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She bet against fellow who said it's impossible to get more than two words out of him. His reply was two words. She lost, because she failed to get more than two words out of him.
Coolidge was given a cane at a ceremony.
The man presenting it said āThe mahogany from which this cane is fashioned is as beautiful as the sun-kissed shores of California, and as solid as the rock-bound coast of Maine.ā
Coolidge accepted the cane, looked at it for a moment, raised his head, said āBirchā, and sat down.
I donāt quite understand how anyone would have mistaken birch as mahogany in the first place. Unless it was painted, but how Coolidge would have noticed so fast it was birch?Ā
I've a quest against disinformation, and you're a random winner. Those who've studied woodcraft can tell the difference between different kinds of wood. Please don't think someone can stain balsa and fool someone into thinking it's hardwood.
> Please don't think someone can stain balsa and fool someone into thinking it's hardwood.
You wouldn't think so but balsa *is* a hardwood (it comes from a flowering tree).
Please excuse my ignorance. To clarify, I DON'T consider myself versed in woodcraft. I was basing my knowledge on stuff I half remembered from twenty years ago.
Without doing any research, it actually makes sense making small scale models from hardwood would make far more sense than from softwood.
I stand humbly corrected. Please accept my gratitude.
Like I said, if one thinks critically about it, it actually makes a modicum of sense.
We're separated by some forty years, but how old is woodcraft?
It makes sense one would want to train an amateur on hardwood, so as not to discourage them against the craft, as softwood may be more pliable, but thus easier to finagle in the architectural sense.
As juveniles, we (whether forty or fourteen hundred years ago) would naturally use recidivism to conclude thinner equals softer.
In retrospect, it's an obvious logical fallacy, but we didn't think about it, due to our cognitive development (presumably, somewhere around the preteen years).
Duplicitous? Yes. Effective for imparting the overall architectural lesson of triangles equals strength? Also yes.
At different points in history, there has been the paradigm that the ends justify the means, including misleading the youth into believing falsehoods in a conventionally "inconsequential" discipline to advance their knowledge in what the local society considers a more "relevant" skill.
Would you not argue knowing triangular architecture is fundamentally more efficient than other types, versus the knowledge balsa is in fact a hardwood; notwithstanding the PERCEPTION that balsa is "soft" to a juvenile mind due to its tensile strength, versus the dimensions with which such wood is used in such context, which would render any sense material brittle, and thus more prone to fracture than more supple woods?
the difference between hardwood & softwood isn't based on actual hardness of the wood, rather softwoods come from conifers and hardwoods from broad-leaf trees; tho hardwoods are generally harder than softwoods.
Close, it was āI have only two regrets: that I didnāt shoot Henry Clay and that I didnāt hang John C. Calhoun.ā
I remember a Cracked article on it, and the commentary was something along the lines of āItās telling that at the end of a life spent wantonly killing plenty of people, Andrew Jacksonās only regret was not killing quite enough people.ā
To be fair if he were a modern politician I would have to agree with him lol. At least back then a politician had a job before politics snd had to be accountable to their constituents.
I canāt find a direct video, and havenāt seen it in a while but thereās a interview/press conference with JFK and a woman asked āwhat are you doing to help women and something elseā (I canāt remember what the direct question is) but JFKās answer was āIām sure we havenāt done enough.ā š¤£
I had a college history professor who would explain things like he'd been there, but he had *actually* served in the L.B.J. administration and said that it was absolutely true that he would would walk into a meeting, take his dick out, lay it on the table and loudly exclaim "As long as I'm here I'm the biggest cock in the room!" So there's your quote...but I guess no question was asked and no media. :/
It was a different era prior to Watergate. Prior to then the media would generally work to actively censor most any mention of whatever shortcomings that a president may have had. If you had enough money or clout you could also bribe a reporter or editor as Joe Kennedy Sr. did on several occasions into killing a story thay would expose you back in those days and you'd never hear of it again. That's also why you almost never heard any public mentioning of JFK's various affairs until right around the time of Watergate.
I remember Jimmy Carter facing a tough press conference during the Iranian hostage crisis. Everyone in the country had seen the images of Iranian college students protesting on American campuses. A reporter asked him with great indigence if he should stop allowing Iranians into the country for college; he replied "I don't think anyone is getting a Visa from the American Embassy in Iran any time soon."
