I liked the original and the reaction. I like that they didn't take the more controversial topics for most of them, especially for modern presidents. Things are hard enough right now, so it's okay to just take the lighthearted approach every now and then.
TR needs a “John Adams” style miniseries done on him! He had so many different chapters in his life (early sickly youth, Rancher in Dakota, Governor, Vice President, President, and one of the most interesting post Presidencies ever!). Someone please do this! lol
With what you’re saying at 24:00, I think it should probably take into account that a lot of the presidents aren’t very well known by anyone (like the guy said, who on earth has heard of Millard Fillmore) so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to scrape the barrel at times for this
We had to recite, as a class, every presidential term... I.E. Washington, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jefferson, Madison, Madison, Monroe, Monroe, Adams.... etc etc. Mine was Fillmore, and I could never remember his first name, but I definitely knew Fillmore was a president. = D
One of my favorite aspects of this channel has been the transition from "I don't want to talk about modern presidents at all" to "we can analyze modern presidents through the lense of history while not getting into a debate over politics". It leads to important conversations that nobody wants to have, because they don't involve hot takes and bickering over policy.
I bought a book of facts at the book fair as a kid, and a chapter was dedicated to Presidents. Calvin Coolidge was far from boring: he was a practical joker! He liked to press all the calling buttons on his desk and hide. When all the staffers showed up, he’d say: “I just wanted to see if everyone was working!”
20:49 Actually, when I used to work with Habit for Humanity, and they explained there that so many people thought that Jimmy Carter founded it, that they have to correct people all the time. Also, on their official website, there is a section talking about Jimmy Carter not founding Habit for Humanity, so this IS something that many people believe.
To add on to what you said at 3:33 about who else was born outside the us, John McCain was the actual Republicans party nominee in 2008 and he was born in Panama on a US military base since his father of course was an admiral in the Navy
In addition to Jimmy Carter (whose is one of my favorite humanitarians to serve as President as well) the list of most active ex-Presidents has to include John Quincy Adams (who served in the U.S. House) and fellow Ohioan William Howard Taft (who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court).
"with modern medicine, they would have survived", i would add that with modern weapons they also would have died faster, I guess you live (or not) with your technology.
For 22:44 bush was playing an intense tennis match with the emperor and the crown prince when later during dinner bush threw up on the pm. In Japanese there is a saying Busshu-suru which literally means do the bush thing
As someone who follows your videos, massive respect to you for providing further insight into presidents who you may not necessarily agree with but without just bashing them. I wish all people were like you, where you can disagree with someone without belittling them.
My favourite nickname for T Roosevelt is one he acquired in Montana: Ol' Four Eyes. I believe he was kind of proud of that nickname himself. Four Eyes is a derogatory name for someone wearing spectacles, and at first the cowboys called him just Four Eyes, but whe he proved he was able to ride and shoot with the lot of them, they started calling him Ol' Four Eyes instead.
I have a decent amount of ancestors who have the names of presidents. George Washington. Abe Lincoln. Grover Cleveland even. The Chester Arthur myth is a neat one. Mo Racca did a presidential special and spent a little time on it. I think his father was a teacher and was in Canada when his wife gave birth to Chester. Great video!! I enjoy the presidential content a lot.
I have SO many ancestors with presidential names! Kids named after Martin van Buren, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe are all over my family tree. I also have a 3x great uncle named Elmer Ellsworth Bay.
This is My favorite Excerpt from The George H. W. Bush Vomiting incident Wikipedia page: In Japan, Bush continued to be remembered for this event for several years.[8] According to the Encyclopedia of Political Communication, "The incident caused a wave of late night television jokes and ridicule in the international community, even coining Busshu-suru (ブッシュする[9]) which literally means 'to do the Bush thing'" (or "Bushing it").
Jeff Greenfield wrote a great book about historical what-ifs. It’s titled “Then Everything Changed” and one of the stories detailed the JFK car bomber. I really recommend this book.
I've heard of a couple of these. As a wrestling fan for most of my life, I've heard younger wrestling fans say that Bill Clinton was at Wreslemania X (held on March 20, 1994 at Madison Square Garden). Bill Clinton impersonators were apparently a thing, and the WWF had brought in one of the more "well-known" impersonators for the show, and one of the times he appeared on the show, there was a supposed "assassination attempt". He was a good impersonator, but even at 15 years old at the time, watching it live, it was obviously not really Bill Clinton. I have no idea why some would think it was actually him.
Do you remember that time they had a Trump impersonator on WWE? I think he was on stage shaving Vince McMahon's head and he also tackled him to the ground. It was hilarious.
Lol! Impersonator? I remember when they held Wrestlemanias IV and V at Trump Plaza in 1988 and 1989, and Trump beating the hell out of Vince at Mania XXIII in 2007.
A popular name in Africa is George Bush (as in George W. Bush). He apparently did so much work combating AIDS and Malaria, which ultimately saved millions of lives, that naming their kids George Bush wasn’t uncommon.
