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Only two black women directors were identified in an entire year’s worth of major motion pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers may seem shocking -- but asked for their reactions, several local industry insiders responded with a resounding \"duh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not surprising,\" says Margaret Cho, a comic who -- sometime in between doing impressions of her mother in small San Francisco nightclubs as a teenager and becoming a household name -- had the distinction of being\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136818644/margaret-cho-breaks-barriers-in-world-of-comedy\" target=\"_blank\"> the first Asian-American to have her own primetime network TV\u003c/a> show, with 1994's ABC sitcom \u003cem>All-American Girl\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 481px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20743 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Cho on Fashion Police. \" width=\"481\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Cho on Fashion Police.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have often been the only person of color on set or involved in an entire production. It's not unusual to me. For a long time, it was the norm, and it still is to some extent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho says she gravitated toward comedy in part because of its inclusiveness, which set it apart from film and television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told all the time, by many people, that I didn't belong in show business -- from my family to important agents and producers and managers and other actors,\" says Cho. But \"in comedy, there was no supervising entity limiting your participation in the medium. You just had to be good, that was all. You didn't have to fit into anyone’s story; you didn’t have to wait until there was 'Trouble in Chinatown.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then being a successful comic was like a backdoor entry into the rest of Hollywood,\" says the comic, who's currently juggling a guest-hosting job on E!'s \u003cem>Fashion Police\u003c/em> with standup, songwriting, and activism. \"I made a name for myself. I couldn't have broken into TV from the other side. There were no significant roles for people of color at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-20744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story.'\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault-400x604.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucero notes that he, too, was far from shocked by the USC report's numbers. \"I've known [about the disparity] ever since I’ve known about film,\" he says. \"I mean, it goes back to Natalie Wood portraying a Puerto Rican in \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>. It's not surprising, just sad.\" (For a plethora of other facepalm-worthy instances of whitewashing, check out this week's\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> feature\u003c/a> on being non-white in Hollywood.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: Considering this long-running legacy of underrepresentation -- what the study refers to, in turns, as an \"inclusion crisis\" and an \"epidemic of invisibility\" -- is the media's current focus on the Oscars misguided?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> this week, Mo'Nique, who in 2010 won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for \u003cem>Precious\u003c/em>, argues that the \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2016/film/news/monique-pay-gap-black-women-oscars-diversity-1201712344/\" target=\"_blank\">talk around \"the trophy\" is irrelevant\u003c/a> and detracts from real issues -- such as the pay gap faced by women of color. (The actress has said she was paid only $50,000 for her award-winning role.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20745 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-800x620.png\" alt=\"N'Jeri Eaton\" width=\"442\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-800x620.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-400x310.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-768x595.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot.png 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">N'Jeri Eaton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, \"I think it's a conversation we should be having, in part because it’s a launching point to many other conversations about diversity,\" says N'Jeri Eaton, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker whose recent film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/trulyca/first-friday/\" target=\"_blank\">First Friday\u003c/a>\u003c/em> examines a changing Oakland, with its accompanying race, class, and gentrification issues, via the focal point of its monthly Art Murmur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many different aspects to this -- say, for black women in particular, when black women do win [awards], what kind of roles is it for? It's always women who are in peril, this tragic black woman narrative -- because those are the opportunities we get as black women actors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eaton says one of the best bets for moving beyond the online conversation involves hiring decisions: When it came time to select a crew for \u003cem>First Friday\u003c/em>, she made it a point to seek out a team that reflected what Oakland actually looks like, and that comes through in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making change is multi-fold, she says: we must create opportunities, platforms and financial support for young people of color who are interested in filmmaking. (Her day job at San Francisco’s nonprofit media organization \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Television Service\u003c/a> provides grants of up to $15,000 to do just that.) And the movie-going public must also vote with their wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a closet fan of the \u003cem>Fast and Furious\u003c/em> series,\" she says with a laugh. \"And it might seem silly, but that series is incredibly diverse, and I think that’s part of the reason it's so successful -- it's more reflective of our country, and people are dying for that. No one could say that [franchise] isn't profitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20746\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 464px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-20746\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/furious-7-premiere-400x250.jpg\" alt=\"Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Furious 7’ \" width=\"464\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/furious-7-premiere-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/furious-7-premiere.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Tyrese Gibson at the Hollywood premiere of ‘Furious 7’ \u003ccite>(Carlos Piaggio/AKM-GSI**)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the Oscars serve as a springboard for discussion, however, she's all for it. \"I mean, I’m black. I think about race every day of my life, maybe every hour of my life,\" says Eaton. \"But for some people, this might be their very first entry point to thinking about race.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho echoes that statement. \"I think it's great,\" she says of the Oscars conversation. \"The only thing that seems to take down overt racism, invisibility, and cultural erasure is shame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But come Monday morning, when the Oscars are in the media's rearview mirror, her focus will be back on paving her own way, making a space in entertainment outside of the studio-sanctioned blockbusters, and supporting others in the same boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that we have to make our own movies -- bring our own stories and do it any way we can, whether that’s making content for social media, making movies with our phones, making music on our laptops,\" says Cho. \"We need to do it on our own.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Lucero adds that, for a young person of color who doesn't have many high-profile role models in the industry she can relate to, putting that DIY ethic on display can be nothing short of powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of it is education -- filmmakers giving back. I’m doing a lot of tours at high schools and middle schools right now, to show kids that, yeah, I'm Chicano, I come from the Fruitvale District, and it’s possible to come from there and make films,\" he says. \"I do feel like it’s my duty to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 460px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20747 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1-800x1186.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Elizabeth Torres on the poster for 'East Side Sushi.'\" width=\"460\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1-800x1186.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1-400x593.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1-960x1423.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/East-Side-Sushi-1.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Elizabeth Torres on the poster for 'East Side Sushi.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for \u003cem>East Side Sushi\u003c/em>? Lucero wound up paying for it himself (with a little help from Kickstarter). And a couple months later, right after he took the top audience award at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cinequest.org/film-festival\" target=\"_blank\">Cinequest\u003c/a>, he got a call from the head of acquisitions at a major studio who was interested in distributing the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They loved the film, their whole staff loved the film, but they wanted somebody famous in the lead,” says Lucero. “They weren't comfortable putting a no-name Latina woman on an ad on the side of a bus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when it came time to make marketing materials, Lucero went with a big, solo shot of his leading lady -- who, yes, is Latina. Her name is Diana Elizabeth Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, okay, I’m gonna put her face front and center on this poster. That poster that you see is my defiance against Hollywood,\" says Lucero with a laugh. \"That's just me. When there are obstacles, I go against them.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anthony Lucero has too many trophies to carry at once. The writer-director's first feature film, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/09/15/east-side-sushi-explores-a-culture-clash-through-food-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">East Side Sushi\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, about a Latina woman who aspires to become a sushi chef, has been racking up awards since it first debuted on the festival circuit in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 2011, when the Oakland native was shopping his screenplay around to potential investors, it was a different story altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20742\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 520px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20742 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/anthony-lucero-web-700x336.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Lucero\" width=\"520\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/anthony-lucero-web-700x336.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/anthony-lucero-web-700x336-400x192.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Lucero\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There were multiple strikes working against it,\" says the filmmaker, who was born and raised in the Fruitvale District. \"I had a very strong sense that no one wanted to pay for a film with a woman lead. The second issue was she was Mexican. And the other lead was Japanese. And you just don't see that in cinema.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think that sounds like an oversimplification? Think again. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/22/467665890/hollywood-has-a-major-diversity-problem-usc-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\">recent report by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a> has confirmed what many in the entertainment business say has been common knowledge for decades: Hollywood's diversity problem goes far beyond the Academy Awards. Below the surface of the buzzy \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OscarsSoWhite\" target=\"_blank\">#OscarsSoWhite\u003c/a> conversation that’s dominated social media the past few months lies an iceberg -- it's the industry itself, and it's overwhelmingly comprised of straight, white men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, the landscape of media content is still largely whitewashed,\" reports the USC study. With an eye to gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, researchers analyzed roles in front of and behind the camera on 109 films released by major studios in 2014, as well 305 scripted television and digital/streaming series that aired across 31 different networks. Shows distributed by Disney, NBC, CBS, Hulu, Netflix, 21st Century Fox, Sony and more were included in the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when the U.S. population is \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/american-babies-are-no-longer-mostly-non-hispanic-white\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly made up of minorities\u003c/a>, the report casts a clear spotlight on the damning degree of disparity between what Americans look like and what we see on our TV screens. Asians, Latinos, and African-Americans are all vastly underrepresented, both onscreen and off. Only 2 percent of speaking characters on television were identified as LGBT. White directors outnumber those of color by nearly 7 to 1. Only two black women directors were identified in an entire year’s worth of major motion pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers may seem shocking -- but asked for their reactions, several local industry insiders responded with a resounding \"duh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not surprising,\" says Margaret Cho, a comic who -- sometime in between doing impressions of her mother in small San Francisco nightclubs as a teenager and becoming a household name -- had the distinction of being\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136818644/margaret-cho-breaks-barriers-in-world-of-comedy\" target=\"_blank\"> the first Asian-American to have her own primetime network TV\u003c/a> show, with 1994's ABC sitcom \u003cem>All-American Girl\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20743\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 481px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20743 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Cho on Fashion Police. \" width=\"481\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/22867851817_351da9804c_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margaret Cho on Fashion Police.