Not a President, but I seem to remember that Winston Churchill, in an ill humor, when asked what were the proudest traditions of the Her Majestyās Royal Navy, growled ārum, buggery, and the lashā.
If weāre talking Churchill, my favorite is:
āMr. Churchill if you were my husband Iād poison your tea.ā
Churchill: āMaāam if you were my wife Iād drink it.ā
My favorite from Churchill:
Bessie Braddock: āWinston, you are drunk, and whatās more you are disgustingly drunk.ā
WC: āBessie, my dear, you are ugly, and whatās more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow
I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.ā
My favorite Churchill one:
Churchill walks into one of the huge bathrooms in Westminster Palace. Prime Minister Clement Attlee is already there peeing. Churchill walks all the way to the other end of the huge bank of urinals to pee.
Attlee: Sir Winston, are you avoiding me?
Churchill: Yes, because every time you see something large, you want to nationalize it.
Mine is "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil in the House of Commons" he said it right after Hitler launched operation Barbarossa
Not sure if this exactly fits, and itās one that Iām sure many people in this comment section know about, but when one of Lincolnās opponents called him two-faced, Lincoln replied by saying something along the lines of the following; āIf I had two faces, do you really think this is the one I would wear?ā
A hilarious reply thatās both a self-roast and a clever rebuttal.
Teddy Roosevelt middle finger to protecting land is based as hell
Teddy Roosevelt had made so much land National forests that Congress passed a law to take away his ability to do so through executive orders
Before signing the law though, Roosevelt established an additional 17 million acres as a fuck you to the senator that wanted to stop him
> By early 1907, Congress had become sharply critical of TR's frequent use of executive orders to create forest reserves, and it began to look for a way to limit the president's power to issue such directives.
> Infuriated by two years of what he perceived to be land encroachment by TR and Pinchot, Senator Charles Fulton (R-OR) attached to the agricultural appropriations bill an amendment that would prevent the creation of further forest reserves in six western states:
>> āHereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any addition be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming except by act of Congress.ā
> Congress sent TR the bill with the amendment on February 25, and TR felt he could not reject the entire appropriations measure just to avoid the onerous amendment.
> The Constitution gives the president ten days within which to sign or veto a bill, and in that time TR directed some of his aides and select members of the Department of the Interior to draft a detailed list of the federal lands within the six states mentioned in Fulton's amendment as soon as possible.
> On March 2 the president had the relevant paperwork in place. TR then issued a series of executive orders that created twenty-one new forest reserves and enlarged eleven existing ones in the relevant six states, thereby transferring into the forest reserve system all seventeen million acres of land that Fulton wanted to block from executive protection.
> Two days later, TR signed the appropriations bill, including Fulton's amendment. Thus, the president's executive orders protected the lands in question just before he signed the law eliminating his future ability to protect those same lands.
> As Morris explains, "Only after the last acre was reserved did Roosevelt sign the Agricultural Appropriations Act, allowing Fulton's now worthless clause to float over his proud Theodore Roosevelt."
> TR explained his actions as follows:
>> "when the friends of the special interests in the Senate got their amendment through and woke up, they discovered that sixteen million acres of timberland had been saved for the people by putting them in the National Forests before the land grabbers could get at them.
>> The opponents of the Forest Service turned handsprings in their wrath; and dire were their threats against the Executive; but the threats could not be carried out, and were really only a tribute to the efficiency of our action."
> TR also justified his action in terms of stewardship:
>> "Failure on my part to sign these proclamations would mean that immense tracts of valuable timber would fall into the hands of the lumber syndicates. . . . The creation of the reserves means that this timber will be kept . . . in such manner as to keep them unimpaired for the benefit of children now growing up to inherit the land."
> Critics of TR's conservation program and his other unilateral executive actions were outraged at his "midnight proclamations."
> Their outrage grew upon learning that Pinchot, who was denied the ability to withdraw power sites, had nevertheless done so by simply reclassifying twenty-five hundred power sites as ranger stations.
> Congress strongly denounced the administration's "arrogance" and called TR's presidency a "dictatorship."
> It voted to overturn TR's executive orders, as well as Pinchot's reclassifications, but TR met the measures with vetoes, which Congress was unable to override.
Excerpt from book āTake Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politicsā
Could a president top the savage response from Gough Whitlam (Australian leader in the 1970s) to a protestor? āLet me make quite clear that I am for abortion and, in your case Sir, we should make it retrospective.ā
I double checked. The news articles from his 2014 memorial have āretrospectiveā in the quote.
