William Henry Harrison’s Records

-Fastest sprint speed (8.76 mph), 1796
-Fastest trip down the Mississippi (6 days), 1824
-Fastest luge (1m24s), 1839
-Fastest presidency (30 days), 1841

Jefferson vs. Adams

While Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were friendly outside the realm of politics, they disagreed ideologically. This resulted in several bouts of “intellectual boxing,” as they referred to it, in which they would match their wits about government and philosophy until one man could not go further and conceded. This took place very unofficially in the back alleyway outside of whatever courthouse or meeting hall they were using at the time (many meeting halls and courthouses had these secluded back alleys as a way to sneak unpopular defendents or politicians into the building). In one of their earliest matches in 1780, Jefferson ended up unexpectedly hashing out a crude version of the Virginia Plan of government, which of course would be compromised into the governmental structure we have today.

Things Coolidge Doesn’t Need

-A vice-president
-Two full terms
-Words

Bands Featuring Presidents

-Care to Duel (Andrew Jackson)
-John Quincy Adams and the Alligators
-World War Fun (Woodrow Wilson)
-Lou Reed and the Primitives (Dwight Eisenhower on violin and bass)

Original research submitted by Clustence P. Blatz.

Presidents who Have Thrown Men Out of White House Windows

-Andrew Jackson
-Theodore Roosevelt
-Gerald Ford

Reagan’s Other Ideas

Ronald Reagan had other ideas stemming from that fateful night he watched Star Wars. These were his other ideas, the last of which was successfully enacted.

-Back to the Future: send a great actor back through time to teach Reagan how to be a better actor.
-The Terminator: send a robot back through time to kill Krushchev.
-The Empire Strikes Back: build giant animal-looking machines to invade Siberia, or as Reagan called it “the Russian Hoth.”
-Gremlins: pass a ban on gremlins outside reservations in the United States.

Alternate Names Proposed for the League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson, in constructing his idea for the League of Nations, was indecisive with regards to the name of the organization. These are a few of his rejected ideas.

-Confederacy of Countries
-Ambassadors without Borders
-The United Seven
-Congress of Europe II: Weekend in Vienna

John Quincy Adams’s Short-Lived Craze

It is well documented and known that John Quincy Adams enjoyed swimming naked in the Potomac River in the morning, but what’s not well known is that for a brief time, skinny-dipping alone became a national craze–practically an epidemic. There was even a time when telling someone you were going to “swim an Adams” meant you would be ridding yourself of people and clothes to swim in a local river or lake. However fun this may have been, it was also very scandalous. The Adams expression was used only in the closest of friends (and only rarely in that company), and telling anyone that you skinny dipped was seen as utterly scandalous, fitting in with the general feelings of the time. As a result, people rarely admitted to swimming an Adams, and thus it is commonly forgotten today.

FDR and the Manhattan Project

Due to the highly experimental and potentially dangerous nature of the Manhattan Project, FDR wanted to have all his bases covered in event of the worst case scenario. Before being allowed to participate in the Project, scientists would be required to not only sign a waiver swearing to secrecy but also to agree to some odd terms. For example, each scientist was instructed to burn a mark into his right hand immediately after any sort of accidental cloning; this mark would denote who the original or “real” version of the scientist was. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, was told by Roosevelt to prepare letters to his family in case of his disappearance or death due to many things from vaporization to accidental time travel.

LP Update

Greetings, once again. The late lack of posts was caused by a new addition to the site. Lincoln’s Playlist is expanding; no longer will lists be the exclusive provincw of the site, but facts will now be included. After all, what is a list but a completely stripped down sentence or paragraph of facts?

In order to celebrate this new expansion of information, we will be posting a mixture of facts and lists and facts with lists for the remainder of the posts this week. Please enjoy, and if you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to let us know at presidentiallists@gmail.com. (Don’t forget, you can still submit your own research for publication in this prestigious locale.)

Happy listing, all.