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Jul 14 โ€ข 8 tweets โ€ข 6 min read
Happy Birthday Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ!
Born #OTD 1913.

Ford's birth name was actually Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is the only Vice President and President to not be elected to either position
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Young Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, 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.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ asked future POTUS Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ to be on the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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Gerald Ford's ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ poll numbers dropped dramatically when he pardoned Richard Nixon ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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
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Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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.
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HOMETOWN HERO
Presidents and the newspapers in their home state.

Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ (1974)
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Early during Gerald Fordโ€™s ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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.

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The Green Bay @packers attempted to sign future President Gerald Ford ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ out of the University of @UMichFootball but Ford opted to pursue higher education instead
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Jul 16
BEHIND THE SCENES

My new series about the stories behind popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents

Todayโ€™s subject:
The John Quincy Adams ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ daguerreotype

Enjoy the thread below โฌ‡๏ธ!
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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 โ€œdaguerreotypeโ€ in the late 1830s
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Daguerre negotiated the rights to this innovative process with the French government in exchange for lifetime pensions for him and Nรญepceโ€™s son. The French then gifted the process to the world

Thatโ€™s it in a nutshell ๐Ÿ˜œ

All caught up?
Letโ€™s go to John Quincy Adams ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
#POTUS Boulevard du Temple, Paris,...Daguerreotype portrait of G...
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Apr 22
Richard Nixon ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ died #OTD 1994 in New York City
He is buried next to his birthplace in Yorba Linda, California

Presidents attending the funeral
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Ronald Reagan*
- George HW Bush
- President Bill Clinton

*Reagan's last public appearance
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Richard Nixon ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is one of four Presidents who died in New York City:
- James Monroe
- Chester Arthur
- Herbert Hoover
- Richard Nixon
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Interestingly enough, per Richard Nixon's ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ wishes, none of the elements of the state ceremonies for his funeral occurred in Washington DC.
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Apr 14
Abraham Lincoln ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ was shot #OTD 1865 by John Wilkes Booth

Booth actually had no intention on shooting Lincoln that night. He stopped by Fordโ€™s Theater to get his mail & heard Lincoln would be there that night w/US Grant ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

That got the ball rolling for Booth & his crew
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THE PLAN
- Booth kills Lincoln & his guest US Grant ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
- Lewis Powell kills Sec. of State Wm. Seward at home
- David Herold helps Powell
- George Atzerodt would kill VP Andrew Johnson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ in his hotel room
- They would all in Maryland at Mary Surrattโ€™s tavern
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BOOTH ON THE RUN
John Wilkes Booth & David Herold fled Union troops hot on their trail, fleeing into Virginia, & finally to Richard Garrettโ€™s Farm

They evaded their captors for 12 days

In Garrettโ€™s tobacco barn, Booth would be shot & killed after a standoff with troops
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Apr 13
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, born #OTD 1743

He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses with George Washington ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ under Great Britain before the Revolutionary War.

John Adams ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ also served The Crown in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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Thomas Jefferson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ was the first President to have once served as Secretary of State (under George Washington ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ).

This means he was also part of the first ever Presidential Cabinet.

You can read about it in the @lmchervinsky book "The Cabinet" (see pic)
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As President, Thomas Jefferson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ had ZERO vetoes in his 8 years.
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Apr 12
Franklin Roosevelt ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 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 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ was sworn in as President. Record of the event was taken by the White House Chief Usher (below)
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Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ:

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Harry, the President is dead.โ€
Harry Truman: โ€œIs 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€
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, who died #OTD 1945, is the last President to die in office of a cause other than an assassination.
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Feb 12
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ, born #OTD 1809

Enjoy this Lincoln thread! ๐Ÿงต

โ€œIt 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: โ€œThe short & simple annals of the poor.โ€
- Abraham Lincoln
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Kentucky was the birthplace of the first "western" President: Abraham Lincoln ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ!
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Abraham Lincoln ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ is the only President to hold a patent. The patentย is anย inventionย to lift boats overย shoalsย and obstructions in a river.
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