F. Y. I.

Height Has It
The taller of two main party candidates has won almost every election since the end of World War II.  Richard Nixon, aJimmy Carter and George W. Bush are the exceptions.

Music Matters
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1932, was the first president to adopt an existing song as his campaign theme, with Milton Ager and Jack Yellen's "Happy Days Are Here Again."

Cool Party Trick
Twentieth president James Garfield could simultaneously write in Latin with one hand and Ancient Greek with the other.

Famous Firsts
The term "First Lady" was first used in 1877 in reference to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes.

Quotable
by  Charles de Gaulle, French president (1890-1970)
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Chief Inventor
Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, invented the swivel chair.