I loved the shout out to Jed Bartlett at the end!! I love The West Wing. Loved your reaction to these as well. You always produce such quality content with the knowledge to back it up
This isn’t a common misconception it’s just a personal misconception I had that I thought was funny. My dads family had a house right across the street from the Kennedy complex on Cape Cod so I always thought my dad was growing up with JFK and would tell all my friends and teachers that. It took me a few years to realize that my dad was born 6 years after JFK was assassinated
Two interesting misconceptions I had as a kid was that my parents dealt, as bystanders, with segregation. Let me explain: when my 3rd Grade Teacher told us about MLK Jr. and Segregation. I went home thinking my parents lived through that experience as White bystanders. It couldn't have been further from the truth. My dad was born in Indiana in 1967. He did go to Virgina a lot in his childhood and teen years, so in some definitions, he could've been what I accused him of doing. Obviously, my mom didn't deal with that because she was in Venezuela, born in 1974. The other Misconception I had was that Israel was this large, Northern Kingdom, north of Canada, Russia, the North Pole, etc. I literally thought Israel was a gigantic North Pole that wasn't cold, mainly cause I was raised with evangelical influence.
0:50 My family history is rife with this. A famous (to our family) ancenstor of mine born early in the 19th Century was known as Benjamin F. Johnson. His brother was George W. Johnson. I obviously don't need to explain what their middle initials stood for.
You’ve probably been told this, but when you wear black, the red parts of your chair create a curious illusion of you having vampire collars. No complaints here - you do you! - but I thought you were dressed up for Halloween when I first turned on the video.
22:38- 22:41 yeah he threw up on then Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa during a trip to Japan in 1992 before passing out, to the point there's a Japanese term that emerged from it called "bushu suru" or "to do the Bush thing"
I didn't know that "Air Force One" was the designation of the plane carrying the President rather than the name of one specific plane until I saw the movie Air Force One (good movie, btw, I recommend everybody watch it). I haven't heard of the vast majority of these misconceptions myself. Idk how he decided on these ones to talk about
Interestingly enough, Marine One is the helicopter that the president rides in. You would think that ship with the president would be Navy 1, too. However, Navy 1 is a naval aircraft when the president is on it. If the president is on a Navy ship, it doesn't get a special designation but it does fly the presidential flag. I believe the last time that happened was Bush Jr. flying "Navy 1" and then landing on an aircraft carrier which would then have flown the presidential flag while he was on board.
@@MrAwesome739 Bush Jr was the only President to fly in a "Navy One", it was an S-3 Viking from VS-35. Bush used it to fly out to the USS Abraham Lincoln
@@Panzer-535 I thought there might have been another president before him who had flown on a Navy plane while in office but I knew he was the most recent. That plane is now in a museum on display. He did not fly the plane because even though he was a pilot, he was not carrier qualified.
@@ShadowBlazer3000 I wonder if there has ever been a 'Navy Two'. Google has failed me! My suspicion is 'no' because I can't find a reference to it having ever happened. Marine Two, certainly and Air Force Two but nothing found for Navy Two.
👍 already subscribed to your podcast on Spotify… I really love history podcasts so I’ll be definitely listening to your podcast and opinions about historical events.
I have worked at the Reagan Presidential library for almost 6 years and I have never heard the Casablanca story. You are not alone in thinking that it is not common, like a lot of the other misconceptions in this video.
About the designation of the aircraft which POTUS is occupying: Fixed wing military aircraft are designated Air Force One, military helicopters are designated Marine One and civilian aircraft are designated Executive One. If the President is not aboard the plane, but the First Lady, (or any other member of the President's immediate family) the designation goes like Air Force One Foxtrot, Marine One Foxtrot, etc. Foxtrot signifying the letter F for family. I got this explained in an aviation forum more than ten years ago.
We visited the Eisenhower Presidential Museum in Kansas a few years ago. We learned that his boyhood home is the only one that still stands on its original foundation. The house was by railway tracks; the story went that girls on the other (nicer) side of the tracks weren’t allowed to fraternize with the lowly Eisenhower boys. If only they had a crystal ball…
3:30 - George Romney, Mitt Romney's father was nearly the Republican Nominee in 1968, and a Govenor of Michigan. He was born on a Morman settlement in Mexico to American-born parents.
