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Rutherford B. Hayes: first sitting president to visit the West Coast. List of United States presidential firsts
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# ? Jun 8, 2016 06:49 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 00:34 |
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James Madison: First President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches. Good to know.
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# ? Jun 8, 2016 08:02 |
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NumberLast posted:No I meant how well he'd fair in an SA election. He'd get 90%
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 02:11 |
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Platystemon posted:Rutherford B. Hayes: first sitting president to visit the West Coast.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 03:34 |
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Platystemon posted:Rutherford B. Hayes: first sitting president to visit the West Coast. quote:William McKinley: I guess he found the Monkey's Paw.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 04:05 |
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Bill Clinton's firsts is pretty anemic.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 04:36 |
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Anybody else fool around in the Oval Office? I guess we wouldn't know.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 04:41 |
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Alikchi posted:Anybody else fool around in the Oval Office? I guess we wouldn't know. If anyone, JFK.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 04:43 |
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Alikchi posted:Anybody else fool around in the Oval Office? I guess we wouldn't know. In the goon timeline clearly Fremont the freemounter.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 04:48 |
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Alikchi posted:Anybody else fool around in the Oval Office? I guess we wouldn't know. Does the Oval Office closet count? quote:" We had been waiting only a very few minutes when
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 05:06 |
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Pakled posted:If anyone, JFK. I remember some artist did portraits of all the supposed presidential mistresses, and JFK's mistresses must have made up 40% of the total number. FDR was also bird-doggin' it
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 12:12 |
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WrightOfWay posted:James Madison: First President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches. It was Madison. Regular knee breeches probably reached to his ankles.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 20:13 |
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Platystemon posted:Rutherford B. Hayes: first sitting president to visit the West Coast. Jimmy Carter: First President born in a hospital huh
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 21:57 |
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Platystemon posted:Rutherford B. Hayes: first sitting president to visit the West Coast. Why did they make a list for George Washington? First president to breathe oxygen. First president to trim his fingernails.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 22:04 |
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I think I'd be more interested in a list of Presidential lasts, like Taft, the last president with facial hair, or Truman, the last president to not have a college education, and then at the bottom it's Obama, the last president.
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 00:58 |
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Jimmy Carter: First President born in a hospital that's interesting, i guess rich people didn't send their wives to the deathtraps that passed for hospitals in the middle ages of medicine, which ended in like 1940. to exaggerate one bit of trivia that has always stuck in my head was the claim that alben barkley was the last vice president to be born in a log cabin. i don't know who the last such president was edit: one surprising thing i see in that article is it took until garfield for a lefty (or ambidexter) to become president. i guess they were still beating the poo poo out of lefty kids back then, maybe it's that simple of an explanation. 4 of the last 5 have been lefties but it looks like righties will take it this year - apparently of the billion candidates for president this year only rand paul, lindsey graham, and lessig (lol) are lefties oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 01:26 on Jun 10, 2016 |
# ? Jun 10, 2016 01:07 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think I'd be more interested in a list of Presidential lasts, like Taft, the last president with facial hair, or Truman, the last president to not have a college education, and then at the bottom it's Obama, the last president. Last president to own slaves? Last president to kill somebody in a duel Jackson, of course, dualed like a motherfucker
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 01:13 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Last president to kill somebody in a duel Lincoln won a duel by intimidating the other man into forfeiting. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 01:56 on Jun 10, 2016 |
# ? Jun 10, 2016 01:54 |
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Is Burr the only sitting Vice President or President to actually personally kill somebody while in office?
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 01:58 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:Last president to own slaves? Grant if you count his marriage to his wife. Zachary Taylor if you don't. Nebakenezzer posted:Last president to kill somebody in a duel Andrew Jackson. Though he dueled 120 times, he only ever killed one person. James Madison is (probably) the last sitting president to personally kill someone while in office, having briefly led a militia during the War of 1812. Empress Theonora posted:Is Burr the only sitting Vice President or President to actually personally kill somebody while in office? Personally? Hannibal Hamlin served in a militia unit during the Civil War, though never in any combat capacity. There's been a bunch of Vice-Presidents who probably killed themselves through dumb life choices. oystertoadfish posted:edit: one surprising thing i see in that article is it took until garfield for a lefty (or ambidexter) to become president. i guess they were still beating the poo poo out of lefty kids back then, maybe it's that simple of an explanation. 4 of the last 5 have been lefties but it looks like righties will take it this year - apparently of the billion candidates for president this year only rand paul, lindsey graham, and lessig (lol) are lefties Garfield liked to use his ambidextrous abilities for parties. He would have someone dictate to him and translate it to Latin in one hand and Greek in the other. QuoProQuid has issued a correction as of 02:25 on Jun 10, 2016 |
# ? Jun 10, 2016 02:22 |
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QuoProQuid posted:Personally? Hannibal Hamlin served in a militia unit during the Civil War, though never in any combat capacity.. If you count ordering people's deaths I doubt any president hasn't. QuoProQuid posted:Grant if you count his marriage to his wife. Zachary Taylor if you don't. Brutal. Also accurate.