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I have often been the only person of color on set or involved in an entire production. It's not unusual to me. For a long time, it was the norm, and it still is to some extent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho says she gravitated toward comedy in part because of its inclusiveness, which set it apart from film and television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was told all the time, by many people, that I didn't belong in show business -- from my family to important agents and producers and managers and other actors,\" says Cho. But \"in comedy, there was no supervising entity limiting your participation in the medium. You just had to be good, that was all. You didn't have to fit into anyone’s story; you didn’t have to wait until there was 'Trouble in Chinatown.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then being a successful comic was like a backdoor entry into the rest of Hollywood,\" says the comic, who's currently juggling a guest-hosting job on E!'s \u003cem>Fashion Police\u003c/em> with standup, songwriting, and activism. \"I made a name for myself. I couldn't have broken into TV from the other side. There were no significant roles for people of color at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20744\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-20744\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault-400x604.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story.'\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault-400x604.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/maxresdefault.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Wood in 'West Side Story.'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucero notes that he, too, was far from shocked by the USC report's numbers. \"I've known [about the disparity] ever since I’ve known about film,\" he says. \"I mean, it goes back to Natalie Wood portraying a Puerto Rican in \u003cem>West Side Story\u003c/em>. It's not surprising, just sad.\" (For a plethora of other facepalm-worthy instances of whitewashing, check out this week's\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/24/arts/hollywood-diversity-inclusion.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> feature\u003c/a> on being non-white in Hollywood.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So: Considering this long-running legacy of underrepresentation -- what the study refers to, in turns, as an \"inclusion crisis\" and an \"epidemic of invisibility\" -- is the media's current focus on the Oscars misguided?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with \u003cem>Variety\u003c/em> this week, Mo'Nique, who in 2010 won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for \u003cem>Precious\u003c/em>, argues that the \u003ca href=\"http://variety.com/2016/film/news/monique-pay-gap-black-women-oscars-diversity-1201712344/\" target=\"_blank\">talk around \"the trophy\" is irrelevant\u003c/a> and detracts from real issues -- such as the pay gap faced by women of color. (The actress has said she was paid only $50,000 for her award-winning role.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-20745 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-800x620.png\" alt=\"N'Jeri Eaton\" width=\"442\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-800x620.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-400x310.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot-768x595.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/headshot.png 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">N'Jeri Eaton\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, \"I think it's a conversation we should be having, in part because it’s a launching point to many other conversations about diversity,\" says N'Jeri Eaton, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker whose recent film \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/trulyca/first-friday/\" target=\"_blank\">First Friday\u003c/a>\u003c/em> examines a changing Oakland, with its accompanying race, class, and gentrification issues, via the focal point of its monthly Art Murmur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many different aspects to this -- say, for black women in particular, when black women do win [awards], what kind of roles is it for? It's always women who are in peril, this tragic black woman narrative -- because those are the opportunities we get as black women actors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eaton says one of the best bets for moving beyond the online conversation involves hiring decisions: When it came time to select a crew for \u003cem>First Friday\u003c/em>, she made it a point to seek out a team that reflected what Oakland actually looks like, and that comes through in the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But making change is multi-fold, she says: we must create opportunities, platforms and financial support for young people of color who are interested in filmmaking. (Her day job at San Francisco’s nonprofit media organization \u003ca href=\"http://itvs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Television Service\u003c/a> provides grants of up to $15,000 to do just that.) And the movie-going public must also vote with their wallets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a closet fan of the \u003cem>Fast and Furious\u003c/em> series,\" she says with a laugh. \"And it might seem silly, but that series is incredibly diverse, and I think that’s part of the reason it's so successful -- it's more reflective of our country, and people are dying for that. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all make mistakes, some more embarrassing than others. All you can do is hope your faux pas doesn't happen on the Internet where a single screenshot can haunt your Google results for all eternity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, that hope is kaput for a certain \u003cem>TIME\u003c/em> contributor, who decided to put together a list of the most-read female writers in college classes. So far, so good! The blogger dutifully put together 100 names of women; well, actually just 99 because, despite the feminine-sounding name, Evelyn Waugh was a dude with a penis. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Recently at a bar I yelled at a Rubio supporter who was talking about Bernie not being a patriot and the usual jargon and said ”don’t talk about daddy and the fam like that!” So basically lets do that together.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, of course, there are the jokers -- like user \u003ca href=\"https://berniesingles.com/members/presidenttrump/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>, who appears to be flirting with a user named after his daughter, \u003ca href=\"https://berniesingles.com/members/ivankatrump/\" target=\"_blank\">Ivanka\u003c/a>, in a nod to one of Trump's\u003ca href=\"http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/279091/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-photo-gross/\" target=\"_blank\"> creepiest tendencies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the site's \"groups\" feature allows users to connect with other Berners in their geographic region, or to join micro-communities like \"Christians for Bernie,\" \"Musicians for Bernie,\" \"Horse Lovers 4 Bernie,\" and the ever-popular \"Girls Who Are Down For Threesomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On balance, the site seems to be shaping up as half-chatroom, half-safe space for people to \"talk Bernie\" at each other -- which is apparently necessary, given recent stories about Bernie supporters using \u003ca href=\"http://theslot.jezebel.com/an-interview-with-a-man-who-was-campaigned-at-by-bernie-1757807599\" target=\"_blank\">non-Bernie specific dating sites\u003c/a> to do\u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-supporters-tinder_us_56b4d85de4b01d80b24605b0\" target=\"_blank\"> just that\u003c/a>. True political discussion appears to be in short supply, having taken a backseat to the idea that if two individuals are both feeling the Bern, they probably have a good shot at being friends, compatible sexual partners, or at the very least comrades in dank memedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One could see the site as just the latest evidence that Sanders' cult of personality has snowballed into an underdog-themed cultural phenomenon more in line with the way people root for, say, the bobsled team from \u003cem>Cool Runnings\u003c/em> than anything having to do with actual policies or platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, you know, we could call it \"the Internet.\" Lord knows \u003ca href=\"https://berniesingles.com/members/johnellisbush/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeb Bush\u003c/a> needed a new hobby this week anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 8 Recap: Tears Dry On Their Own",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a week since \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/14/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-7-recap-off-to-the-races/\" target=\"_blank\">all the straight people got proposed to\u003c/a> and the lonely gay was mercilessly bullied (a nice and neat allegory for most of human history). Will there be a double wedding with you-can't-borrow-my-fancy-coat, no-I-don't-want-my-reception-there drama? Will this episode reveal that Thomas stowed away on the Dowager's south of France-bound ship in search for warmer climes and shirtless boys? Will Carson step on a stair devastated by termites and fall to his death? Only one way to find out! On with the show!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical overcast day in England, Edith and Cora walk around the grounds with super unnecessary parasols. Cora advises Edith to tell her boyfriend that she's actually Marigold's mom. Edith is like \u003cem>Or! I can keep pretending that she's just a random orphan that follows me around!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in the servants' courtyard, the Sergeant is paying a visit because these people can't not sloppily kill people or get roped into some type of criminal activity for one day. This time, it's Mrs. Patmore's turn to be interrogated. Turns out her Airbnb guests were *pearl clutch* having an affair! And now everyone in town thinks her cute bed and breakfast is a brothel. Mrs. Patmore almost passes out because she's never had sex in her entire life, and the unfairness of some people getting to do it with multiple partners is just too damn much for her equilibrium to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, Robert and Rosamund are moving their mouths, but all I can focus on is new puppy Tia'a teething on a wicker basket. Dear \u003cem>Downton\u003c/em> writers, thanks for realizing that the only way I can deal with Robert scenes is if there is a cute baby animal in the frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert and Rosamund watch Edith and Cora through a window. \u003cem>Parasols? Really?\u003c/em> is unspoken between them, but understood. They wonder if Edith will get dumped. They decide: statistically, duh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Mary comes out of a shop with a mystery package. More contraceptives? She and Branson notice a newspaper with the headline \"English Marquess Dies in Tangier.\" Please don't let it be Edith's boyfriend's employer who spends all his time painting local Moroccan boys. He's supposed to come back and be Thomas' sugar daddy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ugh, it's him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_nnxrjpusMz1tq4of6o1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20647\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_nnxrjpusMz1tq4of6o1_500.gif\" alt=\"eyeore too good to be true\" width=\"500\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' rec room, Anna and Bates are laughing about Mrs. Patmore's predicament. They've replaced sulking and sobbing in the shoe polish room with reveling in others' misery. \u003cem>At least it's not us this time!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another corner of the room, Terrible Self-Esteem #1 and Terrible Self Esteem #2 (cheat code: Molesley and Baxter) have anxiety about not being good enough, per usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Isobel's place, Lord Merton stops by to discuss his son's wedding invite. Why is Isobel bickering with her ex when she could be on Spring Break with the Dowager in France? Merton brings up how nice his son's fiance is and Isobel takes a page out of Mariah's shade book and says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20648\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her.gif\" alt=\"mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her\" width=\"245\" height=\"165\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Carson's office, Mrs. Hughes tells him about Mrs. Patmore's Airbnb brothel. He forbids her to say a word about it to anyone else. Meanwhile, upstairs, Anna is cracking up while spilling all the details to Mary. Why is she so gleefully mean all of a sudden? Is her pregnancy a \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby\u003c/em> type of thing? Bates\u003cem> is\u003c/em> pretty devilish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary changes the subject to another person's misfortune they can mock: Edith's boyfriend's possible unemployment due to the death of Thomas' almost sugar daddy. \"My romance might not be the only one to come to an untimely end,\" Mary gloats, stopping herself just short of capping her sentence off with a hearty MUAHAHA!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Mrs. Patmore is still reeling over people having extramarital sex on her duvet cover. But there's no time to deal with her emotions right now cause the schoolteacher drops in to tell Daisy that she passed her tests. Every time a dragged out storyline comes to a close on this show, an angel gets its wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the family is sitting around tsk tsk-ing about Edith's misfortune. \u003cem>Did the three bubble bubble toil and trouble witches from \u003c/em>Macbeth\u003cem> curse her or something?\u003c/em> they wonder. But don't cry for Edith, Argentina, 'cause turns out her boyfriend is the heir, which means Edith will now outrank all these losers!