Right. So the VP swearing-in should be the opening act. Can you imagine how demoralizing it must be for the VP, when 3/4 of the crowd has gone over to Georgetown for last call, and there’s no one there but his mom and few friends?
And a few dozen “golden circle” level campaign contributors? And a hundred lobbyists?
Sometimes, I’m cynical.
“Oh, didn’t little Spiro look so grown up today?”
(Psst…maybe I’m being whooshed, but that’s Taft.)
Oh, and the trust-buster was Teddy R. They all had those great mustaches, so I can see the confusion.
If a woman marries Joe; divorces him, marries Jim; divorces him; then re-marries Joe, she’s only had two husbands. She’s had three weddings but two marriages. Or, if I eat half a sandwich for lunch, save it for next days’ lunch and have cereal for breakfast in between, the sandwich made two meals but it was still the same sandwich.
Anyway, GC was the subject of my first thread years ago: which presidents personally killed anyone. We came up with Jackson (duelist), GHB Bush (WWII pilot), and Cleveland (sheriff of Buffalo required to pull the trap at a dual hanging).
While the Muppet may have been named after the president, however, the city was named for Moses Cleaveland years before Grover was born.
bup: Besides the story of Taft getting stuck in the White House bathtub, Shirley may have been thinking of H.L. Mencken’s hoax crediting Millard Fillmore with the installation of the first bathtub in the Executive Mansion. Or perhaps she somehow knows a Cleveland anecdote that’s escaped our attention…
Another interesting bit of trivia about Grover Cleveland is that his actual first name was Stephen. Other presidents who used their middle names as primary identifiers were John Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, and Hiram Ulysses Grant (who became known as Ulysses Simpson Grant by virtue of an error, and kept the name, as I’ve heard, partially because he deemed the monogram HUG inferior to the new initials “U.S.”).
Wow, I feel like a dummy. I didn’t remember that bit of trivia at all.
And this is after I railed against people not knowing that Booth DIDN’T act alone in the Lincoln Assasination.
I didn’t mean to imply any of the names were eponymous, just homographic.
Cool info, though, and I love why they dropped the first “a:”
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Well, they do say that she pretty much ran the country during Frank’s last term 
They say that about Edith Wilson.
Eleanor was the original Hillary Clinton: not just an ornament to the White House, but a political activist in her own right.
Coincidentally my maternal grandmother’s name was Anna, and my Mom, born when Eleanor Roosevelt was in the White House, was given the name Eleanor as a family tradition. It helped that we have always been staunch Democrats. In the 1930s someone pointed out to my grandmother that she qualified and could join the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her answer: “Why would anyone want to?” I love that old lady, a Democrat to the end. 
Ike was born David Dwight Eisenhower.