I think the concept of their video was more of a fun-fact based video but they wanted to put a different spin on it. It proved pretty difficult to find some misconceptions for some lesser known presidents, which they even admitted for one of them (I don’t remember which), so I think they instead would find a fun fact about whatever president they were on and then make the misconception be the exact opposite of whatever the fact was
1:00 my father was almost named after FDR. I would gotten Delano as a middle name. 😳 I got my middle name after my father’s. I was actually named after Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominoes). :)
I had heard a few of them, the TR was one of them. But I can't claim all that credit; my youngest daughter's youngest is named Theodore after TR. She really admired him. I keep planning to go over to San Antonio (where she lives) and spend a couple of nights in the Menger hotel near the Alamo. Roosevelt recruited some of his Rough Riders there in the bar and I think I remember a suite named for him. That same bar has a cut in the wood that is said to be from Carrie Nation's axe. There's also a suite called the king Ranch suite, after the big ranch here in Texas that was owned by Richard King. King used to live in the hotel in that suite a few weeks a year and the hotel kept it open for him. I actually researched the hotel for my third book (vampire novel series) because I needed somewhere for the characters to "bug out" to when Hurricane Rita was on its way to Houston. I have some horror stories of that hurricane, took us 17 hours to get to Killeen and out friend's house from near NASA south of Houston. Friends across the highway took 34 hours because they went a different direction.
i've heard of a few, but majority are new to me. one of my favorites, wasn't mentioned, involved Lyndon B. Johnson. the Blackbird's name change myth. the story always goes that Lockheed had intended to call it the RS-71, but Johnson misspoke in his speech and rather than correcting the President, they changed to SR-71. it was always called SR-71, i believe it was determined to be a mistake by his Stenographer who got confused with the RS-70 (North American Aviation's answer to the Blackbird, based on the XB-70).
Josiah Bartlett was a real person in history, not just a fictional person in a television show. Born on the 21st of November 1729 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Mr. Bartlett would go on to become a physician of some renown during his time, as well as a founding father, delegate to the continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence (being the second person to sign the document right after John Hancock) and Articles of Confederation. He also went on to become the first governor of New Hampshire as a Democratic-Republican and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature. He was married to Mary (not sure of surname) on the 15th of January 1754 and went on to have 10 children. Not unusual for the time due to inadequate birth control and because high infant mortality encouraged people at the time to have many children so that there was a greater chance of at least one or more surviving for posterity. He also discovered the medicinal properties of Peruvian bark while practicing medicine during a (what was then referred to as a throat distemper) outbreak around the Kingston NH area in 1754. He passed away in Kingston, New Hampshire on the 19th of May 1795 at the age of 65. He was one of the few members of the founding generation and early republic from New England who served as a member of the Democratic-Republican party that I've been able to find. Most New Englanders were Federalists. So although a Democratic-Republican New Englander wasn't unique it was certainly unusual.
17:43. Another interesting fact about Dwight Eisenhower was his parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and the house he grew up in was used as a place to meet to hold Bible studies.
We had to dress up as famous Ohioans in Ohio History. The student who chose President Taft wore a suit and a cardboard bathtub and gave a surprisingly good presentation
On the quiet equal’s boring thing. I know a really talkative guy who cracks jokes left and right. He’s funny because he is so bad at being funny. He has a sister who is probably the most introverted person I know. But catch her in the right mood/ comfort level and she is super funny. I myself am rather introverted and boring in many situations. But have been told I’m funny by folks who get to know me better.
I haven't heard some of those misconceptions either. My goal is to read on biography of each president. So far I have read one on Washington, Grant, Jefferson and Madison. I do own other biographies but I haven't gotten to them yet: Fillmore, both Adams', Monroe, Jackson and Wilson. Even as a Conservative I still want to read a biography on Obama and now Biden (I read Obama's America, but I don't count it as a biography 😂). But, for Obama is there a good biography on him out there there that isn't superpolitical?
John McCain was another candidate who was born a US citizen, but outside the US (he was born in the Canal Zone in Panama). Also I read something once that with modern medicine, even Lincoln could have survived his assassination (though he would have still had issues, like being unable to speak).
The Airport in my home town, Sanford Maine, has had Air force one land at it. It was the best Airport for the Bushes to land on their way to their property in Kennebunkport
"Air Force One" is only the callsign if it is a US Airforce operated aircraft - the helicopter, for example, is "Marine One", and there have also been Navy One (when flying onto a carrier, for certain), and possibly "Army One" - I don't know of an example but it would be the callsign if the Army were to by flying the US president.
LBJ flew in an army helicopter after landing at Andrews AFB with JFK's body. (From Andrews to the White House Lawn). And from 1957-1975, Marine Corps and Army Helicopters alternated transporting the President from the White House Lawn to Andrews and back.
@@hamil4fb "Executive 1" was used once when Nixon tried to save money in December 1973 by going commercial to Los Angeles. It was such a security mess, they gave up on the idea, but not to say it could happen again if the President had to go to some remote short runway strip airport.
Garfield would’ve lived even with the medicine of his time. Lister had invented anti septic and showcased it at the same fair at which Graham Bell first showcased the telephone. The problem is many doctors didn’t adopt his discovery right away. Many still practiced archaic methods of treating wounds which ultimately led to Garfield’s death… great guy… very sad 😢
Nothing wrong with Ed Sherrans scene in GOT. A little out of place, but funny, quirky, and it was interesting to see Lannister soldiers as "nice guys" instead of generic "bad guys."
I’ve heard about 1 or 2 of these (maybe like 3/4 tops) but that’s about it, though I’m not an American so perhaps that plays into it somewhat. Still a very informative video though with some interesting things I’d never heard or learned about before.
There are lots of misconceptions about Nixon, but what people don't know is that he is the only person in US history to win 2 terms as President and 2 terms as Vice President.
I have to wonder about Frank Underwood from House of Cards. He is a caricature of political corruption. A shame that show ended the way it did. But the American version of House of Cards is tame compared to the original British version. Ian Richardson’s portrayal of Francis Urquhart was wonderful! I love the double entendre involving these characters’ names!
Daily reminder: I really hope you can react to Monsieur Z’s 7 Ages of America (and the Men who shaped them) series. Sorry if I’m being annoying, it’s just a really great series and you’re input would be interesting and Monsieur Z’s video on Woodrow Wilson. Don’t be turned by the title, it’s clickbait, but it’s a good video.
The thing where everyone inside the state at the time of it's creation happend a lot here in Africa, Zambia has a interesting history where they tried to get the president kicked out due to him being born in a neighboring country, but the court said he was inside the country when it was founded makeing him a citizen, it's also the reason why Guy Scott (white guy) became president of Zambia, the UK claimed that he's not Zambian but his people and his country said that he was a founding member of the country therefore he is a citizen and can become president. Quite an interesting story.
We have a son that we lost to a miscarriage that was going to be named Theodore Roosevelt Lyttle, so I guess we were almost on the list of people naming their kids after presidents.
Bill Clinton or possibly his lookalike also was featured at the 1995 survivor series where they interviewed him and pyro went off for the wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and they had the secret service cover him up
I liked the original and the reaction. I like that they didn't take the more controversial topics for most of them, especially for modern presidents. Things are hard enough right now, so it's okay to just take the lighthearted approach every now and then.
Woodrow Wilson: _mentioned_
Chris: ready to throw down
Accurate.
TR needs a “John Adams” style miniseries done on him! He had so many different chapters in his life (early sickly youth, Rancher in Dakota, Governor, Vice President, President, and one of the most interesting post Presidencies ever!). Someone please do this! lol
And I forgot about San Juan Hill! lol
I think the History Channel on TV did something similar to this, though maybe not as in depth
With what you’re saying at 24:00, I think it should probably take into account that a lot of the presidents aren’t very well known by anyone (like the guy said, who on earth has heard of Millard Fillmore) so I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to scrape the barrel at times for this
They probably also tried to find some that weren't too controversial
We had to recite, as a class, every presidential term... I.E. Washington, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Jefferson, Madison, Madison, Monroe, Monroe, Adams.... etc etc.
Mine was Fillmore, and I could never remember his first name, but I definitely knew Fillmore was a president. = D
He says so in part one on one president. People didn't know him and they had to get creative.
I mean also like, given the circles someone like Chris is going to be in, misconceptions like that are going to naturally come up a lot less
Not only did Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother die on the same day, it was Valentine's Day and his wife had just given birth two days earlier. 💔
Big oof
Yeah
Heartbreaking!
That's horrible.
I'd be a wreck.
In the same house
One of my favorite aspects of this channel has been the transition from "I don't want to talk about modern presidents at all" to "we can analyze modern presidents through the lense of history while not getting into a debate over politics". It leads to important conversations that nobody wants to have, because they don't involve hot takes and bickering over policy.
I bought a book of facts at the book fair as a kid, and a chapter was dedicated to Presidents. Calvin Coolidge was far from boring: he was a practical joker! He liked to press all the calling buttons on his desk and hide. When all the staffers showed up, he’d say: “I just wanted to see if everyone was working!”
20:49 Actually, when I used to work with Habit for Humanity, and they explained there that so many people thought that Jimmy Carter founded it, that they have to correct people all the time. Also, on their official website, there is a section talking about Jimmy Carter not founding Habit for Humanity, so this IS something that many people believe.
I think it makes a difference if you were alive in the 1970s.
I would 100% pay to see a movie about Theodore Roosevelts life
3:32
A bit late, but another example I'm familiar with is George Romney, he was born in the Mormon colonies in northern Mexico
To add on to what you said at 3:33 about who else was born outside the us, John McCain was the actual Republicans party nominee in 2008 and he was born in Panama on a US military base since his father of course was an admiral in the Navy
If your born on a US base doesn’t that count as being born on US soil
@@kylejohnson3889 It used to be that way but not anymore. Bases are no longer considered to be US soil now
Just found your channel about a week ago and I’ve been binging your stuff since. Thanks for the historical knowledge 😁
In addition to Jimmy Carter (whose is one of my favorite humanitarians to serve as President as well) the list of most active ex-Presidents has to include John Quincy Adams (who served in the U.S. House) and fellow Ohioan William Howard Taft (who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court).