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone is super excited because this news will allow them to be even bigger snobs. Well, almost everyone. Mary's near-stroke reaction:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/2d574a9d28cb629137e8748c0b325025.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20649\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20649\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/2d574a9d28cb629137e8748c0b325025.gif\" alt=\"tantrum mad gif\" width=\"260\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After six seasons of mockery, Edith a.k.a Jan Brady finally gets the last laugh. Good for her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lhcrzg15c61qzw6md.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20650\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lhcrzg15c61qzw6md.gif\" alt=\"jan brady cut hair gif\" width=\"415\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley tries to be brave and ask for time off so he can become a teacher. Because Thomas hasn't been in this episode yet, Carson sets his bullying crosshairs on Molesley's sweaty little face and says, \"And what makes you think you'll be any good? There are plenty of little boys who want to be famous cricketers. It's not enough to make them champions.\" Ughhh, next time Carson's on a walk, can lightning strike a tree branch, causing it to break and become a giant splinter in his torso?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, Robert and Cora talk about Edith's lucky twist of fate. \"For poor old Edith who couldn't make her dolls do what she wanted, it is rather wonderful!\" If I ever re-watch this entire series (I won't), I would like to make a drinking game out of it. Every time someone refers to Edith as \"poor old Edith,\" take a body shot. \u003cstrong>Warning:\u003c/strong> don't try this at home unless you want to puke blood on your dinner companions from a burst liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Mary and Branson walk around the property, pretending to work. It isn't long before Branson repeats his desperate plea for Mary to marry what's his face: \u003cem>But he’s really cute and likes cars like me and I really need another dude in the family that isn’t Edith’s boring to an Olympic degree boyfriend so just marry him, damn it, marry him for me!!!! \u003c/em>But he adds one thing he didn't mention last week:\u003cem> Oh and yeah, Marigold is totally Edith's real daughter.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Robert and Rosamund fight like only siblings can over whether Edith should tell her boyfriend about Marigold or not:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> You haven't got children. You don't understand these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosamund:\u003c/strong> No. I haven't had children, as you so kindly remind me, but I hope I do have a sense of decency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> How long are you planning to stay? Your cold must have cleared by now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/clarissa-explains-it-all.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20653\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20653\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/clarissa-explains-it-all.gif\" alt=\"clarissa-explains-it-all\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith and her newly fancy boyfriend interrupt the squabbling. When talking about his dead cousin/employer, he uses coded language that makes me believe the Marquess really could have been perfect for Thomas: \"He was...so \u003cem>delicate\u003c/em>.\" That's 1925 talk for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/oscar-wilde-reading-gif-clueless.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20654\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/oscar-wilde-reading-gif-clueless.gif\" alt=\"oscar wilde reading gif clueless\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cora makes Edith's man cry and he says, \"Goodness. I'm afraid you've made me blub.\" First off, I'm stealing this line for my real life. And second, sure, he's boring, but there's something winningly naive about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Thomas, who I was about to issue an Amber Alert for, turns up. A potential employer has written to tell him \u003cem>Yeah, no thanks\u003c/em>. He internally screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs in the dining room, Edith's rich boy toy uses more coded language to describe his cousin. He apparently enjoyed watching the young fishermen do their thing. Mmhm. And he was \"lyrical\" and \"an artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lldwthXimo1qhuoxao1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20655\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20655\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lldwthXimo1qhuoxao1_400.gif\" alt=\"too gay to function mean girls gif\" width=\"351\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary interrupts to indecorously grill him about his intentions with Edith. He looks over at Edith and smiles in a way that suggests chocolate dipped strawberries and the kind of extracurricular activities that go on at Mrs. Patmore's Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, inside Edith's head, this jam is cranked up at high volume:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8mm1Qmt-Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at Patmore's brothel, a paparazzo is stalking her and Mrs. Hughes. And all the Airbnb-ers have cancelled their bookings. A mid-coitus Turkish death, a kidnapping, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, several murders, and \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is the big scandal of the century?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, the schoolmaster shows up in a graduation cap (zero chill) and introduces Molesley to the kids who will surely eat him alive within the hour. Poor little Piglet doesn't stand a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a park bench, Edith and Moneybags talk about how everything has changed for him. He reveals himself to be quite the momma's boy, which is the perfect time for Edith to be like \u003cem>Sooooo....speaking of mommas, I am one! Surprise! \u003c/em>Instead, she goes:\u003cem> Oh. Uh. Erm. Ummm. We should go inside. \u003c/em>DO. NOT. MESS. THIS. UP. EDITH!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, the whole family (even the never-there children) are hanging out in the living room when Mary's ex pops in unannounced (Branson's handiwork). Mary is not amused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> I'm afraid you've missed tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry (I remembered his name!):\u003c/strong> Oh, don't worry about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> I won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All right, Mary, it's fine if you don't want to marry the guy, but his best friend just burned to death so chill out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at the school, the kids are destroying the last shred of Molesley's dignity right on schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Mary roasts Branson for butting into her business (valid; that layabout definitely needs a hobby). And then it's Henry's turn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Living in my family house? Working to preserve my estate and being outranked by your own stepson?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20656\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20656\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"damn gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"171\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry doesn't even feel that kick in the pants and instead gets kind of sinister, almost stroking Mary's face with a creepy finger, while threatening: \"\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">If you're trying to get rid of me, I'm going to make this as hard and as horrible as I can!\" This is all so romantic, isn't it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, everyone asks Molesley about his first day at school. His response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/gifliloleavemealonetodie.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20657\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/gifliloleavemealonetodie.gif\" alt=\"gif lilo leave me alone to die\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back upstairs, after a brief time out, Mary and Henry are fighting on the stairs again:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> It just seems rather small to me. Not to marry a man for lack of money is the same as marrying him because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Out of my way! You push in here, into my home, uninvited, in order to call me a grubby, little gold digger? You've got a nerve!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> Mary! ......... Mary!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary runs upstairs and does that dramatic thing where you close a door and then despair lean all over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates tells Anna, \"She's a bit of a bully, your Lady Mary.\" Takes one to know one, creep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an upstairs hallway, money is acting as an aphrodisiac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moneybags:\u003c/strong> Won't you send me to bed happy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> Sounds like an indecent proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steam it up, Edith! Actually, before you do, rip the bandaid off and tell him about Marigold. Come on! You're almost there! That's right!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she misses...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At breakfast the following day, Mary comes down to find that Henry has gone back to London. She instantly gets cranky like a kid whose least favorite toy is missing. Everyone rolls their eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moneybags is about to announce the engagement to Branson and Mary, but Edith is like \u003cem>Nooooooooo \u003c/em>cause she knows that, if Mary is unhappy, she will do whatever she can to make Edith even unhappier. Which is exactly what happens when Mary spills the Marigold secret. Moneybags leaves immediately and Branson thinks \u003cem>Maybe Boston wasn't so bad?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a different room, the older rich people have some fun talking about Patmore's brothel and then decide to help out by being photographed visiting the infamous den of sin. B plot? More like zzzzz-plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Downton kitchen, Carson is very upset about Mrs. Patmore dragging the precious Crawleys into the mud by accepting their brothel visit. And it wouldn't be a scene with Carson without some sexist BS falling out of his mouth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> It's their choice, Mr Carson. They're all grown people, surely?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> Well, I've always known that women were ruthless, but I didn't think I'd find the proof in my own wife!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My feelings can be best expressed in the form of this Xena gif:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20660\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"xena punch gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Moneybags and Edith are assessing the damage. It's not looking good. He doesn't want to marry someone he doesn't trust so, with a \"Good luck\" and a tip of the hat, he leaves her standing there, all alone on the precipice of the altar, like always. Mary must pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Branson lets it riiiiiiiip on Mary, saying everything anyone has ever wanted to say to and about her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't play the innocent with me. Don't lie! Not to me! You can't stop ruining things! For Edith, for yourself! You'd pull in the sky if you could! Anything to make you feel less frightened and alone! You ruined Edith's life today! How many lives are you going to wreck just to smother your misery? You're a coward, Mary. 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A small victory, but I'm still waiting on a falling branch or a boa constrictor or an exploding ulcer or a dash of arsenic or a very heavy anvil to take care of this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a boring walk, Baxter tries to pep Molesley up for his next match against the ruthless 8-year-olds. That's when Molesley mentions something weird Thomas said about hoping he would make more of his life than Thomas ever did with his. Nooooooo. Baxter runs back to the house, while Molesley keeps derping along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Baxter races around, looking for Thomas. Andy says he went for a bath. Ughhhhhh. They break down the door and, sure enough, Thomas is in a bathtub full of his own blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/211691_original.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20663\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/211691_original.gif\" alt=\"mariah cry gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy decides to...oh, who cares! Thomas might be dead! :-(((\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Edith is driving through town and is pretty open to hitting pedestrians, if she has to. Thankfully, she spots Branson before she mows anyone down. They talk about everything but the fact that Thomas might be dead!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas is not dead (hallelujah!). Mrs. Hughes, Andy and Baxter work together to get him out of the tub. Baxter says, \"I hate to think he was so unhappy.\" Translation: \u003cem>I hate to think that all the homophobia and intolerance administered by you two and Mr. Carson and, like, everyone else made him want to die. Good work, a-holes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, Daisy eavesdrops on Molesley's lecture, which is basically a Bernie Sanders stump speech. Nut shell: \u003cem>Billionaires aren't better than us. Learning should be accessible to all and should be free and stuff.\u003c/em> Marxist Daisy melts into this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-3.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20666\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20666\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-3.gif\" alt=\"broad city yas queen gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, the family is about to lay into Mary for destroying Edith's life, but Carson interrupts with the Thomas news. Mary doesn't even flinch. Instead, she slowly gets up, walks over to pour some tea and then super casually hurls a grenade into Robert's face: \"Do you still think dismissing Barrow was a useful saving, Papa?\" Ka-blooey! She is hateful, but she's not wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, everyone is pretty much over that whole Thomas-tried-to-take-his-own-life-because-of-us thing. Instead, they talk about how awesome Molesley is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, she is feeling like maybe she overdid it a smidge today. Her blind rage is replaced by tail-between-the-legs contrition. Until it switches back to rage again when Anna brings up Henry. Old habits die hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith and her lady editor bestie briefly process the breakup and then get back to business because Edith has been there done that in the sob-over-a-breakup-and-almost-accidentally-burn-the-house-down department. They have a meeting with Cassandra Jones, their mysterious advice columnist. They vow to say \"bananas\" if they think the real person behind the pseudonym shows up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas looks a lot better, as he reads in bed. Mary brings in his only friend in the world, baby George, who gifts him an orange. *chokes back sob*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and Thomas bond over how they both have Tourette's and always blurt out the worst, most hateful things, leaving devastation and misery in their wakes. Things could be worse, guys. Y'all could be married to Carson. Or Bates. Or Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson makes Mrs. Patmore feel bad about her brothel again and then brings up how shameful having a \"suicidal footman in the attic\" is. I've run out of clever ways to say that I want this garbage human being dead so I'll just say: It's high time Carson took a bath. (Too soon?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out front, the Dowager is back from France at Branson's request. Before she can get to work at fixing everything that's gone wrong in her absence, she takes some time to complain about Spratt not being home when she got back. Maybe he went to get some more stamps for his collection or a new magnifying glass. Let him live!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson is still mumbling cruel things about Mrs. Patmore bringing scandal upon the house. GET OVER IT. Then this Stockholm Syndrome-y exchange happens. I think it's meant to come off as cute and charming, but I just mourn what Mrs. Hughes could've done with her life, if she hadn't saddled herself with this sexist piece of work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> You're such an old curmudgeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> Don't say you're going off me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> No, because you're \u003cem>my \u003c/em>curmudgeon and that makes all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, good luck with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the Dowager and Mary have a heart-to-heart. They agree that being snobby is fun, but that sometimes you have to let it go to make way for some love in your life, even if the guy you like is kinda sorta poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Robert and Carson take turns quoting Steve Urkel's famed refrain \u003cem>Did I do thaaaaat?\u003c/em> over Thomas' suicide attempt. They vow to be less homophobic in the future, or at least for a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the London office, Edith finds out the Cassandra Jones is.....[drumroll please].....Spratt?! LOL. Edith and her editor bestie look at each other and say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-4.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20667\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20667\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-4.gif\" alt=\"gwen bananas gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a graveyard, Mary tells Matthew's grave that she's getting married.The grave takes it pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Mary invites Henry over and they get back together. And he's not messing around; he brought a marriage license and wants to get hitched that weekend. Mary is like \u003cem>Sure, let's stop beating this will-they-won't-they dead horse and gallop off into the sunset on a living one.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the wedding day and everyone is getting ready to head to the church. And in comes Edith. Surprise! Being the butt of every joke and being bullied and abandoned at the altar and spurned by burn victim cousins etc. has apparently made Edith super wise and way existential. She spreads these bits of truth in a let's-agree-to-disagree talk with Mary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"I assumed you would be fairly sorry, unless you're actually insane.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"Because you were unhappy, you wanted me to be unhappy, too. Now you're happy again. You'll be nicer...for a while.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\"In the end, you're my sister and one day, only we will remember Sybil...or Mama or Papa or Matthew or Michael or Granny or Carson or any of the others who have peopled our youth...until, at last, our shared memories will mean more than our mutual dislike.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Edith is really bringing it home for all the fans who rooted for her over the last six years. Brava!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/3c66593df89a1e418a72dbca059c85fe.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20668\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/3c66593df89a1e418a72dbca059c85fe.gif\" alt=\"drag queen crying clapping gif\" width=\"252\" height=\"190\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Mary gets married without a hitch (because she didn't ask to borrow one of her mom's coats).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony, Robert, the Dowager and Cora tie the episode up with a neat little bow and tease the next and final piece in the puzzle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> It seems all our ships are coming into port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cora:\u003c/strong> And Edith?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> Of all my children, Edith has given me the most surprises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Dowager:\u003c/strong> Yes, surprises of the most mixed variety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> A surprise is a surprise, Mama, and I'm sure we haven't seen the last one yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oooo! The Christmas special is going to be lit!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we get one last scene first: Edith creepily watching her kid play in a graveyard. Oh, \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>, you're so weird and terrible and great. I will miss you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>After every episode, it's only right to reward characters who've impressed and diss the ones that haven't, so here goes:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>PIECE OF COAL:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Carson:\u003c/strong> Are you surprised?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>HONORABLE MENTION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong> Spratt: \u003c/strong>I love a good side hustle. Good for him!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>BRONZE: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>Thomas\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> He's a survivor, he's not gon' give up, he's not gon' stop, he's gon' work harder!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>SILVER: \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>The Dowager\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong> She only needed to be in this episode for 10 minutes to snag second place. Her pep talk about being a snob, but not being stupid was wonderful. So glad the Dowager is immortal and will never ever die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>GOLD:\u003c/em> Edith\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>:\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>The speeches! The cursing! The not giving a hoot about losing a really fancy title and a husband and a happy life! The work ethic! The cool \"bananas\" bit! Hands down, the gold medalist of the penultimate episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until next week!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Previous Season 6 recaps:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/14/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-7-recap-off-to-the-races/\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 7 Recap: Off to the Races\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/08/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-6-recap-i-get-so-lonely/\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 6 Recap: I Get So Lonely\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/31/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-5-recap-sunday-bloody-sunday/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 5 Recap: Sunday Bloody Sunday\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/24/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-4-recap-i-will-remember-you/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 4 Recap: I Will Remember You\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-3-recap-chapel-of-love-wedding\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Episode 3 Recap: Chapel of Love\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/10/downton-abbey-season-6-episode-2-recap-all-that-she-wants-is-another-baby/\" target=\"_blank\">'Downton Abbey' Season 6 Episode 2: All That She Wants Is Another Baby\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/03/downton-abbey-season-6-premiere-recap-lets-talk-about-sex/\" target=\"_blank\">‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Let’s Talk About Sex\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In town, Mary comes out of a shop with a mystery package. More contraceptives? She and Branson notice a newspaper with the headline \"English Marquess Dies in Tangier.\" Please don't let it be Edith's boyfriend's employer who spends all his time painting local Moroccan boys. He's supposed to come back and be Thomas' sugar daddy!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ugh, it's him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_nnxrjpusMz1tq4of6o1_500.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20647\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_nnxrjpusMz1tq4of6o1_500.gif\" alt=\"eyeore too good to be true\" width=\"500\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' rec room, Anna and Bates are laughing about Mrs. Patmore's predicament. They've replaced sulking and sobbing in the shoe polish room with reveling in others' misery. \u003cem>At least it's not us this time!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another corner of the room, Terrible Self-Esteem #1 and Terrible Self Esteem #2 (cheat code: Molesley and Baxter) have anxiety about not being good enough, per usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Isobel's place, Lord Merton stops by to discuss his son's wedding invite. Why is Isobel bickering with her ex when she could be on Spring Break with the Dowager in France? Merton brings up how nice his son's fiance is and Isobel takes a page out of Mariah's shade book and says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20648\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20648\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her.gif\" alt=\"mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her\" width=\"245\" height=\"165\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Carson's office, Mrs. Hughes tells him about Mrs. Patmore's Airbnb brothel. He forbids her to say a word about it to anyone else. Meanwhile, upstairs, Anna is cracking up while spilling all the details to Mary. Why is she so gleefully mean all of a sudden? Is her pregnancy a \u003cem>Rosemary's Baby\u003c/em> type of thing? Bates\u003cem> is\u003c/em> pretty devilish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary changes the subject to another person's misfortune they can mock: Edith's boyfriend's possible unemployment due to the death of Thomas' almost sugar daddy. \"My romance might not be the only one to come to an untimely end,\" Mary gloats, stopping herself just short of capping her sentence off with a hearty MUAHAHA!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Mrs. Patmore is still reeling over people having extramarital sex on her duvet cover. But there's no time to deal with her emotions right now cause the schoolteacher drops in to tell Daisy that she passed her tests. Every time a dragged out storyline comes to a close on this show, an angel gets its wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the family is sitting around tsk tsk-ing about Edith's misfortune. \u003cem>Did the three bubble bubble toil and trouble witches from \u003c/em>Macbeth\u003cem> curse her or something?\u003c/em> they wonder. But don't cry for Edith, Argentina, 'cause turns out her boyfriend is the heir, which means Edith will now outrank all these losers!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone is super excited because this news will allow them to be even bigger snobs. Well, almost everyone. Mary's near-stroke reaction:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/2d574a9d28cb629137e8748c0b325025.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20649\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20649\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/2d574a9d28cb629137e8748c0b325025.gif\" alt=\"tantrum mad gif\" width=\"260\" height=\"208\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After six seasons of mockery, Edith a.k.a Jan Brady finally gets the last laugh. Good for her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lhcrzg15c61qzw6md.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20650\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lhcrzg15c61qzw6md.gif\" alt=\"jan brady cut hair gif\" width=\"415\" height=\"244\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Molesley tries to be brave and ask for time off so he can become a teacher. Because Thomas hasn't been in this episode yet, Carson sets his bullying crosshairs on Molesley's sweaty little face and says, \"And what makes you think you'll be any good? There are plenty of little boys who want to be famous cricketers. It's not enough to make them champions.\" Ughhh, next time Carson's on a walk, can lightning strike a tree branch, causing it to break and become a giant splinter in his torso?