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"content": "\u003cp>Artificial colors are so last year. Or that’s what the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.mars.com/global/press-center/press-list/news-releases.aspx?SiteId=94&Id=6984\">announcement from Mars, Inc.\u003c/a>—the maker of colorful candy brands such as M&Ms, LifeSavers, and Skittles—suggests. With it, Mars joined a growing number of large food companies, including \u003ca href=\"http://blog.generalmills.com/2015/06/a-big-commitment-for-big-g-cereal/\">General Mills\u003c/a>, Kellogg’s, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kraftmacandcheese.com/FAQs\">Kraft,\u003c/a> Mondelez, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nestleusa.com/media/pressreleases/nestl%C3%A9-usa-commits-to-removing-artificial-flavors-and-fda-certified-colors-from-all-nestl%C3%A9-chocolate-candy-by-the-end-of-20\">Nestlé\u003c/a>, which are all in the process of eliminating artificial food coloring.\u003cspan id=\"more-23971\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says it is making the change, expected to take five years, “to meet evolving consumer preferences,” not for any scientific reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Artificial colors pose no known risks to human health or safety, but consumers today are calling on food manufacturers to use more natural ingredients in their products,” said Mars in its announcement. This sentiment echoes the other big food producers that have made the change. In fact, the companies we spoke to echoed much of the same sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mondelez International—manufacturer of brands that include Oreos and Ritz crackers—told Civil Eats that consumers are asking for “simpler ingredients and no artificial colors or flavors.” Or as Nestlé put it, “we are on a journey to simplify our recipes and ingredient labels and offer more choices to meet consumers’ evolving preferences.” Kellogg’s said, “We know consumers are looking for foods with simpler ingredients and work is well underway to answer that call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What these companies don’t mention, however, is that these artificial colors have been\u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/ucm149740.htm\">under scrutiny since the 1970s\u003c/a> for their potential role in contributing to the rise in rates of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607613063/abstract\">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children\u003c/a>. They also don’t mention the fact that studies demonstrating such links prompted the European Union to require\u003ca href=\"https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/foodcolours\">warning labels on products\u003c/a> containing these dyes beginning in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor that \u003ca href=\"ews.bbc.co.uk:2:hi:health:7725316.stm\">the U.K. banned\u003c/a> these food additives in 2008—a move that led to the reformulation of many products also sold in the U.S. The companies also fail to mention that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24764054\">recent studies\u003c/a> suggest many children may be consuming far more dyes via the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21127082\">food\u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24037921\">drinks\u003c/a> they consume than previously thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FDA: ‘Food Coloring is Safe’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are American children eating far more artificially colored food than their European counterparts?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, when a company like Mars says “artificial colors pose no known risks to human health or safety,” it is largely reflecting what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. “Color additives are very safe when used properly,” Linda Katz, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Office of Cosmetics and Colors, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048951.htm\">in a statement\u003c/a> on the FDA website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FDA considers all substances used to change the color of food “additives,” the colors in the hot seat are nine synthetic dyes derived from petroleum rather than plant-based materials. These dyes show up on ingredient labels with names that include FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Yellow No. 5 and 6, and FD&C Red No. 40. Their approval by the FDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ColorAdditives/ColorAdditiveInventories/ucm115641.htm#table1B\">dates back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the agency must “certify” each “batch” of one of these dyes before it’s approved for use. In addition, the FDA must approve any new food coloring additives before they go on the market. That said, all but two artificial food dyes now in use can essentially be added to any and all food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kids Are Eating Much More Food Dye Than You’d Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on experiments done with lab animals, the FDA set what it calls “\u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf\">acceptable daily intakes\u003c/a>” in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, based on how many milligrams of a dye is safe to eat in a day based on human body weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the average 65-pound child would have to eat 150 mg of Yellow No. 5, to exceed this recommended limit. This probably isn’t a problem if they eat only one serving of a food that contains the dye. But even if that child stays away from brightly colored foods like popsicles and candy, the milligrams can add up quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24764054\">data compiled\u003c/a> by Perdue University Department of Foods & Nutrition researcher, Laura J. Stevens and colleagues, a serving of Apple Jacks (10 mg), a packet of peanut butter cheese crackers (15) and a cup of cherry Kool Aid (52), a serving of Hamburger Helper (8), a couple tablespoons of colored salad dressing (5), two cups of orange drink (41), and three strawberry Twizzlers (13), plus a few Vlasic pickle slices would put the child over the 100 mg mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart.jpg\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"997\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart.jpg 997w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-400x156.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-800x312.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-768x300.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-960x375.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really know for sure exactly how many children are being affected,” says Stevens, referring to hyperactivity caused by food coloring. But the numbers are not insignificant. Studies looking at this connection have found that, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21127082\">nearly 90 percent\u003c/a> of children tested had adverse reactions when they ate 100 mg or more of these colors. And around 8 percent of all U.S. children—or almost \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html\">6.4 million as of 2011\u003c/a>—are estimated to suffer from ADHD symptoms that Stevens says may be exacerbated by food dyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, the last time the FDA convened a formal committee to review the science on these colors, it concluded that for “certain susceptible children,” behavior problems might be exacerbated by synthetic colors. In other words, explains \u003ca href=\"https://www.cspinet.org/\">Center for Science in the Public Interest\u003c/a> (CSPI) senior scientist Lisa Lefferts, “Even the FDA concedes that some children are sensitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the agency couldn’t prove a definitive causal link—absolute cause and effect—between these dyes and behavioral impacts, it recommended more study rather than precautionary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSPI recently released a report called “\u003ca href=\"http://cspinet.org/new/201601191.html\">Seeing Red\u003c/a>,” which takes the FDA to task for failing to take decisive and precautionary action on food dyes and for failing to set protective enough safety limits. “The underlying science has not been critically re-examined with reference to health outcomes that include behavioral impacts,” says CSPI director of regulatory affairs Laura MacCleery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s come to light in the past 15 years, CSPI points out—including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17825405\">studies that prompted regulatory action\u003c/a> in Europe—has not changed regulations created here several decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, whether they acknowledge the links to behavior problems explicitly or not, food manufacturers worldwide are responding to consumers who are voicing their preference for food without artificial colors. In fact, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nielsen.com/content/dam/nielsenglobal/eu/nielseninsights/pdfs/Nielsen%20Global%20Health%20and%20Wellness%20Report%20-%20January%202015.pdf\">2014 Nielsen global survey\u003c/a> found artificial color to be the third highest consumer concern when it came to food and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s a parent to do? “[Food coloring] is hard to avoid entirely so it’s a matter of minimizing,” says MacCleery. “Kids are getting way too much,” she says so “anything you can do to reduce this, they’ll be better off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key to doing this is reading labels, since even the food manufacturers who have decided to eliminate these FD&C colors, are still in the midst of changing their ingredients. “You have to read every label,” said Stevens. And for those tempted by “red velvet” cupcake recipes? Try one made with \u003ca href=\"http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016333-beet-red-velvet-cake\">beets\u003c/a> instead of Red No. 40. Or \u003ca href=\"http://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/recipes/desserts-cakes/red-wine-velvet-cake-smitten-kitchen\">this one\u003c/a> MacCleery recommends, which calls for red wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>About the Writer\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nElizabeth Grossman is a senior reporter for Civil Eats focused on environmental and science issues. She is the author of \u003cem>Chasing Molecules\u003c/em>, \u003cem>High Tech Trash\u003c/em>,\u003cem>Watershed\u003c/em> and other books. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including \u003cem>Scientific American\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Environmental Health Perspectives\u003c/em>, Yale e360, Ensia,\u003cem>High Country News\u003c/em>, The Pump Handle, Chemical Watch, \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>,\u003ca href=\"http://theatlantic.com/\">TheAtlantic.com\u003c/a>, Salon, \u003cem>The Nation\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Artificial colors are so last year. Or that’s what the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.mars.com/global/press-center/press-list/news-releases.aspx?SiteId=94&Id=6984\">announcement from Mars, Inc.\u003c/a>—the maker of colorful candy brands such as M&Ms, LifeSavers, and Skittles—suggests. With it, Mars joined a growing number of large food companies, including \u003ca href=\"http://blog.generalmills.com/2015/06/a-big-commitment-for-big-g-cereal/\">General Mills\u003c/a>, Kellogg’s, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kraftmacandcheese.com/FAQs\">Kraft,\u003c/a> Mondelez, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nestleusa.com/media/pressreleases/nestl%C3%A9-usa-commits-to-removing-artificial-flavors-and-fda-certified-colors-from-all-nestl%C3%A9-chocolate-candy-by-the-end-of-20\">Nestlé\u003c/a>, which are all in the process of eliminating artificial food coloring.\u003cspan id=\"more-23971\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says it is making the change, expected to take five years, “to meet evolving consumer preferences,” not for any scientific reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Artificial colors pose no known risks to human health or safety, but consumers today are calling on food manufacturers to use more natural ingredients in their products,” said Mars in its announcement. This sentiment echoes the other big food producers that have made the change. In fact, the companies we spoke to echoed much of the same sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mondelez International—manufacturer of brands that include Oreos and Ritz crackers—told Civil Eats that consumers are asking for “simpler ingredients and no artificial colors or flavors.” Or as Nestlé put it, “we are on a journey to simplify our recipes and ingredient labels and offer more choices to meet consumers’ evolving preferences.” Kellogg’s said, “We know consumers are looking for foods with simpler ingredients and work is well underway to answer that call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What these companies don’t mention, however, is that these artificial colors have been\u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/ucm149740.htm\">under scrutiny since the 1970s\u003c/a> for their potential role in contributing to the rise in rates of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607613063/abstract\">attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children\u003c/a>. They also don’t mention the fact that studies demonstrating such links prompted the European Union to require\u003ca href=\"https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/foodcolours\">warning labels on products\u003c/a> containing these dyes beginning in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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These dyes show up on ingredient labels with names that include FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Yellow No. 5 and 6, and FD&C Red No. 40. Their approval by the FDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ColorAdditives/ColorAdditiveInventories/ucm115641.htm#table1B\">dates back to the 1960s, 70s and 80s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the agency must “certify” each “batch” of one of these dyes before it’s approved for use. In addition, the FDA must approve any new food coloring additives before they go on the market. That said, all but two artificial food dyes now in use can essentially be added to any and all food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kids Are Eating Much More Food Dye Than You’d Think\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on experiments done with lab animals, the FDA set what it calls “\u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/FoodAdvisoryCommittee/UCM248549.pdf\">acceptable daily intakes\u003c/a>” in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, based on how many milligrams of a dye is safe to eat in a day based on human body weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the average 65-pound child would have to eat 150 mg of Yellow No. 5, to exceed this recommended limit. This probably isn’t a problem if they eat only one serving of a food that contains the dye. But even if that child stays away from brightly colored foods like popsicles and candy, the milligrams can add up quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24764054\">data compiled\u003c/a> by Perdue University Department of Foods & Nutrition researcher, Laura J. Stevens and colleagues, a serving of Apple Jacks (10 mg), a packet of peanut butter cheese crackers (15) and a cup of cherry Kool Aid (52), a serving of Hamburger Helper (8), a couple tablespoons of colored salad dressing (5), two cups of orange drink (41), and three strawberry Twizzlers (13), plus a few Vlasic pickle slices would put the child over the 100 mg mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart.jpg\" alt=\"Chart\" width=\"997\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-107001\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart.jpg 997w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-400x156.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-800x312.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-768x300.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/updatedcolorchart-960x375.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 997px) 100vw, 997px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really know for sure exactly how many children are being affected,” says Stevens, referring to hyperactivity caused by food coloring. 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"content": "\u003cp>An image of man passing a baby under a fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border has taken top honors at this year’s World Press Photo of the Year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The photo, titled “Hope for a New Life,” was taken by Australian photographer Warren Richardson and shows a man with his eyes set on the horizon, passing the infant under coils of razor-wire into outstretched arms in the moonlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson took the photo in late August in Röszke, Hungary, which is on the border with Serbia. Hungarian police have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/09/15/440477068/hungary-closes-border-with-serbia-vows-to-arrest-trespassers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">routinely cracked down on\u003c/a> the massive flow of migrants fleeing from Syria, Iraq and other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had such power because of its simplicity, especially the symbolism of the barbed wire,” general jury chair and Agence France-Press photo director Francis Kohn said \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldpressphoto.org/news/2016-02-18/world-press-photo-year-2015-goes-warren-richardson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a press release from World Press Photo.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s subtle, and shows the emotion and the real feeling from the deep heart of a father just trying to hand over his baby to the world he was longing to be in,” adds jury member and director of new media development at Xinhua News Agency Huang Wen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson describes the experience of covering border crossings in this area over the course of five days \u003ca href=\"http://www.warrenrichardson.com/2957080-refugee-crisis-hungary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on his website\u003c/a>: “There were men, women and children, amputees, the sick, all with stories to tell about where they had come from and where they wanted to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night stood out, he says. “There was a group of Syrians hiding amongst the apple trees on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary, their challenge was to put as many people under the newly constructed razor wire fence. In the group there were some ten engineers that had taken a good look at the fence to see where they could cross so that they could get as many of their friends and family members into Hungary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more of Richardson’s account:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>“Like a finely tuned machine, they played cat and mouse with the Hungarian police. The police would come and go from near where the Syrian group was hiding. Each time the police showed up, they would try to fix the fence so that people would not go under. But each time the police would leave, the Syrian engineers would make another hole so that they could help as many people as possible get under the fence. The police continually returned to the same spot, but this time they were a little more verbal and angry. The police attempted to fix the new holes that the Syrian engineers had made. The police were yelling into the darkness in broken English, ‘do not come illegally into Hungary, go away we do not want you here, if we catch you, you will be arrested.’ They proceeded to spray pepper everywhere to prevent anyone from using this particular spot. Again the police moved on to check other areas they were having problems with. Once again the Syrian engineers, with tears in their eyes from the pepper spray, created another hole in the fence to allow more people to move forward into Hungary to get to Germany, as this is where they desperately wanted to be. Four hours on from when they started, they had helped more than 200 people go under the razor wire fence. Once everyone had passed under the fence, the Syrian engineers said their last good byes to me, and left as they were the last ones to go into the darkness of the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It’s not clear if the man depicted in this photo was among this particular group of engineers. But it gives a sense of the atmosphere where this photo was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release from World Press Photo, Richardson says the photo was taken by moonlight, because a flash would give away their location to the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richardson, who is currently based in Eastern Europe, \u003ca href=\"http://www.warrenrichardson.com/about\">says on his website\u003c/a> that his next project will involve walking to the Arctic Circle. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Haunting+Photo+Of+Migrants+Takes+World+Press+Photo%27s+Top+Prize&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/series/participate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11316580 noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11316580\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"pARTicipate-button-400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/pARTicipate-button-400x400-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a> On nights when many of us are watching TV on the couch, hundreds of amateur musicians are showing up at churches and rec rooms to participate in community orchestras. Why? For the love of it, says George Yefchak, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.novavista.