By a strange coincidence Jefferson and his old rival John Adams both died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1826. On the evening of July 3, Jefferson was in bed, his life ebbing rapidly. "This is the Fourth?" he whispered
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Shortly before he left the White House, Roosevelt, planning a big-game hunting trip to Africa, heard that a famous white hunter was visiting Washington. He invited the man to come along and give him some advice. After a two-hour tête-à-tête the hunter cam
Continue reading >>When I was a boy, I had to study Latin grammar, but it was dull, and I hated it. My father was anxious to send me to college, and therefore I studied the grammar, till I could bear it no longer, and going to my father, I told him I did not like study, an
Continue reading >>In 1976, Ford lost his bid for the presidency to Jimmy Carter by only a small margin. He consoled himself by noting that he had lost "a close one," but he was tremendously disappointed all the same.
Continue reading >>At the signing of the first draft of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock, one of the signatories, observed, "We must be unanimous, we must all hang together." Franklin replied, "We must indeed all hang together — or, most assuredly, we shall all
Continue reading >>Robert Todd Lincoln was home from Harvard on a visit at the time that his father was assassinated. After the shooting he sat by his father's bedside until he died. He had no political ambitions, preferring the life of a lawyer.
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