Imperfect men w/mixed legacies ALL said & did stuff. ❤s/RTs, and all content (Washington-Trump) for fun/historic purposes only! || NO POLITICS 😀#POTUS 🇺🇸
One might say the story began when Théobald Chartran painted this amazing portrait of First Lady Edith Roosevelt
Our story begins at a horribly hot July 4th celebration and stone setting ceremony for the Washington Monument - which was newly under construction at the time
Zachary Taylor is 1 of 8 Presidents to have come from Virginia
In the middle of his presidency, Chester Arthur 🇺🇸 was diagnosed with the deadly Bright’s Disease - which would eventually kill him
As most people know, John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
At 9 years old, Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 and his 2 siblings became orphans when their mother died. Herbert ("Bertie") was sent to live in Oregon with his Uncle John and his siblings were sent elsewhere
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
Our story begins in tragedy: President Woodrow Wilson’s 🇺🇸 wife Ellen dying in 1914
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 🇺🇸
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
George Washington
Our story begins in tragedy: President Woodrow Wilson’s 🇺🇸 wife Ellen dying in 1914
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.
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.
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 🇺🇸
In the mid-1830s Louis Daguerre and inventor Joseph-Nicephore Niépce developed a method to permanently capture images onto chemically treated plates (no negatives)
Young Gerald Ford 🇺🇸, ladies and gentlemen.
Richard Nixon 🇺🇸 is one of four Presidents who died in New York City:
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Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇸 was the first President to have once served as Secretary of State (under George Washington 🇺🇸).
Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman 🇺🇸: