HOW SCANDALOUS!
IN 1972, BURGLARS WERE CAUGHT PLANTING LISTENING DEVICES AT IN THESE OFFICES AT THE WATERGATE COMPLEX IN ORDER TO BENEFIT PRESIDENT NIXON’S REELECTION CAMPAIGN.
WHAT IS THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE?
1801-1809: THIS PRESIDENT OVERSAW A DRASTIC REDUCTION IN THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, NAVIGATED US NEUTRALITY BETWEEN EUROPEAN POWERS, AND ORGANIZED THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE AND SUBSEQUENT LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION.
WHO IS THOMAS JEFFERSON?
GEORGE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHED THE TRADITION OF THIS GROUP OF ADVISERS.
WHAT IS THE PRESIDENTIAL CABINET?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO VISIT EUROPE DURING HIS TERM, ATTENDING THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE IN 1918.
WHO IS WOODROW WILSON?
THE ONLY FIRST LADY TO SERVE IN THE SENATE AND TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.
WHO IS HILLARY CLINTON?
THIS DISNEY PRINCESS CAN BE FOUND AT 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
WHAT IS SNOW WHITE HOUSE?
BILL CLINTON BECAME THE SECOND PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED OF LYING TO CONGRESS CONCERNING HIS AFFAIR WITH THIS THEN-WHITE HOUSE INTERN, NOW PSYCHOLOGIST AND ACTIVIST.
WHO IS MONICA LEWINSKY?
1829-1837: THIS POPULIST PRESIDENT RESOLVED THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS, DISSOLVED THE SECOND NATIONAL BANK AND PAID OFF THE ENTIRE NATIONAL DEBT, AND SIGNED AND CARRIED OUT THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT, PRESIDING OVER THE SUBSEQUENT SECOND SEMINOLE WAR AND TRAIL OF TEARS.
WHO IS ANDREW JACKSON?
WASHINGTON WAS PROUD TO HAVE BELONGED TO THIS SECRETIVE FRATERNAL ORDER.
WHO ARE THE FREEMASONS?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT (AND AMERICAN) TO WIN THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, AWARDED FOR HIS HANDLING OF NEGOTIATIONS LEADING TO THE END OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.
WHO IS THEODORE ROOSEVELT?
THIS WAR-TIME FIRST LADY GAVE HER HUSBAND HEADACHES WITH HER PROFLIGATE WAR-TIME SPENDING AND PUBLIC SEANCES, THE ONLY FIRST LADY KNOWN TO HOLD THEM.
WHO IS MARY TODD LINCOLN?
THE PRESIDENT’S MILITARY TITLE IS ALSO THAT OF THE LEADER OF A COMPANY AND ITS C-SUITE.
WHAT IS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER?
THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR WAS A SCANDAL INVOLVING THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION ILLEGALLY SELLING WEAPONS TO IRAN AND FUNNELING THE REVENUE TO A REBEL GROUP IN THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN NATION.
WHAT IS NICARAGUA?
1817-1825: SERVING DURING THE “ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS,” THIS PRESIDENT ORGANIZED THE ACQUISITION OF FLORIDA VIA THE ADAMS-ONÍS TREATY, THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, AND ESTABLISHED AN EPONYMOUS DOCTRINE WARNING EUROPE OF FURTHER WESTERN HEMISPHERE COLONIZATION.
WHO IS JAMES MONROE?
DURING HIS PRESIDENCY, GEORGE WASHINGTON LIVED IN THE “PRESIDENT’S HOUSE” IN THIS CITY, THE US’S SECOND CAPITAL CITY.
WHAT IS PHILADELPHIA?
BORN IN KENTUCKY, HE IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO NOT BE BORN IN ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 13 STATES.
WHO IS ABRAHAM LINCOLN?
SOMETIMES KNOWN AS OUR FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT, THIS FIRST LADY ROSE TO THE OCCASION BY FILLING IN FOR HER HUSBAND AFTER HE SUFFERED A DEBILITATING STROKE SOON FOLLOWING THE END OF WORLD WAR I.
WHO IS EDITH WILSON?
