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 instruction and taught himself to peruse? The wife of Ulysses S. Stipend needed the White House more than he did? There was a suspicion that Warren G. Harding's wife, Florence, harmed the president? Indeed, the dowager was seen identifying with her late spouse in his pine box, and there had been no dissection.

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, since 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. Bramble. It covers every single past president in intriguing subtle element. It merits leasing and surveying.

Dolley Madison broadly did of the White House the picture of George Washington, and additionally all the silver she could get her hands on, as the White House was set on fire. Be that as it may, there's quite a lot more.

Initially 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 reported the bombarding of Pearl Harbor on her week by week radio location. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's popular declaration came later.

As Truman entered the White House, it was going into disrepair. Truth be told, the piano played by his little girl Margaret had a leg that jutted into the floor beneath. The White House was modified and upgraded 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 reclamation was appeared on TV in mid 1962.

Betty Ford, the wife of President Gerald Ford, was uncontrollably well known. 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. Portage had been genuine about her issues with liquor abuse and dependence on physician endorsed medicates, and opened the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California.