If the 2016 race for the White House is any
indication, anyone who actually wants to become President has to be at least a little bit
off their rocker. "You said you learned a lot of things. What do you think you took away from today?" "Oh, my luggage. Hold on." Throughout our country's history, many of
the men who ultimately served as President of the United States have had some pretty
unusual facts attached to their biographies. Here are seven U.S. Presidents who were really
weird people. John Quincy Adams, skinny dipper Here's something that could have only happened
in the age before the Internet and smartphones. According to many reports, our sixth President,
John Quincy Adams, had a thing for skinny-dipping, and he’d often go for a quiet dip in D.C.'s
Potomac River at around 5 a.m. to help him deal with the stress of being President. Adams' love for nude swimming was actually
well-known among the press, so journalist and convicted “public nuisance” Anne Royall
was able to secure her history-making interview with Adams by taking his clothes until he
agreed to answer her questions. Strangely enough, Adams was not the only President
who loved to take his clothes off and go for a dip. Among the others, according to The New Republic:
Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and perhaps less surprisingly,
John F. Kennedy. "Happy birthday, Mr. President." Grover Cleveland, former hangman According to a New York Times article published
all the way back in July 1912, Grover Cleveland actually had to execute multiple murderers
by hanging while he served as the Sheriff of Erie County. At one point during his term, a young Irishman
named "Jack" Morrissey was convicted of killing his mother, and Cleveland "surprised the community"
by announcing that he would actually go through with performing the execution. Much of Cleveland's motivation due to the
fact that he was sick of people passing off the difficult task of executing murderers
to the office's Deputy Sheriff, Jacob Emerick, whom the public had nicknamed "Hangman Emerick”...
much to Emerick’s dismay. After performing Morrissey's execution, Cleveland
was reported to have been sick for several days, but he did not shirk further execution...
which paid him $20,000 dollars a year, or about $350,000 dollars in today’s cash. Jimmy Carter, UFO-observer In 1969, Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter,
along with two dozen other witnesses, claimed he saw an unidentified flying object during
a visit to the Lions Club in Leary, Georgia, calling it, “the darndest thing I've ever
seen." "It changed color, and then it stayed there
for a while. And then it disappeared into the distance,
and none of us could ever imagine what it was. And I still don't know what it was." Carter filed a report on the incident four
years later, and made UFO research a component of his successful Presidential campaign in
1976. Carter later backed off on the platform of
releasing UFO information to the public, saying that it would be a threat to national security. However, decades later, Carter still stands
by his original statements. Carter now also claims it was "impossible"
that the unidentified object was actually aliens, leading conspiracy theorists to claim
that the whole thing is a cover-up. "I give you our 39th President, Jimmy Carter!" "Aww, come on!" "He's history's greatest monster!" Calvin Coolidge, Vaseline head Plenty of people resort to alternative medicine
to stay healthy, but Calvin Coolidge may ultimately take the cake. According to the sleazy-sounding book, White
House: Confidential, our 30th President "enjoyed having petroleum jelly slathered on his head"
every morning while he ate breakfast in bed. (Horrible jingle about Vaseline playing) The reason? Coolidge apparently believed that slabbing
on a bunch of jelly would be great for his health. To be fair, this was also around the same
time that cocaine and morphine were considered perfectly okay as over-the-counter medicines
too. John F. Kennedy, lots and lots of drugs Our 35th president may have been one of the
most charming and good-looking presidents in U.S. history... "He was a hyper-charismatic, telepathical
knight—JFK!" ...but behind closed doors, John F. Kennedy
was battling multiple illnesses, and used just as many drugs to treat them. Kennedy's secrets were uncovered by professor
Robert Dallek’s book, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy. Reportedly, Kennedy suffered from colitis,
prostatitis, Addison's disease, and osteoporosis of the lower back, among other things. "By the time he was 17 years old, his health
was so questionable, they sent him off to the male clinic in Rochester, Minnesota to
figure out what his problems were." According to Dallek, Kennedy frequently took
drugs ranging from codeine, to Ritalin and a thyroid hormone, often taking as many as
12 medications at once, and more during times of stress. Shockingly enough, despite Kennedy's overflowing
medicine cabinet, he was mostly able to keep his ailments private from the public, which
seems almost absurd nowadays. Lyndon B. Johnson, supremely gross It's hard to choose one detail to focus on
when discussing the strange predilections of JFK's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. Do we talk about his car, which was also a
boat? Do we talk about the fact that he was, reportedly,
obsessed with his manhood, and allegedly nicknamed it "Jumbo"? Maybe we'll just discuss his habit of holding
meetings while he was on the toilet, as described in numerous articles and books. In Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times,
presidential historian Robert Dallek explained that, "His abuse of aides, shouting at them in public
and calling them into the bathroom while he 'sat on the throne,' was well known to reporters." Considering how much time he seems to have
spent hovering over water, it's starting to make sense why Johnson loved to drive an amphibious
car… "Daddy! Daddy!" (People screaming at floater) Harry S. Truman, the ‘S’ is silent If you thought those other Presidents were
weird, wait until you hear this crazy secret. You'd think that the "S" in "Harry S. Truman"
stands for something, like "Stanley," or "Steven," or "Stephanie," or "Something." But you'd be wrong! In fact, it's just "S." "Put it down as best as you can, okay?" "What's the shape of the snake-letter look
like?" "You don't know what a 'S' looks like?" "S! Ohhhh..." Thanks for watching! Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch
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