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Mike
Carruthers:
History is full of intriguing, little-known stories. For example…
Richard Shenkman:
J. Edgar Hoover did not like anybody walking on his shadow.
We don't know if it was a superstition, or some security precaution
that he took, but it was well known in the F.B.I.; if there was
a light casting a shadow on Hoover, don't step in it.
Richard Shenkman,
author of the book One-Night
Stands With American History, says every elementary school
student is taught that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
However...
The Pilgrims
didn't land on Plymouth Rock. That's a story that was made up
by the Pilgrims' descendents - all to try to draw attention
to their obscure little town. Then Daniel Webster in 1820, gave
a big speech in Plymouth about the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth
Rock - and all of a sudden an American myth was born.
Before Grover
Cleveland became president, he was the sheriff of Eerie County,
New York, and was called upon to personally execute, by hanging,
convicted murderers. An interesting thing about Lyndon Johnson…
Lyndon Johnson
loved to hold conversations with people while he was sitting
on the toilet, because the president liked to humiliate people
who had better educations than he did. He referred to them as
"The Harvard's," and he liked to take them down a
notch. So, when they'd be at a meeting and he had to go to the
bathroom, he would continue the meeting in the bathroom - much
to their consternation and humiliation.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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