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, Robert and Cora talk about Edith's lucky twist of fate. \"For poor old Edith who couldn't make her dolls do what she wanted, it is rather wonderful!\" If I ever re-watch this entire series (I won't), I would like to make a drinking game out of it. Every time someone refers to Edith as \"poor old Edith,\" take a body shot. \u003cstrong>Warning:\u003c/strong> don't try this at home unless you want to puke blood on your dinner companions from a burst liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Mary and Branson walk around the property, pretending to work. It isn't long before Branson repeats his desperate plea for Mary to marry what's his face: \u003cem>But he’s really cute and likes cars like me and I really need another dude in the family that isn’t Edith’s boring to an Olympic degree boyfriend so just marry him, damn it, marry him for me!!!! \u003c/em>But he adds one thing he didn't mention last week:\u003cem> Oh and yeah, Marigold is totally Edith's real daughter.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Robert and Rosamund fight like only siblings can over whether Edith should tell her boyfriend about Marigold or not:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> You haven't got children. You don't understand these things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rosamund:\u003c/strong> No. I haven't had children, as you so kindly remind me, but I hope I do have a sense of decency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> How long are you planning to stay? Your cold must have cleared by now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/clarissa-explains-it-all.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20653\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20653\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/clarissa-explains-it-all.gif\" alt=\"clarissa-explains-it-all\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edith and her newly fancy boyfriend interrupt the squabbling. When talking about his dead cousin/employer, he uses coded language that makes me believe the Marquess really could have been perfect for Thomas: \"He was...so \u003cem>delicate\u003c/em>.\" That's 1925 talk for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/oscar-wilde-reading-gif-clueless.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20654\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/oscar-wilde-reading-gif-clueless.gif\" alt=\"oscar wilde reading gif clueless\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cora makes Edith's man cry and he says, \"Goodness. I'm afraid you've made me blub.\" First off, I'm stealing this line for my real life. And second, sure, he's boring, but there's something winningly naive about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Thomas, who I was about to issue an Amber Alert for, turns up. A potential employer has written to tell him \u003cem>Yeah, no thanks\u003c/em>. He internally screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs in the dining room, Edith's rich boy toy uses more coded language to describe his cousin. He apparently enjoyed watching the young fishermen do their thing. Mmhm. And he was \"lyrical\" and \"an artist.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lldwthXimo1qhuoxao1_400.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20655\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20655\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/tumblr_lldwthXimo1qhuoxao1_400.gif\" alt=\"too gay to function mean girls gif\" width=\"351\" height=\"185\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary interrupts to indecorously grill him about his intentions with Edith. He looks over at Edith and smiles in a way that suggests chocolate dipped strawberries and the kind of extracurricular activities that go on at Mrs. Patmore's Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, inside Edith's head, this jam is cranked up at high volume:\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/xk8mm1Qmt-Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/xk8mm1Qmt-Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at Patmore's brothel, a paparazzo is stalking her and Mrs. Hughes. And all the Airbnb-ers have cancelled their bookings. A mid-coitus Turkish death, a kidnapping, an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, several murders, and \u003cem>this\u003c/em> is the big scandal of the century?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, the schoolmaster shows up in a graduation cap (zero chill) and introduces Molesley to the kids who will surely eat him alive within the hour. Poor little Piglet doesn't stand a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a park bench, Edith and Moneybags talk about how everything has changed for him. He reveals himself to be quite the momma's boy, which is the perfect time for Edith to be like \u003cem>Sooooo....speaking of mommas, I am one! Surprise! \u003c/em>Instead, she goes:\u003cem> Oh. Uh. Erm. Ummm. We should go inside. \u003c/em>DO. NOT. MESS. THIS. UP. EDITH!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, the whole family (even the never-there children) are hanging out in the living room when Mary's ex pops in unannounced (Branson's handiwork). Mary is not amused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> I'm afraid you've missed tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry (I remembered his name!):\u003c/strong> Oh, don't worry about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> I won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All right, Mary, it's fine if you don't want to marry the guy, but his best friend just burned to death so chill out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at the school, the kids are destroying the last shred of Molesley's dignity right on schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Mary roasts Branson for butting into her business (valid; that layabout definitely needs a hobby). And then it's Henry's turn:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Living in my family house? Working to preserve my estate and being outranked by your own stepson?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20656\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20656\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-1.gif\" alt=\"damn gif\" width=\"320\" height=\"171\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henry doesn't even feel that kick in the pants and instead gets kind of sinister, almost stroking Mary's face with a creepy finger, while threatening: \"\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">If you're trying to get rid of me, I'm going to make this as hard and as horrible as I can!\" This is all so romantic, isn't it?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, everyone asks Molesley about his first day at school. His response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/gifliloleavemealonetodie.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20657\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/gifliloleavemealonetodie.gif\" alt=\"gif lilo leave me alone to die\" width=\"500\" height=\"237\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back upstairs, after a brief time out, Mary and Henry are fighting on the stairs again:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> It just seems rather small to me. Not to marry a man for lack of money is the same as marrying him because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary:\u003c/strong> Out of my way! You push in here, into my home, uninvited, in order to call me a grubby, little gold digger? You've got a nerve!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Henry:\u003c/strong> Mary! ......... Mary!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary runs upstairs and does that dramatic thing where you close a door and then despair lean all over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Bates tells Anna, \"She's a bit of a bully, your Lady Mary.\" Takes one to know one, creep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an upstairs hallway, money is acting as an aphrodisiac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moneybags:\u003c/strong> Won't you send me to bed happy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Edith:\u003c/strong> Sounds like an indecent proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steam it up, Edith! Actually, before you do, rip the bandaid off and tell him about Marigold. Come on! You're almost there! That's right!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she misses...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At breakfast the following day, Mary comes down to find that Henry has gone back to London. She instantly gets cranky like a kid whose least favorite toy is missing. Everyone rolls their eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moneybags is about to announce the engagement to Branson and Mary, but Edith is like \u003cem>Nooooooooo \u003c/em>cause she knows that, if Mary is unhappy, she will do whatever she can to make Edith even unhappier. Which is exactly what happens when Mary spills the Marigold secret. Moneybags leaves immediately and Branson thinks \u003cem>Maybe Boston wasn't so bad?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a different room, the older rich people have some fun talking about Patmore's brothel and then decide to help out by being photographed visiting the infamous den of sin. B plot? More like zzzzz-plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Downton kitchen, Carson is very upset about Mrs. Patmore dragging the precious Crawleys into the mud by accepting their brothel visit. And it wouldn't be a scene with Carson without some sexist BS falling out of his mouth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> It's their choice, Mr Carson. They're all grown people, surely?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> Well, I've always known that women were ruthless, but I didn't think I'd find the proof in my own wife!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My feelings can be best expressed in the form of this Xena gif:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-2.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20660\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20660\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-2.gif\" alt=\"xena punch gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Moneybags and Edith are assessing the damage. It's not looking good. He doesn't want to marry someone he doesn't trust so, with a \"Good luck\" and a tip of the hat, he leaves her standing there, all alone on the precipice of the altar, like always. Mary must pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Branson lets it riiiiiiiip on Mary, saying everything anyone has ever wanted to say to and about her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't play the innocent with me. Don't lie! Not to me! You can't stop ruining things! For Edith, for yourself! You'd pull in the sky if you could! Anything to make you feel less frightened and alone! You ruined Edith's life today! How many lives are you going to wreck just to smother your misery? You're a coward, Mary. Like all bullies, you're a coward!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20661\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey.gif\" alt=\"mariah cry clap gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey.gif 200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/200x200px-ZC-1e7a4ded_Crying-Mariah-Carey-75x75.gif 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the servants' hallways, Baxter and Anna are being chummy because they were born straight and don't have too much to worry about. Saddled with tons of gay shame, Thomas sadly walks past them to his room. I'm 99% sure he's about to kill himself. Julian Fellowes, don't you dare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, it's Edith's turn to unload a lifetime of real talk on Mary:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just shut up! Who do you think you're talking to? Mama? Your maid? I know you! I know you to be a nasty, jealous, scheming bitch! You're a bitch! Not content with ruining your own life, you're determined to ruin mine! Don't demean yourself by trying to justify your venom. Just go. And you're wrong as you so often are. Henry's perfect for you. You're just too stupid and stuck up to see it! Still at least he's got away from you. Which is something to give thanks for, I suppose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/66f7c99f-3b7f-4b41-a775-4632baaf79f1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20662\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/66f7c99f-3b7f-4b41-a775-4632baaf79f1.gif\" alt=\"mariah clap gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, unaware of all the juiciness going on all over the house, the old rich people tell Mrs. Patmore they want to help her. Carson can't help being a monster:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> I wouldn't like to see this family dragged into a tawdry, local brouhaha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Patmore:\u003c/strong> [crying] He means me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert shuts him down. A small victory, but I'm still waiting on a falling branch or a boa constrictor or an exploding ulcer or a dash of arsenic or a very heavy anvil to take care of this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a boring walk, Baxter tries to pep Molesley up for his next match against the ruthless 8-year-olds. That's when Molesley mentions something weird Thomas said about hoping he would make more of his life than Thomas ever did with his. Nooooooo. Baxter runs back to the house, while Molesley keeps derping along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the house, Baxter races around, looking for Thomas. Andy says he went for a bath. Ughhhhhh. They break down the door and, sure enough, Thomas is in a bathtub full of his own blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/211691_original.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20663\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20663\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/211691_original.gif\" alt=\"mariah cry gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the kitchen, Daisy decides to...oh, who cares! Thomas might be dead! :-(((\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Edith is driving through town and is pretty open to hitting pedestrians, if she has to. Thankfully, she spots Branson before she mows anyone down. They talk about everything but the fact that Thomas might be dead!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas is not dead (hallelujah!). Mrs. Hughes, Andy and Baxter work together to get him out of the tub. Baxter says, \"I hate to think he was so unhappy.