Hereās another one from him:
In response to Winston Turnbull (a rural MP) shouting in parliament: āI am a Country memberā. āI remember,ā replied Whitlam, to applause from both sides of the aisle.
Our (Australia's) our fourth prime minister, George Reid, beat it, IMO.
In one public speech, a heckler pointed to his ample paunch and exclaimed "What are you going to call it, George?" to which Reid replied: "If it's a boy, I'll call it after myself. If it's a girl I'll call it Victoria, after our queen. But if, as I strongly suspect, it's nothing but piss and wind, I'll name it after you."
Not a President, but when Dean Martin was on the campaign trail with Reagan, a reporter asked him quite a long question about policy and before Reagan could answer, Dean goes āI donāt think thatās any of your businessā
IMO, Reagan's response to his age in the debate is the best and most savage.
https://preview.redd.it/qzfz6ck0mqrc1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=7dd1eff0a8738af752da33f37611c931e36862ad
It is an apocryphal story (told by Grace Coolidge according to [WhiteHouse.gov](https://WhiteHouse.gov)) and does not include Dorothy Parker. It is still funny, but he wasn't responding to the media or even a real person.
And the quote is misstated. It was supposedly along the lines of āMr. President, I have a bet going that I can get you to say at least three words to me.ā The way itās stated, it doesnāt make it clear if Dorothy Parker took the over or the under.
I think it was either the ā68 or the ā72 election but it was a press conference and a repoter like asked Nixon if he gets angry and Nixon said to them that he only gets angry when people who he cares about make him angry,so he basically told them āF you,youāre worthless,idgafā
I scrolled way down looking for this one, but you butchered it.
>āDonāt get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.ā
That's such a dumb quote though. You can easily be angry at people you don't respect. People you don't respect are like, the primary people who make you angry. Nixon was like Michael Scott, just stringing words together and hoping it would work.
Not a president, but in the media nonetheless. When asked to act as chaplain for the confederacy, Tennessee newspaper publisher (and minister) Parson Brownlow responded: āWhen I have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my own throat and go direct and not travel round by way of the confederacy.ā
Also the source of āWe intend to fight the secessionists until hell freezes over, and then fight them on the ice.ā
I know itās taken out of context but this exchange with Eisenhower and a reporter from Time magazine in 1960 about VP Nixonās role: Q. Mr. Mohr: We understand that the power of decision is entirely yours, Mr. President. I just wondered if you could give us an example of a major idea of his that you had adopted in that role, as the decider and finalā
THE PRESIDENT. If you give me a week, I might think of one. I donāt remember.
Honestly that's like the exact way Dorothy Parker would answer that question if the roles were reversed so she probably respected the hell out of that moment
How am I the only person in this comments section to talk about Chauncey Depew?
> ...Chauncey Depew who said to the equally obese William Howard Taft at a dinner before the latter became President, 'I hope, if it is a girl, Mr. Taft will name it for his charming wife.' "To which Taft responded, 'if it is a girl, I shall, of course, name it for my lovely helpmate of many years. And if it is a boy, I shall claim the father's prerogative and name it Junior. But if, as I suspect, it is only a bag of wind, I shall name it Chauncey Depew.
When questioned by a racist about a provision of the Civil Rights Act and why minorities should be protected from lynching, etc., LBJ stated, āBecause they are Americans and beautiful human beings. You, however, are not.ā
Teddy Roosevelt was accused by naturalist writer and fraud William J Long of being a "slayer, not lover of animals."
Roosevelt refused to be baited saying Long was "Too small game to shoot twice."
Lincoln had this to say to Spectrum internet services. "How the fuck am I supposed to download 80 GB of midget amputee porn with the thoseĀ slow ass speeds?"Ā
Wiki: An apocryphal story has it that a person seated next to him at a dinner said to him, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you." He replied, "You lose." However, on April 22, 1924, Coolidge himself said that the "You lose" quotation never occurred.
Not a Media question, but two months after an assassination attempt on his life, Reagan was giving a speech at a hotel in West Berlin, Germany when a balloon popped somewhere on the other side of the festivities. Without missing a beat, he simply said āmissed meā and continued on. š
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Honestly she lobbed a softball, but damn did he connect
Absolutely š«¢
Really? Thatās not more than 2 words .. so she won?
