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Tables of Contents for The Complete Book of Presidential Trivia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
11
4
Presidential Potpourri
The One and Only
15
3
Famous Firsts
18
4
Assassinations, and Some Attempts at It
22
3
Naming the Presidents
25
4
Nicknaming the Presidents
29
5
Mr. President, Mr. Author
34
4
Holidays, Holy Days, and Other Special Days
38
2
Famous Firsts (Part 2)
40
4
The One and Only (Part 2)
44
5
Mixing and Mingling
Pre- and Extramarital Flings
49
4
Joining the Club
53
2
Hobnobbing with the Famous
55
6
Quote, Unquote
Presidents on Presidents
61
4
Some Memorable Phrases
65
3
Presidents on the Presidency
68
3
Those Catty Critics
71
5
Presidents on Themselves
76
4
What the Foreigners Said
80
3
Praising the Presidents, Sometimes Sincerely
83
4
Death Sentences: Their Last Words
87
3
The Presidential Wit
90
4
Four Quotes on War
94
1
Their Occasional Eloquence
95
5
Inaugural Moments
100
4
Some Memorables Phrases (Part 2)
104
3
Presidents on Presidents (Part 2)
107
4
Presidents on the Presidency (Part 2)
111
4
Family Ties
Even Presidents Had Parents
115
7
My Mom and Dad Were
122
2
Getting Born: Log Cabins, and All That
124
3
The Birth Order Questions
127
1
Brothers and Sisters
128
2
Presidential Progeny
130
4
Who Was My Dad?
134
3
Presidential Progeny (Part 2)
137
4
Before They Were Presidents
So Many Lawyers
141
3
``No Experience Needed'': The Unpolitical Presidents
144
1
Soldiers into Politicians
145
4
Men of the House
149
3
States' Men: Governors into Presidents
152
3
From Mr. Secretary to Mr. Prez
155
2
Senators Who Got Promoted
157
2
It's a Living
159
2
Whose Colorful Career Was This?
161
4
At Loose and Abroad: Foreign Service
165
2
While They Were Vice Presidents
167
2
Educating the Presidents
169
4
What School Graduated Us?
173
1
Educating the Presidents (Part 2)
174
5
The Man in Private
Booze and Tobacco-Pleasure and Pain
179
3
The Presidential Look
182
5
Things of the Spirit
187
4
Medical Matters
191
4
Food Fixations
195
1
Hobbies, Pastimes, and R and R
196
4
Jock Presidents
200
3
Things of the Spirit (Part 2)
203
6
Campaigns, Victories, Defeats, Etc.
Slogans and Slurs: Campaigning, in Brief
209
5
They're Playin' My Song
214
2
The Men I Beat
216
3
The Men Who Beat Me
219
1
``I Want a Rematch!'': Those Who Both Won and Lost
220
5
Cabinet, Congress, Court
Presidential Furniture: The Cabinet
225
4
The Men and Women in My Cabinet
229
3
Adding Furniture: New Cabinet Positions
232
2
Presidential Furniture: The Cabinet (Part 2)
234
5
The Quarrelsome (and Sometimes Cooperative) Congress
239
6
The Prez and the Court
245
6
The Political Life
Who Were My Vice Presidents?
251
3
Meeting the Press
254
6
Making Amendments
260
2
Money Matters
262
3
Taxation Good and Bad (Mostly Bad)
265
1
Pardon Me: The Sometimes Merciful Presidents
266
2
Westward Ho!: Getting More Land
268
3
Adding More States
271
4
Events, Earth-shaking and Trivial
Key Events, For Better or Worse
275
3
U.S. Events: Who Was President When
278
3
World Events: Who Was President When
281
3
Foreign Affairs, Mostly Biggies
284
2
Bits and Pieces, Connected with
286
4
Key Events, For Better or Worse (Part 2)
290
3
The First Ladies
First Encounters
293
3
Courtship, Wooing, and So Forth
296
4
My Maiden Name Was
300
4
Weddings and Honeymoons, Grand and Modest
304
4
Married When and Where
308
3
The Grand Role, White House Hostess
311
5
First Ladies as Authors (and Subjects) of Books
316
2
Married Life: Heaven and . . . Purgatory
318
6
Pet Causes, Projects, Etc.
324
4
The Quotable Wife
328
3
Domestic Tranquility: Home Life
Where We Lived: Presidential Homes
331
5
The White House: Beautifying, Renovating, Etc.
336
6
Barks, Purrs, and Such: Presidential Pets and Other Critters
342
2
``I'm Outta Here'': Post-Presidential Life
344
5
Remembering the Presidents
Monuments, Memorials, and So Forth
349
4
Real to Reel: Presidents on Film and Video
353
3
Named in Honor of
356
4
Grave Matters
360
4
Monuments, Memorials, and So Forth (Part 2)
364
3
Such Intriguing Titles for Books
367
3
Named in Honor of . . . (Part 2)
370
3
Twenty Questions (About Each Man)
George Washington
373
2
John Adams
375
2
Thomas Jefferson
377
3
James Madison
380
2
James Monroe
382
2
John Quincy Adams
384
2
Andrew Jackson
386
2
Martin Van Buren
388
2
William Henry Harrison
390
3
John Tyler
393
2
James K. Polk
395
2
Zachary Taylor
397
3
Millard Fillmore
400
2
Franklin Pierce
402
2
James Buchanan
404
2
Abraham Lincoln
406
2
Andrew Johnson
408
3
Ulysses S. Grant
411
1
Rutherford Hayes
412
3
James Garfield
415
2
Chester Arthur
417
1
Grover Cleveland
418
3
Benjamin Harrison
421
2
William McKinley
423
2
Theodore Roosevelt
425
2
William Howard Taft
427
3
Woodrow Wilson
430
2
Warren Harding
432
2
Calvin Coolidge
434
2
Herbert Hoover
436
2
Franklin D. Roosevelt
438
2
Harry S. Truman
440
2
Dwight Eisenhower
442
2
John F. Kennedy
444
2
Lyndon Johnson
446
2
Richard Nixon
448
2
Gerald Ford
450
2
Jimmy Carter
452
2
Ronald Reagan
454
2
George H. W. Bush
456
2
Bill Clinton
458
2
George W. Bush
460