\" Translation: \u003cem>I hate to think that all the homophobia and intolerance administered by you two and Mr. Carson and, like, everyone else made him want to die. Good work, a-holes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the school, Daisy eavesdrops on Molesley's lecture, which is basically a Bernie Sanders stump speech. Nut shell: \u003cem>Billionaires aren't better than us. Learning should be accessible to all and should be free and stuff.\u003c/em> Marxist Daisy melts into this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-3.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20666\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20666\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-3.gif\" alt=\"broad city yas queen gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across town, the family is about to lay into Mary for destroying Edith's life, but Carson interrupts with the Thomas news. Mary doesn't even flinch. Instead, she slowly gets up, walks over to pour some tea and then super casually hurls a grenade into Robert's face: \"Do you still think dismissing Barrow was a useful saving, Papa?\" Ka-blooey! She is hateful, but she's not wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, everyone is pretty much over that whole Thomas-tried-to-take-his-own-life-because-of-us thing. Instead, they talk about how awesome Molesley is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Mary's room, she is feeling like maybe she overdid it a smidge today. Her blind rage is replaced by tail-between-the-legs contrition. Until it switches back to rage again when Anna brings up Henry. Old habits die hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In London, Edith and her lady editor bestie briefly process the breakup and then get back to business because Edith has been there done that in the sob-over-a-breakup-and-almost-accidentally-burn-the-house-down department. They have a meeting with Cassandra Jones, their mysterious advice columnist. They vow to say \"bananas\" if they think the real person behind the pseudonym shows up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Downton, Thomas looks a lot better, as he reads in bed. Mary brings in his only friend in the world, baby George, who gifts him an orange. *chokes back sob*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary and Thomas bond over how they both have Tourette's and always blurt out the worst, most hateful things, leaving devastation and misery in their wakes. Things could be worse, guys. Y'all could be married to Carson. Or Bates. Or Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson makes Mrs. Patmore feel bad about her brothel again and then brings up how shameful having a \"suicidal footman in the attic\" is. I've run out of clever ways to say that I want this garbage human being dead so I'll just say: It's high time Carson took a bath. (Too soon?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out front, the Dowager is back from France at Branson's request. Before she can get to work at fixing everything that's gone wrong in her absence, she takes some time to complain about Spratt not being home when she got back. Maybe he went to get some more stamps for his collection or a new magnifying glass. Let him live!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downstairs, Carson is still mumbling cruel things about Mrs. Patmore bringing scandal upon the house. GET OVER IT. Then this Stockholm Syndrome-y exchange happens. I think it's meant to come off as cute and charming, but I just mourn what Mrs. Hughes could've done with her life, if she hadn't saddled herself with this sexist piece of work:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> You're such an old curmudgeon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carson:\u003c/strong> Don't say you're going off me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mrs. Hughes:\u003c/strong> No, because you're \u003cem>my \u003c/em>curmudgeon and that makes all the difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, good luck with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upstairs, the Dowager and Mary have a heart-to-heart. They agree that being snobby is fun, but that sometimes you have to let it go to make way for some love in your life, even if the guy you like is kinda sorta poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Robert and Carson take turns quoting Steve Urkel's famed refrain \u003cem>Did I do thaaaaat?\u003c/em> over Thomas' suicide attempt. They vow to be less homophobic in the future, or at least for a few days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the London office, Edith finds out the Cassandra Jones is.....[drumroll please].....Spratt?! LOL. Edith and her editor bestie look at each other and say:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-4.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20667\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20667\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/02/giphy-4.gif\" alt=\"gwen bananas gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a graveyard, Mary tells Matthew's grave that she's getting married.The grave takes it pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Mary invites Henry over and they get back together. And he's not messing around; he brought a marriage license and wants to get hitched that weekend. Mary is like \u003cem>Sure, let's stop beating this will-they-won't-they dead horse and gallop off into the sunset on a living one.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the wedding day and everyone is getting ready to head to the church. And in comes Edith. Surprise! 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On Thursday evening, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset\u003c/a> magazine threw itself a little welcome party, showing off its sleek new digs in Oakland’s Jack London Square. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset welcome party at new headquarters\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107044\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset welcome party at new headquarters \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf stopped by. \u003ca href=\"http://brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a> chef Tanya Holland gave a quick lesson on how to make her famous fried chicken. \u003ca href=\"http://www.belcampo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Belcampo\u003c/a> CEO Anya Fernald, with daughter Viola in tow, showed up with platters of her company’s charcuterie. 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Through the wraparound windows of the second-floor loft, evening sunshine sparkled off the wind-rippled bay below, punctuated by the rumble of Amtrak trains rattling past on the nearby tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Sunset Editor-in-Chief Irene Edwards\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Sunset Editor-in-Chief Irene Edwards\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Travel Editor Nino Padova mixes "The White Fang," a signature cocktail he developed for the night's festivities \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Travel Editor Nino Padova mixes \"The White Fang,\" a signature cocktail he developed for the night's festivities \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was all very Oakland local, a warm urban welcome all the more surprising for a business so recently relocated from its longtime home in Menlo Park. Designed by architect Clifford May in 1951 for the Lane family, then owners of the magazine, Sunset’s South Bay campus was built to be the company’s laboratory for Western living. Spread over seven acres, the ranch-style structure sprawled like an indoor-outdoor home, surrounded by meticulously maintained gardens reflecting every climate in the West. There was an airy adobe-style lobby, outdoor kitchens and entertaining spaces, a chicken coop, a wood-paneled test kitchen stacked with multiple ranges, all with a warm mid-century modern feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward some six decades, and under the twin pressures of corporate ownership (Sunset is now under the aegis of Time Warner) and skyrocketing South Bay real estate prices, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27112382/sunset-magazine-site-menlo-park-sold-time-headuarters\" target=\"_blank\">the campus was sold\u003c/a> to realty investment firm Embarcadero Capital Partners in 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while saying goodbye to the magazine’s well-loved home was hard at first, the move couldn’t have come at a better time—or to a better place. According to Irene Edwards, the magazine’s new editor in chief, moving to Oakland was exactly what the company needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454.jpg\" alt=\"Bookshelf at Sunset Headquarters\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107036\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bookshelf at Sunset Headquarters \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is our challenge, to evolve, to stay relevant,” said Edwards, who worked as the magazine’s executive editor from 2004 to 2008 and returned to the Bay Area from Brooklyn to take her current position four months ago. “I can’t imagine a better city for the modern Sunset. This is its audience,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suburbs like Menlo Park offered a fresh, even revolutionary approach to everyday living in their day; now, Edwards believes, that excitement and sense of re-invention is returning to urban areas. And despite its undeniable challenges, Oakland is a vivid example of a forward-looking city trying to get it right, balancing a burgeoning tech sector without losing its deep commitment to diversity and social justice. “This is the modern interpretation of a city. Being here now, you know you’re at a turning point,” she said. “There are so many people building businesses, taking risks. There’s support for grassroots innovation here like in no other place.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulled from the bucolic isolation of those tree-lined seven acres, the magazine’s staff—many of whom already lived in the Oakland area—are excited to become part of the neighborhood. Already, there are numerous food-based business headquartered nearby, from Belcampo and \u003ca>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://bluebottlecoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Bottle Coffee\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcraftinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\">Food Craft Institute\u003c/a> training center and its annual \u003ca href=\"http://eatrealfest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eat Real Festival\u003c/a>. And while there may be rose-geranium \u003cem>macarons\u003c/em> on display across the square at \u003ca href=\"https://www.miette.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miette\u003c/a> and barrel-aged gin negronis at Daniel Patterson’s \u003ca href=\"http://havenoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Haven\u003c/a> restaurant downstairs, that hasn’t stopped Edwards from becoming a regular at Ben’s Restaurant, the nearby hole-in-the-wall that the East Bay Express calls “\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-best-chinese-restaurant-in-oakland-that-youve-never-heard-of/Content?oid=3547274\" target=\"_blank\">the best Chinese restaurant in Oakland that you’ve never heard of\u003c/a>,” or chatting with the guys unloading broccoli and bok choy at the longtime wholesale \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/blog/2015-07-14/oakland-produce-market-linking-farm-table-east-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Produce Market\u003c/a> nearby. “It’s the best of both worlds,” she said, a big city whose neighborhoods can have a small-town feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset Food Editor Margo True, Chef Tanya Holland\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107035\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset Food Editor Margo True, Chef Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Margo True, who came to Sunset from the Manhattan offices of Saveur, the big draw is Oakland's rich culinary vibe. “I’m so excited to be immersed in the Oakland food scene,” she exclaimed while introducing Tanya Holland, a chef who, she says, “has done so much to communicate the living heart of Oakland to the world” through her popular restaurant, her cookbook, and her frequent television appearances. Sloshing chicken drumsticks and wings in buttermilk, then rolling them in seasoned flour, Holland spoke of how her Louisiana-born mother made fried chicken three times a week, to the chagrin of her then quasi-vegetarian daughter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Holland had no idea that kitchen work would become her career, and that her most popular business would be based on the superiority of her own crisp and succulent fried chicken. Some 400 people a day come through the doors of Brown Sugar Kitchen on a busy day, and often it seems that every single person has come for the fried chicken and waffles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland in the new Sunset Show Kitchen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland in the new Sunset Show Kitchen\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to feed people,” Holland said as she dropped pieces of chicken into a sizzling pot of hot rice-bran oil. “That turns me on even more than cooking.” True had suggested other dishes for the event: gumbo, say, or jambalaya. But Holland stood firm. “Let’s give the people what they want: fried chicken,” she said, paired with golden biscuits and a surprisingly light and tangy black-pea salad, bright with fresh herbs, roasted red peppers, and olive oil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken courtesy of Oakland chef Tanya Holland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken courtesy of Oakland chef Tanya Holland\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lined with cream-and-white Heath Ceramics tiles, the new test kitchens are airy, bright, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sunsetmag/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram-ready\u003c/a>, with comfortable cork floors, white composite counters, minimalist white cabinets and butcher-block-topped islands. (They’re also ADA-compliant.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1791px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland cooking for opening party in Sunset test kitchen. Sunset Food Editor Margo True on right.\" width=\"1791\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514.jpg 1791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-768x515.