white house wiki: Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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."

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."

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."

white house wiki: Woodrow Wilson

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

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."

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."