Imperfect men w/mixed legacies ALL said & did stuff. ❤s/RTs, and all content (Washington-Biden) for fun/historic purposes only! || NO POLITICS 😀
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I tweet positive & negative facts, quotes, etc. about Presidents you love AND Presidents you love to hate
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- Learning interesting things together about EVERY President (Washington-Biden)
- Fun!
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OK, this is pretty damn fantastic!
All the Presidents 🇺🇸 as Pixar characters using AI.
Dan, I don’t know who you are but this was awesome!
Thanks to
@GusSolano44
for bringing this to my attention 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
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📸:
@DSzymborski
Here we see an original draft of the Declaration of Independence.
The document was worked on by Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸, John Adams 🇺🇸, and Benjamin Franklin
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#IndependenceDay
MUTUAL RESPECT
When he left office George HW Bush 🇺🇸 asked Bill Clinton 🇺🇸 to preserve his "Points of Light" initiative.
When Clinton left office he asked the elder Bush's son, President-Elect George W Bush 🇺🇸 to keep his "AmeriCorps" intact.
All promises were kept.
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Pictures taken of Andrew Jackson 🇺🇸 taken shortly before his death
Pretty amazing to see actual pictures of a guy who was a POW during the Revolution…
AND fought the British in the War of 1812…
AND laid eyes on
George Washington 🇺🇸
History is the best, right?
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So once upon a time there was a theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia that had giant busts of the first 42 Presidents
Each bust weighed ~11 tons
The park went belly up and the statues now sit abandoned in a field
So there’s that for your POTUS trivia for the day!
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Jackie Kennedy’s last letter before leaving the White House was written to Nikita Khrushchev reminding him of the world stage he and JFK 🇺🇸 shared, the importance of peace, & her gratitude for the public display of grief he & his showed after JFK’s assassination
#OTD
1963
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John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 died
#OTD
1963, assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
Let's take a look back at a thread of some of the facts and events connected to his death
Feel free to add your memories below if you were alive to witness all of this
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Pictures taken of Andrew Jackson 🇺🇸 taken shortly before his death.
Pretty amazing to see actual pictures of a guy who was a POW during the Revolution and fought the British in the War of 1812
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After former First Lady Pat Nixon 🇺🇸 died, former
@Mets
1B Keith Hernandez reached out to grieving widower Richard Nixon 🇺🇸.
Nixon, who rooted for the Mets and Angels while in retirement, sent Hernandez a letter of gratitude.
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#LGM
@KeithHernandez
@NixonLibrary
Moved by the poverty he saw in W. Virginia, JFK's 🇺🇸 first Executive Order was a pilot food stamp program.
In May 1961 he sent his Sec. of Agriculture to Welch, WVA to deliver the nation's first food stamps ($95 worth) to Alderson Muncy, an unemployed mineworker w/13 kids
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BROWNS FANS: I need help please!
My son and I are coming to Cleveland for the game on Sunday - HIS FIRST
@Browns
GAME EVER!!
It’s been 20 years since my last game:
- Parking?
- What time should I get there?
- Anything else I should know?
Thanks!
- James (Section 536)
#Browns
John F. Kennedy’s 🇺🇸 empty limo eerily awaits the President and First Lady Jackie Kennedy at Dallas Love Field (
#OTD
1963) before their motorcade through Dallas
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George Washington 🇺🇸 died
#OTD
1799
"First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
- Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee
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A thread...🧵
Whenever President Harry Truman 🇺🇸 flew over Ohio he would ask to be notified
The reason?
His Senate nemesis Robert Taft was an Ohioan. Truman liked to use the bathroom then order the pilot to activate the waste disposal system over Taft’s home state
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“Let us not forget John Adams 🇺🇸 nominated George Washington 🇺🇸 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army…insisted Jefferson 🇺🇸 write the Declaration of Independence…made John Marshall Chief Justice. As a casting director alone, he was brilliant”
- David McCullough
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MUTUAL RESPECT
When he left office George HW Bush 🇺🇸 asked Bill Clinton 🇺🇸 to preserve his "Points of Light" initiative
When Clinton left office he asked the elder Bush's son, President-Elect George W. Bush 🇺🇸 to keep his "AmeriCorps" intact
All promises were kept
#POTUS
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So once upon a time there was a theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia that had giant busts of the first 42 Presidents
Each bust weighed ~11 tons
The park went belly up and the statues now sit abandoned in a field
So there’s that for your POTUS trivia for the day!
#POTUS
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Jimmy Carter 🇺🇸 gets his health insurance through Emory University where he was a professor for over 35 years and NOT through the government because he didn't serve 5+ years in a federal government position
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After Al Gore conceded the 2000 Election to George W Bush 🇺🇸 he received a empathetic call from an unlikely source: his opponent's father, George HW Bush 🇺🇸
Bush Sr. told him, "I've lost a few times myself and I know how you feel."
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Dwight Eisenhower 🇺🇸 would dismiss people from meetings if their main objective in creating strategies and making political decisions was to win votes
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While he was President, Ronald Reagan 🇺🇸 used to write checks (sometimes for thousands of dollars) for people he would learn were struggling, either learning of them through his staff or through letters written to him.
