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BEHIND THE SCENES

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

Today’s subject:
**This** famous photo of Lyndon Baines Johnson 🇺🇸

Enjoy the brief thread below ⬇️!

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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 🇺🇸 the hardest

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“I guess we’ve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. I think everybody’s going to think, ‘we’re landing the Marines, we’re off to battle.’”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 🇺🇸
6 March 1965.

On 8 March 1965 the first combat troops touched the beaches of Danang

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At the beginning of Vietnam's escalation Lyndon Johnson 🇺🇸 would go to the Lincoln Bedroom at around 2am and stayed for hours, continuously calling the Situation Room to sadly learn "how many of my boys were out there...and how many of my boys didn't come back today"

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In the midst of this, Lyndon Johnson’s 🇺🇸 daughter Lynda Johnson began a romance w/White House military aide Charles Robb

They were engaged and married in December 1967

Capt. Robb was to serve in Vietnam so the wedding was arranged so they could have time together

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Capt. Robb was off to Vietnam, only adding to the stress of the First Family

Robb would send back taped reports from Vietnam

It’s here we see his father in law, President Lyndon Johnson 🇺🇸, listening to one of those tapes of the voice of his son-in-law
(31 July 1968)

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Mar 1
So about 300 of you sent me this so I condensed it and added my own commentary 😂😂😂

All the Presidents with mullets!
Thanks to @hamcarless for making these

Enjoy my commentary! 😜😜

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I feel like Ricky Cobb over at @Super70sSports would love this
George Washington
- creepy guy at the bar who monopolizes the juke box

John Adams
- invented the synthesizer

Thomas Jefferson
- author of the Declaration of multiple swinger parties

James Madison
- definitely mows the lawn shirtless and in cutoff jeans

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James Monroe
- nice perm

John Quincy Adams
- “Amadeus, Amadeus!”

Andrew Jackson
- looks exactly the same 😂

Martin Van Buren
- I don’t know but I guarantee he smells like cigarettes

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Nov 6, 2022
The 22nd AMENDMENT :

The Amendment limiting the election of a President of the United States to two terms finds its roots in George Washington 🇺🇸, who opted only for two terms as the first President of the United States.

Enjoy this fun thread on the 22nd Amendment!

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Although there were many in the tradition of George Washington 🇺🇸who served only two-terms, it wasn’t until Franklin Roosevelt 🇺🇸 was elected to a 3rd and 4th term that concerns over unlimited terms began to be taken seriously.
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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 🇺🇸.

Interestingly, Oklahoma and Massachusetts voted to reject the Amendment 🤔
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Nov 5, 2022
"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 & Space Race.

It was authorized by Harry Truman 🇺🇸 in 1946.
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Harry Truman 🇺🇸 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...

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...against Truman's 🇺🇸 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

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Sep 23, 2022
Every now and then I like to highlight characters in history who crossed paths with American Presidents in some way, shape or form.

Today…
I’d like to talk **briefly** about a lawyer named Lambdin Milligan…

Enjoy the thread! 🧵

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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 🇺🇸

But I digress…keep reading!
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Milligan moved to Indiana to continue his law career. There he involved himself in heavy “states rights” politics, and followed guys like John Calhoun and Martin Van Buren 🇺🇸

Milligan eventually identified as a “Copperhead”—a Democrat opposing the Civil War & Lincoln

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Jul 16, 2022
BEHIND THE SCENES

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

Today’s subject:
The John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 daguerreotype

Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!
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@JQASociety
In the mid-1830s Louis Daguerre and inventor Joseph-Nicephore Niépce developed a method to permanently capture images onto chemically treated plates (no negatives)

Níepce died but Daguerre kept working and perfected the process called “daguerreotype” in the late 1830s
#POTUS 📷 LOUIS DAGUERRE
Daguerre negotiated the rights to this innovative process with the French government in exchange for lifetime pensions for him and Níepce’s son. The French then gifted the process to the world

That’s it in a nutshell 😜

All caught up?
Let’s go to John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸
#POTUS Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, a street sceDaguerreotype portrait of General Zachary Taylor in uniform,
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Jul 14, 2022
Happy Birthday Gerald Ford 🇺🇸!
Born #OTD 1913.

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

Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 is the only Vice President and President to not be elected to either position
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Young Gerald Ford 🇺🇸, 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 🇺🇸 asked future POTUS Gerald Ford 🇺🇸 to be on the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸
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