US President trivia

[Aqua Letifer]

Who is the only U.S. President to ever submit a book review while serving in office?

Hint: it was a poetry book.

[jon-nyc]

I’m going to guess John Quincy Adams. Second guess would be TR.

[89th]

I presume this doesn't include Trump?

[89th]

Anyway, my guess is Bush 43. I know he enjoyed painting, so why not poetry.

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in US President trivia:

I presume this doesn't include Trump?

He sent in a review of the Bible. It's his second favourite book, after The Art of the Deal.

[Catseye3]

@89th said in US President trivia:

I presume this doesn't include Trump?

That was gonna be my guess.

No, but seriously, Truman popped into my mind, but I don't know why.

[jon-nyc]

Truman would be my third guess.

[Copper]

Saint Jack Kennedy

[Catseye3]

@Copper said in US President trivia:

Saint Jack Kennedy

JFK played football? I didn't know that.

[jon-nyc]

He was a hell of a swimmer.

He towed an injured guy 3.5 miles in the Pacific by a life vest strap held in his teeth.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

He was a hell of a swimmer.

He towed an injured guy 3.5 miles in the Pacific by a life vest strap held in his teeth.

And the British still use ropes. Amazing.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Horace said in US President trivia:

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

He was a hell of a swimmer.

He towed an injured guy 3.5 miles in the Pacific by a life vest strap held in his teeth.

And the British still use ropes. Amazing.

It's a lot cheaper than using Presidents. It's no wonder your debt's so high.

[Renauda]

@Catseye3 said in US President trivia:

@Copper said in US President trivia:

Saint Jack Kennedy

JFK played football? I didn't know that.

Yes, and I seem to recall reading that he sustained a back injury playing football that continually plagued him for the rest of his life.

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

He was a hell of a swimmer.

He towed an injured guy 3.5 miles in the Pacific by a life vest strap held in his teeth.

And after that the guy was so tired they let him into the boat.

[Klaus]

Chester Arthur.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

I’m going to guess John Quincy Adams. Second guess would be TR.

Got it in two. It was Teddy.

The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bigger than Frost at the time Frost himself was a big damn deal, and no one knows who Robinson is today.

This is a crazy ass story.

Link to video

I've been reading Robinson's stuff over the past couple days. Guy did have some serious game.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US President trivia:

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

I’m going to guess John Quincy Adams. Second guess would be TR.

Got it in two. It was Teddy.

The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bigger than Frost at the time Frost himself was a big damn deal, and no one knows who Robinson is today.

This is a crazy ass story.

Link to video

I've been reading Robinson's stuff over the past couple days. Guy did have some serious game.

Could you post an example of something from him that philistines might appreciate?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in US President trivia:

@Aqua-Letifer said in US President trivia:

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

I’m going to guess John Quincy Adams. Second guess would be TR.

Got it in two. It was Teddy.

The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bigger than Frost at the time Frost himself was a big damn deal, and no one knows who Robinson is today.

This is a crazy ass story.

Link to video

I've been reading Robinson's stuff over the past couple days. Guy did have some serious game.

Could you post an example of something from him that philistines might appreciate?

That's what's so cool. He's brilliant, but accessible. Here's one of his in his second book:

Dear Friends

Dear friends, reproach me not for what I do,
Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say
That I am wearing half my life away
For bubble-work that only fools pursue.
And if my bubbles be too small for you,
Blow bigger then your own: the games we play
To fill the frittered minutes of a day,
Good glasses are to read the spirit through.

And whoso reads may get him some shrewd skill;
And some unprofitable scorn resign,
To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours.

[Horace]

@Aqua-Letifer said in US President trivia:

@Horace said in US President trivia:

@Aqua-Letifer said in US President trivia:

@jon-nyc said in US President trivia:

I’m going to guess John Quincy Adams. Second guess would be TR.

Got it in two. It was Teddy.

The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson. Bigger than Frost at the time Frost himself was a big damn deal, and no one knows who Robinson is today.

This is a crazy ass story.

Link to video

I've been reading Robinson's stuff over the past couple days. Guy did have some serious game.

Could you post an example of something from him that philistines might appreciate?

That's what's so cool. He's brilliant, but accessible. Here's one of his in his second book:

Dear Friends

Dear friends, reproach me not for what I do,
Nor counsel me, nor pity me; nor say
That I am wearing half my life away
For bubble-work that only fools pursue.
And if my bubbles be too small for you,
Blow bigger then your own: the games we play
To fill the frittered minutes of a day,
Good glasses are to read the spirit through.

And whoso reads may get him some shrewd skill;
And some unprofitable scorn resign,
To praise the very thing that he deplores;
So, friends (dear friends), remember, if you will,
The shame I win for singing is all mine,
The gold I miss for dreaming is all yours.

Nice. On the nose and autobiographical I guess.