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Jackie Kennedy’s last letter before leaving the White House was written to Nikita Khrushchev, reminding him of the world stage he and JFK 🇺🇸 shared, the importance of peace, and her gratitude for the public display of grief he and his showed after JFK’s assassination
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Due to the backlash received by Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 for pardoning Richard Nixon 🇺🇸 (Ford’s approval rating went from 71% to 49%), Nixon called Ford at the White House and offered to reject the pardon
Ford refused
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A heavy scene showing George W. Bush 🇺🇸 managing national security for the country at a school in Florida as 9/11 unfolds on the TV behind him (2001)
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#September11th
I just wanted to say thank you for following my NO POLITICS account!
I post positive and negative facts, quotes, etc. about Presidents you love AND Presidents you love to hate
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RIP to Sandra Day O’Connor.
- the first woman nominated to the Supreme Court (Ronald Reagan 🇺🇸, 1981)
- received the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Barack Obama 🇺🇸, 2009)
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Steven Spielberg’s “LINCOLN” focused on the passage of the 13th Amendment.
Which President would you like to see a movie about, and more specific, which part of their Presidency would you want the movie to focus on?
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This is pretty damn fantastic!
All the Presidents 🇺🇸 as Pixar characters using AI
Dan, I don’t know who you are but this was awesome!
Thanks to
@GusSolano44
for bringing this to my attention 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
#POTUS
😃
📸:
@DSzymborski
DID YOU KNOW?
Chester Arthur’s 🇺🇸 home in Manhattan, where upstairs he was inaugurated as President, is now an Indian grocery store called Kalustyan’s
Now why would you know that?
That’s why you follow this account; for ridiculous info like this! 😁
NOW YOU KNOW!
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So once upon a time there was a theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia that had giant busts of the first 42 Presidents
Each bust weighed ~11 tons
The park went belly up and the statues now sit abandoned in a field
So there’s that for your POTUS trivia for the day!
#POTUS
😜
It’s a little known fact that before many of his speeches, Theodore Roosevelt 🇺🇸 would fire up the crowds with a heart-pounding rendition of “Cotton Eye Joe”
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Leslie Lynch King was a bad father.
His alcoholism and abuse pushed his wife and son, Leslie Lynch King, Jr. away
She eventually remarried a man named Gerald R. Ford
Young Leslie later legally changed his name to Gerald R. Ford, Jr. and eventually became President
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📚 BOOK OF THE DAY 📚
Easily one of my top-5 favorite books about US Presidents
This book made me read so many additional secondary sources that my library got exhausted ordering books for me!
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Leslie Lynch King was a bad father.
His alcoholism and abuse pushed his wife and son, Leslie Lynch King, Jr. away
She eventually remarried a man named Gerald R. Ford
Young Leslie later legally changed his name to Gerald R. Ford, Jr. and eventually became President
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I want to thank you ALL for another great year of Presidential tomfoolery
As always:
Thanks for following!
This will ALWAYS be a NO POLITICS account with facts, quotes, etc. about Presidents you love AND Presidents you love to hate
Onto 2024!
Thank you again‼️
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DID YOU KNOW?
David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize winning book “John Adams” was originally supposed to be about the relationship between John Adams 🇺🇸 and Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸 but McCullough realized how unknown Adams was and decided to make him better known
NOW YOU KNOW!
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@BarackObama
@USWNT
"Sports has changed attitudes & culture subtly. They change hearts in ways politics or business can't. They let us escape & relax from our difficulties. They also speak to something better in us"
- B. Obama 🇺🇸 who welcomed a record 86 sports teams to the White House
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Nine Presidents 🇺🇸 never graduated from college:
George Washington
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Grover Cleveland
Harry Truman
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“Let us not forget John Adams 🇺🇸 nominated George Washington 🇺🇸 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army…insisted Jefferson 🇺🇸 write the Declaration of Independence…made John Marshall Chief Justice. As a casting director alone, he was brilliant”
- David McCullough
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At the end of his life Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 🇺🇸 health was so bad that Secret Service agents would sometimes enter the Oval Office and find him on the floor almost unresponsive
He was so sick at that point he could barely sign his name legibly
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George Washington’s 🇺🇸 “Farewell Address” remained so popular after it was written that it was read aloud in Congress every year on his birthday until the 1970s
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“The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and starting up in the gutters…”
- Ulysses Grant 🇺🇸
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In 1854 attorney Chester Arthur 🇺🇸 successfully represented Lizzie Jennings, a woman who was forcibly removed from a streetcar in because of her skin color
The jury awarded Jennings $225.00 in damages and the railway company desegregated its streetcars
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🎨: EB Lewis
So, this is wild if true…
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) lived long enough to shake hands with both John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 and a young John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸.
Presidents
#6
and
#35
…
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Source:
@NPR
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@NPRPolitics
Steven Spielberg’s “LINCOLN” focused on the passage of the 13th Amendment
Which President would you like to see a movie about, and more specific, which part of their Presidency would you want the movie to focus on?
#POTUS
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Alice Roosevelt.
Daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 🇺🇸.
Banned from the White House after her father was President for badmouthing William Howard Taft 🇺🇸 and Woodrow Wilson 🇺🇸
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Richard Nixon 🇺🇸 and John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 always had friendly mutual respect without being close friends
A Secret Service agent remembered when JFK had potentially fatal back surgery in 1954, VP Nixon wept and prayed out loud for his friend, “Oh God, don’t let him die.”
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