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nova Vista Symphony\u003c/a>, one of the oldest amateur orchestras in Silicon Valley. The orchestra is celebrating its 50\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> anniversary this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we have way more fun than people who do it because it’s their job,” says Yefchak, who works as a research scientist and programmer for Agilent Technologies, a maker of scientific instruments, by day. By night, he’s a musical jack-of-all-trades, filling a wide variety of roles for orchestras all over the Bay Area. For Nova Vista, Yefchak’s an oboist, board member, and occasional rehearsal conductor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yefchak is part of a vibrant scene that compels thousands of passionate musicians to dedicate most of their free time to rehearsals in churches and multi-purpose rooms rented on the cheap from local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247923932″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=’166′ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, the terms “amateur” and “professional” as they’re generally understood today don’t really describe this world effectively. There’s a spectrum of talent that runs between those two points. And while many of the musicians who play for Nova Vista, like Yefchak, do have full-time jobs that are not music-related, they take their hobby seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody’s paid, except for me and the concert master and a few professionals we once in awhile bring in,” says Nova Vista music director, Anthony Quartuccio. “But everybody here treats this like a professional orchestra. There’s a very high standard of preparation. There’s a high standard for the way we run board meetings and our financials, and the way we go into the community. So it’s a professionally run orchestra by people who do it for the love of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keeping musicians challenged and coffers filled\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent evening at Lakewood Elementary School in Sunnyvale, many Nova Vista musicians arrived at rehearsal directly from work, wearing nurses scrubs, or jackets emblazoned with tech company logos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are people who love a challenge, and Quartuccio is happy to oblige. “Every season, we pick a piece or two that will be a rite of passage, which is something we’re not sure we can do, but we’re going to take it on anyway,” Quartuccio says. This season’s big musical challenge comes in the form of Tchaikovsky’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tchaikovsky/music/symphony-no5-e-minor/#W2K00Z8r2IyxrX1T.97\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Fifth\u003c/em>\u003cem> Symphony\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, one of the 19th century Russian composer’s most well-known pieces. Though perhaps not as difficult to perform as Tchaikovsky’s famously unplayable \u003cem>Violin Concerto in D Major\u003c/em>, the masterwork isn’t exactly a breeze either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the heavy overhead professional orchestras labor under, many amateur orchestras struggle for money. “Artistic expenses aside, it still costs money to put on a show,” says Kris Sinclair, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.acso.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of California Symphony Orchestras\u003c/a>. “And those ticket prices, if they charge admission, will be much lower than at a professional orchestra.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nova Vista typically charges $15 a ticket. Even so, the organization’s board members say money is not a problem. Nova Vista has an annual budget of $50,000. It doesn’t charge musicians annual dues, but they do donate and fund raise. “Everybody here treats this like a professional orchestra, sheerly for the love of it,” Quartuccio says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"callout alignright\">\u003cstrong>pARTicipate with us! \u003c/strong>We need your help to make this project bloom. If you have an artistic hobby that you’re passionate about, or know about an artist or organization involved in community art-making, we want to hear from you in any or all of the following ways:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Share an image or video of you (and your friends) participating in your activity\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tell us the story of how you got involved in your practice, what it is you do and why it means so much to you\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Send us information about arts organizations or individual coaches who are helping to bring creativity to your community\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can reach us in the following ways:\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Email: \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"mailto:cveltman@kqed.org\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">cveltman@kqed.org\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter: @KQEDarts and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook: KQED Arts\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instagram: @KQEDofficial and #KQEDparticipate\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Plus, this being Silicon Valley, there’s no shortage of corporate donors, including Google, NVIDIA, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Apple, Texas Instruments, VMWare and Cisco Systems.\u003cb> \u003c/b>Firms often get behind local orchestras in part because their own employees play in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding community…and love\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many musicians join these orchestras as a way to find community. Software engineer and cellist Harris Karsch came out from the East Coast to work at Google about a year and a half ago. “I just love playing with an ensemble,” Karsch says. “It also keeps me practicing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Playing cello as an undergrad at Cornell, Karsch similarly found music a great way to integrate into the student body. “A lot of my best friends were from orchestra, not from my classes,” Karsch says. “Not the ones I ended up with in the dorms and living with but from orchestra and music.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s proved true for many amateur musicians, some of whom date and even marry each other. Carl and Eva Ching of Sunnyvale met sitting next to each other at an orchestra rehearsal one night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess we took a liking to each other,” says Carl. “And so we’ve been married, I guess, 35 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva’s family is full of musicians. Carl’s, not so much. For the past 25 years, Nova Vista has effectively been the couple’s third family; it’s a group where the Chings feel at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, and they get to geek out performing some of classical music’s greatest hits. Last year, Quartuccio’s “rite of passage” piece was Beethoven’s \u003cem>Ninth Symphony\u003c/em>. “It’s been on our bucket list for years,” Eva says. “Both of us were sitting there in the middle of the second violin section during the concert, going ‘I can’t believe we’re playing this. Listen to how beautiful it sounds.’ And it just makes so much difference to share it with someone who enjoys it as much as you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sharing the music\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nova Vista often shares its performances with local students, professionals and musical organizations. Here are a few moments from a rehearsal of John Rutter’s \u003cem>Gloria\u003c/em> with Nova Vista Symphony and the San Jose Symphonic Choir conducted by Leroy Kromm. (Courtesy George Yefchak.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_n3RMdsDc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the people in Nova Vista are so deep into making music that they find the time to play for more than one orchestra. This phenomenon is quite common, according to Michael Zwiebach, senior editor of the online classical music journal \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcv.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Classical Voice\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. “Every church, every temple has a choir, right?” Zweibach says. “There are tons of musicians out there and they’re all looking for something to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11316324\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 325px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11316324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/RS18401_IMG_2710.JPG-qut-400x626.jpg\" alt=\""We all know people within our own families who’ve been great musicians," regardless of whether they're pro, says Michael Zwiebach of San Francisco Classical Voice. Here's his great aunt, Birdie Engle, playing the piano on her 90th birthday. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/02/prez.mp3\" title=\"God Bless Beyoncé (and America Too)\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”jxysB6mZu4wlZiOFe3bsI8hoiG3wtFPr”]Back in high school, U.S. History was not my thing. A bunch of white dudes in powdered wigs bickering? No thanks. But behind every boring textbook page is a treasure trove of super interesting facts. Did you know one of our presidents was murdered…by cherries? Or that another vandalized Shakespeare’s property? Or that a president’s cursing parrot was kicked out of a funeral? Believe it! Here are all the weird facts your history teacher really should have taught:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>George Washington (1789-1797)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/George_Washington_1776.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20529\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20529\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/George_Washington_1776.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/George_Washington_1776.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/George_Washington_1776-400x466.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/George_Washington_1776-768x895.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#/media/File:George_Washington,_1776.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite popular myth, his dentures weren’t made of wood. They were made of hippopotamus ivory, bone, animal and human teeth, lead, brass screws and gold wire. So where did the wood theory come from? Some historians believe that Washington’s fondness for dark wine stained the fractures in his false teeth, giving off the look of grainy wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Adams (1797-1801)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2398px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20530\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20530\" src=\"//ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2398\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792.jpg 2398w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-800x1001.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-768x961.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-1440x1802.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-1920x2402.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_by_John_Trumbull_circa_1792-960x1201.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams#/media/File:Official_Presidential_portrait_of_John_Adams_(by_John_Trumbull,_circa_1792).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Adams visited Shakespeare’s home in Stratford-upon-Avon with Thomas Jefferson, before they hated each other’s guts. While there, they chipped off a piece of one of Shakespeare’s chairs as a souvenir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=arts_13882779]Years later, Adams was embroiled in an election battle against his Vice President Jefferson. Adams called him “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father” and, in an attack ad, warned of the consequences of a potential Jefferson presidency: “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes.” And we thought the 2016 election cycle was out of control!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Fate would have it, both Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. You can’t make this stuff up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Thomas Jefferson (1801-1817)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20531\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20531\" src=\"//ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2512\" height=\"2996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg 2512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-400x477.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-800x954.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-768x916.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1440x1717.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1920x2290.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1180x1407.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-960x1145.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2512px) 100vw, 2512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#/media/File:Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_(by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vandalizing Shakespeare’s chair isn’t the only chair-related Jefferson trivia: he invented the swivel chair!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something you wouldn’t expect from one of the most famous politicians in American history: Jefferson hated public speaking so much that he only gave two speeches in his presidency, one per term. He also started a tradition of sending State of the Union speeches as written documents to be read at Congress by a clerk (Woodrow Wilson reinstated the practice of delivering the speech in person in 1913).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Madison (1809-1817)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2465px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20532\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20532\" src=\"//ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2465\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg 2465w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-768x935.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1440x1753.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1920x2337.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2465px) 100vw, 2465px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison#/media/File:James_Madison.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our smallest president stood at 5’4″ and weighed around 100 pounds. Aw!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Monroe (1817-1825)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20533\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20533\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2491\" height=\"3000\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe#/media/File:James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to his penchant for outdated Revolutionary War era dress, Monroe’s nickname was “The Last Cocked Hat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first term was called the Era of Good Feelings because of the national unity that followed the end of the War of 1812. He ran unopposed for his re-election, something that has only happened one other time in U.S. history (George Washington).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last surviving Founding Father, Monroe died on July 4th, 1831, five years after both Jefferson and Adams died and 55 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20534\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20534\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_-400x523.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_-768x1003.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams#/media/File:JQA_Photo.tif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The son of our Jefferson-hating second president, John Quincy Adams was known for skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. A reporter took advantage of this information and sat on his clothes until he would grant her an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20535\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20535\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"610\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg 610w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson-400x485.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#/media/File:Andrew_Jackson.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One popular rumor is that Jackson taught his pet parrot how to curse. It was all fun and games, until the parrot had to allegedly be removed from Jackson’s funeral because it wouldn’t stop cursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson had a thing for taking it outside. He was involved in an estimated 100 duels, usually because someone said something negative about his wife. In 1806, he was shot in the chest during one of these duels. And in 1813, he took a bullet to the arm in a bar fight with a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2988px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20536\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20536\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2988\" height=\"3742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg 2988w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-400x501.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-768x962.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1440x1803.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1920x2404.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-960x1202.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2988px) 100vw, 2988px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren#/media/File:Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Buren holds the title of the first president to be born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a lot of nicknames: “Sly Fox” because of his political prowess, “Little Magician” because he was only 5’6″ and “Red Fox of Kinderhook” because he had reddish hair and was from a town in upstate New York called Kinderhook. But the most long-lasting nickname goes to “Old Kinderhook,” which was used during his 1840 election campaign in the form of supporters carrying around signs marked OK. The abbreviation became popular around this time and we use it to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William Henry Harrison (1841)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 6165px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20537\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20537\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"6165\" height=\"7498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 6165w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-400x486.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1440x1751.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1920x2335.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1180x1435.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6165px) 100vw, 6165px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#/media/File:Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, the opposition tried to cast him as someone who’d rather “sit in his log cabin, drinking hard cider.” Harrison took the criticism and made (spiked) lemonade; he handed out whiskey in bottles shaped like log cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison gave the longest inauguration speech ever (8,445 words over 90 minutes) on a wet, cold day in 1841. He fell ill soon thereafter and died 33 days into his presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Tyler (1841-1845)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1410px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20538\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20538\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1410\" height=\"1989\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg 1410w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-400x564.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-800x1129.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-768x1083.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-1180x1665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-960x1354.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1410px) 100vw, 1410px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#/media/File:Tyler_Daguerreotype_(restoration).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Harrison’s untimely death, there was disagreement over what power Tyler had as the surviving Vice President. He managed to convince everyone that he should just become president, paving the way for the 25th Amendment, which made the line of succession official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=arts_13931210]Everyone pretty much hated him. He was expelled from his own party during his presidency, his entire cabinet (minus one person) resigned over his policies, and he was the first president who faced impeachment. One newspaper editor called him a “poor, miserable, despised imbecile” and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> called him “the most unpopular public man that had ever held any office in the United States” in his own obituary! Upon his death, Lincoln didn’t issue a mourning proclamation and flags were not placed at half-mast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James K. Polk (1845-1849)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2079px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20539\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20539\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2079\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg 2079w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-400x481.