Imperfect men w/mixed legacies ALL said & did stuff. ❤s/RTs, and all content (Washington-Biden) for fun/historic purposes only! || NO POLITICS 😀#POTUS 🇺🇸
Nov 24, 2024 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Happy Birthday Zachary Taylor 🇺🇸 born #OTD 1784!
Zachary Taylor was the first President to hold no prior elected office
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Zachary Taylor is 1 of 8 Presidents to have come from Virginia
The others:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Woodrow Wilson
All were slave owners except Wilson (he was born before slavery was outlawed)
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Nov 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Chester A. Arthur 🇺🇸 died #OTD (1886) of Bright’s Disease in New York City - one of four Presidents who died in NYC:
- James Monroe
- Chester Arthur
- Herbert Hoover
- Richard Nixon
Enjoy this brief thread about the death of one of America’s most underrated Presidents
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In the middle of his presidency, Chester Arthur 🇺🇸 was diagnosed with the deadly Bright’s Disease - which would eventually kill him
The press picked up on the news but Arthur’s administration denied the story and the American public forgot about it…until he died
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Aug 18, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
👀 BEHIND THE SCENES 👀
My series based on the stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents
Today’s subject:
John F. Kennedy’s 🇺🇸 original casket
Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!
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@JFKLibrary
As most people know, John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
After he was shot he was immediately driven to Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced dead
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Aug 10, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Happy 150th Birthday to Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 born #OTD 1874 in West Branch, Iowa - the first President born west of the Mississippi River.
Enjoy this Herbie thread!
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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
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May 4, 2024 • 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 ⬇️!
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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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Apr 5, 2024 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
👀 BEHIND THE SCENES 👀
My series based on the stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents
Today’s subject:
“Madam President
Edith Wilson 🇺🇸?”
Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!
#POTUS
@WWilsonHouse
Our story begins in tragedy: President Woodrow Wilson’s 🇺🇸 wife Ellen dying in 1914
Wilson would write:
“My heart has somehow been stricken, dumb…She was beyond comparison the deepest, truest, noblest lover, I ever knew.”
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Feb 10, 2024 • 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 🇺🇸
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 🇺🇸
@LBJLibrary@VVAmerica@VVMF
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
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. #POTUS ⬇️
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...
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 🇺🇸
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 ⬇️! #POTUS @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 📷
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 🎂🎈
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. #POTUS 🎂🎈
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 #POTUS ❤
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 #POTUS 💔
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) #POTUS 🎂🎈
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.” #POTUS 🇺🇸
“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 🇺🇸! #POTUS 🎂🎈
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) #POTUS 🇺🇸