Did you realize that Mary Todd Lincoln dated Stephen Douglass

HISTORY CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY Did you realize that Mary Todd Lincoln dated Stephen Douglass before she wedded Abraham Lincoln? Andrew Johnson had truly no training and taught himself to peruse? The wife of Ulysses S. Award needed the White House more than he did? There was a suspicion that Warren G. Harding's wife, Florence, harmed the president? Truth be told, the dowager was seen addressing her late spouse in his box, and there had been no post-mortem examination.

President Garfield lived for three months in the wake of being shot in the back by a professional killer. No, 31-year-old Jacqueline Kennedy was not the most youthful first woman, on the grounds that widower Grover Cleveland did not wed the wife of his late law accomplice, yet his 21-year-old girl.

Described by the unmistakable voice of Edward Herrman, The History Channel's 2005 "The Presidents" closes with George W. Shrub. It covers every single past president in interesting point of interest. It merits leasing and looking into.

Dolley Madison broadly did of the White House the picture of George Washington, and all the silver she could get her hands on, as the White House was situated burning. Anyhow, there's a lot more.

To begin with Lady Lou Hoover welcomed a dark congressman's wife to tea, and was blamed for polluting the White House. The DAR wouldn't permit Marian Anderson to sing at Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt surrendered from the DAR and had Miss Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial. On December 7, 1941, it was Mrs. Roosevelt who initially declared the besieging of Pearl Harbor on her week after week radio location. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's well known declaration came later.

As Truman entered the White House, it was going into disrepair. Actually, the piano played by his girl Margaret had a leg that jutted into the floor underneath. The White House was reconstructed and overhauled in 1950s manner. This prompted the beautification of the White House by Jacqueline Kennedy, who brought back history, paid for by contributors, including bits of Madison, Lincoln and Washington furniture, and even period wallpaper. The rebuilding was demonstrated on TV in mid 1962.

Betty Ford, the wife of President Gerald Ford, was fiercely famous. Signs were held up perusing "Vote in favor of Betty's spouse." When Ford left office, there were different signs perusing "Would we be able to keep Betty?" Mrs. Passage had been open about her issues with liquor addiction and dependence on professionally prescribed medications, and opened the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California.