I found your channel from the Presidential Firsts video about a week ago, and went backwards to watch all your history videos. I love your content, and I actively look forward to when you make more videos!
No, no, no.. Jackson's attacker didn't just have his pistol misfire... He had BOTH his pistols misfire. Jackson is one of the few people I believe had IRL plot armor
RUclips randomly started to recommend Resyndicated’s videos to me, and he’s actually very high quality to be such a new channel. I’m sure he’ll appreciate you featuring one of his videos!
When you talk about Franklin Pierce at 10:50, supposedly his wife believed that the death of their son was an act of vengeance from God. Jane, his wife, did not want Franklin to run for office and saw the death as a consequence of running and winning.
I discovered Resyndicated's channel recently and his content is really good! He's super underrated and definitely deserves more subs. So glad you reacted to him.
They also have a really good video on how all of the presidents living at the time of lincoln's death reacted to the news. It was really interesting how democrats and former whigs reacted to the death of a man who was apparently a tyrant
I was getting recommended by youtube for Resyndicated, turns out he's actually a great underrated content creator, i started watching his videos and a lot of it are great, Thank you Chris for reacting to Resyndicated, there are some videos you really have to watch soon.
The narrator of the original video said that Herbert Hoover served in the Wilson and Coolidge administrations. It was actually the Harding and Coolidge administrations (in which Hoover was Secretary of Commerce). To be fair though, he was Director of the United States Food Administration under Wilson, so technically I suppose he served in the Wilson administration as well, even though his position under Wilson was not a cabinet-level administration.
At 9:13 the other president without having served elected office is Herbert Hoover. He was secretary of commerce right before being president but of course gained fame during ww1 as the man who fed Europe where the civilian population in many places, especially Germany due to the blockades, were starving.
17:46 , his reaction when the legend Wilson comes on the screen is precious, when a video about presidents comes out, the first thing i wanna watch is his hate face towards Woodrow
@@jaredmize960 a classic move from a classic historian :)) i really want a conversațion between Chris and a Wilson supporter, but I don’t think there are any Wilson supporters
@@dashingandreas There might be, but none of them are American. I could easily see someone who is unfamilar with Wilson's domestic policy but familiar with his foreign policy liking him.
@@DovahFett yes when I was at school in the UK we didn't study American presidents, but we did do WW1, so I got a pretty positive view of Wilson. Especially when compared to the leaders of France and the UK who just wanted to keep their colonies and punish Germany, Wilson's anti-imperialism and leniency to Germany make him look great. Only later I realised how bad some of his domestic policy was
The story of Roosevelt and the boats reminds me of The Great Locomotive Chase in northern Georgia. I think that, along with the battle at Kennesaw Mountain (kinda the last strong line of defense before Atlanta during Sherman’s march) would be a fun video to cover if you ever had the chance! If you ever get a chance to visit Kennesaw the battlefield makes for a nice day and there’s a museum downtown that has The General which was part of the Great Locomotive Chase.
I did talk some about the Locomotive Chase when I visited the graves of the men who were executed in my video from Chattanooga National Cemetery (where Desmond Doss is buried as well)
Funny to see van Buuren, never knew you guys had a Dutch-speaking president 😄. Not only was New York once New Amsterdam, many street/borough names (Harlem, Brooklyn, etc) have their roots in the Dutch language!
Im so glad you’re reacting to Resyndicated! I’ve been watching his Presidential content and have been hoping his following would grow! Love his videos. I would love to see more reactions to his videos. But you may have to do several in one video as many are quite short
You're correct that though the Kennedy/Nixon debate was the first Presidential debate there wouldn't be another one until Ford/Carter in 1976. Debates were proposed in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 cycles, but rejected by one candidate or the other each time.
18:35 That reminds me of Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder despite being known as the great silent one with him also being a man of few word being the only person born in the 18th century (Very end of the calendar 18th century century) to have their voice be recorded!