Jimmy Carter is a great man who was a bad President.
"with modern medicine, they would have survived", i would add that with modern weapons they also would have died faster, I guess you live (or not) with your technology.
That's a very good point
Not necessarily. Gunshot wounds are still pretty survivable today if treated correctly
@@haydengriffin8684 but the 9mm blows the lungs out of the body!
@@alex360c 😂 “you can’t own a cannon” even tho it’s completely legal. I hate Biden so much 🤦🏽♂️
Speaking of technology; Kevlar.
With better bullets have come better bullet preventative measures.
So who knows?
You are the one best UA-camrs out there. I think we could talk politics and not want to strangle each other afterwards.
For 22:44 bush was playing an intense tennis match with the emperor and the crown prince when later during dinner bush threw up on the pm. In Japanese there is a saying Busshu-suru which literally means do the bush thing
As someone who follows your videos, massive respect to you for providing further insight into presidents who you may not necessarily agree with but without just bashing them. I wish all people were like you, where you can disagree with someone without belittling them.
My favourite nickname for T Roosevelt is one he acquired in Montana: Ol' Four Eyes. I believe he was kind of proud of that nickname himself. Four Eyes is a derogatory name for someone wearing spectacles, and at first the cowboys called him just Four Eyes, but whe he proved he was able to ride and shoot with the lot of them, they started calling him Ol' Four Eyes instead.
i was on the edge of my seat waiting for part 2, i love how quick you are !!
I love that you named your child Caleb. As a Caleb myself, it’s nice to see others. You might say he’s my dawg.
One of the best UA-camrs out there! Thanks for my late life history education. I'm amazed at how much you know. Keep it up!
I'm with you, Chris...I had never heard of most of these misconceptions.
I have a decent amount of ancestors who have the names of presidents. George Washington. Abe Lincoln. Grover Cleveland even. The Chester Arthur myth is a neat one. Mo Racca did a presidential special and spent a little time on it. I think his father was a teacher and was in Canada when his wife gave birth to Chester. Great video!! I enjoy the presidential content a lot.
When you almost choke to death laughing at the facial expressions given when Woodrow Wilson is discussed.
I have SO many ancestors with presidential names! Kids named after Martin van Buren, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe are all over my family tree. I also have a 3x great uncle named Elmer Ellsworth Bay.
Even one of the presidents, I think John Quincy Adams, named one of his children "George Washington".
@@TrocaTheNero Yeah JQA named his one son George Washington Adams and his second Son john adams the second
One of my ancestors is named George Washington Buchanan Shannon
@@coopershannon4204 wow cool
Spread the gospel jesus DIED for us so repent and spread the word of God
I just loved this little series! It was fun to learn different things. Some I knew, but some I didn’t! Loved the stories in between too!
I'm SO glad to hear that initial inhale you can hear in your videos. Love the content!
This is My favorite Excerpt from The George H. W. Bush Vomiting incident Wikipedia page: In Japan, Bush continued to be remembered for this event for several years.[8] According to the Encyclopedia of Political Communication, "The incident caused a wave of late night television jokes and ridicule in the international community, even coining Busshu-suru (ブッシュする[9]) which literally means 'to do the Bush thing'" (or "Bushing it").
Jeff Greenfield wrote a great book about historical what-ifs. It’s titled “Then Everything Changed” and one of the stories detailed the JFK car bomber. I really recommend this book.
I've heard of a couple of these.
As a wrestling fan for most of my life, I've heard younger wrestling fans say that Bill Clinton was at Wreslemania X (held on March 20, 1994 at Madison Square Garden). Bill Clinton impersonators were apparently a thing, and the WWF had brought in one of the more "well-known" impersonators for the show, and one of the times he appeared on the show, there was a supposed "assassination attempt".
He was a good impersonator, but even at 15 years old at the time, watching it live, it was obviously not really Bill Clinton.
I have no idea why some would think it was actually him.
Do you remember that time they had a Trump impersonator on WWE? I think he was on stage shaving Vince McMahon's head and he also tackled him to the ground. It was hilarious.
Lol! Impersonator? I remember when they held Wrestlemanias IV and V at Trump Plaza in 1988 and 1989, and Trump beating the hell out of Vince at Mania XXIII in 2007.
Hi Chris, like you I've never heard of quite a few of these misconceptions. Thanks for doing this video.
Learn something new every day, eh?
Imagine if Ford never changed his name, then we would have President King
How many people do you think would be fooled into thinking he was related to Martin Luther King Jr. if that was the case
A popular name in Africa is George Bush (as in George W. Bush). He apparently did so much work combating AIDS and Malaria, which ultimately saved millions of lives, that naming their kids George Bush wasn’t uncommon.