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 03:02 |
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NumberLast posted:Brutal. Also accurate. ?
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 03:10 |
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Empress Theonora posted:Is Burr the only sitting Vice President or President to actually personally kill somebody while in office? well Cheney certainly gave it the old college try
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 03:38 |
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I feel like Biden might have shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 08:50 |
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I don't know, just did my best to look it up but found nothing except a ton more evidence of what an incompetent idiot Grant was. Nothing that indicates he treated his wife poorly or anything, that I can find. GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 17:52 on Jun 10, 2016 |
# ? Jun 10, 2016 17:36 |
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QuoProQuid posted:Andrew Jackson. Though he dueled 120 times, he only ever killed one person. I think even this thread will be impressed with the one kill: quote:Because dueling was outlawed in Tennessee, the two men met in the Adairville, Kentucky area, which sits right on the border, on May 30, 1806. Dickinson left Nashville the day before the duel with his second and a group of friends, confident, even demonstrating his shooting skills at various stops along the way. Since Dickinson was considered an expert shot, Jackson and his friend, Thomas Overton, determined it would be best to let Dickinson fire first, hoping that his aim might be spoiled in his quickness. The obvious weakness of this strategy was, of course, that Jackson might not be alive to take aim.[2]:140–141
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 21:18 |
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That Jackson, what a pussy, letting the other guy shoot first and not having the decency to drop dead from a bullet to the chest.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 00:15 |
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The man had to stand there and receive the shot, I'm surprised Jackson didn't try to just beat him to death with his pistol instead of even firing.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 01:09 |
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Thump! posted:The man had to stand there and receive the shot, I'm surprised Jackson didn't try to just beat him to death with his pistol instead of even firing. I would have just jumped out of the way. Sure, everyone would give you poo poo about having no honour and jackson could clown on you for the rest of your life but at least you'd have a rest of your life.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 01:17 |
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UrbicaMortis posted:I would have just jumped out of the way. Sure, everyone would give you poo poo about having no honour and jackson could clown on you for the rest of your life but at least you'd have a rest of your life. This sort of person just turns down the dueling challenge to begin with
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 01:21 |
GlyphGryph posted:This sort of person just turns down the dueling challenge to begin with Yeah, dueling was a loving stupid part of society at the time that rich folk just kinda went along with because maintaining reputation was the end-all and be-all for them. I think society may have also been a little more fatalistic in the past than it is today, seeing as how sudden illness or infection could kill a healthy young man for no good reason and lovely medical care did more harm than good for a lot of people. If you're going to die at 45, may as well be defending your honor instead of consumption.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 01:42 |
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I'm only a little surprised that the Jeb!-Trump died didn't end in daddy telling his son to challenge that orange yam to a duel.
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 01:44 |
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UrbicaMortis posted:I would have just jumped out of the way. Sure, everyone would give you poo poo about having no honour and jackson could clown on you for the rest of your life but at least you'd have a rest of your life. youre wrong because ~the south~ we need to put all our tax dollars into resurrecting sherman e: biden/zombie sherman 2016 and also every year forward and back
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 19:05 |
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Where's the election results? Where's my pa????
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# ? Jun 14, 2016 23:13 |
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Corek posted:Where's the election results? Where's my pa???? gone to the white house, haw haw haw
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# ? Jun 15, 2016 02:15 |
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In 1920 "Pa" Ferguson will be running as a minor candidate and you bet your rear end I'll vote for him.
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# ? Jun 15, 2016 19:39 |
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I assume grover cleveland has declared himself president-for-life in the absence of regular elections.
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# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:06 |
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Theodore Roosevelt just had a weird feeling in his election parts. Also android suggests Roosevelt after typing Theodore which owns.
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# ? Jun 19, 2016 04:03 |
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Corek posted:I assume grover cleveland has declared himself president-for-life in the absence of regular elections. Oh come on, who ever heard of Cleveland winning anything
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# ? Jun 22, 2016 16:50 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 00:34 |
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Should we just have someone else take over the thread? We're so behind at this point that I'd be willing to bang out a few elections right quick. Wouldn't be nearly as good at them, but hey, we've still got a lot of history to go so...
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# ? Jun 24, 2016 21:42 |