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-1440x965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1791px) 100vw, 1791px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland cooking for opening party in Sunset test kitchen. Sunset Food Editor Margo True on right. \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change for Sunset—known for its in-depth gardening advice and, of course, for the Western Garden Book, the bible for gardeners from Hawaii to Alaska—is the new separation between office and gardens. Test gardens are still at the heart of the magazine, and they will remain that way—only now, they’ll be at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cornerstonesonoma.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerstone\u003c/a>, a retail, garden, art and events space up in Sonoma. Phase one plans--and plantings--are underway, said senior garden editor Johanna Silver, praising the work of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homesteaddesigncollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Homestead Design Collective\u003c/a>, advocates for drought-tolerant sustainable landscaping who are designing Sunset’s new outdoor spaces. There will a cocktail-ingredients garden, a backyard orchard showcasing year-round bloom and fruit, underplantings of bee-feeding pollinator plants, raised beds for edibles, test beds for the Sunset plant line, an outdoor kitchen for celebrating the wine country good life. Alethea Harampolis of \u003ca href=\"http://studiochoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Choo\u003c/a> has been tapped to plan a cut-flower garden. And while the digging is still underway, Cornerstone has already repainted its iconic, oversized chair sculpture in a bright Sunset orange. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are falling back in love with cities,” said Mayor Schaaf, noting how pleased she was that a magazine synonymous with Western living was now headquartered in Oakland. “We could not be more honored that you have chosen us as your new home.” And then, knowing her audience, she got right to the point: “Have you seen Tanya’s cheddar biscuits? OMG!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits.jpg\" alt=\"Biscuits by Tanya Holland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biscuits by Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sunset will be debuting its new Test Gardens and Outdoor Kitchen at its 18th annual Celebration Weekend, May 14-15, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cornerstonesonoma.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerstone\u003c/a> in Sonoma. For more information, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/marketplace/celebration-weekend-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset Celebration Weekend\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How do you keep a 118-year-old magazine fresh? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By moving its headquarters to the Bay Area’s hippest city, of course. On Thursday evening, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">Sunset\u003c/a> magazine threw itself a little welcome party, showing off its sleek new digs in Oakland’s Jack London Square. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset welcome party at new headquarters\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107044\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/8party-scene-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset welcome party at new headquarters \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Libby Schaaf stopped by. \u003ca href=\"http://brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a> chef Tanya Holland gave a quick lesson on how to make her famous fried chicken. \u003ca href=\"http://www.belcampo.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Belcampo\u003c/a> CEO Anya Fernald, with daughter Viola in tow, showed up with platters of her company’s charcuterie. (The company has its main office in Jack London Square.) Senior Travel Editor and spirits enthusiast Nino Padova ladled out White Fang cocktails, named for Jack London’s most famous canine and featuring gin and absinthe from Alameda’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.stgeorgespirits.com\" target=\"_blank\">St. George Spirits\u003c/a>. Through the wraparound windows of the second-floor loft, evening sunshine sparkled off the wind-rippled bay below, punctuated by the rumble of Amtrak trains rattling past on the nearby tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Sunset Editor-in-Chief Irene Edwards\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/5MayorS-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Sunset Editor-in-Chief Irene Edwards\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Travel Editor Nino Padova mixes "The White Fang," a signature cocktail he developed for the night's festivities \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107047\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8398-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Travel Editor Nino Padova mixes \"The White Fang,\" a signature cocktail he developed for the night's festivities \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was all very Oakland local, a warm urban welcome all the more surprising for a business so recently relocated from its longtime home in Menlo Park. Designed by architect Clifford May in 1951 for the Lane family, then owners of the magazine, Sunset’s South Bay campus was built to be the company’s laboratory for Western living. Spread over seven acres, the ranch-style structure sprawled like an indoor-outdoor home, surrounded by meticulously maintained gardens reflecting every climate in the West. There was an airy adobe-style lobby, outdoor kitchens and entertaining spaces, a chicken coop, a wood-paneled test kitchen stacked with multiple ranges, all with a warm mid-century modern feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward some six decades, and under the twin pressures of corporate ownership (Sunset is now under the aegis of Time Warner) and skyrocketing South Bay real estate prices, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27112382/sunset-magazine-site-menlo-park-sold-time-headuarters\" target=\"_blank\">the campus was sold\u003c/a> to realty investment firm Embarcadero Capital Partners in 2014. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while saying goodbye to the magazine’s well-loved home was hard at first, the move couldn’t have come at a better time—or to a better place. According to Irene Edwards, the magazine’s new editor in chief, moving to Oakland was exactly what the company needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454.jpg\" alt=\"Bookshelf at Sunset Headquarters\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107036\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8454-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bookshelf at Sunset Headquarters \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is our challenge, to evolve, to stay relevant,” said Edwards, who worked as the magazine’s executive editor from 2004 to 2008 and returned to the Bay Area from Brooklyn to take her current position four months ago. “I can’t imagine a better city for the modern Sunset. This is its audience,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suburbs like Menlo Park offered a fresh, even revolutionary approach to everyday living in their day; now, Edwards believes, that excitement and sense of re-invention is returning to urban areas. And despite its undeniable challenges, Oakland is a vivid example of a forward-looking city trying to get it right, balancing a burgeoning tech sector without losing its deep commitment to diversity and social justice. “This is the modern interpretation of a city. Being here now, you know you’re at a turning point,” she said. “There are so many people building businesses, taking risks. There’s support for grassroots innovation here like in no other place.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pulled from the bucolic isolation of those tree-lined seven acres, the magazine’s staff—many of whom already lived in the Oakland area—are excited to become part of the neighborhood. Already, there are numerous food-based business headquartered nearby, from Belcampo and \u003ca>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://bluebottlecoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Bottle Coffee\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcraftinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\">Food Craft Institute\u003c/a> training center and its annual \u003ca href=\"http://eatrealfest.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eat Real Festival\u003c/a>. And while there may be rose-geranium \u003cem>macarons\u003c/em> on display across the square at \u003ca href=\"https://www.miette.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miette\u003c/a> and barrel-aged gin negronis at Daniel Patterson’s \u003ca href=\"http://havenoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Haven\u003c/a> restaurant downstairs, that hasn’t stopped Edwards from becoming a regular at Ben’s Restaurant, the nearby hole-in-the-wall that the East Bay Express calls “\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-best-chinese-restaurant-in-oakland-that-youve-never-heard-of/Content?oid=3547274\" target=\"_blank\">the best Chinese restaurant in Oakland that you’ve never heard of\u003c/a>,” or chatting with the guys unloading broccoli and bok choy at the longtime wholesale \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/blog/2015-07-14/oakland-produce-market-linking-farm-table-east-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Produce Market\u003c/a> nearby. “It’s the best of both worlds,” she said, a big city whose neighborhoods can have a small-town feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset Food Editor Margo True, Chef Tanya Holland\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107035\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8413-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset Food Editor Margo True, Chef Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Margo True, who came to Sunset from the Manhattan offices of Saveur, the big draw is Oakland's rich culinary vibe. “I’m so excited to be immersed in the Oakland food scene,” she exclaimed while introducing Tanya Holland, a chef who, she says, “has done so much to communicate the living heart of Oakland to the world” through her popular restaurant, her cookbook, and her frequent television appearances. Sloshing chicken drumsticks and wings in buttermilk, then rolling them in seasoned flour, Holland spoke of how her Louisiana-born mother made fried chicken three times a week, to the chagrin of her then quasi-vegetarian daughter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Holland had no idea that kitchen work would become her career, and that her most popular business would be based on the superiority of her own crisp and succulent fried chicken. Some 400 people a day come through the doors of Brown Sugar Kitchen on a busy day, and often it seems that every single person has come for the fried chicken and waffles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland in the new Sunset Show Kitchen\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8515-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland in the new Sunset Show Kitchen\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My goal is to feed people,” Holland said as she dropped pieces of chicken into a sizzling pot of hot rice-bran oil. “That turns me on even more than cooking.” True had suggested other dishes for the event: gumbo, say, or jambalaya. But Holland stood firm. “Let’s give the people what they want: fried chicken,” she said, paired with golden biscuits and a surprisingly light and tangy black-pea salad, bright with fresh herbs, roasted red peppers, and olive oil. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken courtesy of Oakland chef Tanya Holland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/6Chicken-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried chicken courtesy of Oakland chef Tanya Holland\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lined with cream-and-white Heath Ceramics tiles, the new test kitchens are airy, bright, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sunsetmag/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram-ready\u003c/a>, with comfortable cork floors, white composite counters, minimalist white cabinets and butcher-block-topped islands. (They’re also ADA-compliant.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1791px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Tanya Holland cooking for opening party in Sunset test kitchen. Sunset Food Editor Margo True on right.\" width=\"1791\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514.jpg 1791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-400x268.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-768x515.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-1440x965.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-1180x791.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/ST_8514-960x643.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1791px) 100vw, 1791px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Tanya Holland cooking for opening party in Sunset test kitchen. Sunset Food Editor Margo True on right. \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change for Sunset—known for its in-depth gardening advice and, of course, for the Western Garden Book, the bible for gardeners from Hawaii to Alaska—is the new separation between office and gardens. Test gardens are still at the heart of the magazine, and they will remain that way—only now, they’ll be at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cornerstonesonoma.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cornerstone\u003c/a>, a retail, garden, art and events space up in Sonoma. Phase one plans--and plantings--are underway, said senior garden editor Johanna Silver, praising the work of \u003ca href=\"http://www.homesteaddesigncollective.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Homestead Design Collective\u003c/a>, advocates for drought-tolerant sustainable landscaping who are designing Sunset’s new outdoor spaces. There will a cocktail-ingredients garden, a backyard orchard showcasing year-round bloom and fruit, underplantings of bee-feeding pollinator plants, raised beds for edibles, test beds for the Sunset plant line, an outdoor kitchen for celebrating the wine country good life. Alethea Harampolis of \u003ca href=\"http://studiochoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Choo\u003c/a> has been tapped to plan a cut-flower garden. And while the digging is still underway, Cornerstone has already repainted its iconic, oversized chair sculpture in a bright Sunset orange. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are falling back in love with cities,” said Mayor Schaaf, noting how pleased she was that a magazine synonymous with Western living was now headquartered in Oakland. “We could not be more honored that you have chosen us as your new home.” And then, knowing her audience, she got right to the point: “Have you seen Tanya’s cheddar biscuits? OMG!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits.jpg\" alt=\"Biscuits by Tanya Holland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/02/9morebiscuits-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biscuits by Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(Spencer Toy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Acid Flashback: Santa Cruz Bird Frenzy, Hitchcock and a Biological Whodunit",