Recently read a book on Grover Cleveland "A Man of Iron", it was very interesting. The author talks about Baby Ruth bars and said that the official narrative is that it was named after Ruth Cleveland, it was pretty clear that they were just capitalizing off the popularity of Babe Ruth. I'm a little ashamed of it but this book also taught me about the Rock Springs Massacre, even though I have been to Rock Springs Wyoming.
I love how he focused on the not obvious ones. like it wouldve been so easy to say, for instance, fdr’s 4 terms. he couldve taken an easy way out so many times but i learned a lot here
Resyndicated is awesome. I watch all of his videos, the dude gets only a couple thousand views per video, but he absolutely deserves much more. You should totally check out more of his content!
I literally just watched this video a few days ago after watching your reactions to Mr. Beats worst mistake by every president. Nice to see your reaction soon after!
Interesting video, as always. It's very cool that you point out less known content creators. Not a lot of people do that, and this is one of the gestures that show what social media could be about (and should be about). As for what positions people get elected President from: It's also pretty rare for people to go directly from Vice President to President. If we exclude those who "inherit" the office, it was only three (I think): Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren and George H W Bush. It's even rare for people with a break in between. Right now, I can only think of Richard Nixon and Joe Biden.
Very cool that part of your Wife’s family is from Long Island. I live on Long Island and most of the world doesn’t even know ab it. When people ask me where I am from and I say New York their response is always “Oh I love the city” even though I am about 60 miles away from the city. Anyway for future reference if you’re ever speaking about Long Island the thing you were talking about when you said part of Long Island sticks out one way and the other goes another way those are called the North and South forks of Long Island. Anyway great video VTH!
This was an exception, Resyndicated's videos generally tend to be on the short side, so if you're having a busy day and want to put something quick out, he'd be a good go-to.
Man, the beginning of this video reminded me how much I *LOVED* growing up in Virginia as a kid! There was so much awesome early US history there, and I really took for granted all the cool places schools took you for field trips. Of course you'd go to D.C., but also Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, Arlington House, colonial Williamsburg (and the Jamestown replica town), not to mention all the Civil War locations! Moved to Texas when I was 15, but honestly, US Texas history pales in comparison & was far less interesting (and areas of interest way more spread out). Great state, but I don't think I'd have grown up to love history the way I do if it hadn't been for growing up in such a history-rich state.
Flying by airplane is really only dangerous if you are a Musician. (Somewhat kidding.) Think of all the stars we lost in plane crashes. Buddy Holly (the day the music died), Ronnie Van Zant, John Denver, Reba McEntire's band...
lol I love that I will see a video like this on my youtube recommendations, watch it, wonder if you will react to it and the next day you've posted a reaction. Am so excited for it!
Great video Chris as usual 😊 Would like to make a special request for you to check out Jermemy Clarksons - greatest raid off all. I know you’ve been asked for it several times, but it’s my favourite WW2 story and I know you’d love it! Keep up the great content 👍🏻
I guess bit trivial, but I always thought that the Baby Ruth had something to do with Babe Ruth. Granted I´m European and never even tasted or seen that chocolate bar. I just new the name because Curtis Candy Company sponsored amateur (well in real life atleast semi-pro) hockey teams in 1930´s. Baby Ruths were fairly succesful. There was hockey team called Butterfingers too which I always find hilarious.
This was a good video. I’ll probably check out the channel. Biden really was in the Senate for a huge amount of time. IIRC he’s one of the 20 longest serving US Senators ever. He served alongside Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, and George McGovern. The crazy thing is for 28 yrs he was the JUNIOR Senator from Delaware. Americans really like re-electing our Senators.
I remember watching a video of his a few about how each president alive at the time of Lincolns assassination reacted to his death and thought it'd be a good video for you to react to. I suppose this is close enough, thanks for reading my mind from 1000s of miles away and reacting to him lol.
haha thats funny because a few days ago I sent you a video wondering if you wanted to react to a resyndicated video! I just discovered him too and thought he was doing incredible things with his channel! it was the video about others reaction to Lincolns death at the time (politicians at the time)
Another newer channel I recommend is Nebulous Media, which did a series called Uncancelled History. It's ten episodes that are kind of long, but there are also multiple shorter segments released.