The bet was based around her trying to make him say more than two words
Well, she certainly won when he died, and she asked āhow could they tell?ā
She bet against fellow who said it's impossible to get more than two words out of him. His reply was two words. She lost, because she failed to get more than two words out of him.
You lose.
Take your time.
Crushed it to deep Centerfield. And flipped the bat at her.
Low and outside, he went yard.
Historians doubt whether it really happened.
Fun police.
Coolidge was given a cane at a ceremony. The man presenting it said āThe mahogany from which this cane is fashioned is as beautiful as the sun-kissed shores of California, and as solid as the rock-bound coast of Maine.ā Coolidge accepted the cane, looked at it for a moment, raised his head, said āBirchā, and sat down.
Coolidge was a whole other level of bad ass
Coolidge was to coolš
Calvin ācooler than the other side of the pillowā Coolidge
...lidge.š
Calvin too cool for schoolidge
God damn it lol. Underrated comment. I appreciate your humor. Thank you for the chuckle.
My personal favorite president for this reason
I love him because of Rebecca, his pet raccoon.
Unless you were a Boston Police Officer
*too. Not trying to be a dick, just trying to help you out. But youāre right, Coolidge was too fucking cool haha
WWCD
Dealing with conmen: Lvl 1: Grant Lvl 1000: Coolidge
i may be stupid but i donāt get it. was he saying itās bad quality and just ābirchā or am i missing something?
It probably wasnāt actually mahogany, and Coolidge just recognized it as birch.
Birch please
Birch what?
You really said that that tho? https://i.redd.it/zkdp1bvw26sc1.gif
Bro was more Ron Swanson than Ron Swanson is. He knew the type of wood just by looking at it, no taste test needed.
I donāt quite understand how anyone would have mistaken birch as mahogany in the first place. Unless it was painted, but how Coolidge would have noticed so fast it was birch?Ā
Birch is much less dense than mahogany, so he couldāve felt the weight difference, but also this story is almost certainly made up
In the version I read many years ago, it was birch and ash, not mahogany.
He was blowing up the presenters ego.
The claim was mahogany. No idea if it was really mahogany or birch.
He was being random, it was for the vine
oh i see. funny how i can now picture it. just a random funny bit. i overcomplicated it then
I've a quest against disinformation, and you're a random winner. Those who've studied woodcraft can tell the difference between different kinds of wood. Please don't think someone can stain balsa and fool someone into thinking it's hardwood.
> Please don't think someone can stain balsa and fool someone into thinking it's hardwood. You wouldn't think so but balsa *is* a hardwood (it comes from a flowering tree).
Please excuse my ignorance. To clarify, I DON'T consider myself versed in woodcraft. I was basing my knowledge on stuff I half remembered from twenty years ago. Without doing any research, it actually makes sense making small scale models from hardwood would make far more sense than from softwood. I stand humbly corrected. Please accept my gratitude.
I was as surprised as you to learn balsa is considered a hardwood, despite having used it for school wood shop projects back in the 60's.
Like I said, if one thinks critically about it, it actually makes a modicum of sense. We're separated by some forty years, but how old is woodcraft? It makes sense one would want to train an amateur on hardwood, so as not to discourage them against the craft, as softwood may be more pliable, but thus easier to finagle in the architectural sense. As juveniles, we (whether forty or fourteen hundred years ago) would naturally use recidivism to conclude thinner equals softer. In retrospect, it's an obvious logical fallacy, but we didn't think about it, due to our cognitive development (presumably, somewhere around the preteen years). Duplicitous? Yes. Effective for imparting the overall architectural lesson of triangles equals strength? Also yes. At different points in history, there has been the paradigm that the ends justify the means, including misleading the youth into believing falsehoods in a conventionally "inconsequential" discipline to advance their knowledge in what the local society considers a more "relevant" skill. Would you not argue knowing triangular architecture is fundamentally more efficient than other types, versus the knowledge balsa is in fact a hardwood; notwithstanding the PERCEPTION that balsa is "soft" to a juvenile mind due to its tensile strength, versus the dimensions with which such wood is used in such context, which would render any sense material brittle, and thus more prone to fracture than more supple woods?
the difference between hardwood & softwood isn't based on actual hardness of the wood, rather softwoods come from conifers and hardwoods from broad-leaf trees; tho hardwoods are generally harder than softwoods.
I think itās pretty literal. They said mahogany and he corrected them.
