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Camping with Presidents

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Alice Longworth on LBJ-

“I was rather fond of the Johnsons. Lyndon was an engaging rogue elephant of a man. He used to complain that he couldn’t kiss me under my hat and I told him that was why I wore it.”

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President Eisenhower greeting King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit.

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Secretary of War William Howard Taft aboard the SS Manchuria.

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Queen Elizabeth II and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The two combined have met 24 presidents.

Alice met- Ben Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, TR, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford.

Elizabeth met- Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, W, Obama, Trump, and Biden.

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Young Gerald Ford

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Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter with Hassan II, Mohammed VI, and Prince Moulay Rachid.

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The Kennedys with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.

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Major Archibald Butt was a friend and aide to both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. He would pass away in the sinking of the Titantic and his body was never recovered. Taft said at his memorial service:

“If Archie could have selected a time to die he would have chosen the one God gave him. His life was spent in self-sacrifice, serving others. His forgetfulness of self had become a part of his nature. Everybody who knew him called him Archie. I couldn't prepare anything in advance to say here. I tried, but couldn't. He was too near me. He was loyal to my predecessor, Mr. Roosevelt, who selected him to be military aide, and to me he had become as a son or a brother.”

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John Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. President Coolidge is presenting a sap bucket to Henry Ford that was owned by Coolidge’s ancestor. The bucket reads,

"Made for and used by John Coolidge, an original settler at Plymouth, who died in 1822 used also by Calvin Coolidge in the sugar lot when he was a boy at home."

Ford said of it, "I never received anything since I got Mrs. Ford that I appreciated so much".

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Bill and Hillary Clinton dressed as James and Dolley Madison for a Halloween party.

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David Niven as Aaron Burr

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Former President Woodrow Wilson, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, President Calvin Coolidge, and Chief Justice William Howard Taft attending Warren Harding’s funeral.

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Nixon visiting Eisenhower a few weeks before Ike would pass away.

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Burgess Meredith as James Madison