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-800x962.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-768x924.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1440x1732.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1920x2309.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1180x1419.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-960x1154.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2079px) 100vw, 2079px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk#/media/File:James_Polk_restored.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every party has a pooper and that pooper was Polk. He banned booze, card playing and dancing from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20540\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20540\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"780\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped-400x526.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped-768x1010.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor#/media/File:Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While celebrating the Fourth of July on the grounds where the Washington Monument would later stand, Taylor snacked on a bunch of cherries and washed it all down with iced milk (ew). Bacteria was present in either the cherries or the milk, leading to his death a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1052px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20541\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20541\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1052\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg 1052w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-400x477.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-800x954.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-768x915.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-960x1144.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore#/media/File:Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fillmore married his schoolteacher (oo la la!). Other than that, most historians don’t really have much to say about him. Even the White House website calls him “an uninspiring man.” Ouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4562px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20542\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20542\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"4562\" height=\"5678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg 4562w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-800x996.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-768x956.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1440x1792.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1920x2390.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1180x1469.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-960x1195.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4562px) 100vw, 4562px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce#/media/File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another president most people don’t remember, Pierce was pretty unpopular while in office, leading to his own party refusing to renominate him. His reply to being cast out: “There is nothing left to do but get drunk.” His penchant for the hooch might explain his alleged arrest for running over an old lady with his horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Buchanan (1857-1861)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20543\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20543\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"750\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan#/media/File:Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Buchanan holds the record of being the only bachelor to be president, although he may not have been truly single. There was a lot of speculation about his sexuality and close relationship with Alabama Senator William Rufus King. The two lived together for more than 10 years, despite being rich enough to have their own homes. Andrew Jackson called them “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy” behind their backs. When King left for France in 1844, Buchanan wrote: “I am now ‘solitary and alone,’ having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 931px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20544\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20544\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"931\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg 931w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-400x528.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-768x1015.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#/media/File:Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers,_1858_-_crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to being a tall drink of water, Lincoln also serves tall drinks as a bartender. He was also a really good wrestler. He won all but one of approximately 300 matches. *fans self*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1617px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20545\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20545\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1617\" height=\"2156\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg 1617w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1617px) 100vw, 1617px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#/media/File:President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first president to be impeached, Johnson didn’t have an easy time in childhood either. After his father died, his mother sent him and his brother out as indentured servants to a tailor. Johnson and his brother ran away two years later. The tailor put out a reward of $10 for their capture, but they were never apprehended. Using what he learned during his time with the tailor, he made all of his own suits as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1828px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20546\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20546\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1828\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png 1828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-400x373.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-800x746.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-768x716.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-1440x1342.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-1180x1100.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-960x895.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1828px) 100vw, 1828px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#/media/File:Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant was supposed to be in Lincoln’s theater box on the night of his assassination, but changed plans at the last minute. He regretted not being there for the rest of his life because he believed he could have stopped it from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fun facts about Grant: he couldn’t stand the sight of blood, which is ironic considering his Civil War history. And he dismantled the Ku Klux Klan during his presidency (they unfortunately regrouped decades later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3031px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20547\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20547\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3031\" height=\"3688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg 3031w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1440x1752.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1920x2336.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3031px) 100vw, 3031px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes#/media/File:President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The victor of one of the most disputed elections ever; he lost the popular vote by 250,000, but eked out an electoral college win by a single vote, earning him the nicknames “Rutherfraud” and “His Fraudulency.” Was also called “Granny Hayes” because he didn’t drink, smoke or gamble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James A. Garfield (1881)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3182px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20548\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20548\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3182\" height=\"4034\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg 3182w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-400x507.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-768x974.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1440x1826.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1920x2434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1180x1496.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-960x1217.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3182px) 100vw, 3182px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#/media/File:James_Abram_Garfield,_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garfield was ambidextrous and could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shot a few months into his presidency by an assassin and died 11 weeks later. Doctors tried using a newly invented metal detector by Andrew Graham Bell to locate the bullet, but the metal bedsprings kept messing up the results, leading the doctors to cut in the wrong places. On top of this, the doctors also introduced bacteria into Garfield’s body with their unsterilized, prying fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1908px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20549\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20549\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1908\" height=\"2544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg 1908w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1908px) 100vw, 1908px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur#/media/File:20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arthur wanted the White House completely redecorated, but needed money to pay for all the new furniture. His solution: sell off 24 wagon loads of historical relics, including a pair of Lincoln’s pants and one of John Quincy Adams’ hats. The redecoration wasn’t the only luxury he took; he also owned elaborate clothing, including 80 different pairs of pants, earning him the nickname”Elegant Arthur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20550\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20550\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"788\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png 788w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-768x999.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#/media/File:StephenGroverCleveland.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon the death of his law partner, Cleveland became the legal guardian to his friend’s 11-year-old orphaned daughter. 10 years later, they were married at the White House, making her the youngest First Lady ever at the age of 21 and making him the Woody Allen of the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2638px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20551\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20551\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2638\" height=\"3765\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg 2638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-400x571.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-800x1142.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-768x1096.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1440x2055.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1920x2740.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1180x1684.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-960x1370.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2638px) 100vw, 2638px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison#/media/File:Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The grandson of President William Henry Harrison, he was called the “human iceberg” by some for how stiff he was with people. Maybe people misread anxiety for stiffness though: He was the first president to have electricity in the White House and was so scared of being electrocuted that he refused to touch the light switches and was known to go to bed with all the lights on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20550\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20550\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"788\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png 788w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-768x999.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#/media/File:StephenGroverCleveland.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, this isn’t a typo. Cleveland is the only president to hold the office for two non-consecutive terms. Here’s a fact that isn’t as creepy as the first. Part of Cleveland’s jaw was made of vulcanized rubber, as a result of a secret surgery on a friend’s yacht.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William McKinley (1897-1901)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20552\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20552\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"488\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg 488w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896-400x560.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#/media/File:William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio,_1896.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKinley considered carnations his good luck charm and wore them everywhere. On September 6, 1901, he gave a little girl the carnation from his lapel and was shot by an assassin a short time later. He died the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 476px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20553\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"476\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg 476w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife-400x501.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#/media/File:TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Valentine’s Day in 1884, both his first wife and mother died. A page from his journal from that day:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/698937389348163585\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unrelated to that super depressing diary entry: While delivering a speech, Roosevelt was shot and had this to say about it: “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot. I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap!” He finished his hour and a half speech with a bullet lodged in his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the dude was pretty great and worthy of having said greatness commemorated. A toy maker did just that by producing “Teddy Bears” in his honor, after news got out that Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub on a hunting trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William H. Taft (1909-1913)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3705px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20554\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20554\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3705\" height=\"4545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg 3705w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-768x942.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1920x2355.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1180x1448.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3705px) 100vw, 3705px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft#/media/File:Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taft is most known for his waist line and supposedly getting stuck in a bathtub (historians say this didn’t really happen), but what people don’t talk about enough is his stuffed animal. Toy manufacturers believed Teddy Bears would fade out and wanted a replacement. They came up with Billy Possum. Unfortunately, the origin tale has nothing to do with Taft sparing a baby possum and everything to do with him scarfing down a huge possum dinner one night. Despite rude anti-Teddy Bear postcards like the one below, Billy Possum did not catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20524\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg\" alt=\"billy possum poster\" width=\"620\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2976px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20555\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2976\" height=\"3623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg 2976w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-768x935.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1440x1753.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1920x2337.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1180x1437.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-960x1169.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2976px) 100vw, 2976px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#/media/File:President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1919, incredible stress led to Wilson experiencing a series of strokes. He was left partially paralyzed and almost blind, but stayed in office until 1921. He relied heavily on his wife Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of Pocahontas (!!!), for help, leading to her nickname as the “Presidentress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3165px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20563\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20563\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3165\" height=\"4302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg 3165w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-400x544.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-768x1044.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1440x1957.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1920x2610.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1180x1604.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-960x1305.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3165px) 100vw, 3165px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding#/media/File:Warren_G_Harding-Harris_%26_Ewing.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harding had quite the wandering eye. He had an affair with his wife’s close friend, Carrie Fulton Phillips, which was revealed through a series of love letters. He also messed around with a woman named Nan Britton, who wrote a book called “The President’s Daughter” about how her daughter was Harding’s. In 2005, thanks to DNA testing, it was proven that he was in fact the baby daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3112px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20564\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3112\" height=\"3836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg 3112w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-400x493.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-800x986.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-768x947.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1440x1775.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1920x2367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1180x1455.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-960x1183.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3112px) 100vw, 3112px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#/media/File:Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coolidge had a morning ritual of having someone rub Vaseline on his head while he ate breakfast. The unusual also extended to his choice of pets: two raccoons named Reuben and Rebecca, who would sometimes run around the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3623px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20565\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3623\" height=\"5023\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg 3623w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-400x555.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-800x1109.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-768x1065.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1440x1996.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1920x2662.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1180x1636.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-960x1331.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3623px) 100vw, 3623px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#/media/File:Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone by Coolidge’s odd choice in pets, Hoover’s son had two pet alligators, who also ran around the White House grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover and his wife lived in China for a time and would speak Mandarin in the White House when they wanted to have a private conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumor has it that Hoover requested his servants be “invisible.” Their choices: jump into closets to hide when Hoover entered a room or be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2040px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20566\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2040\" height=\"1700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg 2040w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-800x667.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-768x640.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1920x1600.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2040px) 100vw, 2040px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fala_(dog)#/media/File:FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FDR was obsessed with his dog, Fala. He insisted on being the only one who was allowed to feed him and even made Fala an honorary Army private during WWII. Fala was so popular with the press and the American public that he became the subject of a comic strip and MGM even made two movies about him. Fala is the only pet to be\u003ca href=\"http://barkpost-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Monument.