I loved the shout out to Jed Bartlett at the end!! I love The West Wing. Loved your reaction to these as well. You always produce such quality content with the knowledge to back it up
This isn’t a common misconception it’s just a personal misconception I had that I thought was funny. My dads family had a house right across the street from the Kennedy complex on Cape Cod so I always thought my dad was growing up with JFK and would tell all my friends and teachers that. It took me a few years to realize that my dad was born 6 years after JFK was assassinated
My dad was 8 when JFK died
And my mom wouldn't be born for 9 months
Two interesting misconceptions I had as a kid was that my parents dealt, as bystanders, with segregation. Let me explain: when my 3rd Grade Teacher told us about MLK Jr. and Segregation. I went home thinking my parents lived through that experience as White bystanders. It couldn't have been further from the truth. My dad was born in Indiana in 1967. He did go to Virgina a lot in his childhood and teen years, so in some definitions, he could've been what I accused him of doing. Obviously, my mom didn't deal with that because she was in Venezuela, born in 1974. The other Misconception I had was that Israel was this large, Northern Kingdom, north of Canada, Russia, the North Pole, etc. I literally thought Israel was a gigantic North Pole that wasn't cold, mainly cause I was raised with evangelical influence.
0:50 My family history is rife with this. A famous (to our family) ancenstor of mine born early in the 19th Century was known as Benjamin F. Johnson. His brother was George W. Johnson. I obviously don't need to explain what their middle initials stood for.
One of my ancestors from the 1880s was named Abraham Lincoln Jefferson
You’ve probably been told this, but when you wear black, the red parts of your chair create a curious illusion of you having vampire collars. No complaints here - you do you! - but I thought you were dressed up for Halloween when I first turned on the video.
22:38- 22:41 yeah he threw up on then Japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa during a trip to Japan in 1992 before passing out, to the point there's a Japanese term that emerged from it called "bushu suru" or "to do the Bush thing"
I didn't know that "Air Force One" was the designation of the plane carrying the President rather than the name of one specific plane until I saw the movie Air Force One (good movie, btw, I recommend everybody watch it). I haven't heard of the vast majority of these misconceptions myself. Idk how he decided on these ones to talk about
Interestingly enough, Marine One is the helicopter that the president rides in. You would think that ship with the president would be Navy 1, too. However, Navy 1 is a naval aircraft when the president is on it. If the president is on a Navy ship, it doesn't get a special designation but it does fly the presidential flag. I believe the last time that happened was Bush Jr. flying "Navy 1" and then landing on an aircraft carrier which would then have flown the presidential flag while he was on board.
@@MrAwesome739 Bush Jr was the only President to fly in a "Navy One", it was an S-3 Viking from VS-35. Bush used it to fly out to the USS Abraham Lincoln
@@Panzer-535 I thought there might have been another president before him who had flown on a Navy plane while in office but I knew he was the most recent. That plane is now in a museum on display. He did not fly the plane because even though he was a pilot, he was not carrier qualified.
And the Vice Presidents get the designation of Two, so Air, Army, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard and now, Space Force Two.
@@ShadowBlazer3000 I wonder if there has ever been a 'Navy Two'. Google has failed me! My suspicion is 'no' because I can't find a reference to it having ever happened. Marine Two, certainly and Air Force Two but nothing found for Navy Two.
👍 already subscribed to your podcast on Spotify… I really love history podcasts so I’ll be definitely listening to your podcast and opinions about historical events.
Who in the heck was believing some of these misconceptions???
I too have not heard many of these misconceptions. Fascinated by several of these tho.
Thank you for what you do. Always interesting content.
I have worked at the Reagan Presidential library for almost 6 years and I have never heard the Casablanca story. You are not alone in thinking that it is not common, like a lot of the other misconceptions in this video.
Shout out to all the quiet but highly intelligent. We who say little think much. And those who speak much, often, think little.
About the designation of the aircraft which POTUS is occupying: Fixed wing military aircraft are designated Air Force One, military helicopters are designated Marine One and civilian aircraft are designated Executive One. If the President is not aboard the plane, but the First Lady, (or any other member of the President's immediate family) the designation goes like Air Force One Foxtrot, Marine One Foxtrot, etc. Foxtrot signifying the letter F for family. I got this explained in an aviation forum more than ten years ago.
We visited the Eisenhower Presidential Museum in Kansas a few years ago. We learned that his boyhood home is the only one that still stands on its original foundation. The house was by railway tracks; the story went that girls on the other (nicer) side of the tracks weren’t allowed to fraternize with the lowly Eisenhower boys. If only they had a crystal ball…
My only question is who the heck had a George W. Bush head to spare? Who had it made in the first place?
3:30 - George Romney, Mitt Romney's father was nearly the Republican Nominee in 1968, and a Govenor of Michigan. He was born on a Morman settlement in Mexico to American-born parents.
