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 >>Toward the end of the Civil War, when meat was an almost unobtainable luxury for Lee, he lived chiefly on boiled cabbage.
Continue reading >>In 1962, when Kennedy was President, he arranged a White House dinner for a group of intellectuals, most of them Nobel Prize winners in their respective fields.
Continue reading >>Undistinguished and often shabby in appearance, Ulysses S. Grant did not recommend himself to strangers by his looks.
Continue reading >>While Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts, two of the state senators had an argument, which ended in one telling the other that he could "go to hell."
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