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> immortalized in a presidential memorial \u003c/a>alongside his owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t have to change her last name when she married FDR because they’re cousins. Her uncle and his cousin “Teddy” Roosevelt walked her down the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid=arts_13919589]But that’s not the only president he was related to! Also distant relatives: Washington, both Adams, Madison, Van Buren, both Harrisons, Taylor, Grant and Taft. Also: Winston Churchill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FDR was really afraid of the number 13 and refused to have dinner with that number of people or leave for a trip on the 13th of any month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His battle with what was then thought to be polio (new research suggests he actually suffered from Guillain-Barre Syndrome) is now widespread, but back then the public didn’t really know much about it or how bad his paralysis was. The media rarely mentioned it and the Secret Service allegedly yanked out the film from any photographers who tried grabbing a photo of him in his wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1871px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20567\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1871\" height=\"2251\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg 1871w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-400x481.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-800x962.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-768x924.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-1440x1732.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-1180x1420.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-960x1155.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1871px) 100vw, 1871px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#/media/File:Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_(2).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He met his wife, Bess, in Sunday school when he was six. Talk about locking it down!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1663px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20568\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20568\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1663\" height=\"2100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg 1663w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-400x505.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-800x1010.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-768x970.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-1440x1818.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-1180x1490.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-960x1212.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1663px) 100vw, 1663px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#/media/File:Eisenhower_official.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ike changed the name of FDR’s presidential Maryland retreat from Shangri-la to Camp David. His reason: Shangri-la was “just a little too fancy for a Kansas farm boy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20569\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"760\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected-400x511.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#/media/File:JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>JFK received $1 million on his 21st birthday (all nine brothers and sisters got the same), but that generosity did not extend to the Harvard recommendation letter his father wrote for him. He wrote that Jack was “careless and lacks application.” He got in anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2071px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20570\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20570\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2071\" height=\"3293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg 2071w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-400x636.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-800x1272.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-768x1221.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1440x2290.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1920x3053.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1180x1876.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-960x1526.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2071px) 100vw, 2071px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#/media/File:Lyndon_B._Johnson,_photo_portrait,_leaning_on_chair,_color_cropped.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>JFK’s unexpected assassination led to Johnson becoming president, but another factor that made his presidency possible was a fateful trip to the bathroom. Let me explain: While enlisted in the military during WWII, Johnson boarded a plane called the Wabash Cannonball for his one and only bombing mission in the South Pacific. But he had to use the bathroom really badly so he got off and took care of business. By the time he got back, the Wabash Cannonball had left. The plane ended up crashing and everyone on it perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20573\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_-400x473.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_-768x907.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#/media/File:Richard_M._Nixon,_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nixon loved to bowl so much that he had a one-lane alley put in the basement of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3978px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20574\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3978\" height=\"5838\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg 3978w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-400x587.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-768x1127.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1440x2113.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1920x2818.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1180x1732.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-960x1409.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3978px) 100vw, 3978px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#/media/File:Gerald_Ford.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His real name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember this for the next trivia night at your local bar: Ford is the only president to never be elected by the voting public to president or vice president (first Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned, followed shortly thereafter by Nixon).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford’s daughter Susan hosted her senior prom at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two different assassins tried to take Ford’s life within over a span of 17 days. Both were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20575\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1650\" height=\"2027\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg 1650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-800x983.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-768x943.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-1440x1769.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-1180x1450.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-960x1179.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#/media/File:JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Carter appeared in an unlikely publication: \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em>. And he got a lot of grief for it because of the following remarks: “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do—and I have done it—and God forgives me for it.” It was during a presidential campaign too, which made the outcry even more pronounced. Carter refused to apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2399px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20576\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2399\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg 2399w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1440x1801.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1920x2401.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-960x1201.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2399px) 100vw, 2399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#/media/File:Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reagan regularly consulted with an astrologer, Joan Quigley, before making decisions and scheduling big events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> George H. 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Vomiting in public, as Bush did all over the Japanese Prime Minister in 1992.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> William J. Clinton (1993-2001)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20578\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2103px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20578\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20578\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2103\" height=\"2804\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4.jpg 2103w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/44_Bill_Clinton_3x4-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2103px) 100vw, 2103px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton#/media/File:44_Bill_Clinton_3x4.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bill has two Grammys (one for Best Spoken Word Album and another for Best Spoken Word Album for Children). 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The all-female committee declined (and probably regret it every single day).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For even more presidential facts, get a load of this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"//w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247832051&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>And for a hint as to who will be the next president on this list, read up on what YouTube astrologers are predicting:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/21/will-our-next-president-be-hillary-or-trump-astrologers-think-they-know/\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Years later, Adams was embroiled in an election battle against his Vice President Jefferson. Adams called him “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father” and, in an attack ad, warned of the consequences of a potential Jefferson presidency: “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood and the nation black with crimes.” And we thought the 2016 election cycle was out of control!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Fate would have it, both Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. You can’t make this stuff up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Thomas Jefferson (1801-1817)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2512px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20531\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20531\" src=\"//ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2512\" height=\"2996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800.jpg 2512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-400x477.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-800x954.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-768x916.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1440x1717.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1920x2290.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-1180x1407.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_by_Rembrandt_Peale_1800-960x1145.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2512px) 100vw, 2512px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#/media/File:Official_Presidential_portrait_of_Thomas_Jefferson_(by_Rembrandt_Peale,_1800).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vandalizing Shakespeare’s chair isn’t the only chair-related Jefferson trivia: he invented the swivel chair!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Something you wouldn’t expect from one of the most famous politicians in American history: Jefferson hated public speaking so much that he only gave two speeches in his presidency, one per term. He also started a tradition of sending State of the Union speeches as written documents to be read at Congress by a clerk (Woodrow Wilson reinstated the practice of delivering the speech in person in 1913).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Madison (1809-1817)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2465px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20532\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20532\" src=\"//ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2465\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison.jpg 2465w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-768x935.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1440x1753.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1920x2337.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Madison-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2465px) 100vw, 2465px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison#/media/File:James_Madison.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our smallest president stood at 5’4″ and weighed around 100 pounds. Aw!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Monroe (1817-1825)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20533\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20533\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2491\" height=\"3000\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe#/media/File:James_Monroe_White_House_portrait_1819.gif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Due to his penchant for outdated Revolutionary War era dress, Monroe’s nickname was “The Last Cocked Hat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first term was called the Era of Good Feelings because of the national unity that followed the end of the War of 1812. He ran unopposed for his re-election, something that has only happened one other time in U.S. history (George Washington).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last surviving Founding Father, Monroe died on July 4th, 1831, five years after both Jefferson and Adams died and 55 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20534\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20534\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_-400x523.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JQA_Photo.tif_-768x1003.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams#/media/File:JQA_Photo.tif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The son of our Jefferson-hating second president, John Quincy Adams was known for skinny dipping in the Potomac River every morning. A reporter took advantage of this information and sat on his clothes until he would grant her an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20535\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20535\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"610\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson.jpg 610w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Andrew_Jackson-400x485.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#/media/File:Andrew_Jackson.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One popular rumor is that Jackson taught his pet parrot how to curse. It was all fun and games, until the parrot had to allegedly be removed from Jackson’s funeral because it wouldn’t stop cursing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson had a thing for taking it outside. He was involved in an estimated 100 duels, usually because someone said something negative about his wife. In 1806, he was shot in the chest during one of these duels. And in 1813, he took a bullet to the arm in a bar fight with a Senator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2988px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20536\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20536\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2988\" height=\"3742\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg 2988w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-400x501.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-768x962.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1440x1803.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1920x2404.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-1180x1478.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58-960x1202.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2988px) 100vw, 2988px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Van_Buren#/media/File:Martin_Van_Buren_by_Mathew_Brady_c1855-58.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Van Buren holds the title of the first president to be born in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a lot of nicknames: “Sly Fox” because of his political prowess, “Little Magician” because he was only 5’6″ and “Red Fox of Kinderhook” because he had reddish hair and was from a town in upstate New York called Kinderhook. But the most long-lasting nickname goes to “Old Kinderhook,” which was used during his 1840 election campaign in the form of supporters carrying around signs marked OK. The abbreviation became popular around this time and we use it to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William Henry Harrison (1841)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 6165px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20537\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20537\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"6165\" height=\"7498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 6165w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-400x486.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1440x1751.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1920x2335.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-1180x1435.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6165px) 100vw, 6165px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison#/media/File:Rembrandt_Peale_-_William_Henry_Harrison_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During his campaign, the opposition tried to cast him as someone who’d rather “sit in his log cabin, drinking hard cider.” Harrison took the criticism and made (spiked) lemonade; he handed out whiskey in bottles shaped like log cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison gave the longest inauguration speech ever (8,445 words over 90 minutes) on a wet, cold day in 1841. He fell ill soon thereafter and died 33 days into his presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John Tyler (1841-1845)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1410px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20538\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20538\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1410\" height=\"1989\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration.jpg 1410w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-400x564.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-800x1129.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-768x1083.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-1180x1665.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Tyler_Daguerreotype_restoration-960x1354.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1410px) 100vw, 1410px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tyler#/media/File:Tyler_Daguerreotype_(restoration).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Harrison’s untimely death, there was disagreement over what power Tyler had as the surviving Vice President. He managed to convince everyone that he should just become president, paving the way for the 25th Amendment, which made the line of succession official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Everyone pretty much hated him. He was expelled from his own party during his presidency, his entire cabinet (minus one person) resigned over his policies, and he was the first president who faced impeachment. One newspaper editor called him a “poor, miserable, despised imbecile” and \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> called him “the most unpopular public man that had ever held any office in the United States” in his own obituary! Upon his death, Lincoln didn’t issue a mourning proclamation and flags were not placed at half-mast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James K. Polk (1845-1849)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2079px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20539\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20539\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2079\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored.jpg 2079w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-400x481.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-800x962.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-768x924.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1440x1732.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1920x2309.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-1180x1419.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Polk_restored-960x1154.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2079px) 100vw, 2079px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk#/media/File:James_Polk_restored.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Every party has a pooper and that pooper was Polk. He banned booze, card playing and dancing from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20540\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20540\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"780\" height=\"1026\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped-400x526.