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RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-22-2013
Harry Truman?
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 01-22-2013
Too recent. You're not too hot on this one. In fact, you're rather cool
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-22-2013
Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge?
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 01-22-2013
Bingo, Roger. Col. John Coolidge, a Notary Public, was the only man to administer the Presidential Oath to his own son. When asked by a reporter how he knew he could administer the oath, Coolidge replied in the taciturn fashion inherited by his son, "I didn't know I couldn't." (Coolidge took the oath again when he returned to Washington) He removed the phone to the front porch as soon as his son headed back to Washington.
The Correct Answer Review Board has decided to award you some Vermont cheddar. I'll ship it today. Congrats!
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-22-2013
Thanks, Joe. Love that Correct Answer Review Board.
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-22-2013
Charles Lindbergh once asked a First Lady to go for an airplane ride. She turned him down. Who was she?
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - J. Beckert - 01-22-2013
Grace Coolidge. He also asked the President who declined for them both. Back at ya.
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-22-2013
Kudos, Joe.
You win the free flight with Charles Lindbergh.
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Hess1865 - 01-22-2013
Who was the only President that was an executioner??
Really!
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - LincolnMan - 01-22-2013
I read about this years ago. It's a great question! The answer is Grover Cleveland. He was a sheriff somewhere- and executed a murderer.
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Hess1865 - 01-23-2013
Correct!!
Cleveland was the High Sheriff for Erie County in New York, so he presided over some of the hangings. His view was that he would do whatever job his men were asked to do too, so he did a few!!
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-23-2013
Abigail Adams wrote the following about a man:
"I found him social, but not talkative, and when he spoke something useful dropped from his tongue; he was grave, yet pleasant, and affable."
She was writing about whom? (not her husband)
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Rob Wick - 01-23-2013
Thomas Jefferson?
Best
Rob
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - RJNorton - 01-23-2013
Excellent guess, Rob! But that's not it.
Hint #1: The answer is an extremely well-known name in American history, but he never became a president.
RE: New Topic - Presidents and First Ladies Trivia - Linda Anderson - 01-23-2013
Benjamin Franklin?