Apart from his military and political record, a factor that diminished McClellan’s reputation was his behavior towards Lincoln.
In addition to calling Lincoln a baboon and gorilla, unworthy of high position, McClellan also snubbed him. When Lincoln came to visit McClellan’s house, he made him wait for 30 minutes, then had servants tell him that the general had gone to bed and could not receive him.
McClellan served as Governor of New Jersey after the Civil War. A son of his became Mayor of New York City.
Mayors of New York in the past century have ranged in height from the very short to the very tall. Fiorello La Guardia and Abe Beame are both listed as 5’ 2", and Beame was possibly shorter. Ed Koch was 6’2" and the incumbent Bill De Blasio is 6’5".
The name “Fido” for dogs first became popular when Abe Lincoln was elected president. When he moved his family into the White House, Lincoln left his dog Fido behind in Springfield with a friend, John Eddy Roll. Lincoln stipulated Fido would never be tied up in the yard, would always be let in the house at mealtimes, would be given bites of food under the table and would never be scolded for muddy feet. Lincoln gave Roll the horsehair couch that Fido liked to sleep on. Sometime after Lincoln’s assassination, Fido was stabbed to death when he licked the face of a sleeping drunk.
Abe Books was one of the earliest and most successful internet-based businesses. Based in Victoria, BC, it became a world leader in used book sales over the internet. In 2008 it was acquired by Amazon.
In case you haven’t noticed, the arrow in the Amazon Books logo goes from “A” to “Z.”
The gaps between letter lines in the “Ex” part of the FedEx logo form an arrow pointing to the right. The logo of the Hillary Clinton campaign is more explicit, extending the horizontal line of a capital H to the right with an arrowhead added.
Yes, and let’s mention Headed to Hell With Hillary.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the first former First Lady to later hold formal public office, having later served as US Senator and Secretary of State. She is currently the odds-on favorite to win the Presidency in her own right, and would be the first woman to do so.
When culinary mystery author Diane Mott Davidson studied political science at Wellesley College, she lived across the dorm room hall from Hillary Rodham.
Former Vice President Al Gore and actor Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard.
The first Men in Black Movie advertised its main actors as Mr. Smith & Mr. Jones (Will & Tommy Lee)
Alias Smith and Jones was a western tv show in the early 70s, with the premise that two outlaws could earn a pardon from the Governor if they kept their records clean while operating under the aliases of Smith and Jones.
Gunsmoke was a TV western that ran from 1955 to 1975. Starring James Arness as Sheriff Matt Dillion, the show produced 635 episodes which is still more than any other weekly prime-time drama in the United States (not counting daily game shows and soap operas).
There are 63 stars on the flag of the President of the United States - 50 in a circle around the eagle, representing the current 50 states, and 13 above the eagle, representing the original 13.
In the musical 1776, Ben Franklin, not wanting the eagle to be the new nation’s symbol, says “The eagle is a scavenger, a thief and coward. A symbol of over ten centuries of European mischief.”
The largest eagles in the world, in terms of length and wing area, is the Philippine eagle.
The smallest national park in the US is Hot Springs National Park, adjacent to Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is also the only national park with a brewery on the premises.
Arkansas possesses a wide variety of minerals. Petroleum, natural gas, and bromine, in that order, are the top three minerals produced. Arkansas leads the nation in the production of bauxite, providing over 80% of this valuable ore from which aluminum is made. Arkansas also ranks first in production of bromine, accounting for about one-half of the world’s output, and in silica stone, a natural abrasive. Murfreesboro, Arkansas, is the home of the only diamond mine open to the public in the world.
One story about Isaac Newton is that his dog, Diamond, is said to have knocked over a candle, which started a fire that burnt 20 years of Newton’s notes.
Newton is said to have rebuked Diamond: “O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done.”
Others say that Newton didn’t have a dog.