Presidents that were alive certain amounts of times ago today

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Interesting take on this. I love these kinds of threads.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Alive 100 years ago (February 24, 1921):
William Howard Taft (age 63) (despite being the heaviest ever.)
Woodrow Wilson (age 64)
Warren G. Harding (age 55) (was the current president today 100 years ago)

Why you gotta do my boy Willie dirty like that?

Back in the 1990s when you could actually get History on the History Channel. There was a Trains Unlimited episode about trains used by the President. One of my favorite stories from that is about how Taft forced the railroad to stop his train and add in a dining car so that he could have a full steak dinner for himself and his guests, AT TWO IN THE MORNING.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

There was a period when Hoover was alive and JFK was dead.

One of the more ridiculous notions that the conspiracy theorists latched onto was citing a dry run funeral procession as proof of advance knowledge of JFK's death. In truth, this was advance preparation in case Hoover passed away since he was in declining health and pushing 90.