As we move into Day Eight of our Republic held at bay, the Nation has already witnessed queasy markets, castigated park rangers, suicidal hygienists and some epic hypocrisy. So, as each and all of us Americans whistle past the graveyard together on the way to the Son of Debt Ceiling, perhaps we should pause to […]
Category: Presidential Facts
Random Presidential Facts: Lyndon Baines Johnson
President Johnson was the only President to take Oath of Office on an airplane (Air Force One), the only President to be administered the oath by a woman (Federal Judge Sarah T. Hughes), and the only President to take the oath with a woman serving as his witness (Jacqueline Kennedy). Every member of the First […]
Random Presidential Facts: George W. Bush (yeah, that guy)
President George W. Bush and his father President George H. W Bush can trace their American lineage to 17th century Massachusetts colonist, Samuel Hinckley. Other influential people who can trace their lineage to Mr. Hinckley, thus making them cousins are: Presidents Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S Truman and James Madison. Other distant […]