time to screw anything up- unlike every other president...
12:30 - Mary Todd Lincoln Held Séances in The White House - I feel so sorry for Mary with all the tragedy she went through. That bit at the end, "Willie Lives. He comes to me every night... with that same sweet, adorable smile..." is just so heart-wrenchingly sad and a heart-felt statement from a grief-stricken mother.
FDR was my favorite president mainly because of his funding and out reach for polio victims. My mother was had polio the year before the vaccine came out and she benefitted from some of his programs. She passed away and we have her medical records from that time. Her parents didn't have to pay a dime for braces, surgeries or rehab treatment.
Even though John Quincy Adams was voted out of office, President Andrew Jackson actually did approve Symmes' idea for Polar exploration (just without the ''Hollow Earth" moniker attached to it. It was approved after Symmes passed away and one of his advocates continued to petition congress to go explore the Polar regions in search of these entrances. The expedition ended up being called The United States Exploring Expedition and a large part of the mission was to survey and map the Antarctic. They did not report finding any openings. But then again, they did not have advanced enough ice breaker ships to get all the way into the interior of the continent and reach the South Pole at that point in history.
My high school choir performed during a service at the Washington Cathedral and President and Mrs. Ford were in the congregation. I even drank out of the same wine cup as him (ah, the lack of hygiene in the 70's). I stood about 5 feet from the President while waiting in the communion line. He was seated in the pew and there were only 2 seated people between us. It's surprising how few noticeable secret service agents were there. You could see them "in the wings" and along the walls of the sanctuary, but none along the center aisle. President Ford was the third person in from that aisle. Such a difference from today's world.
8:07 I went to school with a guy that only had the letter J as his legal first name & everyone called him Jay, but his name on assignments was just J. He said that his parents used the initial so he could choose his own name later on. I'm pretty sure he's still just using the J (we are in our 50s now).
The reason why Sammy Davis Jr was such a devoted Republican in a world of Democrats in Hollywood was basically due to how Richard Nixon was so appreciative of him as well as he was able to sit down and have a conversation with him and took Sammy so seriously and was able to help the civil Rights movement more because of that.
I read somewhere, that Winston Churchill had a lengthy conversation with the ghost of President Abraham Lincoln, whilst on a visit to the USA. Does anyone else know anything about this? Or am I a mad old British lady? 😂 God save the King 🙏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Gotta go with FDR. Doin what had to be done to pull the country out of the depression, keeping us out of WW 2 for as long as possible while dealing with polio...and still got elected 4 times. Thats always stuck in my mind.
Keeping the United States out of the US is a stretch, sending troops Yes, but sending aid to both Great Britain and Russia no, starting in 1939 a cash and carry was being done to Great Britain, The USSR, and China. March of 1941 it was the lend lease program. For me he's the second, Lincoln would be first.
My family met president Clinton at a pizza hut in Pine Bluff Arkansas. He was going to a ball game and stopped to use the bathroom, but only after secret service cleared everything. After using the bathroom Clinton shook everyone's hand including us.
To call either George W. Bush or Barack Obama a 'great leader', as you referred to the Presidents featured when you introduced the video, is a stretch.
I got to go to see Clinton speak in 1994 or 95. I was in 5th grade and got overheated and threw up in the middle of the crowd and got to hang out in a VIP section with a couple very nice secret service guys. They even got me Gatorade to feel better. Didn't see him just heard him speaking but still an interesting memory.
Hi Mike! I liked Teddy Roosevelt. He was the last good Republican president. Well, Ike wasn't too bad, he gave us the Interstate and all, but Teddy was the best one.
Well, he didn't exactly "create" the EPA, Congress passed the Environmental Protection Act, under which the EPA was formed, and Nixon signed it into law.
I shook two presidents' hands - Carter and Clinton when they came to my hometown. My favorite president is Obama, followed by Clinton, then FDR, then JFK.
My grandfather and my uncle (his first son) both had the middle initial T. It apparently stood for nothing. We never got the story behind my Great-grandmother's reasoning for the T. 🤷♀️
Nicons fiasco should have been enough to tell people what we were in for! No luck to Lincolns recovery. “…no authority exists except the ones God has chosen.” John 13:1
Did you know that President Ronald Reagan like the American Adventure at EPCOT so much that he landed Marine One behind the pavilion just to see the show. He and Mrs Reagan set 5th row center to view it. Besides Secret Service agents they were the only ones in the theater. It true I was working there at the time.
Sadly no; straight from NFLShop.com. Quality has gone down a bit in recent years. Had to return my Gronkowski jersey because the name plate was extremely crooked.
This guy has lost a few pounds and is looking a lot better. Not that he was that bad at first but I remember him saying he wanted to get skinny. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I like Theodore Roosevelt he was a badass he did everything Yeah and I know there might be some controversial things here and there but he also tried to get Congress to allow them to shorten up words in books so that they could make it easier for everybody to print books faster. So he would have had more abbreviations as well as acronyms in grammar then we do today.
T.R. was a real mixed bag; he helped John Muir promote the concept of conservationism, but also believed in white supremacy. There are many other examples what would be considered left wing/right wing today.
Everyone is a left hander and no one is 100% lefthander, exept people who lost their right hand. What you call a lefthander are people who are at least 51%lefthander and "only" 49% righthander and those are 25% of the world population. Most lefthanderd have trained their right hand skills in a right hand world, so that if they were "only" 60% lefthander at birth they can believe to be righthander at 20 years of age. While it is very rare to see a lefthander that has low capacity with is right hand because the society is righthanded, some righthanderd are so to 90% and feel handicaped with their left hand. Now people who are more 60/40 struggle to believe them. They think it is easy to switch hand.