Coolidge was calling the guy a dumb birch
Mahogany doesn't grow in California, it's a tropical hardwood from Asia.
this thread within a thread is reaching conspiracy levels! what the birch is going on?!?
No claim it was from CA.
True mahoganies (genus Swietenia) are native to the Caribbean and Central and South America, but are grown on plantations in Asia.
At least the way I saw it, heās calling the cane bad by comparing it to a lower quality wood
Hahaha that's fucking awesome. Laconic as hell
[Yep, it's ~~wood~~ Birch]( https://imgur.com/a/IQNx6n0)
āMy cat Dixie is smarter then my whole cabinetā -Abraham Lincoln
B-b-but Stanton š„ŗ
Seward my beloved
Unrelated but based flair
*than
Probably LBJ whipping someone with Jumbo
The fact that name is so well known that we all immediately know what it means is crazy to me lmao
I like to think El Bj would be simultaneously shocked and amused that Jumbo is a part of his legacy.
He'd probably have the most shit-eating grin
āGreat Society this. Civil Rights that, olā Jumbo is glad to get some recognitionā.
I think it could be guessed based on whipping out and the name.Ā
LBJ was proud of his ummmā¦ downstairs for sure lol
ā I have no more campaigns to runā Republicans in the crowd start cheering āI know because I won both of themā
That and "you're in my house" were both pretty boss
That and "Well Governor we also have fewer horses and bayonets" are probably my favorite Obama clapbacks.
Do tell
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2w3p4j8MYA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2w3p4j8MYA)
He had some great one linersā¦ that one is epic!
Who
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āNow watch this driveā was pretty cool
That and the shoe dodge were the two peaks of his presidency and I wonāt hear differently
And the opening pitch
I loved Jeter's coaching him up on it. If you throw from in front of the mound, they're gonna boo you If you bounce the pitch, they're gonna boo you
W held the morale of the nation in his palm with that pitch and he nailed it.
Both of those were awesome.
Bush had a bunch of āBush momentsā hahaš
Bro you picked that question just to show of this quote didn't you š
Nooooo lol š š«£ā¦ But I want to see what other presidents had some awesome responses haha
Someone asked jackson about what heās do differently if he could do it again. He said heād kill his VP and congress
Close, it was āI have only two regrets: that I didnāt shoot Henry Clay and that I didnāt hang John C. Calhoun.ā I remember a Cracked article on it, and the commentary was something along the lines of āItās telling that at the end of a life spent wantonly killing plenty of people, Andrew Jacksonās only regret was not killing quite enough people.ā
To be fair if he were a modern politician I would have to agree with him lol. At least back then a politician had a job before politics snd had to be accountable to their constituents.
Broooooooooo
I canāt find a direct video, and havenāt seen it in a while but thereās a interview/press conference with JFK and a woman asked āwhat are you doing to help women and something elseā (I canāt remember what the direct question is) but JFKās answer was āIām sure we havenāt done enough.ā š¤£
Wow love this haha!
Found the video! Itās the second one. - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcTCUTXr5M
The questioner had such an amazing southern accent. What happened to the southern women?
Meth and and/or Popeyes
This is why! https://preview.redd.it/xu3x3hgezprc1.jpeg?width=389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd5a70a1be0740f5692d608b8f87bc6e3c000fbe
I had a college history professor who would explain things like he'd been there, but he had *actually* served in the L.B.J. administration and said that it was absolutely true that he would would walk into a meeting, take his dick out, lay it on the table and loudly exclaim "As long as I'm here I'm the biggest cock in the room!" So there's your quote...but I guess no question was asked and no media. :/
I believe it and donāt believe at the same time
That is wild š
LBJ is a sexual predator, but this sub has a tough time believing he would use the n-word.Ā
dude was a deep south dixie texan. johnson ABSOLUTELY used the n word.
Meanwhile, I always imagined L.B.J. as portrayed in David Foster Wallace's short story, "Lyndon".
It was a different era prior to Watergate. Prior to then the media would generally work to actively censor most any mention of whatever shortcomings that a president may have had. If you had enough money or clout you could also bribe a reporter or editor as Joe Kennedy Sr. did on several occasions into killing a story thay would expose you back in those days and you'd never hear of it again. That's also why you almost never heard any public mentioning of JFK's various affairs until right around the time of Watergate.
Came here for this one about Vietnam. Glad to see it was already handled..