THIS LEADER OF THE US FOREIGN SERVICE DELIVERS AN ANNUAL SPEECH TO A COMBINED SESSION OF CONGRESS.
WHO IS THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS?
RESULTING IN 110 CONVICTIONS AND $3 MILLION IN RECOVERED TAX REVENUE, THE WHISKEY RING SCANDAL INVOLVED SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THIS PRESIDENT’S ADMINISTRATION LAUNDERING MONEY THROUGH AN UNPOPULAR WHISKEY TAX, UNBEKNOWNST TO THE TRUSTING-TO-A-FAULT LEADER.
WHO IS ULYSSES S GRANT?
1845-1849: THIS PRESIDENT ACHIEVED HIS FOUR GOALS IN ONE TERM: LOWER TARIFFS, ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT TREASURY, AND OVERSAW THE LARGEST TERRITORIAL EXPANSION IN US HISTORY BY PURCHASING OREGON FROM GREAT BRITAIN AND ANNEXING CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS FROM MEXICO VIA THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR.
WHO IS JAMES K. POLK?
THIS SPEECH MADE BY GEORGE WASHINGTON UPON THE END OF HIS PRESIDENCY CALLED FOR NATIONAL FOCUS UPON EDUCATION AND MORALITY AND WARNED AGAINST PARTISAN SECTIONALISM AND FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS.
WHAT IS WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE, SERVING ONLY ONE MONTH.
WHO IS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON?
THIS FIRST LADY WAS INFLUENTIAL FOR NORMALIZING THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM, IN PART BY COMING FORWARD ABOUT HER OWN STRUGGLE WITH ALCOHOL ABUSE AND FOUNDING A SUBSTANCE ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTER THAT BEARS HER NAME.
WHO IS BETTY FORD?
THE PRESIDENT WORKS FROM THE RESOLUTE DESK OUT OF THIS ROOM, WHERE YOU CAN ALSO PURCHASE ALL MANNERS OF BUSINESS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
WHAT IS THE OVAL OFFICE DEPOT/MAX?
REGARDED AS THE GREATEST AND MOST SENSATIONAL SCANDAL IN US POLITICAL HISTORY (BEFORE WATERGATE) AND RESULTING IN THE FIRST CABINET MEMBER TO GO TO PRISON, THIS SCANDAL INVOLVED PRESIDENT HARDING’S INTERIOR SECRETARY ACCEPTING BRIBES FROM PRIVATE OIL FIRMS TO DRILL ON FEDERAL, NAVY-USE DESIGNATED OIL FIELDS.
WHAT IS THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL?
1853-1857: THIS PRESIDENT WHO OVERSAW THE GADSDEN PURCHASE OF LAND FROM MEXICO AND OPENED TRADE WITH JAPAN ALSO SIGNED INTO LAW THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT AND REPEALED THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, ACCELERATING THE US TO CIVIL WAR.
WHO IS FRANKLIN PIERCE?
GEORGE WASHINGTON IS THE ONLY ACTIVE PRESIDENT TO LEAD TROOPS IN BATTLE DURING THIS LIQUOR-TAX-BASED REBELLION. WHAT IS THE WHISKEY REVOLT / REBELLION.
WHAT IS THE WHISKEY REBELLION?
THE FIRST PRESIDENT BORN AS A U.S. CITIZEN (AS IN AFTER THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) AND ALSO THE ONLY PRESIDENT FOR WHOM ENGLISH WAS NOT HIS FIRST LANGUAGE.
WHO IS MARTIN VAN BUREN?
THIS DEPRESSION-ERA FIRST LADY MET HER HUSBAND STUDYING GEOLOGY AT STANFORD AND WOULD GO ON TO BECOME THE LEADER OF THE GIRL SCOUTS, TRANSLATOR FOR MANDARIN AND LATIN, AND AN ARDENT PHILANTHROPIST DESPITE KEEPING MOST OF HER CHARITY WORK BEHIND THE SCENES TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE COUPLE’S PUBLIC IMAGE.
WHO IS LOU HOOVER?
THIS ICONIC ABBOTT AND COSTELLO BASEBALL SKETCH IS ABOUT THE WIFE OF THE PRESIDENT.
WHAT IS “WHO’S ON FIRST” LADY?