The park had huge busts of all of the Presidents to date, each with a sign or two (or three) boiling down the big accomplishments of the guys life to a few hundred well chosen words.

     

Jefferson was one of the guys that had three placards about his life. John Quincy Adams was the first President who was the son of another President. Jackson was the first President whose biggest "accomplishments" they forgot to put on his plaques.

Seems to me there should have been something about "signed Indian Removal Acts" on the above two pages somewhere...

  

These two Presidents are represented in my book collection by these biographies I keep meaning to get around to reading... The introduction to Old Tippecanoes bio explains that he was President during the time when it was hard to find Candidates for the job. Nobody wanted it. (Nowadays the mere thrill of voting for yourself for President gives the New Hampshire Presidential Primary a huge list of choices.) Harrison is now mainly remembered as the guy who gave the longest inaugural address but lived in the White House for the shortest period.

Lincoln was the only President with a gazebo nearby where you could sit and contemplate his face and time in office.

I'm thunderstruck that they managed to leave out explicit mention of the Civil War. Why was Blackhawks War more important than that?

     

I was born during Eisenhower's term. The first President I really remember was Nixon. To date, Carter is the only occupant of the White house I've voted for. I went to the polls for the first time to do that in November of 1976. I vaguely remember the experience.

Someone once told me that so far Eisenhower is the only President with a German-American name.

I think they should update this one to mention his Nobel Peace Prize....

George Herbert Walker Bush was the President that made me into an activist. The unrelenting negativity of his '88 Campaign was my first really sour political experience. I joined the Green Party so I could ignore the inevitable '92 follow up by working on my own campaign.

I saw that "Only President to parachute out of an airplane", and I got a "they must be scrambling to find an 'ONLY' for him that sounds good" feeling.

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