To expand on what you said at 3:59 I believe there are only 3 presidents elected directly from the Senate. Obama JFK and Warren g harding who as you know is from Ohio. There is only one president elected directly from the house: James Garfield. Historically the most common stepping stone for president was secretary of state. With Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and martin Van Buren. Jefferson was secretary of state under Washington as well and Buchanan was secretary of state under Taylor and polk. I think Hilary Clinton in 2016 was the first secretary of state to get nominated for President since Buchanan.
Another fun fact about Obama. He is one of two presidents to take the oath of office 4 times. The first time was famously botched pretty badly by John Robert who is well known for his memory and didn't even bother to have the oath on hand instead trying to recite it from memory. The second time was to correct the botched first time. The 3rd oath fell on a Sunday in 2013 so he did it privately then did it again the next day in public.
Read the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s stolen boat. I couldn’t understand how he had the time to build the boat and know who took his boat, but it was in the spring when the Little Missouri was thawing, there was only one other boat on the river, and he had two ranch hands with him. Turns out, that is kind of the boring part of the story. The fascinating part is how they took 10-ish days to take the thieves from their camp to a different ranch where Theodore enlisted a new ranch hand with a wagon to march them 36 straight hours to town to be arrested. He shows an unparalleled level of justice and compassion at the same time. Edit - should clarify, the thieves were not restrained, but in the wagon. Theodore was the one who marched behind the wagon for 36 hours.
For the presidents without being elected to prior office, pretty sure the last one would be Herbert Hoover, as he was only appointed to various roles like Sec. Of Commerce
I just watched it yesterday. A lot you could add. Great choice for a reaction Im pretty sure Herbert Hoover is the 5th. While he was Secretary of Commerce, I believe he was never elected to any office before that
Great video with some interesting and worthwhile facts. Guess I'll have to give his channel a quick look for myself. Thanks for showing light on smaller RUclipsrs, a lot of these get burried under the big names thanks to RUclips algorhythm, but that doesn't mean they don't make interesting content.
I would love for you to react to Royalty Now Studios’ biography on George Washington. They went into a lot of pre-Revolution history that I had not heard before and the channel recreates their face in the end of historical figures based on period paintings and facial casts.
James A. Garfield factoid: he showed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorum to a math professor at Dartmouth. I assume he's the first/only president to create a mathematical proof.
Relating to the statement made during the Zachary Taylor section that 5 presidents had not been elected to political office prior to their administration, I actually believe there were 8. Those being John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Donald Trump. While Adams, Arthur, Taft, and Hoover all held political office prior to their election as president, all the positions they served in were granted by appointment and not election.
Thank you for the reminder about this Channel. They have a video about the reactions to Lincoln's Terrible Assassination; perhaps worthy for your next look at this channel?
The video said Adams and Quincy Adams were the only two of the first 12 presidents to never own slaves. I looked it up and I had no idea Martin van Buren had been from a slaveholding family early in life, though I think I shouldn't have been surprised. New York abolished slavery relatively late (gradual abolition passed in 1799, but the final NY slaves weren't free until 1827) and van Buren came from old established Dutch stock. Not a surprise his parents were minor slaveholders when he was growing up (apparently what I'm finding says they owned six slaves).
20:38 This one wasn’t technically right, because neither Kennedy or Nixon were president at that moment. To be accurate, Gerald Ford was the first (sitting) president to participate in a televised debate.
Speaking about oath of office fun facts，Calvin Coolidge is the only president to have the oath administered by his dad. Coolidge was asleep in Vermont when his dad woke him up to deliver the news that Harding died of a heart attack and that Coolidge was now president. They did the oath on the family Bible. Lbj is the first and only president to have the oath administered by a female. When JFK was assassinated, LBJ called judge Sarah Hughes who didn't even know the oath but eventually realized it is directly written in the constitution. That's the famous air force one photo.
The story about LBJ's oath of office as I heard it told was that nobody present knew where to find the oath, and a call was made to the Library of Congress to ask if they had a copy - at which time they were informed where it could be found. Very sad if it's true. Something that wouldn't surprise me today, but in the 1960's children were taught that before high school.