I think the concept of their video was more of a fun-fact based video but they wanted to put a different spin on it. It proved pretty difficult to find some misconceptions for some lesser known presidents, which they even admitted for one of them (I don’t remember which), so I think they instead would find a fun fact about whatever president they were on and then make the misconception be the exact opposite of whatever the fact was
20:50 I would argue John Quincy Adams had a great post president career . Carter is top tier .
I’ve hard about the Obama misconception
Aaron Rodgers was a worse GOT cameo than Ed Sheeran lol
1:00 my father was almost named after FDR.
I would gotten Delano as a middle name. 😳 I got my middle name after my father’s.
I was actually named after Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominoes). :)
I had heard a few of them, the TR was one of them. But I can't claim all that credit; my youngest daughter's youngest is named Theodore after TR. She really admired him. I keep planning to go over to San Antonio (where she lives) and spend a couple of nights in the Menger hotel near the Alamo. Roosevelt recruited some of his Rough Riders there in the bar and I think I remember a suite named for him. That same bar has a cut in the wood that is said to be from Carrie Nation's axe. There's also a suite called the king Ranch suite, after the big ranch here in Texas that was owned by Richard King. King used to live in the hotel in that suite a few weeks a year and the hotel kept it open for him. I actually researched the hotel for my third book (vampire novel series) because I needed somewhere for the characters to "bug out" to when Hurricane Rita was on its way to Houston. I have some horror stories of that hurricane, took us 17 hours to get to Killeen and out friend's house from near NASA south of Houston. Friends across the highway took 34 hours because they went a different direction.
Regarding Hoover and the dam... I grew up in southern Nevada, and some people in the small towns there still stubbornly call it the Boulder Dam.
i've heard of a few, but majority are new to me. one of my favorites, wasn't mentioned, involved Lyndon B. Johnson. the Blackbird's name change myth. the story always goes that Lockheed had intended to call it the RS-71, but Johnson misspoke in his speech and rather than correcting the President, they changed to SR-71. it was always called SR-71, i believe it was determined to be a mistake by his Stenographer who got confused with the RS-70 (North American Aviation's answer to the Blackbird, based on the XB-70).
Howdy from Texas bud 🔥🔥🙏🏻✌🏼
Biden: Youngest senator and oldest president.
22:37 I like broccoli raw with a bit of Italian dressing.
3:30 John McCain was born in Panama
Hey big fan! You made me like history. Love from the Philippines
Hating broccoli is genetic. If you have the "TT” or “Tt” genotype for the TAS2R38 gene, broccoli will taste very bitter
Wonderful video as always
The fact that “cool,” “hip,” and “baby boomer” were used in the same sentence caught me off-guard.
He is talking from a 1992 frame of reference. That's around the same time I was last considered "cool." 😂😂😂
Love your videos and integrity. Not many people can maintain some level of objectivity with modern politics.
Josiah Bartlett was a real person in history, not just a fictional person in a television show. Born on the 21st of November 1729 in Amesbury, Massachusetts Mr. Bartlett would go on to become a physician of some renown during his time, as well as a founding father, delegate to the continental Congress for New Hampshire, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence (being the second person to sign the document right after John Hancock) and Articles of Confederation. He also went on to become the first governor of New Hampshire as a Democratic-Republican and Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature. He was married to Mary (not sure of surname) on the 15th of January 1754 and went on to have 10 children. Not unusual for the time due to inadequate birth control and because high infant mortality encouraged people at the time to have many children so that there was a greater chance of at least one or more surviving for posterity. He also discovered the medicinal properties of Peruvian bark while practicing medicine during a (what was then referred to as a throat distemper) outbreak around the Kingston NH area in 1754. He passed away in Kingston, New Hampshire on the 19th of May 1795 at the age of 65. He was one of the few members of the founding generation and early republic from New England who served as a member of the Democratic-Republican party that I've been able to find. Most New Englanders were Federalists. So although a Democratic-Republican New Englander wasn't unique it was certainly unusual.
I'm pretty sure he meant to be the ancestor of fictional Bartlett
17:43. Another interesting fact about Dwight Eisenhower was his parents were Jehovah's Witnesses and the house he grew up in was used as a place to meet to hold Bible studies.
I've heard that before
Damn, it does feels weird having modern presidents mentioned in your videos
I find funny a lot of people don't realize Jimmy Carter is older than the queen of England.
Jimmy Carter is still alive, and the queen passed recently
My condolences to the royal family!
And Jimmy Carter is 98 years old
John McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone
We had to dress up as famous Ohioans in Ohio History. The student who chose President Taft wore a suit and a cardboard bathtub and gave a surprisingly good presentation
Garfield's assassination was the greatest loss among presidents that died early
On the quiet equal’s boring thing. I know a really talkative guy who cracks jokes left and right. He’s funny because he is so bad at being funny. He has a sister who is probably the most introverted person I know. But catch her in the right mood/ comfort level and she is super funny. I myself am rather introverted and boring in many situations. But have been told I’m funny by folks who get to know me better.