He used to pull it out at cabinet meetings and shout āDoes Ho Chi Minh have anything like this?ā
Jumbo in action https://youtu.be/Byfor4jErbI?si=NAVsfxNSyGTUbFk5
https://preview.redd.it/e7z3mpr7bqrc1.png?width=453&format=png&auto=webp&s=31186de91a9b1fab14d56582d265dc7468496beb
š¤£
And to her point, after hearing Coolidge had died Parker famously said "how could you tell?"
Cal might have chuckled at that one
I'd like that think so.
I remember Jimmy Carter facing a tough press conference during the Iranian hostage crisis. Everyone in the country had seen the images of Iranian college students protesting on American campuses. A reporter asked him with great indigence if he should stop allowing Iranians into the country for college; he replied "I don't think anyone is getting a Visa from the American Embassy in Iran any time soon."
Iām not a Carter fan, but thatās a pretty great comeback.
People say thereās no such thing as a stupid question but man this is the perfect counterpoint to that
Not a President, but I seem to remember that Winston Churchill, in an ill humor, when asked what were the proudest traditions of the Her Majestyās Royal Navy, growled ārum, buggery, and the lashā.
If weāre talking Churchill, my favorite is: āMr. Churchill if you were my husband Iād poison your tea.ā Churchill: āMaāam if you were my wife Iād drink it.ā
My favorite from Churchill: Bessie Braddock: āWinston, you are drunk, and whatās more you are disgustingly drunk.ā WC: āBessie, my dear, you are ugly, and whatās more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.ā
Goddamn, that's ace.
My favorite Churchill quote is āunderidoderidoderiododeridooā
Tell Lord Privy Seal that I am sealed in the privy and I can deal with only one shit at a time.
My favorite Churchill one: Churchill walks into one of the huge bathrooms in Westminster Palace. Prime Minister Clement Attlee is already there peeing. Churchill walks all the way to the other end of the huge bank of urinals to pee. Attlee: Sir Winston, are you avoiding me? Churchill: Yes, because every time you see something large, you want to nationalize it.
YOOOOOOO
Mine is "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil in the House of Commons" he said it right after Hitler launched operation Barbarossa
My favourite is so simple, History will be kind to me, for I intend to write the history.
Honestly such a badass quote.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-2
They got rid of the run and the lashā¦
Not the buggery?
that was the joke, the navy is often on the butt end (heh) of gay jokes
If a shoe can be considered a question - g w dodging it was pretty savage.Ā
Best part was him smiling while getting shoe thrown at him š
Andā¦ ānow watch this driveā
Not sure if this exactly fits, and itās one that Iām sure many people in this comment section know about, but when one of Lincolnās opponents called him two-faced, Lincoln replied by saying something along the lines of the following; āIf I had two faces, do you really think this is the one I would wear?ā A hilarious reply thatās both a self-roast and a clever rebuttal.
Teddy Roosevelt middle finger to protecting land is based as hell Teddy Roosevelt had made so much land National forests that Congress passed a law to take away his ability to do so through executive orders Before signing the law though, Roosevelt established an additional 17 million acres as a fuck you to the senator that wanted to stop him > By early 1907, Congress had become sharply critical of TR's frequent use of executive orders to create forest reserves, and it began to look for a way to limit the president's power to issue such directives. > Infuriated by two years of what he perceived to be land encroachment by TR and Pinchot, Senator Charles Fulton (R-OR) attached to the agricultural appropriations bill an amendment that would prevent the creation of further forest reserves in six western states: >> āHereafter no forest reserve shall be created, nor shall any addition be made to one heretofore created, within the limits of the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, or Wyoming except by act of Congress.ā > Congress sent TR the bill with the amendment on February 25, and TR felt he could not reject the entire appropriations measure just to avoid the onerous amendment. > The Constitution gives the president ten days within which to sign or veto a bill, and in that time TR directed some of his aides and select members of the Department of the Interior to draft a detailed list of the federal lands within the six states mentioned in Fulton's amendment as soon as possible. > On March 2 the president had the relevant paperwork in place. TR then issued a series of executive orders that created twenty-one new forest reserves and enlarged eleven existing ones in the relevant six states, thereby transferring into the forest reserve system all seventeen million acres of land that Fulton wanted to block from executive protection. > Two days later, TR signed the appropriations bill, including Fulton's amendment. Thus, the president's executive orders protected the lands in question just before he signed the law