A further reminder to those who disdain "gossip," that gossip does NOT equate to UNtrue. And Franklin PIERCE was an ancestor of Shrub on his creepy mother's side, so the sociopathic tendencies run deep...
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/11042008/gossip/cindy/nighttime_hosts_sift_through_the_fodder_136774.htm?page=0WE now speak presidents. Jefferson was the first to shake hands with guests. Previously, they bowed to our presidents. I sense that both current candidates wouldn't mind returning to the old way . . . Andrew Jackson is the only one to have been held as a prisoner of war. It was during the Revolution . . . That other Andrew, Johnson, who succeeded to the office in 1865 after Lincoln's assassination, was a runaway white slave. He'd actually been a bound apprentice . . . Lincoln's missus, Mary Todd, was the first presidential wife to be referred to as the first lady . . . As chief executive, Ulysses S. Grant received 10,000 boxes of cigars in the mail for his birthday.
Coolidge was the only P sworn into the job by his father, a justice of the peace and notary public. Incidentally,
Coolidge averaged only four hours of work a day whilst also grabbing three-month summer vacations . . . Woodrow Wilson had golf balls painted black so he could play in the snow . . . Warren Harding's sister was one of DC's very first policewomen . . . Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's pajamas had five stars on the lapels. I guess so his wife would know he's in charge . . . Lyndon Johnson loved Fresca so much he had a fountain installed in the Oval Office. The soda was dispensed by pushing a button on his desk chair . . . Gerald Ford's the only man to be both P and VP while never actually being elected to either post.
In case of a rival for Miss Alice Hathaway Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, who told a Harvard party in 1876: "I'm going to marry her even if she won't have me," bought a set of French dueling pistols. They married in 1880. She died four years later after giving birth to their daughter . . . James Garfield was a genius mathematician. A 1940 book containing 370 proofs of the Pythagorean theorem included one by him . . . In 1922, Harry S. Truman joined the KKK but resigned shortly afterward and demanded back his $10 initiation fee . . . When Pat Nixon died, President Nixon fumed: "Clinton came to me for advice to save his ass and couldn't even send a Cabinet member to Mrs. Nixon's funeral?"
In 1975,
elder President Bush attended a CIA intelligence meeting in a red wig and fake nose . . . Jimmy Carter was the first president to have been born in a hospital . . . When the British burned Washington in 1814 First Lady Dolley Madison escaped the White House with what she considered our nation's two irreplaceable treasures: the Declaration of Independence and her parrot . . . FDR bummed money from his valet for the church collection plate . . . Zachary Taylor, our 12th commander in chief, was an el cheapo. He refused the envelope bearing his Whig nomination because postage was due. Zach also crimped so badly on transportation expense that he never met running mate Millard Fillmore until after they were elected.
Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger who hired someone to enter the service in his place. Political opponent James Blaine castigated him until it was discovered Blaine had done the same thing . . . Rutherford Hayes suffered from a phobia of going insane . . . John Tyler, president from 1841-1845, joined the Confederacy 20 years later and became the only president to be named a sworn enemy of the United States . . .
Franklin Pierce had a violent temper and was arrested for running down a woman with his horse in 1853 . . . Martin Van Buren kept a tiger, James Buchanan housed an elephant and John Quincy Adams maintained an alligator in the East Room . . . And chubby Taft couldn't squeeze behind a steering wheel. Too fat. ....
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