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ROUND ONE. PRESIDENTS 25 - 44. 6 points I had an extraordinary rise in politics. Within 2 years and 170 days, I rose from a citizen who had never held public office to President of the United States. . 4 points
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ROUND ONE PRESIDENTS 25 - 44
6 points • I had an extraordinary rise in politics. Within 2 years and 170 days, I rose from a citizen who had never held public office to President of the United States.
4 points The Federal Reserve Banking system was set up under my presidency. I worked to end child labor.
2 points World War I was fought during my presidency.
#28 Woodrow Wilson
6 points My son died of blood poisoning that developed from a blister on his toe. I said “When he went the glory of the presidency went with him”. I would answer reporters questions only in writing.
4 points I was sworn in as president by a notary public but later had a second ceremony as some questioned the legality of the first. One observer on my becoming president: “it was as if a bowl of field flowers had replaced an ashtray full of cigars”.
2 points My nickname was “Silent”. The decade in which I was president “roared” in but “crashed” out.
6 points I called my program the “New Republicanism”. I stated “…outer space should be used only for peaceful purposes. We face a decisive moment in history in relation to this matter. Both the Soviet Union and the US are now using outer space for the testing of missiles designed for military purposes. The time to stop is now.
4 points During my 2 terms the laser was invented and Hawaii and Alaska became the 49th and 50th states. I enjoyed painting as well as golf.
2 points Born in the Lone Star State, I died at the Walter Reed Army Hospital.
6 points I sent a message that circled the globe and returned to me in 12 minutes thanks to cables across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. I also sent the “White Fleet” of warships around the world as a show of US Naval strength.
4 points I helped negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth. My home at Saga more Hill featured a den of trophies. My son Quentin was killed in World War I.
2 points I resigned my post as assistant secretary of the navy to enlist as a soldier in the Spanish American war.
6 points During my administration, the US went from a creditor to a debtor nation, owing more money than any country in the history of the world. The country ran up a trillion dollar Federal debt. During my second term, my former aide, Michael Deader, was convicted of lying to Congress.
4 points For my first election, I defeated the incumbent President. For my second I defeated the Vice-President of my predecessor. During my presidency, the Vietnam Memorial was dedicated in the nation’s capital.
2 points I wore number 33 when I played guard for my college’s “Golden Tornadoes”. As President, I liked to munch on jelly beans.
6 points When I was still a toddler, my family moved to a state far away from the state of my birth. My little sister Robin soon died from childhood leukemia.
4 points Following in the footsteps of my father and grandfather, I attended s prep schools in several states. I went on to obtain degrees from 2 different Ivy League colleges.
2 points I defeated my Democratic opponent for president in what is probably the most controversial election in history. It took a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling to finalize the results.
6 points During my presidency both houses of Congress investigated the CIA and the FBI. I proposed a sweeping reform of both agencies. I appointed as Director of the CIA a man who would later become president.
4 points I was born west of the Mississippi. My successor was from the opposite party.
2 points Alex Haley published his novel Roots which later turned into a television miniseries. The former president of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa, was reported missing. No trace of him has ever been found.
6 points The first broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh, the first commercially licensed radio station in the nation, was an announcement of my election victory. Both vice presidential candidates in this election later became presidents.
4 points I died in a state different from the one in which I was born and attended college. During WWI I had an affair with a woman who was a German sympathizer. I invented the phrase “The Founding Fathers”.
2 points Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter visited the White House and found “a table piled with cards and rows of poker chips, trays with tall glasses and every imaginable brand of whiskey. The air was rancid with cigar smoke…” I “was not a bad man” she concluded; I “was just a slob”.
6 points At age 2 I nearly died of croup. Fortunately my uncle, a doctor, revived me. I was six when my father, a blacksmith, died and nine when my mother passed away. I ended up living with the uncle who had saved my life.
4 points My wife formed the women’s Division of the National Amateur Athletic Federation when I was secretary of commerce. She opposed competitive sports as undemocratic and opposed women’s participation in Olympic Games. While living in China early in our marriage, she became proficient in Chinese. In fact, she and I sometimes conversed in Chinese to foil eavesdroppers.
2 points I served as an economic advisor to President Wilson at the Versailles Peace Conference. During my victorious run for the presidency, I refused to make an issue of the fact that my Democratic opponent was a Roman Catholic.
Round Two • Presidents 25 - 44
6 Points Congress created the Tariff Board to investigate the tariff rates and Postal Savings System and parcel post during my presidency. I asked my Cabinet members and their staffs to submit detailed reports of their financial needs.
4 points When I became president my administration took charge of the building of the Panama Canal. 22 Civil suits and 45 criminal indictments were brought under the anti trust laws.
2 points I twice refused an appointment to the Supreme Court. I was 6 ‘ 2” tall but am not known for my height.
6 points Soon after entering office, I had to deal with the worst crisis in the savings and loan industry since the Great Depression. More than 1000 savings and loan institutions had failed, and hundreds more neared bankruptcy. I proposed legislation to rescue and restructure the savings and loan industry, and the US government committed billions of dollars to fund the bailout.
4 points When I took office as president, one of my majors concerns was drug traffic. I presented a Federal strategy for reducing the use of illegal drugs in the US. The strategy included a recommendation for stronger law enforcement efforts against drug abusers and outlined ways to reduce the production and trafficking of illegal drugs.
2 points I took bold military action in Central America by ordering US troops into Panama to overthrow the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega.
6 points I called my administration a “new covenant” between citizens and government. I gained only 43% of the popular vote when I was elected to the White House.
4 points Many of my ideas as president were shot down by Congress. Twice my appointments to the position of attorney general failed because of a scandal that became known as “Nanny Gate”. I was the first president of my party in nearly 50 years who did not have at least one of the two houses of Congress controlled by his own party.
2 points I turned down a music scholarship to Louisiana State University; instead I went to a university of my native state. I later taught at that university’s law school.
6 points I became the youngest Senate Majority Leader in history. I was awarded the silver star during WWII for having been a passenger on board a B-26 hit by Japanese bullets.
4 points As a young Congressman I idolized Franklin Roosevelt. When FDR died, I said, “There are plenty of us left here to try and run interference, but the man who carried the ball is gone.” I became the first president to ride in an armor-plated presidential limousine.
2 points I won my first term as senator by 87 votes. This caused the press to nickname me “Landslide”.
6 points Nine days after becoming president I recommended the return of beer sales across the country. Much later I created the secret Map Room on the ground floor of the White House in what had been a trophy room, a small area for official gifts to the First Couple. During my second term Congress air-conditioned the Capitol Building.
4 points “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny” I said during my first term. I was often pictured with my outlandish cigarette holder at a rakish angle, a symbol of my confidence. I created the modern Federal Government, big departments in huge gray buildings sprawled across the capital.
2 points I did “hydro-gymnastics” at “The Little White House” in Warm Springs, GA to strengthen my legs. Due to world conditions and my frail health, my last inauguration took place on the South Portico of the White House. I delivered a 6 minute address and the entire ceremony was over in 15 minutes.