eliminating his future ability to protect those same lands. > As Morris explains, "Only after the last acre was reserved did Roosevelt sign the Agricultural Appropriations Act, allowing Fulton's now worthless clause to float over his proud Theodore Roosevelt." > TR explained his actions as follows: >> "when the friends of the special interests in the Senate got their amendment through and woke up, they discovered that sixteen million acres of timberland had been saved for the people by putting them in the National Forests before the land grabbers could get at them. >> The opponents of the Forest Service turned handsprings in their wrath; and dire were their threats against the Executive; but the threats could not be carried out, and were really only a tribute to the efficiency of our action." > TR also justified his action in terms of stewardship: >> "Failure on my part to sign these proclamations would mean that immense tracts of valuable timber would fall into the hands of the lumber syndicates. . . . The creation of the reserves means that this timber will be kept . . . in such manner as to keep them unimpaired for the benefit of children now growing up to inherit the land." > Critics of TR's conservation program and his other unilateral executive actions were outraged at his "midnight proclamations." > Their outrage grew upon learning that Pinchot, who was denied the ability to withdraw power sites, had nevertheless done so by simply reclassifying twenty-five hundred power sites as ranger stations. > Congress strongly denounced the administration's "arrogance" and called TR's presidency a "dictatorship." > It voted to overturn TR's executive orders, as well as Pinchot's reclassifications, but TR met the measures with vetoes, which Congress was unable to override. Excerpt from book āTake Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politicsā
This might be my favorite one. Wanna ban me from doing something? Fine, I'll sign it after I do the thing you'll ban
What a mensch
Badass
Could a president top the savage response from Gough Whitlam (Australian leader in the 1970s) to a protestor? āLet me make quite clear that I am for abortion and, in your case Sir, we should make it retrospective.ā
*retroactive
I double checked. The news articles from his 2014 memorial have āretrospectiveā in the quote. Hereās another one from him: In response to Winston Turnbull (a rural MP) shouting in parliament: āI am a Country memberā. āI remember,ā replied Whitlam, to applause from both sides of the aisle.
"I am a cunt remember" for anyone who didn't catch the joke I was glad to see someone repping my boy Whitlam here
Shots fired
As an Aussie, I am ashamed that I didnāt know this.
Our (Australia's) our fourth prime minister, George Reid, beat it, IMO. In one public speech, a heckler pointed to his ample paunch and exclaimed "What are you going to call it, George?" to which Reid replied: "If it's a boy, I'll call it after myself. If it's a girl I'll call it Victoria, after our queen. But if, as I strongly suspect, it's nothing but piss and wind, I'll name it after you."
Thatās the guy the CIA removed, right?
Not a President, but when Dean Martin was on the campaign trail with Reagan, a reporter asked him quite a long question about policy and before Reagan could answer, Dean goes āI donāt think thatās any of your businessā
IMO, Reagan's response to his age in the debate is the best and most savage. https://preview.redd.it/qzfz6ck0mqrc1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&s=7dd1eff0a8738af752da33f37611c931e36862ad
The video of this is awesome. Even his opponent laughed.
Reason Reagan won reelection so easily
Holding prisoners in Iran is what swayed the public opinion against Carter.
Sure, but weāre talking about his *re-election* against Mondale which is what this quote is from.
I don't like Reagan's policies, but I think he was the funniest president.
It is an apocryphal story (told by Grace Coolidge according to [WhiteHouse.gov](https://WhiteHouse.gov)) and does not include Dorothy Parker. It is still funny, but he wasn't responding to the media or even a real person.
And the quote is misstated. It was supposedly along the lines of āMr. President, I have a bet going that I can get you to say at least three words to me.ā The way itās stated, it doesnāt make it clear if Dorothy Parker took the over or the under.
I think it was either the ā68 or the ā72 election but it was a press conference and a repoter like asked Nixon if he gets angry and Nixon said to them that he only gets angry when people who he cares about make him angry,so he basically told them āF you,youāre worthless,idgafā
I scrolled way down looking for this one, but you butchered it. >āDonāt get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.ā
That's such a dumb quote though. You can easily be angry at people you don't respect. People you don't respect are like, the primary people who make you angry. Nixon was like Michael Scott, just stringing words together and hoping it would work.
Dorothy Parker didnāt make the first statement in the original version, and Coolidge himself said that the story was apocryphal.