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped-768x1010.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Taylor#/media/File:Zachary_Taylor_restored_and_cropped.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While celebrating the Fourth of July on the grounds where the Washington Monument would later stand, Taylor snacked on a bunch of cherries and washed it all down with iced milk (ew). Bacteria was present in either the cherries or the milk, leading to his death a few days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1052px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20541\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20541\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1052\" height=\"1254\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg 1052w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-400x477.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-800x954.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-768x915.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849-960x1144.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millard_Fillmore#/media/File:Millard_Fillmore_daguerreotype_by_Mathew_Brady_1849.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fillmore married his schoolteacher (oo la la!). Other than that, most historians don’t really have much to say about him. Even the White House website calls him “an uninspiring man.” Ouch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4562px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20542\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20542\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"4562\" height=\"5678\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg 4562w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-400x498.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-800x996.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-768x956.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1440x1792.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1920x2390.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-1180x1469.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop-960x1195.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4562px) 100vw, 4562px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce#/media/File:Mathew_Brady_-_Franklin_Pierce_-_alternate_crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another president most people don’t remember, Pierce was pretty unpopular while in office, leading to his own party refusing to renominate him. His reply to being cast out: “There is nothing left to do but get drunk.” His penchant for the hooch might explain his alleged arrest for running over an old lady with his horse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James Buchanan (1857-1861)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20543\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20543\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"750\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop-400x500.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan#/media/File:Hon._James_Buchanan_-_NARA_-_528318-crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Buchanan holds the record of being the only bachelor to be president, although he may not have been truly single. There was a lot of speculation about his sexuality and close relationship with Alabama Senator William Rufus King. The two lived together for more than 10 years, despite being rich enough to have their own homes. Andrew Jackson called them “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy” behind their backs. When King left for France in 1844, Buchanan wrote: “I am now ‘solitary and alone,’ having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 931px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20544\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20544\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"931\" height=\"1230\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop.jpg 931w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-400x528.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-800x1057.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers_1858_-_crop-768x1015.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#/media/File:Abraham_Lincoln_by_Byers,_1858_-_crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to being a tall drink of water, Lincoln also serves tall drinks as a bartender. He was also a really good wrestler. He won all but one of approximately 300 matches. *fans self*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1617px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20545\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20545\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1617\" height=\"2156\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg 1617w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Andrew_Johnson-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1617px) 100vw, 1617px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#/media/File:President_Andrew_Johnson.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first president to be impeached, Johnson didn’t have an easy time in childhood either. After his father died, his mother sent him and his brother out as indentured servants to a tailor. Johnson and his brother ran away two years later. The tailor put out a reward of $10 for their capture, but they were never apprehended. Using what he learned during his time with the tailor, he made all of his own suits as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1828px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20546\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20546\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1828\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png 1828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-400x373.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-800x746.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-768x716.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-1440x1342.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-1180x1100.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo-960x895.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1828px) 100vw, 1828px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#/media/File:Grant_crop_of_Cold_Harbor_photo.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grant was supposed to be in Lincoln’s theater box on the night of his assassination, but changed plans at the last minute. He regretted not being there for the rest of his life because he believed he could have stopped it from happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other fun facts about Grant: he couldn’t stand the sight of blood, which is ironic considering his Civil War history. And he dismantled the Ku Klux Klan during his presidency (they unfortunately regrouped decades later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3031px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20547\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20547\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3031\" height=\"3688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg 3031w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-768x934.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1440x1752.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1920x2336.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-1180x1436.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored-960x1168.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3031px) 100vw, 3031px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes#/media/File:President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880_Restored.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The victor of one of the most disputed elections ever; he lost the popular vote by 250,000, but eked out an electoral college win by a single vote, earning him the nicknames “Rutherfraud” and “His Fraudulency.” Was also called “Granny Hayes” because he didn’t drink, smoke or gamble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>James A. Garfield (1881)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3182px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20548\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20548\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3182\" height=\"4034\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated.jpg 3182w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-400x507.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-800x1014.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-768x974.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1440x1826.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1920x2434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-1180x1496.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/James_Abram_Garfield_photo_portrait_seated-960x1217.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3182px) 100vw, 3182px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Garfield#/media/File:James_Abram_Garfield,_photo_portrait_seated.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Garfield was ambidextrous and could write in Greek with one hand and in Latin with the other at the same time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shot a few months into his presidency by an assassin and died 11 weeks later. Doctors tried using a newly invented metal detector by Andrew Graham Bell to locate the bullet, but the metal bedsprings kept messing up the results, leading the doctors to cut in the wrong places. On top of this, the doctors also introduced bacteria into Garfield’s body with their unsterilized, prying fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1908px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20549\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20549\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1908\" height=\"2544\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg 1908w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/20_Chester_Arthur_3x4-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1908px) 100vw, 1908px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur#/media/File:20_Chester_Arthur_3x4.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arthur wanted the White House completely redecorated, but needed money to pay for all the new furniture. His solution: sell off 24 wagon loads of historical relics, including a pair of Lincoln’s pants and one of John Quincy Adams’ hats. The redecoration wasn’t the only luxury he took; he also owned elaborate clothing, including 80 different pairs of pants, earning him the nickname”Elegant Arthur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20550\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20550\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"788\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png 788w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-768x999.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#/media/File:StephenGroverCleveland.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Upon the death of his law partner, Cleveland became the legal guardian to his friend’s 11-year-old orphaned daughter. 10 years later, they were married at the White House, making her the youngest First Lady ever at the age of 21 and making him the Woody Allen of the 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2638px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20551\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20551\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2638\" height=\"3765\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg 2638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-400x571.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-800x1142.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-768x1096.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1440x2055.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1920x2740.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-1180x1684.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison-960x1370.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2638px) 100vw, 2638px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison#/media/File:Pach_Brothers_-_Benjamin_Harrison.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The grandson of President William Henry Harrison, he was called the “human iceberg” by some for how stiff he was with people. Maybe people misread anxiety for stiffness though: He was the first president to have electricity in the White House and was so scared of being electrocuted that he refused to touch the light switches and was known to go to bed with all the lights on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 788px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20550\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20550\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"788\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland.png 788w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/StephenGroverCleveland-768x999.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#/media/File:StephenGroverCleveland.png\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No, this isn’t a typo. Cleveland is the only president to hold the office for two non-consecutive terms. Here’s a fact that isn’t as creepy as the first. Part of Cleveland’s jaw was made of vulcanized rubber, as a result of a secret surgery on a friend’s yacht.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William McKinley (1897-1901)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20552\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20552\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"488\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896.jpg 488w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio_1896-400x560.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley#/media/File:William_McKinley_by_Courtney_Art_Studio,_1896.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKinley considered carnations his good luck charm and wore them everywhere. On September 6, 1901, he gave a little girl the carnation from his lapel and was shot by an assassin a short time later. He died the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 476px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20553\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20553\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"476\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg 476w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife-400x501.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#/media/File:TR_Buckskin_Tiffany_Knife.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Valentine’s Day in 1884, both his first wife and mother died. A page from his journal from that day:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Unrelated to that super depressing diary entry: While delivering a speech, Roosevelt was shot and had this to say about it: “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot. I give you my word, I do not care a rap about being shot; not a rap!” He finished his hour and a half speech with a bullet lodged in his chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, the dude was pretty great and worthy of having said greatness commemorated. A toy maker did just that by producing “Teddy Bears” in his honor, after news got out that Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub on a hunting trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>William H. Taft (1909-1913)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3705px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20554\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20554\" src=\"/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3705\" height=\"4545\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg 3705w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-768x942.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1920x2355.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-1180x1448.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3705px) 100vw, 3705px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft#/media/File:Wm_H_Taft_smiling_1908.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taft is most known for his waist line and supposedly getting stuck in a bathtub (historians say this didn’t really happen), but what people don’t talk about enough is his stuffed animal. Toy manufacturers believed Teddy Bears would fade out and wanted a replacement. They came up with Billy Possum. Unfortunately, the origin tale has nothing to do with Taft sparing a baby possum and everything to do with him scarfing down a huge possum dinner one night. Despite rude anti-Teddy Bear postcards like the one below, Billy Possum did not catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20524\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20524\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg\" alt=\"billy possum poster\" width=\"620\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/billy_poster-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2976px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20555\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2976\" height=\"3623\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg 2976w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-400x487.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-800x974.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-768x935.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1440x1753.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1920x2337.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-1180x1437.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912-960x1169.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2976px) 100vw, 2976px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#/media/File:President_Woodrow_Wilson_portrait_December_2_1912.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1919, incredible stress led to Wilson experiencing a series of strokes. He was left partially paralyzed and almost blind, but stayed in office until 1921. He relied heavily on his wife Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of Pocahontas (!!!), for help, leading to her nickname as the “Presidentress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3165px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20563\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20563\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3165\" height=\"4302\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing.jpg 3165w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-400x544.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-768x1044.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1440x1957.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1920x2610.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-1180x1604.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Warren_G_Harding-Harris__Ewing-960x1305.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3165px) 100vw, 3165px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding#/media/File:Warren_G_Harding-Harris_%26_Ewing.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harding had quite the wandering eye. He had an affair with his wife’s close friend, Carrie Fulton Phillips, which was revealed through a series of love letters. He also messed around with a woman named Nan Britton, who wrote a book called “The President’s Daughter” about how her daughter was Harding’s. In 2005, thanks to DNA testing, it was proven that he was in fact the baby daddy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3112px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20564\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3112\" height=\"3836\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg 3112w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-400x493.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-800x986.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-768x947.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1440x1775.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1920x2367.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-1180x1455.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777-960x1183.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3112px) 100vw, 3112px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge#/media/File:Calvin_Coolidge_cph.3g10777.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coolidge had a morning ritual of having someone rub Vaseline on his head while he ate breakfast. The unusual also extended to his choice of pets: two raccoons named Reuben and Rebecca, who would sometimes run around the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3623px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20565\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3623\" height=\"5023\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg 3623w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-400x555.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-800x1109.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-768x1065.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1440x1996.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1920x2662.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-1180x1636.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut-960x1331.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3623px) 100vw, 3623px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#/media/File:Herbert_Hoover_and_King_Tut.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not to be outdone by Coolidge’s odd choice in pets, Hoover’s son had two pet alligators, who also ran around the White House grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover and his wife lived in China for a time and would speak Mandarin in the White House when they wanted to have a private conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rumor has it that Hoover requested his servants be “invisible.” Their choices: jump into closets to hide when Hoover entered a room or be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2040px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20566\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2040\" height=\"1700\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg 2040w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-800x667.