” Charles Lindbergh, a national hero after flying solo across the Atlantic during the previous presidential administration, married Anne Morrow during my administration. They had a son, Charles, Jr., who was kidnapped and murdered. I gave 127 Amelia Earhart the National Geographic Society’s gold medal for her transatlantic solo flight.

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Before I became president, The New York Times rated me among the ten greatest living Americans. Franklin Roosevelt said he would be proud to run as my vice president. Roosevelt did not realize that I was not a Democrat!

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I initiated the military operation known as “Rolling Thunder.” The African-American leader Malcolm X was assassinated in Harlem.

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During my presidency, the Astrodome opened in my home state. Rumors continue to link me to the assassination of my predecessor, which also occurred in my home state.

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The Republican convention that nominated me for president was the first one broadcast on the radio. As president, I sent U.S. Marines to restore a dictator to power in Nicaragua. One of my statements was, “The man who builds a factory builds a temple.”

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Uncharacteristically I was eloquent after seeing the Shenandoah, the U.S.’s first lighter-than-air airship, arching above the White House. I called it “a thrilling spectacle.” Within a year, Shenandoah crashed while flying through a storm in eastern Ohio. I laughed in agreement when Will Rogers, my favorite performer, said of me, “He didn’t do nothing, but that’s what we wanted done.”

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During my presidency, the first Telstar satellite was launched by A.T.&T. As a Congressman, I had supported policies that benefited my working class district. I criticized the administration of my own party for what I claimed was a weak stand against the Communist Chinese.

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When elected to the Senate, I was replaced in the House of Representatives by “Tip” O’Neill, who went on to become Speaker of the House.

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During my term, my wife gave birth to a son, Patrick, whose fight for life the nation watched with bated breath for two days until the boy died. Tragedy has stalked the male members of our aristocratic family. I was the youngest president to die in office.

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The second left-handed president in history, I recognized the state of Israel 11 minutes after it was proclaimed. General Douglas MacArthur gave a 37-minute speech before a joint session of Congress. The members of my cabinet were conspicuously absent. MacArthur said he would “just fade away.”

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The doctrine named for me promised aid to countries that attempted to resist Communist aggression. I was seated next to Winston Churchill when the former British Prime Minister gave his “iron curtain” speech at Westminster College in Missouri.

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During my administration, the Soviet Union detonated a hydrogen bomb, and the first 29 exchanged prisoners of war returned home from Korea. 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American, was lynched in Mississippi, and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott began, inspired by Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat to a white man.

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My wife and I moved 34 times – including seven times in one year – before reaching the White House. I was the subject of the first presidential television commercial. However, my vice presidential running mate made more effective use of television, defending himself against charges of misconduct.

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I first played football at age 15 in high school in Kansas; in college I played against Jim Thorpe, an all-american at the Carlisle Indian School. I warned Richard Nixon not to debate John Kennedy on television. If Nixon had followed my advice, history might be different

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I went into the hospital for major surgery twice during my presidency, once for removal of my gall bladder and a second time for removal of throat polyps. The first Super Bowl was played during my presidency.

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I was the only senator from a southern state who did not sign the so-called “Southern Manifesto” which condemned the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing racial segregation in schools.

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As a senior in high school, I worked on the class yearbook. I copied lines from a poem by Tennyson, which I would carry in my wallet for the rest of my life. In my first year as president, public debt stood at $280 billion, roughly six times what it had been four years earlier. The first televised World Series, between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, took place during my presidency.

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The vice presidential candidate of my Republican opponent for the White House was Earl Warren, who was later named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by my successor. I named George Marshall Secretary of State, the first general to hold that office

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Near the end of my presidency, Winston Churchill told me: “The last time you and I sat across a conference table was at Potsdam. I must confess, sir, I held you in very low regard ... I misjudged you badly. Since that time, you, more than any other man, have saved Western civilization.” When my presidency was finished and I arrived back in Independence, reporters asked me on my first day home what I intended to do. “Carry the grips up to the attic,” I replied, a remark that became famous because it seemed to sum up my personality as an “uncommon common man.”

