Grant's memoirs are a masterpiece of writing. Very few people at the peak of health could have produced something as good and he did it while dying. Truly amazing.
I agree. I can't imagine his anxiety and desperation as he wrote and dictated, just hoping he'd have the time to finish it all. He must have felt a wave of relief, even through his pain, when he knew he'd completed what he'd set out to do. Remarkable determination on his part....but he'd shown the same determination in the war.
Still million of Americans suffer without medical treatment. America is worst place in the world to get medical care unless you got expense insurance or are lucky to have job that would pay for it... It better not to be a American
I'm sorry, but Roosevelt he died when he was 63, that poor man looked like he was 93, geez, see what worrying will do, it will prematurely, age you. Roosevelt had so much (a nation) on his plate and three terms as president.
All of you blaming cigarettes and stress from the war fail to realize something. Many people assume that FDR was just paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair and that was it. The truth is, he was in pain most of the time. Sometimes SEVERE pain from his illness. The human body is not designed to be in constant pain that way. THIS was a major contributing factor to his high blood pressure and advanced aging. Of course, there was no blood pressure medicine back then so that taxed his heart and eventually led to congestive heart failure even though it technically was a stroke that killed him.
Adams and Jefferson both were competitive and hateful of each other. When they both were dying on July 4th, were convinced the other still lived. and that dying on the 4th was a Godsend for helping create the country
That was known as the 'Roosevelt code' and it used to be somewhat common among the upper class. When I say 'upper class' I do not mean just the wealthy, but those who held their position by when they first came to America and helped build a country.
@@Crazy-Cat-Lady-of-CA All the more reason to respect him. He had an issue with blood, yet, he won the Civil War for us! It didn't stop him from going into the battlefields where I'm sure he saw an awful lot of it!
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Sadly, Franklin Pierce became a drunk out of grieving for his son who he saw get decapitated right in front of him by the very train taking Pierce and his family to Washington for his inauguration.
I personally think George H.W. Bush died of a broken heart. Arguably, Barbara Bush was the classiest of the FLOTUSes. RIP to all those POTUSes to whom shaped our great nation as we know it.
They also left out Franklin Pierce.. his sons died before he became president with one dying in a train accident shortly after his election and before his inauguration
Not to sound macabre or disrespectful... But when you go to Mount Vernon you can see the bed and the room where Washington passed away. It kind of hits you...
I read somewhere that George Washington was afraid he would be buried and not be dead yet... Can you imagine that fright you would feel right up to the end? Rest In Peace to our great presidents... Very Interesting... Ty
That was a common belief at the time. Doctors were wrong or overwhemed so mistakes happened. Thats why if you look at some old graves, there are bells on them. The string went through the casket and ended up near the dead bodys hand. IIRC theres a small percentage of old graves that have been dug up and theres scratch marks on the bottom of the lids.
Thank God I wasn't born back then when they didn't have medicine or a cure but I mean come on seriously your gonna stay in wet and damp clothes anybody should know that you can get really sick wearing wet clothes when it's super cold
With President Washington " Did they try the ya stick your left foot in!@? Left foot out!!? Ya do the hokie Pokie!? And ya turn yourself about!!!!? ? Lol" Even if you were President back in the day!!? Ya still suffered greatly anyway!!!?? Poor Bastard's!!!!!! Lol!! God bless you all today Shalom 🙏
Johnson gave us the Vietnam War. So he invented Heavy Metal music. If not for the rebellious hatred the war inspired we would probably be listening to Schlock sugary pop garbage like Frankie Avalon
LBJ knew he would be accused of "losing Vietnam" by the Republicans if he did not go in. Very much a political decision. He knew it was a very 50/50 thing.
@@JoanRudith The first troops were sent in 1965. Eisenhower was president for the Korean War? I am Australian and know that? Eisenhower was president until 1960 so I highly doubt he was in a position to sent troops to Vietnam??
Abraham Lincoln & I are cousins-in-law on my mom’s side. Let me explain. TOTALLY TRUE STORY NO CAP One of my cousins on my mom’s side of the family is Mary Todd Lincoln, making Abraham Lincoln a cousin-in-law on my mom’s side.
And as I've always understood it, it wasn't his health concerns but the realization that he was politically in trouble that led him to not seek re-election. Eugene McCarthy had done far better than expected against Johnson in the Democratic primary, and this is what rattled LBJ to the core.
@@noahhyde8769 It was Robert Kennedy who caused him not to run, RFK announced his run on March 16th and LBJ made his announcement NOT to run to March 31st. The despised each other but he also knew how popular RFK was with the people.
You left William Henry Harrison off the list. He held his inauguration in the rain, which resulted in him getting pneumonia and dying a month into his presidency. If that doesn't count as tragic, I don't know what does.
Wait! Harrison did not get pneumonia until three weeks after his inauguration as a correction. He was well until March 26, comatose for 8 days until he died on April 4. 1841. Him getting pneumonia during his inauguration is a common misconception.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s last words were “No you can’t” responding to a lady who said “you can’t say that these people aren’t excited to see you, Mr President.
I’m related through my mother’s family. We have some fascinating mementos that have been handed through time. He was a great great great great - Uncle !
Becoming president is a continually stressful job. Thats why alot of presidents die very soon after the presidency or look way older than age. T alot of european countries have a seperate head of state and head of government. Keeps them alive longer.
Some errors but pretty good overall. Harding did have a daughter and it was confirmed in the 1960s by the mother and Harding's letters to her and other evidence. As for the car that Kennedy was shot in Johnson had it sent right away back to Ford in Michigan to be completely refurbished. It was not held and examined carefully for bullet damage and other forensic evidence. This strange action contrary to good Police work has prevented the proof or disproof of the "multiple bullets from different directions theories". Many reliable people who got a good look at the car have stated they saw bullet entry holes in the front of the vehicle. But Johnson's actions prevented a complete and thorough examination.
@@dawnnichols2786 That's really the most plausible explanation. JFK and RFK wanted to dump him from the 1964 ticket. A big scandal with Johnson's Chief of Staff Bobby Baker was starting to blow open and the Kennedys were going to use that to drop him. They were going to dump J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI too. It look's like they got Kennedy first. And Hoover made sure the truth was suppressed on everything and both stayed on.
also another fact: A makeshift metal detector was used to find the 2 bullets in Garfield but it didn't work because Garfield was laying on a bed with metal springs
Uh that’s not true. But as a correction, he didn’t get a cold until his 3rd week as president. He caught pneumonia on March 26 and remained ill for 8 days until he died on April 4, 1841, 32 days after taking office.
@@matthewhedrichjr.5445 furthermore, it is possible that he caught typhoid fever from the water system being downhill from the city’s sewer system back in the day.
He didn't; he actually caught cholera and typhoid from the water supply. The windows were left oen in his room and this caused him to catch pneumonia, this killed him
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