Presidential TriviaGibbs Smith, 2009 - Humor From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book-Presidential Trivia. In it you'll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as : Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but cerainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our Tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff. |
Contents
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Patterns of the Presidency | 42 |
Presidents under Fire | 66 |
Presidents in the Media | 76 |
More Fascinating Facts about Our Presidents | 90 |
Inaugurations Omens of Things to Come | 98 |
Presidential Nicknames | 110 |
Right down the Middle | 114 |
Whats in a Presidents Name? | 118 |
What It Takes to be President | 126 |
Running Mates | 132 |
First Ladies Rule | 142 |
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Page 39 - No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Page 82 - Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may...
Page 99 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years ; a...
Page 130 - You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
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Page 48 - Here was buried THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.
Page 147 - I studied every paper, sent from the different Secretaries or Senators, and tried to digest and present in tabloid form the things that, despite my vigilance, had to go to the President. I, myself, never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs. The only decision that was mine was what was important and what was not, and the very important decision of when to present matters to my husband.
Page 86 - But as I leave you I want you to know — just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you.