Tuesday, January 20, 2009

white house wiki: Barack Obama

"In his victory speech, delivered before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of his supporters in Chicago's Grant Park, Obama proclaimed that "change has come to America"."

Sunday, January 18, 2009

white house wiki: George W. Bush

"In 2006, 744 professional historians surveyed by Siena College regarded Bush's presidency as follows: Great: 2%; Near Great: 5%; Average: 11%; Below Average: 24%; Failure: 58%."

Saturday, January 17, 2009

white house wiki: Bill Clinton

"ABC News characterized public consensus on Clinton as, "You can't trust him, he's got weak morals and ethics – and he's done a heck of a good job."

Friday, January 16, 2009

white house wiki: George H. W. Bush

However, his fury during an interview with CBS's Dan Rather largely put the "wimp" issue to rest.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

white house wiki: Ronald Reagan

"It is possible, but not certain, that the horse accident affected the course of Reagan's memory."

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

white house wiki: Jimmy Carter

"Carter was never a segregationist, and refused to join the segregationist White Citizens' Council, prompting a boycott of his peanut warehouse."

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

white house wiki: Gerald Ford

"Ford hoped to attend Yale's law school beginning in 1935 while serving as boxing coach and assistant varsity football coach; and also teaching JV cheerleading, which he was very good at, as he knew how to do several tucks and back handsprings but Yale officials initially denied his admission to the law school, because of his full-time coaching responsibilities."

Monday, January 12, 2009

white house wiki: Richard Nixon

"In January 1938 Nixon was cast in the Whittier Community Players production of The Dark Tower."

Sunday, January 11, 2009

white house wiki: Lyndon B. Johnson

"Appears as a character in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater."

Saturday, January 10, 2009

white house wiki: John F. Kennedy

"One suggestion that was rejected was that the State of West Virginia be renamed in Kennedy's honor."

Friday, January 9, 2009

white house wiki: Dwight D. Eisenhower

"When Eisenhower joined the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1911, his ties to Jehovah’s Witnesses were weakened because of the group's anti-militarist stance. [citation needed]"

Thursday, January 8, 2009

white house wiki: Harry Truman

"MacArthur meanwhile, returned to the United States to a hero's welcome, and, after his famous address before Congress—which Truman was reported to have said was a bunch of "damn bullshit."

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

white house wiki: Franklin D. Roosevelt

"(They had previously met as children, but this was their first serious encounter.)"

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

white house wiki: Herbert Hoover

"In addition to having his train and motorcades pelted with eggs and rotten fruit, he was often heckled while speaking, and on several occasions, the Secret Service halted attempts to kill Hoover by disgruntled citizens, including capturing one man nearing Hoover carrying sticks of dynamite, and another actually already having removed several spikes from the rails in front of the President's train."

Monday, January 5, 2009

white house wiki: Calvin Coolidge

"Not long after their marriage, Coolidge handed her a bag with fifty-two pairs of socks in it, all of them full of holes."

Sunday, January 4, 2009

white house wiki: Warren G. Harding

"His formal education was limited, he had a longstanding affair with the wife of an old friend, and he was a social drinker in the time of Prohibition."

Saturday, January 3, 2009

white house wiki: Woodrow Wilson

"He composed speeches and other writings with two fingers on a little Hammond typewriter."

Friday, January 2, 2009

white house wiki: William Howard Taft

"After a fire burned much of the town of Moron, California, during the 1920s, it was renamed Taft, California, in his honor."

Thursday, January 1, 2009

white house wiki: Theodore Roosevelt

"Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately."