Top 10 Odd Facts About US Presidents

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Here are ten odd facts about U.S. Presidents you probably did not know. These outrageous facts are not found in any American textbooks and are not taught in any curriculum, except for here. Check them:

 

10. Andrew Johnson

andrew johnson

The induction of Andrew Johnson as Abraham Lincoln’s vice-president in 1865 was cut short a bit by the fact that Johnson was incredibly drunk. He’d been drinking whiskey in an effort to medicate himself for typhoid fever and was so drunk by the time he was sworn in that he garbled his oaths, and had to abandon his attempts to swear in new senators.

 

9. Harry S. Truman

Harry Truman

The KKK was a powerful political group in the 19th and 20th Centuries. President Harry S. Truman was asked to join the “racist” organization. According to some accounts, he was actually inducted, although other sources claim that he was “never active.” Other accounts claim that though he gave the KKK a $10 membership fee, he demanded it back and was never initiated.

 

8. Warren G. Harding

Warren G Harding

29th U.S. president Warren Harding (1865-1923) repeatedly made love to a younger woman, Nan Britton, in the White House closet. On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from taking down the closet door.

 

7. Embarrassing Presidential Nicknames

Andrew Jackson

Embarrassing presidential nicknames: Andrew Jackson was nicknamed the ‘Old Hickory’, Ulysses S. Grant was branded as ‘Unconditional Surrender Grant‘, short-lived William Henry Harrison was referred to as ‘Tippecanoe’, and Zachary Taylor was known as ‘Old Rough And Ready’.

6. James Garfield

James Garfield

Twentieth president James Garfield had a merrymaking trick in which he would at once write in Latin with one hand, and Ancient Greek with the other. Show-off. Garfield was one of four Presidents to be assassinated.

5. Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore-Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was almost assassinated by saloon keeper John Schrank on October 14, 1912. His life was spared thanks to a steel eyeglass case and his 50 page speech he was carrying in his jacket, both of which the bullet had to pass through.

4. Presidential Code Names

Ronald Reagan

The Secret Service has code names for the president, vice-president and their family members. Ronald Reagan was ‘Rawhide’, George H. W. Bush was ‘Timberwolf’, Bill Clinton was ‘Eagle’, George W. Bush was ‘Trailblazer’ and Barack Obama is ‘Renegade’. Al Gore’s daughter Karenna regularly complained that she was put on the spot and told to pick out her own code name; she quickly regretted opting to be called ‘Smurfette’ wherever she went.

3. William Taft

President Taft

William Taft was the fattest American president. He was so obese that he occasionally got stuck in the White House bathtub, and had to be helped out by aides. He eventually invested in a bigger tub.

2. Tallest Presidents Trend

Bill-Clinton

In every election since the World War II, the taller of the two major party candidates were victorious 75% of the tme. Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush are the only post-war presidents to have defeated their rivals who happened to be taller than them. Since 1900, nobody under the height of 5ft 9in has ever received a presidential nomination.

1. Thomas Jefferson

President Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson, the third and smartest President of the United States was not just one of the major Founding Fathers and the principal author of the Declaration of liberty – he also invented the swivel chair. Rumors also circulate that he may have been autistic. He was high functioning and may have suffered from a milder form of ASD, Asperger’s Syndrome.

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JACKSON
JACKSON

The Johnson drunkenness story was initiated by Hannibal Hamlin who never forgave Johnson for defeating him for the 1864 vice-presidential nomination. Lloyd Paul Stryker, a New Yorker, in “Andrew Johnson” describes the report as “one of the baseless slanders by which the Radicals of his time and historians since have endeavored to becloud his name.”
Actually Andrew Johnson was a remarkable man in many respects. When working as a tailor he hired men to read to him so he could educate himself as he did his job. He organized a speaking club and participated it and others in nearby towns to improve himself. Johnson was described by William Seward as the best stump speaker in the country.
Johnson was a patriot who, in a semi-southern state (Tennessee), supported the Union and was reviled by Southerns for his stand. Johnson, as President, supported Lincoln’s reconstruction plans and was denounced by the Republicans. Johnson supported the Constitution and was impeached by the Radicals. And Johnson has been slandered by the Living Constitutionalist, big government, and State worshipers ever since.
Andrew Johnson’s failing was that he didn’t have Lincoln’s tact and ability to merge his principles into an effective compromise with the Radical Republicans.

SSS

T4C …. believe Ike’s affair with Kay Summersby has never been confirmed.

“the principal author of the Declaration of liberty”
—-from the article on Thomas Jefferson

Sheesh. It was the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson had an estimated IQ of 148, so he was indeed quite intelligent.

Oh, and he invented the mechanical dumbwaiter and had one built and installed at Monticello. It’s right next to the dining room, if memory serves, and went down to the kitchen. Jefferson wanted to keep the servants in the dining room to a minimum, preferably one, when he had guests. The dumbwaiter could bring up many meals all at once, thus reducing the need for numerous servants running up and down steps and in and out of the dining room.