The same booklet I learned where I learned that Garfield could simultaneously write Greek and Latin is where I learned Calvin Coolidge is sworn into office by his father at 2:47 AM in Vermont by the light of a kerosene lamp once he got news of Warren G. Harding’s death.
Hi, Chris, that was very interesting, I'd never heard of the channel before but I enjoyed that. Could I recommend another channel to you, The History Chap he has a lot of interesting videos like the Last British soldier to die in the First World War or the Shortest War in History which is also very good.
Hey VTH! You mentioned Franklin R. dying in 1940 however it was 1945! Edit: My bad! Thank you for clarifying and actually reading comments unlike other RUclipsrs! 🙏
I didn’t say he died in 1940. I said he won the election of 1940 and died in office, as did every President who won an election year ending in zero between 1840-1960
I think it is a stretch to say that Washington ran "uncontested." At that time, the Constitution specified that the top two Electoral College vote getters would be POTUS/ VP. Therefore, the electoral process was not really built for "running unopposed" at that time. In fact in the first election, several people received Electoral votes. Also, it was considered to be in bad taste at the time to actively campaign for the office. The other candidates might not have actively campaigned against Washington, but he didn't really run "unopposed."
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Thanks for reacting! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey it's the guy!
I hope to discover what your channel stores!
Good video, subbed!
I found your channel from the Presidential Firsts video about a week ago, and went backwards to watch all your history videos. I love your content, and I actively look forward to when you make more videos!
I just watched your video
No, no, no.. Jackson's attacker didn't just have his pistol misfire... He had BOTH his pistols misfire. Jackson is one of the few people I believe had IRL plot armor
Something to do with humid conditions at the time iirc
@@lucask4377 good thing the assasin wasnt blackbeard otherwise hed have another 10 pistols
@@melissareohorn7436 zehahahaha
Fun fact about the guy that saved Regan’s life: He was inspired to the role of secret service agent by a movie… a movie in which Regan starred in.
Talk about being an ascended fan
Funny Fact: Reagan hated that movie.
@@HangingWithNathan I’m sure both men probably joked about that film years after the fact. Lol
RUclips randomly started to recommend Resyndicated’s videos to me, and he’s actually very high quality to be such a new channel. I’m sure he’ll appreciate you featuring one of his videos!
When you talk about Franklin Pierce at 10:50, supposedly his wife believed that the death of their son was an act of vengeance from God. Jane, his wife, did not want Franklin to run for office and saw the death as a consequence of running and winning.
16:42 I mean, I would argue Andrew Jackson beating up his would be assassin is also a crazy story.
I discovered Resyndicated's channel recently and his content is really good! He's super underrated and definitely deserves more subs. So glad you reacted to him.
They also have a really good video on how all of the presidents living at the time of lincoln's death reacted to the news. It was really interesting how democrats and former whigs reacted to the death of a man who was apparently a tyrant
That was my first Resyndicated video. I would love to see Chris react to it.
@@David-fm6go Same.
I got recomended it right after the rageaholic video
@@zaffarismail1508 It was about a week ago or so for me so probably the same reason it showed up on my recommended list.
I was getting recommended by youtube for Resyndicated, turns out he's actually a great underrated content creator, i started watching his videos and a lot of it are great, Thank you Chris for reacting to Resyndicated, there are some videos you really have to watch soon.
The narrator of the original video said that Herbert Hoover served in the Wilson and Coolidge administrations. It was actually the Harding and Coolidge administrations (in which Hoover was Secretary of Commerce). To be fair though, he was Director of the United States Food Administration under Wilson, so technically I suppose he served in the Wilson administration as well, even though his position under Wilson was not a cabinet-level administration.
At 9:13 the other president without having served elected office is Herbert Hoover. He was secretary of commerce right before being president but of course gained fame during ww1 as the man who fed Europe where the civilian population in many places, especially Germany due to the blockades, were starving.
Idk why but when you mentioned Bush surviving an assassination attempt my mind immediately thought of that time someone threw a shoe at him lmao
Yeah that actually crossed my mind as I was talking about the other attempt as well.