Thanks for the Hamilton president/citizen clarification there Chris, had no idea
I haven't heard some of those misconceptions either.
My goal is to read on biography of each president. So far I have read one on Washington, Grant, Jefferson and Madison.
I do own other biographies but I haven't gotten to them yet: Fillmore, both Adams', Monroe, Jackson and Wilson.
Even as a Conservative I still want to read a biography on Obama and now Biden (I read Obama's America, but I don't count it as a biography 😂). But, for Obama is there a good biography on him out there there that isn't superpolitical?
John McCain was another candidate who was born a US citizen, but outside the US (he was born in the Canal Zone in Panama).
Also I read something once that with modern medicine, even Lincoln could have survived his assassination (though he would have still had issues, like being unable to speak).
You should upload your podcast on UA-cam. I was gonna listen but saw I had to go off site so it made me hesitate and write this comment.
I went to school with a guy who’s middle initial was K. And last name was Polk
6:32 scared the shit outta me, looks familiar
Just finished the first video. Great timing lol
I had a great grandfather born in Ireland named “John Jay”, never confirmed if it was for the American founding father /Jurist.
The Airport in my home town, Sanford Maine, has had Air force one land at it. It was the best Airport for the Bushes to land on their way to their property in Kennebunkport
"Air Force One" is only the callsign if it is a US Airforce operated aircraft - the helicopter, for example, is "Marine One", and there have also been Navy One (when flying onto a carrier, for certain), and possibly "Army One" - I don't know of an example but it would be the callsign if the Army were to by flying the US president.
and "Executive One" if it's a civilian aircraft
LBJ flew in an army helicopter after landing at Andrews AFB with JFK's body. (From Andrews to the White House Lawn). And from 1957-1975, Marine Corps and Army Helicopters alternated transporting the President from the White House Lawn to Andrews and back.
@@hamil4fb "Executive 1" was used once when Nixon tried to save money in December 1973 by going commercial to Los Angeles. It was such a security mess, they gave up on the idea, but not to say it could happen again if the President had to go to some remote short runway strip airport.
is that why those plushies are called teddy bears? huh
it´s nice to learn something about people i´ve never heard of before
That hotel that you described with Elmer Ellsworth is still a hotel, now called The Alexandrian. 480 King Street.
Garfield would’ve lived even with the medicine of his time. Lister had invented anti septic and showcased it at the same fair at which Graham Bell first showcased the telephone. The problem is many doctors didn’t adopt his discovery right away. Many still practiced archaic methods of treating wounds which ultimately led to Garfield’s death… great guy… very sad 😢
Nothing wrong with Ed Sherrans scene in GOT. A little out of place, but funny, quirky, and it was interesting to see Lannister soldiers as "nice guys" instead of generic "bad guys."
I was waiting for this.
I’ve heard about 1 or 2 of these (maybe like 3/4 tops) but that’s about it, though I’m not an American so perhaps that plays into it somewhat. Still a very informative video though with some interesting things I’d never heard or learned about before.
There are lots of misconceptions about Nixon, but what people don't know is that he is the only person in US history to win 2 terms as President and 2 terms as Vice President.
My great uncle was named Grover Cleveland Bates. He went by "Bud".
John MCcain comes to mind for the born out of the country point. He was born is Panama.
I'd heard the Reagan-Casablanca one and heard it's debunking when I read a book about the making of Casablanca . I read this in the late 1990s.
in case i'm not the only one who didn't recognize the word at 8:08, it's "sobriquet", another word for nickname
I have to wonder about Frank Underwood from House of Cards. He is a caricature of political corruption.
A shame that show ended the way it did.
But the American version of House of Cards is tame compared to the original British version.
Ian Richardson’s portrayal of Francis Urquhart was wonderful!
I love the double entendre involving these characters’ names!
Daily reminder: I really hope you can react to Monsieur Z’s 7 Ages of America (and the Men who shaped them) series. Sorry if I’m being annoying, it’s just a really great series and you’re input would be interesting and Monsieur Z’s video on Woodrow Wilson. Don’t be turned by the title, it’s clickbait, but it’s a good video.
The thing where everyone inside the state at the time of it's creation happend a lot here in Africa, Zambia has a interesting history where they tried to get the president kicked out due to him being born in a neighboring country, but the court said he was inside the country when it was founded makeing him a citizen, it's also the reason why Guy Scott (white guy) became president of Zambia, the UK claimed that he's not Zambian but his people and his country said that he was a founding member of the country therefore he is a citizen and can become president. Quite an interesting story.
We have a son that we lost to a miscarriage that was going to be named Theodore Roosevelt Lyttle, so I guess we were almost on the list of people naming their kids after presidents.
Sorry for your loss
Bill Clinton or possibly his lookalike also was featured at the 1995 survivor series where they interviewed him and pyro went off for the wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow and they had the secret service cover him up
I'd love to see you do a video on Emperor Norton I, of the United States. Fascinating man.