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"content": "\u003cp>Long before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/habs_toxins/marine_biotoxins/da/\" target=\"_blank\">domoic acid\u003c/a> ruined Northern California's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 Dungeness crab season\u003c/a>, it was responsible for a panic along the Santa Cruz County seashore, which in turn informed a classic piece of creepy California cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashback to August 1961: In Germany, an enduring symbol of the Cold War -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/places/berlin_wall\" target=\"_blank\">the Berlin Wall\u003c/a> -- is under construction. Barack Obama is born in Honolulu. No one but a handful of Japanese researchers has ever heard of domoic acid. And in beachside communities near Santa Cruz, birds are going nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907\" 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>The Great Bird Frenzy took place early the morning of Friday, Aug. 18, 1961. Here's how longtime \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/zz/20120115/NEWS/120117661\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter and columnist Wally Trabing\u003c/a> described the scene that unfolded along the shoreline just east of Santa Cruz:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A massive flight of \u003ca href=\"http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/08-14/shearwaters.asp\" target=\"_blank\">sooty shearwaters\u003c/a>, fresh from a feast of anchovies, collided with shoreside structures from Pleasure Point to Rio del Mar during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents, especially in the Pleasure Point and Capitola area, were awakened about 3 a.m. today by the rain of birds slamming against their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads in the foggy, early dawn. Startled by the invasion, residents rushed out on their lawns with flashlights, then rushed back inside, as the birds flew toward their light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television aerial supports were severed, and one power line was shorted out about 4 a.m. on Merrill Avenue when the birds hitting the lines slapped them together.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10871218\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10871218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg\" alt=\"Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.'\" width=\"300\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.' \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, the Sentinel reported crews picking up truckloads of dead birds from streets and lawns in the area. For an explanation of the avian behavior, the paper turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b332g/\" target=\"_blank\">Ward Russell\u003c/a>, a specimen collector and preparator at UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. (Russell's \u003ca href=\"http://blogrr.blogspot.com/2009/06/meet-beetles.html\" target=\"_blank\">claim to fame\u003c/a>, it appears, is that he promoted the use of \u003ca href=\"http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/17/flesh-eating-beetles-explained/\" target=\"_blank\">flesh-eating beetles\u003c/a> -- or dermestid beetles -- to clean skeletons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell opined that the sooty shearwaters, which fly tens of thousands of miles around the Pacific basin each year, became confused by a thick fog and flapped in a blind panic toward lights onshore. Others thought the sound of gunfire from the Army's Fort Ord might have spooked the birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those who took note of the sooty shearwater episode was movie director Alfred Hitchcock, who owned \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/299/\" target=\"_blank\">a 200-acre estate\u003c/a> at the end of a narrow, winding road in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Three days after the invasion, the Sentinel buried an item on page 4: Hitchcock had read the paper's account of the invasion and planned to use it in his adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier \u003ca href=\"https://northviewulrich.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-birds-full-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">short story\u003c/a> \"The Birds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in fact, the Santa Cruz incident and Ward Russell's theory both made it into Hitchcock's \u003ca href=\"http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Scripts:_The_Birds_(final_draft,_2nd_rev,_02/Mar/1962)\" target=\"_blank\">final script\u003c/a>, set in Bodega Bay. In the film version of \"The Birds,\" Mitch Brenner, the character played by Rod Taylor, is trying to think of a way to drive away flocks of crows and gulls that have begun terrorizing the locals. 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The toxin was found both in anchovies the birds had fed on and in plankton the fish had consumed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz marine biologist David Garrison studied the 1991 incident and speculated several years later that domoic acid might have been responsible for the 1961 bird invasion. It wasn't until 2012, more than half a century after the episode, that researchers from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography found direct evidence that the sooty shearwaters had indeed suffered domoic acid poisoning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scripps scientists used an archive of biological samples from California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, a marine monitoring program in operation since 1949, to try to investigate the conditions the birds would have encountered in Monterey Bay in the summer of 1961. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Long before \u003ca href=\"http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/hab/habs_toxins/marine_biotoxins/da/\" target=\"_blank\">domoic acid\u003c/a> ruined Northern California's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/05/why-is-an-algae-bloom-closing-crab-season-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">2015-16 Dungeness crab season\u003c/a>, it was responsible for a panic along the Santa Cruz County seashore, which in turn informed a classic piece of creepy California cinema.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashback to August 1961: In Germany, an enduring symbol of the Cold War -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/places/berlin_wall\" target=\"_blank\">the Berlin Wall\u003c/a> -- is under construction. Barack Obama is born in Honolulu. No one but a handful of Japanese researchers has ever heard of domoic acid. And in beachside communities near Santa Cruz, birds are going nuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/249102907'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Great Bird Frenzy took place early the morning of Friday, Aug. 18, 1961. Here's how longtime \u003ca href=\"http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/zz/20120115/NEWS/120117661\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter and columnist Wally Trabing\u003c/a> described the scene that unfolded along the shoreline just east of Santa Cruz:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A massive flight of \u003ca href=\"http://currents.ucsc.edu/06-07/08-14/shearwaters.asp\" target=\"_blank\">sooty shearwaters\u003c/a>, fresh from a feast of anchovies, collided with shoreside structures from Pleasure Point to Rio del Mar during the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents, especially in the Pleasure Point and Capitola area, were awakened about 3 a.m. today by the rain of birds slamming against their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dead and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads in the foggy, early dawn. Startled by the invasion, residents rushed out on their lawns with flashlights, then rushed back inside, as the birds flew toward their light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television aerial supports were severed, and one power line was shorted out about 4 a.m. on Merrill Avenue when the birds hitting the lines slapped them together.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10871218\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10871218\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10871218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg\" alt=\"Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.'\" width=\"300\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds-400x1042.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/hitchcockbirds.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Item from the Aug. 21, 1961, edition of the Santa Cruz Sentinel reporting Alfred Hitchcock's interest in the local bird 'invasion.' \u003ccite>(Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the following days, the Sentinel reported crews picking up truckloads of dead birds from streets and lawns in the area. For an explanation of the avian behavior, the paper turned to \u003ca href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b332g/\" target=\"_blank\">Ward Russell\u003c/a>, a specimen collector and preparator at UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. (Russell's \u003ca href=\"http://blogrr.blogspot.com/2009/06/meet-beetles.html\" target=\"_blank\">claim to fame\u003c/a>, it appears, is that he promoted the use of \u003ca href=\"http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/17/flesh-eating-beetles-explained/\" target=\"_blank\">flesh-eating beetles\u003c/a> -- or dermestid beetles -- to clean skeletons.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Three days after the invasion, the Sentinel buried an item on page 4: Hitchcock had read the paper's account of the invasion and planned to use it in his adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier \u003ca href=\"https://northviewulrich.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-birds-full-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">short story\u003c/a> \"The Birds.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in fact, the Santa Cruz incident and Ward Russell's theory both made it into Hitchcock's \u003ca href=\"http://the.hitchcock.zone/wiki/Scripts:_The_Birds_(final_draft,_2nd_rev,_02/Mar/1962)\" target=\"_blank\">final script\u003c/a>, set in Bodega Bay. In the film version of \"The Birds,\" Mitch Brenner, the character played by Rod Taylor, is trying to think of a way to drive away flocks of crows and gulls that have begun terrorizing the locals. 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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. W. 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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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"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. The vast majority of the voices in the story -- the opinions placed in quotes, the people who get speaking time -- are people who believe Holtzclaw is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it seems like this repetition simply amounts to a chorus of \"But he's a really good guy!\", please understand that is not just bad writing. It's a strategy, one usually used by writers who have an obligation to be objective, when they want other people to say their opinions for them. Often it takes the form of quoting people from both sides of the story, but then letting the favored side get \"the last word.\" But why do that when you can just ignore other opinions entirely?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait, you might say. There are also scientists in this story! 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. Suffice it to say, yes, this was a massive failure, and the site's editor was right to call it that. The phrasing \"a complete breakdown of a part of the editorial process\" is interesting to me, though, because the less official way to say it is this piece slipped through the cracks. This happens. I've worked at publications where this has happened, to varying degrees. Here are the situations in which things slip through the cracks: When a publication is understaffed or rushed or both. (Most are both.) When a publication is hungry for edgy, shareable content at all costs. (Again: more than you might think.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And also: When the tenor of a piece -- the bias, the tone-deafness, the bad reporting and worse word choices for which an editor will later have to apologize -- is \u003cem>not really that out of tune\u003c/em> with the rest of the words we breathe in and out over the course of a day of being on the internet, watching TV, or bullsh*tting about current events with our coworkers. The approach of \u003cem>\"How could this former football star, who by all accounts was a super normal dude, who worked his way into a position of authority as an officer of the law, have done these things?\"\u003c/em> feels pretty regular because we see it with regularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suggestion of \"maybe he didn't\" is one of many things that took this piece an extra step over the line. But the way the question doesn't ring in our ears as off-key in the first place says something about our misunderstanding of rape; our underestimation of exactly how common violence, sexual assault, and attacks of all kinds on those in society with the least amount of power really are; and our misconceptions about the most common perpetrators. About our steadfast refusal to internalize that yes, you can behave a like a normal guy in your regular life and also be a violent rapist, and it probably has less to do with football than with living in a culture that encourages you to see women's bodies as things you deserve. 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