The closest call on any assassination attempt in history
@@RDA000 nah, both TR and Jackson have him beat
@@bobburris4445 That shoe was cm away from killing him
@@RDA000 yeah no shoes even came close to hitting TR or Jackson
I shared this video in the Patreon after I watched it the other day! So glad to see a reaction on it!
17:46 , his reaction when the legend Wilson comes on the screen is precious, when a video about presidents comes out, the first thing i wanna watch is his hate face towards Woodrow
Was just about to mention that😂😂right as Wilson pops up on the screen Chris was like 😑😑classic😂😂
@@jaredmize960 a classic move from a classic historian :)) i really want a conversațion between Chris and a Wilson supporter, but I don’t think there are any Wilson supporters
@@dashingandreas There might be, but none of them are American. I could easily see someone who is unfamilar with Wilson's domestic policy but familiar with his foreign policy liking him.
@@DovahFett yes when I was at school in the UK we didn't study American presidents, but we did do WW1, so I got a pretty positive view of Wilson. Especially when compared to the leaders of France and the UK who just wanted to keep their colonies and punish Germany, Wilson's anti-imperialism and leniency to Germany make him look great. Only later I realised how bad some of his domestic policy was
I love your videos man, you have big “college professor” energy, but in a good way. Keep up the great work!
Chris! You're so nice for covering lesser known channels. I appreciate you giving attention to small content creators.
The story of Roosevelt and the boats reminds me of The Great Locomotive Chase in northern Georgia. I think that, along with the battle at Kennesaw Mountain (kinda the last strong line of defense before Atlanta during Sherman’s march) would be a fun video to cover if you ever had the chance!
If you ever get a chance to visit Kennesaw the battlefield makes for a nice day and there’s a museum downtown that has The General which was part of the Great Locomotive Chase.
I did talk some about the Locomotive Chase when I visited the graves of the men who were executed in my video from Chattanooga National Cemetery (where Desmond Doss is buried as well)
Thanks for responding! I’ll go check out that video, thank you for all of your hard work.
Funny to see van Buuren, never knew you guys had a Dutch-speaking president 😄. Not only was New York once New Amsterdam, many street/borough names (Harlem, Brooklyn, etc) have their roots in the Dutch language!
The Clintons being the first to email is comedy gold
Especially when you think about what Hillary did... 🤣🤣🤣 Of course they would've been the first to email. 🤣🤣🤣
I just found Resyndicated's video yesterday, and as i watched i was like, this would be good for Chris to react to. Glad you found it
Im so glad you’re reacting to Resyndicated! I’ve been watching his Presidential content and have been hoping his following would grow! Love his videos. I would love to see more reactions to his videos. But you may have to do several in one video as many are quite short
You're correct that though the Kennedy/Nixon debate was the first Presidential debate there wouldn't be another one until Ford/Carter in 1976. Debates were proposed in the 1964, 1968, and 1972 cycles, but rejected by one candidate or the other each time.
18:35 That reminds me of Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder despite being known as the great silent one with him also being a man of few word being the only person born in the 18th century (Very end of the calendar 18th century century) to have their voice be recorded!
9:12 Herbert Hoover? He was Secretary of Commerce, but was never elected to an office prior to his presidency
Recently read a book on Grover Cleveland "A Man of Iron", it was very interesting. The author talks about Baby Ruth bars and said that the official narrative is that it was named after Ruth Cleveland, it was pretty clear that they were just capitalizing off the popularity of Babe Ruth. I'm a little ashamed of it but this book also taught me about the Rock Springs Massacre, even though I have been to Rock Springs Wyoming.
I love how he focused on the not obvious ones. like it wouldve been so easy to say, for instance, fdr’s 4 terms. he couldve taken an easy way out so many times but i learned a lot here
I watched this video the other day and was amazed at how great the information is and how easy it was to understand!
Always love watching your videos on my way home from work.
Hope you’ve been doing well!
Resyndicated is awesome. I watch all of his videos, the dude gets only a couple thousand views per video, but he absolutely deserves much more. You should totally check out more of his content!
