Happy Birthday to William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ, born #OTD 1773!
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ holds the record for shortest Presidency - one month. #POTUS ๐๐
8 Presidents were born as British subjects in British America ๐ฌ๐ง
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison
The 1st American born President was Martin Van Buren (1782) #POTUS ๐บ๐ธ
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ is 1 of 8 Presidents to have come from Virginia.
The others:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Woodrow Wilson
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ is one of five US Presidents ๐บ๐ธ who served during the War of 1812:
- Andrew Jackson
- William Henry Harrison
- John Tyler
- Zachary Taylor
- James Buchanan #POTUS ๐๐
When William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ joined the military, the man who signed off on his commission was none other than......
George Washington ๐บ๐ธ.
Washington was a friend of Harrison's deceased father, Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. #POTUS ๐๐
William Henry Harrison's ๐บ๐ธ political legacy is his passion for getting federal aid for disabled veterans and surviving families of those killed in war.
He would even invite to dinner the widows and children of his dead comrades #POTUS ๐๐
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ and his grandson, Benjamin Harrison ๐บ๐ธ.
The only time a grandfather and grandson were President. #POTUS ๐๐
One of the angles pushed by the William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ and John Tyler ๐บ๐ธ ticket in the 1840 Election was their heritage: Both of their fathers fought "side by side in maintaining the rights of their country in the days of the Revolution."
- John Tyler ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS ๐๐
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ was one of the first presidential candidates to go out and give campaign speeches and hold rallies. #POTUS ๐๐
Due to constant attacks by Democrats about his age and health, Whig leaders asked William Henry Harrison's ๐บ๐ธ doctor to release a public report on his health and fitness - a Presidential first!
The doctor declared him to have "bodily vigor as good as most men his age." #POTUS ๐
The cover of the 1840 Whig Party booklet was able to be torn off & posted for election purposes. Promoting William Henry Harrison and John Tyler ๐บ๐ธ, it also showed his opponent, President Martin Van Buren ๐บ๐ธ.
Behind Van Buren stands former President Andrew Jackson ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS ๐๐
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ and his horse "Whitey."
John Quincy Adams ๐บ๐ธ wasn't a fan, apparently calling Whitey "a mean horse." #POTUS ๐๐
The โSeal of the Presidentโ during the administrations of Martin Van Buren ๐บ๐ธ, William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ, John Tyler, and Zachary Taylor ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS ๐๐
William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ was the only president who studied to become a medical doctor #POTUS ๐๐
โThe broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the peopleโa breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify itโit can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.โ
- William Henry Harrison ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS ๐๐
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Stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents
Todayโs subject:
Herbert Hoover ๐บ๐ธ Meets
Adolf Hitler
Enjoy the thread below โฌ๏ธ!
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Like many people, I was just as shocked when I learned that a meeting took place between the recently defeated ex-President Herbert Hoover ๐บ๐ธ and the fledgling leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler
#POTUS โฌ๏ธ
I suppose some context would be appropriateโฆ
The year was 1938 and Herbert Hoover ๐บ๐ธ was traveling through Europe to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of โThe Great Warโ (WWI)
Every now and then I like to highlight characters in history who crossed paths with American Presidents in some way, shape or form.
Todayโฆ
Iโd like to talk **briefly** about a lawyer named Lambdin Milliganโฆ
Enjoy the thread! ๐งต
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Milligan was an Ohio boy who ended up studying law, eventually passing the bar in Ohio. He was actually classmates with Edwin Stanton! Stanton would go onto be Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln ๐บ๐ธ
But I digressโฆkeep reading!
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Milligan moved to Indiana to continue his law career. There he involved himself in heavy โstates rightsโ politics, and followed guys like John Calhoun and Martin Van Buren ๐บ๐ธ
Milligan eventually identified as a โCopperheadโโa Democrat opposing the Civil War & Lincoln
While it can be argued the Vietnam War touched many Presidents - it can be argued further that it impacted the presidency - and health - of Lyndon Baines Johnson ๐บ๐ธ the hardest
โI guess weโve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. I think everybodyโs going to think, โweโre landing the Marines, weโre off to battle.โโ
- Lyndon Baines Johnson ๐บ๐ธ
6 March 1965.
On 8 March 1965 the first combat troops touched the beaches of Danang
The Amendment limiting the election of a President of the United States to two terms finds its roots in George Washington ๐บ๐ธ, who opted only for two terms as the first President of the United States.
Although there were many in the tradition of George Washington ๐บ๐ธwho served only two-terms, it wasnโt until Franklin Roosevelt ๐บ๐ธ was elected to a 3rd and 4th term that concerns over unlimited terms began to be taken seriously. #POTUS โฌ๏ธ
The 1946 midterm elections united conservatives from both parties, Republicans and Democrats, to propose the 22nd Amendment in 1947.
It was ratified by the states in 1951 under Harry Truman ๐บ๐ธ.
Interestingly, Oklahoma and Massachusetts voted to reject the Amendment ๐ค #POTUS โฌ๏ธ
"OPERATION PAPERCLIP" was a top-secret program of the US Government where ~1,600 German scientists (most of them Nazis) were brought to the US after World War II mainly to defeat the Soviets in the Cold War &ย Space Race.
It was authorized by Harry Truman ๐บ๐ธ in 1946. #POTUS โฌ๏ธ
Harry Truman ๐บ๐ธ forbade anyone who was "a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazism" to participate in the program.
To this effect, background checks on the scientists were ordered but...
...against Truman's ๐บ๐ธ orders the scientists' Nazi backgrounds were scrubbed
After the Nuremberg Trials word got out, so the Army did damage control by distributing "wholesome" pictures of the men w/families & pre-approving all media content related to the scientists