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Mount Vernon, George Washington's Fairfax County, Virginia plantation home Peacefield, the home of John Adams and John Quincy Adams in Quincy, Massachusetts Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Albemarle County, Virginia plantation home; appears on the back of the U.S. nickel Montpelier, James Madison's Orange County, Virginia plantation home Lincoln Home, Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois ...
The man Carter snatched the presidency from, Gerald Ford, was the first former president to take advantage of the plentiful opportunities to make money that now come easily to former occupants of ...
He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10] Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once. [11]
Several presidents were unmarried for all or part of their administration. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Chester A. Arthur, and Martin Van Buren were widowed prior to becoming president and remained unmarried during their administration; in these cases, family members acted in the place of First Lady and White House host.
Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who vowed to restore morality and truth to politics after an era of White House scandal and who redefined post-presidential service, died ...
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.Serving as vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Vice President Johnson was riding in a car behind the president with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. Immediately after shots were fired, Johnson was thrown down and sat on by Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood, [1] and the President's and Vice President's cars sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital. [2]
Once, he invited the group for lunch at Mar-a-Lago, where membership now costs $1 million, and the well-heeled jockey for access to the president. Kelley missed that one rally and still kicks herself.