I literally just watched this video a few days ago after watching your reactions to Mr. Beats worst mistake by every president. Nice to see your reaction soon after!
Interesting video, as always.
It's very cool that you point out less known content creators. Not a lot of people do that, and this is one of the gestures that show what social media could be about (and should be about).
As for what positions people get elected President from: It's also pretty rare for people to go directly from Vice President to President. If we exclude those who "inherit" the office, it was only three (I think): Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren and George H W Bush. It's even rare for people with a break in between. Right now, I can only think of Richard Nixon and Joe Biden.
Very cool that part of your Wife’s family is from Long Island. I live on Long Island and most of the world doesn’t even know ab it. When people ask me where I am from and I say New York their response is always “Oh I love the city” even though I am about 60 miles away from the city. Anyway for future reference if you’re ever speaking about Long Island the thing you were talking about when you said part of Long Island sticks out one way and the other goes another way those are called the North and South forks of Long Island. Anyway great video VTH!
Just found this channel last week, super glad you’re checking them out too and hope to see more! ❤
I have also been fascinated with the concept of presidential firsts. When I was in 8th grade I made a list of ten of them for each president.
This has been an amazing series Chris
This was an exception, Resyndicated's videos generally tend to be on the short side, so if you're having a busy day and want to put something quick out, he'd be a good go-to.
Man, the beginning of this video reminded me how much I *LOVED* growing up in Virginia as a kid!
There was so much awesome early US history there, and I really took for granted all the cool places schools took you for field trips. Of course you'd go to D.C., but also Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, Arlington House, colonial Williamsburg (and the Jamestown replica town), not to mention all the Civil War locations!
Moved to Texas when I was 15, but honestly, US Texas history pales in comparison & was far less interesting (and areas of interest way more spread out). Great state, but I don't think I'd have grown up to love history the way I do if it hadn't been for growing up in such a history-rich state.
Theodore Roosevelt: I’ve been shot, anyway
Flying by airplane is really only dangerous if you are a Musician. (Somewhat kidding.)
Think of all the stars we lost in plane crashes. Buddy Holly (the day the music died), Ronnie Van Zant, John Denver, Reba McEntire's band...
Patsy Cline, Otis Redding, Aaliyah, Glenn Miller, Jim Croce, Rick Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and more
lol I love that I will see a video like this on my youtube recommendations, watch it, wonder if you will react to it and the next day you've posted a reaction. Am so excited for it!
Great video Chris as usual 😊
Would like to make a special request for you to check out Jermemy Clarksons - greatest raid off all. I know you’ve been asked for it several times, but it’s my favourite WW2 story and I know you’d love it!
Keep up the great content 👍🏻
Great video! Never would have thought of or heard of half of these otherwise. Very interesting
I guess bit trivial, but I always thought that the Baby Ruth had something to do with Babe Ruth. Granted I´m European and never even tasted or seen that chocolate bar.
I just new the name because Curtis Candy Company sponsored amateur (well in real life atleast semi-pro) hockey teams in 1930´s. Baby Ruths were fairly succesful. There was hockey team called Butterfingers too which I always find hilarious.
This channel sounds more like an everyday conversation as opposed to the lecture type channels
One thing I like about Teddy Roosevelt is he’s the one person to have a Medal of Honor and the Noble Peace Prize
This was a good video. I’ll probably check out the channel.
Biden really was in the Senate for a huge amount of time. IIRC he’s one of the 20 longest serving US Senators ever. He served alongside Barry Goldwater, Hubert Humphrey, and George McGovern. The crazy thing is for 28 yrs he was the JUNIOR Senator from Delaware. Americans really like re-electing our Senators.
I remember watching a video of his a few about how each president alive at the time of Lincolns assassination reacted to his death and thought it'd be a good video for you to react to. I suppose this is close enough, thanks for reading my mind from 1000s of miles away and reacting to him lol.
haha thats funny because a few days ago I sent you a video wondering if you wanted to react to a resyndicated video! I just discovered him too and thought he was doing incredible things with his channel! it was the video about others reaction to Lincolns death at the time (politicians at the time)
Actually Ruth Cleveland was born during Harrison’s tenure. The White House baby was Ruth’s little sister, Esther.