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-768x640.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1920x1600.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2040px) 100vw, 2040px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fala_(dog)#/media/File:FDR-Fala-White-House-1941-crop.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>FDR was obsessed with his dog, Fala. He insisted on being the only one who was allowed to feed him and even made Fala an honorary Army private during WWII. Fala was so popular with the press and the American public that he became the subject of a comic strip and MGM even made two movies about him. Fala is the only pet to be\u003ca href=\"http://barkpost-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Monument.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> immortalized in a presidential memorial \u003c/a>alongside his owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t have to change her last name when she married FDR because they’re cousins. Her uncle and his cousin “Teddy” Roosevelt walked her down the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But that’s not the only president he was related to! Also distant relatives: Washington, both Adams, Madison, Van Buren, both Harrisons, Taylor, Grant and Taft. Also: Winston Churchill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FDR was really afraid of the number 13 and refused to have dinner with that number of people or leave for a trip on the 13th of any month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His battle with what was then thought to be polio (new research suggests he actually suffered from Guillain-Barre Syndrome) is now widespread, but back then the public didn’t really know much about it or how bad his paralysis was. The media rarely mentioned it and the Secret Service allegedly yanked out the film from any photographers who tried grabbing a photo of him in his wheelchair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1871px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20567\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20567\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1871\" height=\"2251\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2.jpg 1871w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-400x481.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-800x962.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-768x924.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-1440x1732.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-1180x1420.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_2-960x1155.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1871px) 100vw, 1871px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#/media/File:Harry_S_Truman_-_NARA_-_530677_(2).jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He met his wife, Bess, in Sunday school when he was six. Talk about locking it down!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1663px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20568\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20568\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1663\" height=\"2100\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official.jpg 1663w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-400x505.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-800x1010.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-768x970.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-1440x1818.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-1180x1490.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Eisenhower_official-960x1212.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1663px) 100vw, 1663px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#/media/File:Eisenhower_official.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ike changed the name of FDR’s presidential Maryland retreat from Shangri-la to Camp David. His reason: Shangri-la was “just a little too fancy for a Kansas farm boy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 760px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20569\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20569\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"760\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg 760w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected-400x511.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy#/media/File:JFK_White_House_portrait_looking_up_lighting_corrected.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>JFK received $1 million on his 21st birthday (all nine brothers and sisters got the same), but that generosity did not extend to the Harvard recommendation letter his father wrote for him. He wrote that Jack was “careless and lacks application.” He got in anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2071px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20570\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20570\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2071\" height=\"3293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped.jpg 2071w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-400x636.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-800x1272.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-768x1221.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1440x2290.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1920x3053.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-1180x1876.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Lyndon_B._Johnson_photo_portrait_leaning_on_chair_color_cropped-960x1526.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2071px) 100vw, 2071px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson#/media/File:Lyndon_B._Johnson,_photo_portrait,_leaning_on_chair,_color_cropped.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>JFK’s unexpected assassination led to Johnson becoming president, but another factor that made his presidency possible was a fateful trip to the bathroom. Let me explain: While enlisted in the military during WWII, Johnson boarded a plane called the Wabash Cannonball for his one and only bombing mission in the South Pacific. But he had to use the bathroom really badly so he got off and took care of business. By the time he got back, the Wabash Cannonball had left. The plane ended up crashing and everyone on it perished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20573\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"800\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_-400x473.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Richard_M._Nixon_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif_-768x907.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#/media/File:Richard_M._Nixon,_ca._1935_-_1982_-_NARA_-_530679.tif\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nixon loved to bowl so much that he had a one-lane alley put in the basement of the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3978px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20574\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20574\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"3978\" height=\"5838\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford.jpg 3978w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-400x587.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-800x1174.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-768x1127.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1440x2113.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1920x2818.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-1180x1732.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Gerald_Ford-960x1409.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3978px) 100vw, 3978px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#/media/File:Gerald_Ford.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His real name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember this for the next trivia night at your local bar: Ford is the only president to never be elected by the voting public to president or vice president (first Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned, followed shortly thereafter by Nixon).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford’s daughter Susan hosted her senior prom at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two different assassins tried to take Ford’s life within over a span of 17 days. Both were women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1650px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20575\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20575\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"1650\" height=\"2027\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg 1650w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-800x983.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-768x943.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-1440x1769.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-1180x1450.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/JimmyCarterPortrait2-960x1179.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#/media/File:JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Carter appeared in an unlikely publication: \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em>. And he got a lot of grief for it because of the following remarks: “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do—and I have done it—and God forgives me for it.” It was during a presidential campaign too, which made the outcry even more pronounced. Carter refused to apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2399px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20576\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20576\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Wiki Commons\" width=\"2399\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg 2399w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1440x1801.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1920x2401.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-1180x1476.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981-960x1201.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2399px) 100vw, 2399px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#/media/File:Official_Portrait_of_President_Reagan_1981.jpg\">Wiki Commons\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reagan regularly consulted with an astrologer, Joan Quigley, before making decisions and scheduling big events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong> George H. W. 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"content": "\u003cp>There's no way around this: Media companies, in the year 2016, are rushed. If you're gonna get paid, you've gotta get clicks, and if you're gonna get clicks, you've gotta churn out content -- quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one part of one explanation for how this, \u003ca href=\"http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=who+is+Daniel+Holtzclaw&d=5845767626852&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=EB3ZpkXAFMx95yOxbU9PyE81lbaOWUjR\" target=\"_blank\">a sympathetic 12,000-word profile of convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw\u003c/a>, came to be published today on SB Nation, a sports news website under the Vox Media umbrella.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this writing, the story has been pulled from the site. In its place is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbnation.com/2016/2/17/11038614/a-note-from-the-editorial-director\" target=\"_blank\">a note from the site's editor\u003c/a>, Spencer Hall, apologizing for the piece, calling it a \"failure,\" and declaring that its publication \"represents a complete breakdown of a part of the editorial process at SB Nation.\" So. Okay. That's a good apology. That's how you do it. We'll talk about the wording in a moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holtzclaw, you will recall, is a former Oklahoma City police officer and onetime NFL hopeful who was \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/11/459334314/former-oklahoma-city-police-officer-found-guilty-of-multiple-rapes\" target=\"_blank\">convicted in December 2015 of the sexual assaults of 13 women\u003c/a> over the span of around six months. He appeared to target women with existing criminal records, running background checks to determine if there was information he could use to coerce sex, and trusted that these victims would be too fearful to report a crime by a police officer to the police -- or that no one would believe them if they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't have the time to slowly become nauseous over the course of 12,000 words of breathless writing about a sexual predator who preyed specifically on women of color (with some absolutely mind-blowing theories floated on top about how either getting hit on the head or maybe just not getting drafted into the NFL can turn you into a serial rapist), let's just say the story aims to dig into Holtzclaw's background, with an apparent goal of getting at \"who he really is\": Writer Jeff Arnold talks to former teammates of Holtzclaw's from his college team; he talks to his family; he talks to his lawyer. 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Scientists like Dr. Fred Berlin, the director of the Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit at Johns Hopkins University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Berlin said given what on the surface appears to be a very natural appetite for sex may have gone off the tracks if Holtzclaw exhibited abnormal sexual fantasies of being in control of or coercing women, which followed a pattern of behavior in most of the complaints against him,\" writes Arnold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If that was true, Berlin surmised, it may be possible that some type of disorder may have been in play during the six-month period when the crimes took place in 2013 and 2014 when, without the potential of an NFL career to suppress his behavior, Holtzclaw seemingly became a completely different person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Without the potential of an NFL career to suppress his behavior. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WITHOUT THE POTENTIAL OF AN NFL CAREER TO SUPPRESS HIS BEHAVIOR?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Without the potential of a six-figure book deal to suppress her behavior, Silvers seemingly became a completely different person.\u003c/em> Look for my totally explainable murder spree, forthcoming in 2017!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, so it turns out I have neither the time nor the stomach to parse every batsh*t-bonkers sentence in this piece. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Vanity, a Prince protege who renounced her sexy stage persona to become a Christian minister, has died. She was 57.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The singer and actress, born Denise Matthews, died Monday at a hospital in Fremont, California, said Gisela Hernandez, a spokeswoman for Washington Hospital Health Care System. Hernandez did not give a cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews’ sister Renay said the death was from complications over longstanding kidney issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Denise Matthews was happy in recent years. “She loved her time in the ’80s, but I think she loved her recent time more, because she had been at peace,” Renay Matthews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A native of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Matthews first rocketed to stardom through her association with Prince and the 80s girl group Vanity 6. During her time in music, Vanity released four albums with Motown and Warner Brothers and was known for her sultry appearance and sexually-themed music, including “Nasty Girl.” She also appeared in films in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including “The Last Dragon,” ”52 Pick-Up” and “Action Jackson.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews’ health took a turn for the worse in 1992 and she was hospitalized for kidney failure, which she blamed on cocaine and other drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sick inside. I was a crack cocaine addict and didn’t even know how to wake up in the morning without some smoke,” she said in an Associated Press story in 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She renounced her Hollywood lifestyle and became a Christian minister. She married former Oakland Raider Anthony Smith in 1995 and they divorced the next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/esiy74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe page\u003c/a> aimed at helping her pay her medical bills, Matthews said four months ago she had gone through 23 surgeries and was on dialysis three times a week. She said she was also diagnosed with sclerosis encapsulating peritonitis, a rare benign cause of small bowel obstruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews expressed no regrets about leaving her celebrity lifestyle behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I was Vanity, it was all about me,” she said in 1999. “But when I’m preaching the word of God, it’s Jesus Christ speaking through me. I don’t want people to know who I was back then, but the new creature that God has made me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musicians around the world expressed sorrow at Matthews’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prince, who was touring in Australia, dedicated several songs to Matthews during a show, according to the Herald Sun newspaper. They “used to love each other deeply,” Prince said, according to the newspaper. “She loved me for the artist I was, I loved her for the artist she was trying to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Miss you dearly. U are in his arms now, no pain,” tweeted drummer Sheila E., who also worked with Prince.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rapper MC Hammer tweeted that he had just attended church with Matthews on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Vanity left church after giving a beautiful testimony of appreciation for her Pastors & Thanks to her savior Jesus, I was there,” he tweeted. “I was looking for her Sunday and the announcement came that she fell ill during the night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area history is deeply rooted in art activism and social justice organizing. The area is recognized for a firmly entrenched spirit of working towards a just world across an encyclopedic range of issues, including labor organizing, freedom of speech, gender/LGBTQ equality, racial justice and environmentalism, among so many others. The spirit of protest is deeply engrained in this place; it’s a legacy that is among the Bay Area’s proudest contributions to this country’s evolving vision of freedom and equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Still from 'Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.'\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland in 1966. The new documentary \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution\u003c/a>\u003c/i> airs on KQED starting Feb. 16 and the Oakland Museum of California opens their exhibition \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i> on Oct. 8, to coincide with the Party’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we look back on this formative homegrown movement, we might also consider the Bay Area’s larger history of art activism. By no means comprehensive — an impossible task given the range and depth of this history — this timeline offers notes on our collective history as a vastly influential site of art, protest and change making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327804\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 241px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327804 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Sargent_Johnson_painting_-_NARA_-_559180-e1455497672993.jpg\" alt=\"Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown.\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1939\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Prominent African-American WPA artist and lifelong communist Sargent Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/aquatic-park-bathhouse-maritime-museum-johnson-mural-san-francisco-ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walks off the project before the completion of \u003ci>Sea Forms\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a glazed tile mural commissioned by the Federal Art Project for the San Francisco Maritime Museum, after learning that the site would house a private restaurant for San Francisco’s elite. The mural remains incomplete to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1965\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three faith-based organizations pool resources to initiate a new experimental arts organization called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theintersection.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intersection for the Arts\u003c/a>, with the objective of using art to engage marginalized youth and providing an alternative space for artists who are conscientious objectors to the American war in Vietnam. Intersection eventually fosters a growing number of influential artists through various programs, while also fiscally sponsoring more than 500 projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/128523144\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1966\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> to challenge police brutality in Oakland. Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it grows into a controversial national movement, instituting a number of community programs including free breakfast for children and health clinics. \u003ci>The Black Panther Newspaper\u003c/i>, art directed and illustrated by Emory Douglas from 1967 until the party disbanded, provides one of the most comprehensive records of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1969\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following on the heels of the infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a>, the largest spill to occur in the waters off of California, artists \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2013/12/henderson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, and Alfred Young spell “OIL”\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Bay near the refineries using yellow, nontoxic uranine marker dye. Later, the same artists orchestrate a traffic disruption by calling 100 yellow cabs to the same destination (the six-sided intersection of Castro and Market Streets) at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327674\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 234px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/1972_poster_asof2009.03.23_234w.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"234\" height=\"313\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1972\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Our-SF-Long-road-led-to-victory-for-LGBT-pride-6336727.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s first pride parade takes place\u003c/a> with some 2,000 marchers — many dressed in togas and some dressed in nothing at all — and 15,000 cheering spectators. The float for the Society for Individual Rights features a gay wedding. A group from Bakersfield wears Boy Scout uniforms and chants, “We’re everywhere!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1974\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mark di Suvero’s sculpture \u003ci>Mother Peace\u003c/i> is installed in front of the Oakland Courthouse as part of the Oakland Museum’s landmark exhibition \u003ci>Public Sculpture, Urban Environment\u003c/i>. A conservative judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Judy-Chicago-A-Butterfly-for-Oakland-revisited-5590989.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takes issue with the antiwar sentiment\u003c/a> of the sculpture’s peace symbol and successfully lobbies for its removal. The museum’s longer-term plans to acquire the sculpture dissolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \" width=\"1576\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs’ deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nancy Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1977\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s International Hotel is slated for demolition and redevelopment — 196 low-income Filipino and Chinese residents are evicted amidst a sweeping wave of gentrification and displacement. Artists take part in the struggle by silk-screening protest posters, painting murals on the building and organizing art events and exhibitions. As part of the protests hundreds of artists march down Mission Street with \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar-art-of-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their faces painted white\u003c/a> to protest the displacement of people of color, creating a media spectacle that captures international attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327677\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327677 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/building-1024x721-e1455508136542.png\" alt=\"Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street.\" width=\"426\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Women's Building)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1979\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After initially organizing to found the San Francisco Women’s Centers in 1971, a group of women purchase a four-story building and former meeting hall in the Mission District to establish The Women’s Building, the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/about/mission-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first woman-owned and operated community center\u003c/a> in the country. Fifteen years later, a group of artists complete the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/the-mural/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaestraPeace Mural\u003c/a> on its façade, one of the city’s largest murals according to the Women’s Building website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIH-t2aLFog\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1984\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The War Chest Tours, a group of punk rockers, disrupt the Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco. Some 100 punks stage actions, interventions and die-ins in response to police sweeps (under the direction of Mayor Dianne Feinstein) organized to remove sex workers and the homeless from the view of convention-goers. Many are arrested; the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> covers events the next day with the headline, “Punk Rocker Protest — 84 arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1069px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg\" alt=\"The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat.\" width=\"1069\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-400x180.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-800x360.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-768x346.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-960x432.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat. \u003ccite>(Photos: Bob Heifetz, Peace Navy / Courtesy Shaping SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1988\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Peace Navy (a coalition of tradespeople, artists, filmmakers and 100 privately owned boats) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bay_Area_Peace_Navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a dramatization of a nuclear accident at sea\u003c/a>. Part of an international campaign to disarm the seas, the performance takes place aboard a specially crafted 100-foot-long submarine in Sausalito’s waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg\" alt=\"Installing the pink priangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-400x160.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-800x320.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-768x307.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-1180x472.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-960x384.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing the pink triangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Friends of the Pink Triangle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1995\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially conceived as a “renegade craft project,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepinktriangle.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a giant pink fabric triangle\u003c/a> is installed on Twin Peaks during Pride Weekend to memorialize the homosexuals who were persecuted in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The first installation is christened by Mayor Willie Brown with pink champagne. The unfurling of this reclaimed symbol, once used to identify and shame gays, becomes an annual event maintained by The Friends of the Pink Triangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327680 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/elliotjohnsonOscarGrant-e1455508162652.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant. \u003ccite>(Photo: Elliot Johnson / Courtesy Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2009\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oscar Grant is killed in Oakland on New Year’s morning by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle — his death sparks numerous protests and creative actions, including the \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project\u003c/a>, as well as inspiration for Bay Area filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed \u003ci>Fruitvale Station\u003c/i>, which wins the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and Best First Film at Cannes Film Festival, both in 2013. Grant’s death, along with that of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is among the events that catapult the \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement into action in July 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/152916274\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2013\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a> is founded by a group of artists, activists and technologists to create visual maps of San Francisco’s eviction crisis. The visually compelling maps succinctly data map the city’s housing crisis and draw international media attention to how these shifts implicate new wealth in the city’s revitalized technology sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2013 February\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit pens \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an incendiary essay\u003c/a> on the rapid changes in San Francisco for the \u003ci>London Review of Books\u003c/i>. The article becomes an international sensation, drawing greater attention to the changes happening in the city and spawning an avalanche of media coverage on the city’s tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-768x491.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014. \u003ccite>(Photo: Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2014 March\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alex Nieto is killed by San Francisco police in a hail of 59 bullets fired into Bernal Hill Park at twilight. The Mission community, led by several artists, including writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.unsettlers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriana Camarena\u003c/a> and poet and author \u003ca href=\"https://todobododown.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Bac Sierra\u003c/a>, organizes \u003ca href=\"https://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice for Alex Nieto\u003c/a> to undertake a series of creative protests demanding information. The protests include \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/33/34/02/7192741/5/1024x1024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media interventions\u003c/a> during the 2014 playoffs and World Series at AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZkXZQGbnJs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2014 April\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Building on the success of previous tech shuttle bus protests, a group of artists and activists from the organization Heart of the City \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/google-bus-protest-most-san-francisco-thing-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a theatrical demonstration\u003c/a> at 24th and Valencia Streets to draw attention to a proposed tax hike on public transportation. Complete with colorful costumes and a walking surveillance camera on stilts, \u003ci>Mother Jones\u003c/i> calls the performance protest “the most San Francisco Thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 541px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Black.Seed-Bay-Bridge-Shut-down_Reclaim-MLK_011816_Source-www.baybridgeinfo.orgconstruction-cams-e1455508207943.png\" alt=\"View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest.\" width=\"541\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest. \u003ccite>(Source: baybridgeinfo.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2016\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Responding to a nationwide call to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/reclaimmlk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ReclaimMLK\u003c/a> through 96 hours of direct action over the weekend preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Black.Seed, a queer liberation collective, shuts down the west-bound span of the Bay Bridge to demand justice for Bay Area victims of police brutality. A temporary radio station broadcasts the event and it is live-tweeted by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/new-blog/2016/1/18/black-queer-liberation-collective-blackseed-shuts-down-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>What would you add to this list of art activism? Feel free contribute your own memories in the comments section below.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area history is deeply rooted in art activism and social justice organizing. The area is recognized for a firmly entrenched spirit of working towards a just world across an encyclopedic range of issues, including labor organizing, freedom of speech, gender/LGBTQ equality, racial justice and environmentalism, among so many others. The spirit of protest is deeply engrained in this place; it’s a legacy that is among the Bay Area’s proudest contributions to this country’s evolving vision of freedom and equality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"Still from 'Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.'\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution-sig-550x309-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from ‘Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.’\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party, founded in Oakland in 1966. The new documentary \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution\u003c/a>\u003c/i> airs on KQED starting Feb. 16 and the Oakland Museum of California opens their exhibition \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"http://museumca.org/exhibit/all-power-people-black-panthers-50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i> on Oct. 8, to coincide with the Party’s founding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we look back on this formative homegrown movement, we might also consider the Bay Area’s larger history of art activism. By no means comprehensive — an impossible task given the range and depth of this history — this timeline offers notes on our collective history as a vastly influential site of art, protest and change making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327804\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 241px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327804 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Sargent_Johnson_painting_-_NARA_-_559180-e1455497672993.jpg\" alt=\"Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown.\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sargent Johnson painting, year unknown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1939\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Prominent African-American WPA artist and lifelong communist Sargent Johnson \u003ca href=\"https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/aquatic-park-bathhouse-maritime-museum-johnson-mural-san-francisco-ca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walks off the project before the completion of \u003ci>Sea Forms\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a glazed tile mural commissioned by the Federal Art Project for the San Francisco Maritime Museum, after learning that the site would house a private restaurant for San Francisco’s elite. The mural remains incomplete to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1965\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Three faith-based organizations pool resources to initiate a new experimental arts organization called \u003ca href=\"http://www.theintersection.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intersection for the Arts\u003c/a>, with the objective of using art to engage marginalized youth and providing an alternative space for artists who are conscientious objectors to the American war in Vietnam. Intersection eventually fosters a growing number of influential artists through various programs, while also fiscally sponsoring more than 500 projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch3>1966\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale found the \u003ca href=\"https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Panther Party\u003c/a> to challenge police brutality in Oakland. Originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it grows into a controversial national movement, instituting a number of community programs including free breakfast for children and health clinics. \u003ci>The Black Panther Newspaper\u003c/i>, art directed and illustrated by Emory Douglas from 1967 until the party disbanded, provides one of the most comprehensive records of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1969\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Following on the heels of the infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Barbara oil spill\u003c/a>, the largest spill to occur in the waters off of California, artists \u003ca href=\"http://openspace.sfmoma.org/2013/12/henderson/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Hawley, Mel Henderson, and Alfred Young spell “OIL”\u003c/a> on the San Francisco Bay near the refineries using yellow, nontoxic uranine marker dye. Later, the same artists orchestrate a traffic disruption by calling 100 yellow cabs to the same destination (the six-sided intersection of Castro and Market Streets) at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327674\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 234px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327674\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/1972_poster_asof2009.03.23_234w.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.\" width=\"234\" height=\"313\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster for the June 25, 1972 Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of San Francisco Pride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1972\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Our-SF-Long-road-led-to-victory-for-LGBT-pride-6336727.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco’s first pride parade takes place\u003c/a> with some 2,000 marchers — many dressed in togas and some dressed in nothing at all — and 15,000 cheering spectators. The float for the Society for Individual Rights features a gay wedding. A group from Bakersfield wears Boy Scout uniforms and chants, “We’re everywhere!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1974\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Mark di Suvero’s sculpture \u003ci>Mother Peace\u003c/i> is installed in front of the Oakland Courthouse as part of the Oakland Museum’s landmark exhibition \u003ci>Public Sculpture, Urban Environment\u003c/i>. A conservative judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Judy-Chicago-A-Butterfly-for-Oakland-revisited-5590989.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takes issue with the antiwar sentiment\u003c/a> of the sculpture’s peace symbol and successfully lobbies for its removal. The museum’s longer-term plans to acquire the sculpture dissolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1576px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327676\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \" width=\"1576\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel.jpg 1576w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-400x268.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-768x515.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Protesters_in_front_of_the_International_Hotel-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1576px) 100vw, 1576px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of protesters linking arms in front of the International Hotel in San Francisco try to prevent the San Francisco Sheriffs’ deputies from evicting elderly tenants on August 4,1977. \u003ccite>(Photo by Nancy Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1977\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s International Hotel is slated for demolition and redevelopment — 196 low-income Filipino and Chinese residents are evicted amidst a sweeping wave of gentrification and displacement. Artists take part in the struggle by silk-screening protest posters, painting murals on the building and organizing art events and exhibitions. As part of the protests hundreds of artists march down Mission Street with \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar-art-of-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their faces painted white\u003c/a> to protest the displacement of people of color, creating a media spectacle that captures international attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327677\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327677 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/building-1024x721-e1455508136542.png\" alt=\"Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street.\" width=\"426\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full MaestraPeace Mural from the corner of 18th Street and Lapidge Street. \u003ccite>(Courtesy: The Women's Building)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1979\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After initially organizing to found the San Francisco Women’s Centers in 1971, a group of women purchase a four-story building and former meeting hall in the Mission District to establish The Women’s Building, the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/about/mission-history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first woman-owned and operated community center\u003c/a> in the country. Fifteen years later, a group of artists complete the \u003ca href=\"http://womensbuilding.org/the-mural/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaestraPeace Mural\u003c/a> on its façade, one of the city’s largest murals according to the Women’s Building website.