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A few weeks before I took office, an unemployed bricklayer named Guiseppe Zangais fired a gun at me from point-blank range. However, a woman deflected the assassin’s aim and bullets hit the mayor of Chicago, fatally wounding him. I walked the 35 yards from the Capitol rotunda to the podium for my first inauguration on the arm of my son James.

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Historian Keith Simonton wrote of me: “I’m not sure [he] would have done well in Washington’s time. He wouldn’t have had the radio to do his fireside chats.” On my first inauguration day, one quarter of the work force was unemployed, and the national income was half of what it had been prior to the Stock Market Crash.

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was a first baseman-outfielder for the Marion Baseball Club. Later I owned the Marion minor-league team. Whenever the Detroit Tigers played in Washington, Ty Cobb played poker in the White House with my pals and me.

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One of my vice presidents, John Nance Garner, said, “The vice presidency’s not worth a bucket of warm spit.” I hired a plane to take me to Chicago for my acceptance speech after my first nomination.

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I presided at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. I clashed with Arkansas Governor Orville Faubus.

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My family loved sports. While I was president, they gathered to play touch football. Alan Shepard became the first American astronaut to make a space flight.

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actually began my radio talks when I was Governor of New York. At the 1984 Democratic Convention, Jesse Jackson said that I “in a wheelchair [was] better than Ronald Reagan on a horse.”

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After sixth grade, I attended private schools, including a private college in my home state. Because I hated to wear hats, wearing of hats by men went out of style during my presidency.

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My administration tried to improve U.S. relations with Latin America. The Platt Amendment, which had given the U.S. the right to intervene in the affairs of Cuba, was repealed. American occupation forces were withdrawn from some Caribbean republics, and a long-standing dispute with Mexico was settled. I became the first president to visit South America when I took a trip to Cartagena, Colombia.

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I served 4,422 days as president, a record that presumably will never be broken as a result of the 22nd Amendment.

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At my inauguration, Robert Frost read a poem he had written for the occasion. The guests at the Inaugural Ball included Milton Berle, Nat “King” Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Laurence Olivier, and Leonard Bernstein. I never lost an election.

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The Communist leader, Mao Tse Tung, proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. Two days later I announced, “We have evidence an atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R.”

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I commuted Jimmy Hoffa's 13-year prison sentence on condition that Hoffa not be involved with Union management. I invited returning prisoners of war from Vietnam to dinner at the White House. An avid sports fan, I was the first president to attend baseball’s All-Star game. It was the first nighttime All-Star game.

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A contestant on the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” won a million dollars by identifying me as the president who once appeared on the television show “Laugh-In.”

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The Space Age began during my administration with the launching of Sputnik I and II by Russia. Stung at being beaten into space, Congress established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N.A.S.A.).

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I chaired a commission that studied ways of reorganizing the executive branch of the Federal government. For three straight years as president, I traveled to Philadelphia 135 to watch the Athletics in the World Series – once against the Cubs and twice against the Cardinals. During the last series, I was booed, and the crowd chanted, “We want beer!”

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During my presidency, national hero Charles Lindbergh married Anne Morrow. Their baby boy was kidnapped a few weeks before I finished my term. Also the gangster Al Capone was jailed for tax evasion, and the cyclotron was invented.

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My accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, new anti crime laws, and a broad environmental program. As I had promised, I appointed justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of my first term occurred when American astronauts made the first moon landing.

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While I was in the White House, the Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. My favorite dishes were tapioca and chili. No matter how old you were, I liked to call you “boy” just to upset you.

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A foreign army, led by Pancho Villa, invaded the United States for the first time since the War of 1812. I mobilized more than 5,000 National Guardsmen from Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to protect the border between Brownsville TX and San Diego CA. The American Legion was formed while I was in office.

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