Learning more in a great environment! Thank you!!
Another newer channel I recommend is Nebulous Media, which did a series called Uncancelled History. It's ten episodes that are kind of long, but there are also multiple shorter segments released.
Woodrow Wilson's First as a president is being the first politician everyone from everywhere unanimously hates.
25:04 Don’t forgot the shoe
To expand on what you said at 3:59 I believe there are only 3 presidents elected directly from the Senate. Obama JFK and Warren g harding who as you know is from Ohio. There is only one president elected directly from the house: James Garfield. Historically the most common stepping stone for president was secretary of state. With Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and martin Van Buren. Jefferson was secretary of state under Washington as well and Buchanan was secretary of state under Taylor and polk. I think Hilary Clinton in 2016 was the first secretary of state to get nominated for President since Buchanan.
Damn I have the same issue with you when you comment before watching everything..... I just say what you were going to say 5 seconds later.
I had watched this video recently and am so glad you are reacting to it
Another fun fact about Obama. He is one of two presidents to take the oath of office 4 times. The first time was famously botched pretty badly by John Robert who is well known for his memory and didn't even bother to have the oath on hand instead trying to recite it from memory. The second time was to correct the botched first time. The 3rd oath fell on a Sunday in 2013 so he did it privately then did it again the next day in public.
Read the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s stolen boat. I couldn’t understand how he had the time to build the boat and know who took his boat, but it was in the spring when the Little Missouri was thawing, there was only one other boat on the river, and he had two ranch hands with him. Turns out, that is kind of the boring part of the story. The fascinating part is how they took 10-ish days to take the thieves from their camp to a different ranch where Theodore enlisted a new ranch hand with a wagon to march them 36 straight hours to town to be arrested. He shows an unparalleled level of justice and compassion at the same time.
Edit - should clarify, the thieves were not restrained, but in the wagon. Theodore was the one who marched behind the wagon for 36 hours.
Imagine being there when Roosevelt got shot during the speech?
I probably wouldn’t be able to concentrate on anything else afterwards 😂
I also recently found him. His videos are great! I highly recommend checking more of his stuff out.
12:12 I just noticed how Andrew Johnson looks strikingly similar to Robert De Niro in the image that was used in the video for him.
Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River.
That was a very good video, great job Chris
Literally watched this the other day. I contributed to the algorithm!
For the presidents without being elected to prior office, pretty sure the last one would be Herbert Hoover, as he was only appointed to various roles like Sec. Of Commerce
This video just popped up in my recommended. I had put it in my watch later but then I saw this.
I just watched it yesterday. A lot you could add. Great choice for a reaction
Im pretty sure Herbert Hoover is the 5th. While he was Secretary of Commerce, I believe he was never elected to any office before that
Hmmm... I’m descended from a Gardiner from Plymouth on my mother’s side. Wonder if they are connected to the Lyon Gardiner line somewhere.
Great video with some interesting and worthwhile facts.
Guess I'll have to give his channel a quick look for myself.
Thanks for showing light on smaller RUclipsrs, a lot of these get burried under the big names thanks to RUclips algorhythm, but that doesn't mean they don't make interesting content.
I would love for you to react to Royalty Now Studios’ biography on George Washington. They went into a lot of pre-Revolution history that I had not heard before and the channel recreates their face in the end of historical figures based on period paintings and facial casts.
James A. Garfield factoid: he showed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorum to a math professor at Dartmouth.
I assume he's the first/only president to create a mathematical proof.
Resyndicated makes interesting videos.
Cool to see you responding to it!
Have a blessed day!
Relating to the statement made during the Zachary Taylor section that 5 presidents had not been elected to political office prior to their administration, I actually believe there were 8. Those being John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Chester A. Arthur, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Donald Trump. While Adams, Arthur, Taft, and Hoover all held political office prior to their election as president, all the positions they served in were granted by appointment and not election.