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIH-t2aLFog'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/vIH-t2aLFog'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>1984\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The War Chest Tours, a group of punk rockers, disrupt the Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco. Some 100 punks stage actions, interventions and die-ins in response to police sweeps (under the direction of Mayor Dianne Feinstein) organized to remove sex workers and the homeless from the view of convention-goers. Many are arrested; the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> covers events the next day with the headline, “Punk Rocker Protest — 84 arrests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1069px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg\" alt=\"The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat.\" width=\"1069\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest.jpg 1069w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-400x180.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-800x360.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-768x346.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/NavyProtest-960x432.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Peace Navy obstructs USS Missouri during contentious campaign to homeport the Missouri in San Francisco during the 1980s; a Peace Navy boat. \u003ccite>(Photos: Bob Heifetz, Peace Navy / Courtesy Shaping SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1988\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Peace Navy (a coalition of tradespeople, artists, filmmakers and 100 privately owned boats) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe \u003ca href=\"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Bay_Area_Peace_Navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a dramatization of a nuclear accident at sea\u003c/a>. Part of an international campaign to disarm the seas, the performance takes place aboard a specially crafted 100-foot-long submarine in Sausalito’s waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327679\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg\" alt=\"Installing the pink priangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-400x160.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-800x320.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-768x307.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-1180x472.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/PinkTriangleCombo-960x384.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installing the pink triangle in 2002; A view from afar in 2004. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Friends of the Pink Triangle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>1995\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Initially conceived as a “renegade craft project,” \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepinktriangle.com/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a giant pink fabric triangle\u003c/a> is installed on Twin Peaks during Pride Weekend to memorialize the homosexuals who were persecuted in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The first installation is christened by Mayor Willie Brown with pink champagne. The unfurling of this reclaimed symbol, once used to identify and shame gays, becomes an annual event maintained by The Friends of the Pink Triangle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327680\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11327680 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/elliotjohnsonOscarGrant-e1455508162652.jpg\" alt=\"Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant.\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti memorializing Oscar Grant. \u003ccite>(Photo: Elliot Johnson / Courtesy Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2009\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oscar Grant is killed in Oakland on New Year’s morning by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle — his death sparks numerous protests and creative actions, including the \u003ca href=\"http://reimaginerpe.org/rpe/oscar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project\u003c/a>, as well as inspiration for Bay Area filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s critically acclaimed \u003ci>Fruitvale Station\u003c/i>, which wins the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and Best First Film at Cannes Film Festival, both in 2013. Grant’s death, along with that of Trayvon Martin in Florida, is among the events that catapult the \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement into action in July 2013.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch3>2013\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a> is founded by a group of artists, activists and technologists to create visual maps of San Francisco’s eviction crisis. The visually compelling maps succinctly data map the city’s housing crisis and draw international media attention to how these shifts implicate new wealth in the city’s revitalized technology sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2013 February\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit pens \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an incendiary essay\u003c/a> on the rapid changes in San Francisco for the \u003ci>London Review of Books\u003c/i>. The article becomes an international sensation, drawing greater attention to the changes happening in the city and spawning an avalanche of media coverage on the city’s tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327798\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg\" alt=\"Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-400x256.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-800x511.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-768x491.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Nieto-960x613.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers march for Alejandro Nieto in March 2014. \u003ccite>(Photo: Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2014 March\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alex Nieto is killed by San Francisco police in a hail of 59 bullets fired into Bernal Hill Park at twilight. The Mission community, led by several artists, including writer \u003ca href=\"http://www.unsettlers.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adriana Camarena\u003c/a> and poet and author \u003ca href=\"https://todobododown.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Bac Sierra\u003c/a>, organizes \u003ca href=\"https://justice4alexnieto.org/alex-story/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice for Alex Nieto\u003c/a> to undertake a series of creative protests demanding information. The protests include \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/33/34/02/7192741/5/1024x1024.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media interventions\u003c/a> during the 2014 playoffs and World Series at AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FZkXZQGbnJs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FZkXZQGbnJs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch3>2014 April\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Building on the success of previous tech shuttle bus protests, a group of artists and activists from the organization Heart of the City \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/google-bus-protest-most-san-francisco-thing-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stage a theatrical demonstration\u003c/a> at 24th and Valencia Streets to draw attention to a proposed tax hike on public transportation. Complete with colorful costumes and a walking surveillance camera on stilts, \u003ci>Mother Jones\u003c/i> calls the performance protest “the most San Francisco Thing ever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 541px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11327799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/Black.Seed-Bay-Bridge-Shut-down_Reclaim-MLK_011816_Source-www.baybridgeinfo.orgconstruction-cams-e1455508207943.png\" alt=\"View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest.\" width=\"541\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from the construction cameras on the Bay Bride during the Black.Seed protest. \u003ccite>(Source: baybridgeinfo.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>2016\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Responding to a nationwide call to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/reclaimmlk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ReclaimMLK\u003c/a> through 96 hours of direct action over the weekend preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Black.Seed, a queer liberation collective, shuts down the west-bound span of the Bay Bridge to demand justice for Bay Area victims of police brutality. 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"content": "\u003cp>The world premiere of Mark Jackson’s \u003cem>Little Erik\u003c/em>, a savage and free-wheeling adaption of Henrik Ibsen’s missing child play, \u003cem>Little Eyolf\u003c/em>, is currently underway at Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre. It’s the best play the Aurora has produced in some time. Ibsen was a master at giving his supposedly respectable audiences a taste of their own trash, and Jackson has the same nasty impulse here to skewer the bourgeoisie on the corpses of their children. How perfect that this play should open in one of the most self-regarding cities in America, if not the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Little Erik\u003c/em> begins in extreme tension and classic form: Joie sits. Andi enters. Andi seems innocent, but guilty. Joie is a wild cat homing in for the kill. At first you have no idea how these women are related. From moment to moment they feel like sisters, or mother/nanny, mother/child, or opposing poles of a \u003cem>ménage a trois\u003c/em>. It’s impossible to tell the nature of their relationship. All we know is that they can barely handle this chance encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we find out Joie and Andi are in fact sisters-in-law, it’s a small-scale psychic shock that unbalances the typical geometry of the family drama. In a world of shimmering rectangles, where the placement of a chair has the feeling of law, these sisters by marriage seem to be overstepping their bounds. It’s as if they are slowly slipping outside the limits of representation.\u003cb> \u003c/b>It’s one of the many ways Jackson streamlines and focuses the overwrought melodrama of Ibsen’s original.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317912\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 297px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11317912\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/LittleErik2.jpg\" alt=\"LittleErik2\" width=\"297\" height=\"410\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Andi (Mariah Castle) and Joie (Marilee Talkington). Photo: David Allen.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andi seems too much a sister and way too much of an aunt, while Joie is clearly too little a wife and mother. They hover on the edge of their roles, and actresses Marilee Talkington (Joie) and Mariah Castle (Andi) slip between the obvious and opaque with haunting results. We know these people. They have the scent of cliché. And yet they keep tripping back into the unknowable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time husband and brother Freddie enters with son and nephew Little Erik on his back, we’re longing for clarity, and these carefree fellows provide it. Freddie is exactly what we expect: a charismatic charlatan capable of keeping sister, wife, and child locked in his thrall. And Joe Estlack certainly knows how to play a man who believes that he’s the loveliest thing God has ever created. And Little Erik? Well, he’s the riot we’ve all been waiting for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That a physically impaired child, his foot pointing at an impossibly oblique angle, should signal both dramatic action and his parents’ failures is an obscenity. And that’s the beauty of both Ibsen’s play, Jackson’s liberal re-imagining of it, and young Jack Wittmayer’s striking and controlled performance as Erik. We’re asked to see purely symbolic relations realized in strict realism, as if deformity itself could speak for a society’s ills. It can’t, but then the play proceeds as if it can and you’re forced into the ugly position of nodding your head in agreement: yes, this is what a life of heedless self-involvement will get you—a deformed kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about as morally suspect as you can get (just wait until the Mexican witch appears) and yet by embracing a clichéd and flawed symbolism, Jackson forces us to take account of how we mis-perceive the world. The symbolic elements of \u003cem>Little Erik\u003c/em> aren’t there as an aesthetic, but rather as a strategy to a more forceful realism and accounting of the world. And for the first 70 minutes of this 80-minute play, Jackson achieves a terrific balance between our corrupt fantasies and his steely commitment to depicting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Jackson ultimately abandons realism for symbolism. Instead of having his characters stumble towards some sort of peace or hell, he uses nature as an idea–brute and arbitrary–to end the play. This misses the dramatic logic of the drama’s singular image and title: Little Erik’s body and Wittmayer’s commanding performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a disappointing end to an otherwise excellent night out at the theater. But it’s also a demonstration of how difficult morally-engaged, aesthetically-daring art can be. There’s Jackson walking a tightrope, and when he reaches the end, looking for one more flourish, he falls. And you can’t help but think about the boy Erik, and how his misshapen body is overburdened with an excess of meaning. Even mangled, both character and play demand our attention. We cannot look away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11317910 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"netherinterrogation\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From right to left: Morris (Ruibo Qian) interrogates Doyle (Louis Parnell). Photo: Jessica Palopoli.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Jennifer Haley’s sci-fi thriller, \u003cem>The Nether\u003c/em>, at SF Playhouse, the dramatist does the looking away for us, as the play is quite explicit about what we are not seeing: a pedophile’s dream of the perfectly available little girl; the brutal rejection of that dream in ritual violence; and finally, the fantasy of knowing that none of it matters, that you can indulge in your most heinous desires without consequence. Or in more brutal terms, \u003cem>The Nether\u003c/em> is about fucking a child, killing a child, and then having the pleasure of that child coming back to life for more of the same for as long as you want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this plays out over the well-worn clichés of cop drama and dystopic science fiction. Morris, a young and startlingly unconvincing detective, interrogates Sims, a flustered gentleman of the old school, over his creation of a virtual reality website for pedophiles called “the Hideaway.” Sims, aka Papa, argues that he’s within his rights, that it is not real, that there are no actual children involved, and that by providing an outlet for deviants he’s making the real world safer. Haley’s writing style in these interrogation scenes is classic \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em>, only with inferior craftsmanship and thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenes in the fantasy world of the Hideaway are better, especially those between a customer, Doyle, aka Woodnut, and Iris, a pre-pubescent, virtual girl. But there’s a lie at the center of this play that has to do with the casting of an actual child in the role of a virtual one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great moral art should make you feel uncomfortable. But here the discomfort has nothing to do with artistry. When the virtual Iris begins her seduction of Woodnut, what we are really watching is a young actress enact the fantasies of a pedophile. It is the exact opposite of what the play would have us understand we’re experiencing: Haley believes she’s depicting a virtual encounter, but we’re actually seeing and experiencing a real one, albeit under the guise of fiction. It’s a misapprehension of the theater, where every actor’s body is fundamentally real, especially a child’s, and especially when that child is initiating sex with an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Haley ends the scene before anything technically happens is a necessity of casting a child. But her decision underscores a rather technical notion of what’s appropriate for a child to perform. Both the playwright and SF Playhouse seem to believe that it is merely the depiction of sex that must be avoided. This seems naïve—at least to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This inability of the producers to think through the ethics and mechanics of production, alongside the playwright’s limited notion of realism and reticence to depict the full obscenity of pedophilia, are all signs of a bankrupt imagination. Would it matter if Haley were a better writer? Could she then get away with casting a child? Probably, yes. But that play would be something immense, wild, and caring, where all we have here is the narcissism of false daring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Little Erik\u003c/em> runs through February 28th at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley. For tickets and information visit www.auroratheatre.org.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Nether\u003c/em> runs through March 5th at the SF Playhouse in San Francisco. For tickets and information visit www.sfplayhouse.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That a physically impaired child, his foot pointing at an impossibly oblique angle, should signal both dramatic action and his parents’ failures is an obscenity. And that’s the beauty of both Ibsen’s play, Jackson’s liberal re-imagining of it, and young Jack Wittmayer’s striking and controlled performance as Erik. We’re asked to see purely symbolic relations realized in strict realism, as if deformity itself could speak for a society’s ills. It can’t, but then the play proceeds as if it can and you’re forced into the ugly position of nodding your head in agreement: yes, this is what a life of heedless self-involvement will get you—a deformed kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s about as morally suspect as you can get (just wait until the Mexican witch appears) and yet by embracing a clichéd and flawed symbolism, Jackson forces us to take account of how we mis-perceive the world. The symbolic elements of \u003cem>Little Erik\u003c/em> aren’t there as an aesthetic, but rather as a strategy to a more forceful realism and accounting of the world. And for the first 70 minutes of this 80-minute play, Jackson achieves a terrific balance between our corrupt fantasies and his steely commitment to depicting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Jackson ultimately abandons realism for symbolism. Instead of having his characters stumble towards some sort of peace or hell, he uses nature as an idea–brute and arbitrary–to end the play. This misses the dramatic logic of the drama’s singular image and title: Little Erik’s body and Wittmayer’s commanding performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a disappointing end to an otherwise excellent night out at the theater. But it’s also a demonstration of how difficult morally-engaged, aesthetically-daring art can be. There’s Jackson walking a tightrope, and when he reaches the end, looking for one more flourish, he falls. And you can’t help but think about the boy Erik, and how his misshapen body is overburdened with an excess of meaning. Even mangled, both character and play demand our attention. We cannot look away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11317910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11317910 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"netherinterrogation\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/02/netherinterrogation-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From right to left: Morris (Ruibo Qian) interrogates Doyle (Louis Parnell). Photo: Jessica Palopoli.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Jennifer Haley’s sci-fi thriller, \u003cem>The Nether\u003c/em>, at SF Playhouse, the dramatist does the looking away for us, as the play is quite explicit about what we are not seeing: a pedophile’s dream of the perfectly available little girl; the brutal rejection of that dream in ritual violence; and finally, the fantasy of knowing that none of it matters, that you can indulge in your most heinous desires without consequence. Or in more brutal terms, \u003cem>The Nether\u003c/em> is about fucking a child, killing a child, and then having the pleasure of that child coming back to life for more of the same for as long as you want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this plays out over the well-worn clichés of cop drama and dystopic science fiction. Morris, a young and startlingly unconvincing detective, interrogates Sims, a flustered gentleman of the old school, over his creation of a virtual reality website for pedophiles called “the Hideaway.” Sims, aka Papa, argues that he’s within his rights, that it is not real, that there are no actual children involved, and that by providing an outlet for deviants he’s making the real world safer. Haley’s writing style in these interrogation scenes is classic \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em>, only with inferior craftsmanship and thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scenes in the fantasy world of the Hideaway are better, especially those between a customer, Doyle, aka Woodnut, and Iris, a pre-pubescent, virtual girl. But there’s a lie at the center of this play that has to do with the casting of an actual child in the role of a virtual one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great moral art should make you feel uncomfortable. But here the discomfort has nothing to do with artistry. 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