On September 23, 1952, V.P. nominee Richard Nixon went on TV to deny charges that he was corrupt. He did, however, admit that he intended to keep the dog Checkers for his family’s personal use:
"A man down in Texas heard Pat on the radio mention the fact that our two youngsters would like to have a dog. And, believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore saying they had a package for us. We went down to get it. You know what it was.
“It was a little cocker spaniel dog in a crate that he’d sent all the way from Texas. Black and white spotted. And our little girl-Tricia, the 6-year old-named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we’re gonna keep it.”
President Nixon’s daughter Julie married President Eisenhower’s grandson David, and the couple have three three children: Jennie Elizabeth, Alex Richard, and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower.
After assuming the presidency in January 1953, President Dwight D.Eisenhower named the presidential mountain retreat, formerly Camp Shangri-La, Camp David, after his grandson David Eisenhower
The character Dwight Schrute on the US version of “The Office”, played by Rainn Wilson, is the analogue of Gareth Keenan on the British original, played by Mackenzie Crook.
In June 1967, U.C. Berkeley used eminent domain to acquire a 2.8-acre lot on the north side of Dwight Way, just East of Telegraph Avenue. (And this acquisition was first made when Reagan was governor in California.) They demolished the buildings there; but let the land become derelict due to lack of funds. Local merchants and residents seized the unused land, announcing it would be a public park.
Reagan called the Berkeley campus “a haven for communist sympathizers, protesters, and sex deviants” and considered the creation of the park a direct leftist challenge to the property rights of the university. He found in it an opportunity to fulfill his campaign promise.
On Thursday, May 15, 1969 at 4:30 a.m., Governor Reagan sent California Highway Patrol and Berkeley police officers into People’s Park, overriding Chancellor Heyns’ May 6 promise that nothing would be done without warning. The officers cleared an 8-block area around the park while a large section of what had been planted was destroyed and an 8-foot (2.4 m)-tall perimeter chain-link wire fence was installed to keep people out and to prevent the planting of more trees, grass, flowers, or shrubs.
The action came at the request of Berkeley’s Republican mayor. It became the impetus for the “most violent confrontation in the university’s history.”
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Reagan’s Chief of Staff, Edwin Meese III … had established a reputation for firm opposition to those protesting the Vietnam War at the Oakland Induction Center and elsewhere…
Under Meese’s direction, police were permitted to use whatever methods they chose against the crowds, which had swelled to approximately 6,000 people. Officers in full riot gear (helmets, shields, and gas masks) obscured their badges to avoid being identified and headed into the crowds with nightsticks swinging."
On his radio and television show You Bet Your Life, comedian Groucho Marx often asked contestants, “Who was buried in Grant’s Tomb?” The riddle is based on the use of the word “buried.” The correct answer is “no one,” since Grant and his wife are entombed in sarcophagi above ground in an atrium rather than being buried in the ground. However, Marx often accepted the answer “Grant,” nonetheless, and awarded a consolation prize to those who gave it. He used the question, among several other easy ones, to ensure that everyone won a prize on the show.
Taft and Kennedy are both buried in Arlington Natl. Cemetery, which is in Virginia, not Washington, D.C. Wilson is buried in the National Cathedral, which is indeed within Washington city limits.
The Washington National Cathedral (actually funded by the Episcopal church, not the US government) is adjacent to St. Albans School. Initially, it was a school for boy choristers to the Washington National Cathedral, a program that the school continues today. Notable former attendees include John Kerry, whose father was a career State Department official, hotelier J.W. Marriott Jr., and New York Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
To mark the tenth anniversary of North Korea’s relations with the United Kingdom, an edited version of the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham was broadcast on North Korean state television on 26 December 2010, Boxing Day. The British Ambassador to South Korea, Martin Uden, said it was the “first ever Western made film to air on television” in North Korea.
Oh yeah, thanks. I did think ANC was in DC, but forgot. And I was there just last summer and walked across the bridge back to DC. My list does need correcting!
Korea in the age of Joseon dynasty (1392-1897 CE) was the subject of the first use of the term Hermit Kingdom, in William Elliot Griffis’ 1882 book Corea: The Hermit Nation. Today, the term is often applied to North Korea in news media.
Peter Noone of the band Herman’s Hermits was 15 and already an experienced actor on the popular British TV soap opera *Coronation Street *when the band formed. In 1967, as a teen idol, he commented on female fans who “used to be happy just to scream at you, now dive at you and try to pull out handfuls of your hair. I don’t mind the worship bit of this - but it’s painful when they grab a fistful and tug!”
Again, thanks, Elendil’s Heir. And to ElvisL1ves, too. In this post I will correct the list and also make a play off of gkster’s 36633: Ronald Reagan was a former movie cinema actor.
Corrected List
The 13 states/district that have only one president buried or entombed are:
As of February 2017, two of tenth President John Tyler’s grandsons were still alive: Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. was born in 1924. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. They are the sons of Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr., one of President Tyler’s 15 children.