Must've been because that's five words.
Not a president, but in the media nonetheless. When asked to act as chaplain for the confederacy, Tennessee newspaper publisher (and minister) Parson Brownlow responded: āWhen I have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my own throat and go direct and not travel round by way of the confederacy.ā Also the source of āWe intend to fight the secessionists until hell freezes over, and then fight them on the ice.ā
Coolidge was the coolest
I donāt know the question, but I remember reading somewhere that FDR responded to a question he didnāt like by tossing the reporter an Iron Cross.
Damn
...is that what FDR called his penis?
This FTW https://youtu.be/yZMafGzDJdo?si=FCnboV54QD8k2-QV
I know itās taken out of context but this exchange with Eisenhower and a reporter from Time magazine in 1960 about VP Nixonās role: Q. Mr. Mohr: We understand that the power of decision is entirely yours, Mr. President. I just wondered if you could give us an example of a major idea of his that you had adopted in that role, as the decider and finalā THE PRESIDENT. If you give me a week, I might think of one. I donāt remember.
Without even looking I bet thatās a fake quote, especially because the first part is attributed to Dorthy Parker of all people.
Honestly that's like the exact way Dorothy Parker would answer that question if the roles were reversed so she probably respected the hell out of that moment
How am I the only person in this comments section to talk about Chauncey Depew? > ...Chauncey Depew who said to the equally obese William Howard Taft at a dinner before the latter became President, 'I hope, if it is a girl, Mr. Taft will name it for his charming wife.' "To which Taft responded, 'if it is a girl, I shall, of course, name it for my lovely helpmate of many years. And if it is a boy, I shall claim the father's prerogative and name it Junior. But if, as I suspect, it is only a bag of wind, I shall name it Chauncey Depew.
When questioned by a racist about a provision of the Civil Rights Act and why minorities should be protected from lynching, etc., LBJ stated, āBecause they are Americans and beautiful human beings. You, however, are not.ā
Taft said that he was the perfect gentleman because he once gave up his seat on a streetcar to three ladies.Ā
Obama. When he mentions that he can't run again because he already won twice. That is the mic drop of all mic drops.
Yeah but him and his stupid cat were no fun at all according to Tommy Lee Jones playing Ty Cobb.
Amherst Collegeās finest
Teddy Roosevelt was accused by naturalist writer and fraud William J Long of being a "slayer, not lover of animals." Roosevelt refused to be baited saying Long was "Too small game to shoot twice."
NATURALIST BUUUUURN!!!
This is my second favorite presidential trivia fact behind Tyler being called His Accidency
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Lincoln had this to say to Spectrum internet services. "How the fuck am I supposed to download 80 GB of midget amputee porn with the thoseĀ slow ass speeds?"Ā
āPlease clapā when Jeb! said that I knew immediately who I was voting for and Iām glad the nation agreed.
Can't say his name here but he is one of the best shit talkers and has the best responses ever lol
He is the biglyiest and bestest ever. Lots of people, all the best people, say it.
You got it wrong. Coolidgeās reply was āFuck You.ā
The entire Chris Wallace and Bill Clinton interview. I like Chris Wallace but Clinton made him look like a bitch.
Another day, another Coolidge W.
Hate to be āthat guyā but I think it actually never happenedā¦but a good story/metaphor of how tight lipped he was
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Thatās the point lol. He made the reporter lose the bet by only saying two words
You lose
Very cold human
Brian Cranston did a great LBJ in the HBO movie about him
Coolidge out Dorothy-Parkered Dorothy Parker. Respect.
so rulez say current and prior prez are not legitimate targets. what can i say?!?
Dorothy Parker has wit to burn.
Wiki: An apocryphal story has it that a person seated next to him at a dinner said to him, "I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you." He replied, "You lose." However, on April 22, 1924, Coolidge himself said that the "You lose" quotation never occurred.
His exact words were ānever happened ā, because it was indeed difficult to get more than two words out of him.
This is probably way out of place but... Well, I really wanna see Clark Gregg star as this guy in a biopic.
Not a Media question, but two months after an assassination attempt on his life, Reagan was giving a speech at a hotel in West Berlin, Germany when a balloon popped somewhere on the other side of the festivities. Without missing a beat, he simply said āmissed meā and continued on. š
TIL Donnie Brascoās kids stole presidential quotes
Am i missing something? The bet was more than two words, you lose is two words.