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Imperfect men w/mixed legacies ALL said & did stuff. ❤s/RTs, and all content (Washington-Biden) for fun/historic purposes only! || NO POLITICS 😀#POTUS 🇺🇸
May 4 14 tweets 5 min read
👀 "BEHIND THE SCENES” 👀

Stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents

Today’s subject:
Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 Meets
Adolf Hitler

Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!

#POTUS 🧵 Image Like many people, I was just as shocked when I learned that a meeting took place between the recently defeated ex-President Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 and the fledgling leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler

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Feb 10 10 tweets 4 min read
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! 🧵

#POTUS 🇺🇸 Image 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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Jun 4, 2023 6 tweets 5 min read
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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@LBJLibrary @VVAmerica @VVMF Image 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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Mar 1, 2023 13 tweets 15 min read
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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Nov 6, 2022 12 tweets 7 min read
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!

#POTUS 📃 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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Nov 5, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
"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.
#POTUS ⬇️ 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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Sep 23, 2022 10 tweets 7 min read
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! 🧵

#POTUS 🇺🇸 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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Jul 16, 2022 8 tweets 6 min read
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
Jul 14, 2022 8 tweets 6 min read
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
#POTUS 🎂🎈 Image 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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Apr 22, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
Richard Nixon 🇺🇸 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
#POTUS 🇺🇸 Richard Nixon 🇺🇸 is one of four Presidents who died in New York City:
- James Monroe
- Chester Arthur
- Herbert Hoover
- Richard Nixon
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Apr 14, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸 was shot #OTD 1865 by John Wilkes Booth

Booth actually had no intention on shooting Lincoln that night. He stopped by Ford’s Theater to get his mail & heard Lincoln would be there that night w/US Grant 🇺🇸

That got the ball rolling for Booth & his crew
#POTUS THE PLAN
- Booth kills Lincoln & his guest US Grant 🇺🇸
- Lewis Powell kills Sec. of State Wm. Seward at home
- David Herold helps Powell
- George Atzerodt would kill VP Andrew Johnson 🇺🇸 in his hotel room
- They would all in Maryland at Mary Surratt’s tavern
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Apr 13, 2022 7 tweets 5 min read
Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1743

He served in the Virginia House of Burgesses with George Washington 🇺🇸 under Great Britain before the Revolutionary War.

John Adams 🇺🇸 also served The Crown in the Massachusetts House of Representatives
#POTUS 🎂🎈 Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸 was the first President to have once served as Secretary of State (under George Washington 🇺🇸).

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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Apr 12, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read
Franklin Roosevelt 🇺🇸 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 🇺🇸 was sworn in as President. Record of the event was taken by the White House Chief Usher (below)
#POTUS ♥️ Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman 🇺🇸:

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Harry, the President is dead.”
Harry Truman: “Is there anything I can do for you?”
Eleanor Roosevelt: "Is there anything we can do for you, Harry? For you are the one in trouble now.”
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Feb 12, 2022 13 tweets 8 min read
Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1809

Enjoy this Lincoln thread! 🧵

“It 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: “The short & simple annals of the poor.”
- Abraham Lincoln
#POTUS 🎂🎈 Kentucky was the birthplace of the first "western" President: Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸!
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Feb 9, 2022 15 tweets 9 min read
Happy Birthday to William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸, born #OTD 1773!

William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 holds the record for shortest Presidency - one month.
#POTUS 🎂🎈 8 Presidents were born as British subjects in British America 🇬🇧
- 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)
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