First Ladies
Although her first name was actually Claudia, President Johnson’s First Lady was known by this childhood nickname.
What is Lady Bird?
This president’s Scotty Fala is the only White House pet sculpted in bronze on the National Mall.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Ronald Reagan’s R-codename can also refer to a TV Western or this material used to make dog treats.
What is Rawhide?
We didn’t switch from log cabins to hospitals until this still-living president was the first president born in a hospital on October 1, 1924.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
James Madison studied systems of democracy while drafting the Constitution at this house, which is in Orange, Virginia, and not the capital of Vermont.
What is Montpelier?
Only five feet tall to her husband’s 6’2”, this diminutive Virginian woman was the first First Lady.
Who is Martha Washington?
In his victory speech, this president promised his daughters that they would finally get a dog.
Who is Barack Obama?
Each family’s set of Secret Service codenames share this spelling feature in common.
What is the same first letter?
Seventeenth president Andrew Johnson so angered his own party in Congress that they did this to him for the first time, an action only performed on two presidents since.
What is impeachment?
If you have a nickel in your pocket, you can see this presidential home, the most-visited private residence in the United States.
What is Monticello?
Two first ladies have been foreign-born: the current one and Louisa Adams, born in this country in 1775 just as its colonies got rebellious.
What is the United Kingdom?
Richard Nixon saved his political career with an impassioned speech defending this family dog.
Who is Checkers?
Gerald Ford’s daughter Susan’s codename was this P-animal; appropriate, since two of them had arrived at the National Zoo from China just two years earlier.
What is Panda?
In 1910, this ex-president became the first president to fly in an airplane—a different kind of Rough Ride for him.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
In 2019, the Ladies’ Association that runs this presidential home began a whisky festival; appropriate since George Washington had a distillery on the premises.
What is Mount Vernon?
By tradition, the First Lady donates her inaugural gown to this DC museum.
What is the Smithsonian Institution?
"Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the White House Pets" was a best-selling book in 1998 about this President’s pets.
Chelsea Clinton received this E-word as her codename, appropriate for both a Cabinet department and a very active teenager.
What is Energy?
In 1960, fears over this first Catholic president’s religion led to him giving a speech in which he declared “the church does not speak for me.”
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Until Barack Obama stuck around, Woodrow Wilson was the only president to reside in this city after leaving office.
What is Washington, DC.
Since he never married, this bachelor president’s niece Harriet Lane served as his First Lady.
Who is James Buchanan?
As a boy in the White House, John Quincy Adams kept two of these large reptiles in the bathtub, a present from the Marquis de Lafayette.
What are alligators?
As president, Joe Biden will use this C-codename—appropriate for someone with Irish heritage (or an NBA fan).
What is Celtic?
He is the first and only president to receive a patent for an invention, a device to lift boats over shoals; his 1865 second inaugural ball was held in DC’s Old Patent Office.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
You’d be forgiven if you thought Andrew Jackson’s house might have over three million works of art—it shares this name with a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
What is the Hermitage?