-John Adams: picnicking by the Potomac
-Millard Fillmore: officiating graduation ceremonies
-William Howard Taft: hot dogs
-Dwight Eisenhower: as much golf as possible
-Richard Nixon: frolicking through a meadow
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Presidents and their Favorite May Pastimes
May 18, 2012Presidents who Couldn’t Stand the Heat and thus Got Out of the Kitchen
December 6, 2011-Thomas Jefferson
-William Henry Harrison (enjoyed the cold more)
-William Howard Taft (attempted to stand it, but could not)
-Richard Nixon
How to Celebrate Presidents’ Birthdays, Part 1
November 21, 2011Washington and Lincoln have their birthdays celebrated in February, but unbeknownst to most Americans is when and how to celebrate the birthdays of the other presidents. This handy list should fit perfectly on refrigerators or taped to calendars.
January 7 – Millard Fillmore: Be a dick to everyone.
January 9 – Richard Nixon: Plant a tree. Or, protect a tree if it’s too cold out.
January 29 – William McKinley: Annex a series of tiny islands.
January 30 – Franklin D. Roosevelt: Do something fun and keep at it.
February 6 – Ronald Reagan: Have a movie marathon. Or sell some weapons to an Iranian.
February 9 – William Henry Harrison: Plan something, but stop doing it way too early.
March 15 – Andrew Jackson: Do what you feel like.
March 16 – James Madison: Confirm the fact that your parents can’t claim you as a dependent anymore by attempting to take control of their shed.
March 18 – Grover Cleveland: Grill the biggest burgers you can find. Do that for lunch, take a break, then do it for dinner as well.
March 29 – John Tyler: Create the circumstances to have a grandchild alive 150 years after your death.
April 13 – Thomas Jefferson: Buy a significant portion of land from the French. Or get to know a black lady.
April 23 – James Buchanan: Pick a fight with some Mormons.
April 27 – Ulysses S. Grant: Spend time with friends.
April 28 – James Monroe: Have some good feelings.
May 8 – Harry S Truman: Do something unexpected of you.
May 29 – John F. Kennedy: Remember the moon.
June 12 – George HW Bush: Note that today is the only presidential birthday in June, find it slightly interesting, and then forget it.
July 4 – Calvin Coolidge: Typical Independence Day fare, just be very quiet about it.
Presidents’ Favorite Costumes
October 31, 2011In this special Halloween Night journal posting, LP investigates the favorite costumes of several of the presidents.
-John Adams: a vampire
-Martin Van Buren: Andrew Jackson
-Abraham Lincoln: ninja
-William Howard Taft: a judge
-Franklin D. Roosevelt: Prof. X
-Richard Nixon: zombie Richard Nixon
-Ronald Reagan: cowboy
-Bill Clinton: hobo
Great Presidential Quotes #6
September 6, 2011“A man is not finished when he’s defeated; he’s finished when he quits.”
- Richard M. Nixon, on losing to Vice President Spiro Agnew in a game of checkers, shortly before flipping the board over and walking away from the table
Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For…
August 25, 2011-Don’t blame me, I voted for John Adams (1789 and 1792)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Thomas Jefferson (1796)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Aaron Burr (1800)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804 and 1808)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for DeWitt Clinton (1812)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Rufus King (1816)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for John Quincy Adams (1820 and 1828)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Andrew Jackson (1824)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Henry Clay (1832 and 1844)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for William Henry Harrison (1836)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Martin van Buren (1840)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Lewis Cass (1848)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Winfield Scott (1852)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for John C. Frémont (1856)
-Good thing I didn’t vote for John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen Douglas (1860), or George McClellan (1864)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Horatio Seymour (1868)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Horace Greeley (1872)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Samuel J. Tilden (1876)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Winfield Scott Hancock (1880)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for James G. Blaine (1884)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Grover Cleveland (1888)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Benjamin Harrison (1892)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for William Jennings Bryan (1892, 1900, and 1908)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Alton B. Parker (1904)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Teddy Roosevelt (1912)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Charles Evans Hughes (1916)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for James M. Cox (1920)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for John W. Davis (1924)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Al Smith (1928)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Herbert Hoover (1932)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Alf Landon (1936)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Wendell Willkie (1940)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Thomas E. Dewey (1944 and 1948)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Adlai Stevenson (1952 and 1956)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Richard Nixon (1960)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Barry Goldwater (1964)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Hubert H. Humphrey (1968)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for…uh, George McGovern…nevermind (1972)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Gerald Ford (1976)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Jimmy Carter (1980)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Walter Mondale (1984)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Michael Dukakis (1988)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for George HW Bush (1992)
-Don’t blame me, I voted for Bob Dole…Bob Dole Bob Dole Bob Dole (1996)
Rap/Hip Hop Lyrics Inspired by Presidents
May 30, 2011-Grover Cleveland: “Nothing but a G thing, baby.”
-William McKinley: “Call me Mr. Flintstone, I can make your bed rock.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt: “They see me rollin’, they hatin’.”
-Richard Nixon: “What you know about that? What you know about that? What you know about that? I know all about that.” (also “It’s tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time. It’s tricky.”)
Presidents who Learned It from Watching You
March 10, 2011-Richard Nixon
-Warren G. Harding
-Andrew Johnson
-Martin Van Buren
Things Nixon Will Tell You if You Asked Him About Watergate
July 6, 2010-Nothing.
-He’ll just stare at you for 15 minutes until you either walk away or change the subject.
-But if you have a tape recorder, you can just forget the whole thing.
Presidents’ First Choices for Vice President
June 18, 2010Due to the nature of party politics, presidents do not always get to run with the people that they would prefer to be their vice presidents. Here is a short list of some people that the presidents would have rather served with:
George Washington: None
Andrew Jackson: Henry Clay-Jackson dreamed about making Henry Clay his vice president so that he could rub Clay’s face in the fact that he was president and Clay was not.
William McKinley: Mark Hanna-McKinley thought that Hanna would be a better vice president than Theodore Roosevelt, who he considered wild and unpredictable. However, some historians believe that Cuba would have invaded the United States in 1902 had Hanna been in the Oval Office.
Richard M. Nixon: Sammy Davis Jr.
