Comments on: Wow Us With Your First Lady Facts

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:38:27 +0000

(continuation of previous):

For the next eight years, Quigley determined the most opportune timing for all of the President’s crucial activities. The First Lady would furnish Ronnie’s tentative itinerary, which the astrologer would optimize and return. Then the White House staff would make the necessary adjustments. This tinkering affected the scheduling of press conferences, Air Force One departures, even the timing of international summits.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:37:13 +0000

After the shooting, First Lady Nancy heard from her part-time astrologer, Joan Quigley, that they could have and would have predicted that March 30 (the day of the assassination attempt) was destined to be a bad day for her husband… if only Quigley had been on the payroll. Rather than risk a similar incident happening, Nancy decided that it would be prudent to keep the astrologer in the loop. She ordered dedicated phone lines be installed at the White House and Camp David, just so she would never be without the wisdom of the Zodiac.

Lisa
Jamestown, NY

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:25:54 +0000

Lady Bird Johnson was such a fan of the show “Gunsmoke” that she sometimes left official functions early to watch the show.

Falls Church, VA

By: Botanycreek

Botanycreek — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:14:39 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt was a champion of the war against poverty. She traveled extensively throughout Appalachia for the cause. President Roosevelt’s New Deal included housing in poverty stricken areas. known as Homestead Communities. One such community, the
“test run” for the project, Red House Farms in West Virginia, wished to honor the champion who brought attention to the cause and therefore renamed the community to Eleanor.

-Genoa, WV

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:55:26 +0000

I don’t know if this counts but after Jackie Kennedy married Onassis she apparently liked to swim nude at this one beach every day at the same time. She and Onassis did not have the best marriage, and he had photographers take pictures of her in the nude, which were published in European tabloids. She was not happy and wanted to sue, but he persuaded her not to.

By: Harold Dickinson

Harold Dickinson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:22:43 +0000

No one said I couldn’t enter twice. One day in 1903 a young lady was watering her flowers when she looked up and saw a young man in the boardinghouse next door and saw a young man shaving wearing nothing but a pair of long-johns and a hat. She laughed and he turned to look at her. Two years later they were married. Her name was Grace Goodhue and his name was Calvin Coolidge. I approved this message and I still live in Birmingham, Alabama.

By: Harold Dickinson

Harold Dickinson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:12:52 +0000

Why should I be any different? I’m from Birmingham, Alabama (ROLL TIDE!)

By: Harold Dickinson

Harold Dickinson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:57 +0000

When actor Richard Boone (Have Gun, Will Travel) was a student at Stanford University, he and some friends devised a prank in which they put a dummy in the road and yelled “You hit my brother!” when cars went by. Unfortunately, one victim of the joke was so rattled that she broke her ankle when she hastily got out of her car to see what happened. Unfortunately for Boone and his companions, the lady was the wife of the President of the university and they were expelled. The lady’s name was Lou Henry Hoover.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:58:32 +0000

Rachel Donelson Jackson’s first marriage to Captain Lewis Robards lasted approximately 3 years before they separated. Due to confusing laws, Rachel was NOT divorced by the time she married Andrew Jackson, making her a bigamist. Soon after discovering this scandal, she obtained the first divorce in the state of Kentucky.

Lisa
Jamestown, NY

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:36:45 +0000

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was a VERY heavy smoker. She smoked all the time, but she did not allow any pictures of her to be taken while she was smoking. Once at Merrywood, Jacqueline was smoking and heard her mother, Janet, coming. Before Janet got to her room, she threw the cigarette under a chair. Janet of course figured something was wrong when she smelled the chair burning.

Jamestown, NY