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15 comments to "Presidential Oddities."
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ted
November 17th, 2006 at
2:12 pm
So, let me get this straight… George Washington came after Ronald Reagan and before Bill Clinton?
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Alex
November 17th, 2006 at
2:30 pm
Good catch, ted - my mistake (I typed this up late last night). BTW, I just wanted to say thanks, you’ve got the most comments in Neatorama.
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dead_red_eyes
November 17th, 2006 at
2:39 pm
What a great read! That’s cool that Herbert Hoover and his wife spoke Mandarin or Cantonese. And either J.F.K. watched really boring movies, or had a short attention span.
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Bryan
November 17th, 2006 at
2:41 pm
FDR:
“He added to [the stamp collection] by simply having the Postmaster General and State Department mail him every new issue.”That kind of takes the fun out of it. I recall Doonesbury’s fictional 70’s rocker Jimmy Thudpucker collected stamps in much the same way.
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pookie
November 17th, 2006 at
4:34 pm
Dwight D. Eisenhower = JERK!!!!!
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Paul
November 17th, 2006 at
5:23 pm
heh. I love cats, have three, but I can still get a chuckle out of picturing old Dwight picking off a few strays…
FDR also wasn’t shy about personally picking out the designs of some stamp issues. Seems like a small perk to me, although no president would get away with that today.
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dead_red_eyes
November 17th, 2006 at
7:37 pm
What is it with The Simpsons show, and Jimmy Carter? They seem to have such contempt for this guy. “He’s histories greatest monster” .. and such.
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Dave
November 17th, 2006 at
10:13 pm
Gotta wonder what Bill Clinton was doing to that sheep that made it want to beat him up.
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aware
November 18th, 2006 at
1:45 am
I think the simpsons/jimmy carter thing is because carter is such a humanitarian. It’s funny to cast him as an opposite persona.
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DJ
November 18th, 2006 at
4:53 am
I liked “Silent Cal’s” factoid the best… he always struck me as a neat guy.
from his wikipedia article:
Another famous anecdote has it that one Sunday, Mrs. Coolidge was too ill to attend church, and Calvin attended the services alone. When he returned, his wife asked him, “Did you go to church?” “Yes,” Calvin responded. “Did the minister give a sermon?” his wife continued. “Yes,” Calvin answered. “What did he talk about?” Mrs. Coolidge pressed impatiently. “Sin,” her husband replied. “Well,” demanded the Calvin’s wife, as her frustration continued to mount, “what did he say about it?” “He’s against it,” Calvin concluded.
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pookie
November 18th, 2006 at
11:54 am
I think that simpsons episode was about George H.W. Bush.
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Alex
November 18th, 2006 at
12:16 pm
That’s pretty funny! Thanks DJ!
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Coinflip
November 22nd, 2006 at
1:42 pm
How could you possibly exclude the Presidents who had Hooks for Hands?
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Jamie
February 9th, 2007 at
1:02 pm
With regard to President Madison and Hail to the Chief, we have our own bit of fiction about that song in Canada. The myth goes that during WWII, FDR paid a call to Prime Minister MacKenzie King in Ottawa. Upon entering the room, the band struck up Hail to the Chief, causing FDR to ask King if the song was how the Canadian Prime Minister was officially greeted. King replied, no, nothing official, I just like it. FDR, upon returning to the US, had Congress sponsor a bill officially naming Hail as the offical song to be played whenever the president entered a function.
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Big Mo
March 9th, 2007 at
9:08 pm
Just a correction about Benjamin Harrison - it was his wife who was afraid of the light switches, not the president himself.
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