Stucky

English is NOT that person’s first language. I checked out a couple other lists on his website. He says Niagara Falls is “very large and surrounded by inexperienced forests”.

Chicago99944
Chicago99944

It’s hard to believe that Jefferson had Asperger’s, since he was not only a great intellect with immense creativity, but was also a highly sociable man with a noted gift for friendship with both men and women, and, as our ambassador to France, manage to charm the cattiest, most snobbish people in all of Europe- the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He couldn’t have been the kind of social blunderer we associate with Asperger’s Syndrome.

He was one of the greatest of men in most respect, so great that I might forgive him for violating his stated principles by maintaining slavery and keeping his own slaves until his death, something that even the French aristocrats who supported our war effort AND outlawed slavery in their own country prior to the revolution there, found very troubling.

Still, he was one of the greatest minds of the past 500 years.

Billy
Billy

Apparently no portrait of Sally Hemings exists but there is this of her daughter fathered by Jefferson. T4C

I call bullshit on the “fathered by Jefferson” remark…

“The results of DNA tests conducted by Dr. Eugene Foster and a team of geneticists in 1998 challenged the view that the Jefferson-Hemings relationship could be neither refuted nor substantiated .”

(snip)

“The results of the study established that an individual carrying the male Jefferson Y chromosome fathered Eston Hemings (born 1808), the last known child born to Sally Hemings. There were approximately 25 adult male Jeffersons who carried this chromosome living in Virginia at that time, and a few of them are known to have visited Monticello.

And then there’s this:

“..a committee commissioned by the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, after reviewing essentially the same material (as a committee formed by The Thomas Jefferson Foundation), reached different conclusions, namely that Sally Hemings was only a minor figure in Thomas Jefferson’s life and that it is very unlikely he fathered any of her children. This committee also suggested in its report, issued in April 2001 and revised in 2011, that Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph (1755-1815) was more likely the father of at least some of Sally Hemings’s children.

In other words, the whole “fathered by Thomas Jefferson” line is a big, fat “YOU DON’T HAVE A CLUE!”… not when committees and geneticists can’t say one way or the other…

http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account

Billy
Billy

Now, FDR having an affair – at least while his junk still worked – that I can believe. He was getting all kinds of side action…

But neither FDR nor his harpy wife were any real prize…

Eleanor Roosevelt… yich! Have you seen a picture of this (alleged) woman? If there was ever a face made for radio, hers was it…

Woof!!

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She hooked up with some reporter troll named Lorena Hickok… all 5’8″ and 200 lbs of her! Not only did old Eleanor munch rug, but she was doing some guy named Joe Lash – one session FDR had recorded unbeknownst to Eleanor – and she was also banging one of FDR’s bodyguards named Earl Miller…

The both of them had the morals of fucking pigs… which is probably an insult to pigs…

Jackson, re an American cocksman,
Jackson, re an American cocksman,

Billy,
Some years ago when all the Thomas Jefferson – Sally Hemmings coziness was being spewed out by the thigh-slapping leftists who thought they were scoring big off us conservatives, I thought all their him-screwing-her comments were just crap. Then I read Fawn Brodie’s “Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate Biography.” Bam, Bam, Bam, Brodie provides evidence that’s stronger than that needed to provide the Devil with proof that God exists. And I was convinced. According to internet sources and scientific evidence, I read that Brodie got it right. Long(?) Tom had his Black booty and his Black bastard(s) to boot.

So now, what does it matter to me? A little IR nookie and even a young whelp hasn’t changed my opinion of TJ. Polymath, brilliant theorist, Chicken Little when the Brits were after him, God-damn hypocrite re the Constitution, petty persecutor of Aaron Burr, visionary about American expansion, and a guy you’d like to have dinner with and discuss anything with until the wee morning hours.
All in all, Thomas Jefferson was a great man, often a great American, and an admirable stud.

SSS

Great comments by Chicago 999444 on Jefferson and Billy on Jefforson/FDR. Minor tweaks.

Sally Hemings was not an insignificant player in Jefferson’s life. At age 15, she accompanied Jefferson and his daughter to England when Jefferson was Minister to France and John Adams was Minister to England. While Jefferson and Adams toured England, Abigail Adams looked after Sally and Jefferson’s daughter.

Re comments about Jefferson and Sally having an affair, Billy’s comments are exactly correct. The most likely candidate for Sally having a baby by a member of the Jefferson family is Jefferson’s younger brother. The odds on Thomas are 1 in 24. We’ll never know for sure. Spy cams weren’t around back then. Chances are that Jefferson would have invented them.

As for FDR and Eleanor, trash away. The two most overrated pricks in American history.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

Eleanor Roosevelt… yich! Have you seen a picture of this (alleged) woman? If there was ever a face made for radio, hers was it…

Woof!! -Billy

As if arranged marriages ceased to exist at that time..

Andrew
Andrew

Taft…
I still recall a Dave Barry line from one of his books.

“William Howard Taft ran on a platform of reinforced concrete.”

HA!

Stucky

Known fact ……… Jefferson was a fag.

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