Happy Birthday Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ!
Born #OTD 1913.
Ford's birth name was actually Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ is the only Vice President and President to not be elected to either position #POTUS ๐๐
Young Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ, ladies and gentlemen.
For those of you whose parents cut your hair at home as a kid to "save money"....
....you too can grow up to become President. #POTUS ๐๐
Lyndon Baines Johnson ๐บ๐ธ asked future POTUS Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ to be on the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS ๐๐
Gerald Ford's ๐บ๐ธ poll numbers dropped dramatically when he pardoned Richard Nixon ๐บ๐ธ
Interestingly, an ABC News poll taken in 2002 in connection with the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in found that six in 10 Americans said the pardon was the right thing to do #POTUS
Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ and his wife Betty Ford appeared in a 1983 episode of the soap opera "Dynasty" playing themselves.
They were paid $330 each (the industry standard) for their minor contribution. #POTUS ๐๐ #FLOTUS
HOMETOWN HERO
Presidents and the newspapers in their home state.
Early during Gerald Fordโs ๐บ๐ธ Presidency, on Christmas Day 1974, a man claiming to be the messiah crashed a Chevrolet Impala through the Northwest Gate and drove up to the North Portico.
He got out with flares strapped to his body but eventually surrendered.
The Green Bay @packers attempted to sign future President Gerald Ford ๐บ๐ธ out of the University of @UMichFootball but Ford opted to pursue higher education instead #POTUS ๐๐ #NFLDraft #NFLTwitter
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In the mid-1830s Louis Daguerre and inventor Joseph-Nicephore Niรฉpce developed a method to permanently capture images onto chemically treated plates (no negatives)
Nรญepce died but Daguerre kept working and perfected the process called โdaguerreotypeโ in the late 1830s #POTUS ๐ท
Daguerre negotiated the rights to this innovative process with the French government in exchange for lifetime pensions for him and Nรญepceโs son. The French then gifted the process to the world
Thatโs it in a nutshell ๐
All caught up?
Letโs go to John Quincy Adams ๐บ๐ธ #POTUS
Richard Nixon ๐บ๐ธ is one of four Presidents who died in New York City:
- James Monroe
- Chester Arthur
- Herbert Hoover
- Richard Nixon #POTUS โค
Interestingly enough, per Richard Nixon's ๐บ๐ธ wishes, none of the elements of the state ceremonies for his funeral occurred in Washington DC. #POTUS โค
Abraham Lincoln ๐บ๐ธ was shot #OTD 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
Booth actually had no intention on shooting Lincoln that night. He stopped by Fordโs Theater to get his mail & heard Lincoln would be there that night w/US Grant ๐บ๐ธ
That got the ball rolling for Booth & his crew #POTUS
THE PLAN
- Booth kills Lincoln & his guest US Grant ๐บ๐ธ
- Lewis Powell kills Sec. of State Wm. Seward at home
- David Herold helps Powell
- George Atzerodt would kill VP Andrew Johnson ๐บ๐ธ in his hotel room
- They would all in Maryland at Mary Surrattโs tavern #POTUS ๐
BOOTH ON THE RUN
John Wilkes Booth & David Herold fled Union troops hot on their trail, fleeing into Virginia, & finally to Richard Garrettโs Farm
They evaded their captors for 12 days
In Garrettโs tobacco barn, Booth would be shot & killed after a standoff with troops #POTUS
Franklin Roosevelt ๐บ๐ธ died #OTD 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. His last known photograph is below. He was sitting for a painting at the time of his death
Harry Truman ๐บ๐ธ was sworn in as President. Record of the event was taken by the White House Chief Usher (below) #POTUS โฅ๏ธ
Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman ๐บ๐ธ:
Eleanor Roosevelt: "Harry, the President is dead.โ
Harry Truman: โIs there anything I can do for you?โ
Eleanor Roosevelt: "Is there anything we can do for you, Harry? For you are the one in trouble now.โ #POTUS ๐บ๐ธ
Franklin Delano Roosevelt ๐บ๐ธ, who died #OTD 1945, is the last President to die in office of a cause other than an assassination. #POTUS โฅ๏ธ
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln ๐บ๐ธ, born #OTD 1809
Enjoy this Lincoln thread! ๐งต
โIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence: โThe short & simple annals of the poor.โ
- Abraham Lincoln #POTUS ๐๐
Kentucky was the birthplace of the first "western" President: Abraham Lincoln ๐บ๐ธ! #POTUS ๐๐
Abraham Lincoln ๐บ๐ธ is the only President to hold a patent. The patentย is anย inventionย to lift boats overย shoalsย and obstructions in a river. #POTUS ๐๐