Vice President is still elected, when you elect the president, you also elect his runner mate that he chose
Thank you for the reminder about this Channel. They have a video about the reactions to Lincoln's Terrible Assassination; perhaps worthy for your next look at this channel?
I like that site Chris, and he also didn't get anything wrong. Thanks for doing this one.
The video said Adams and Quincy Adams were the only two of the first 12 presidents to never own slaves. I looked it up and I had no idea Martin van Buren had been from a slaveholding family early in life, though I think I shouldn't have been surprised. New York abolished slavery relatively late (gradual abolition passed in 1799, but the final NY slaves weren't free until 1827) and van Buren came from old established Dutch stock. Not a surprise his parents were minor slaveholders when he was growing up (apparently what I'm finding says they owned six slaves).
20:38 This one wasn’t technically right, because neither Kennedy or Nixon were president at that moment. To be accurate, Gerald Ford was the first (sitting) president to participate in a televised debate.
Listened to your new podcast episode, loved it!
Thanks Ryan!
Speaking about oath of office fun facts，Calvin Coolidge is the only president to have the oath administered by his dad. Coolidge was asleep in Vermont when his dad woke him up to deliver the news that Harding died of a heart attack and that Coolidge was now president. They did the oath on the family Bible. Lbj is the first and only president to have the oath administered by a female. When JFK was assassinated, LBJ called judge Sarah Hughes who didn't even know the oath but eventually realized it is directly written in the constitution. That's the famous air force one photo.
The story about LBJ's oath of office as I heard it told was that nobody present knew where to find the oath, and a call was made to the Library of Congress to ask if they had a copy - at which time they were informed where it could be found. Very sad if it's true. Something that wouldn't surprise me today, but in the 1960's children were taught that before high school.
@@dougearnest7590 that doesn't sound far off honestly.
Hey VTH loved the video! I hope you make more videos reacting to Resyndicated
The 5th one who never held public office was Hoover.
The same booklet I learned where I learned that Garfield could simultaneously write Greek and Latin is where I learned Calvin Coolidge is sworn into office by his father at 2:47 AM in Vermont by the light of a kerosene lamp once he got news of Warren G. Harding’s death.
That statistic about Presidents being elected in a 0 year absolutely blew me away.
Saw this before coming here. It's something. Filled firsts that I didn't know about it. Fascinating.
Will you consider making a video on the Battle of Hattin (by HistoryMarche)? Its a great video and I think you might find it very interesting!
Where's the link to his channel? He made such a great vid and I'm surprised he only has 3k subs.
In the description.
16:40 there is simple history vid based on this. U can look in to it if u want
I can only imagine how people would react to the Theodore Roosevelt Speech moment if it happened today.
Hi, Chris, that was very interesting, I'd never heard of the channel before but I enjoyed that. Could I recommend another channel to you, The History Chap he has a lot of interesting videos like the Last British soldier to die in the First World War or the Shortest War in History which is also very good.
I was rather confused by your analytics page and looked at mine. I don't have enough viewer data to get that list of what viewers also watched. haha
I was about to recommend this channel to you.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was only named after this Ruth because the company didn't want to pay Babe Ruth to use his name.
Finally something else on William Henry Harrison other than his death.
Awesome job ! So very very interesting !
Just watched this the other day. Now you're reacting to it.
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I love how many presidents there were at the time who were civil war veteran republicans from ohio with a beard
Reagan also famously joked about a bullet missing him when a balloon popped during a speech.
watched this yesterday and thought “vth is gonna react to this and i can’t wait” 😁😁
It was recommended to me, I just said "I'll wait for VTH to hit it."
I'd just like to point out that I requested he react to this about a week and a half ago.
@@AlexKawa20 That is about the same time I also pointed out this channel to VTH.
James K. Polk, the first president to rock the mullet
Hey VTH! You mentioned Franklin R. dying in 1940 however it was 1945!
Edit: My bad! Thank you for clarifying and actually reading comments unlike other RUclipsrs! 🙏
I didn’t say he died in 1940. I said he won the election of 1940 and died in office, as did every President who won an election year ending in zero between 1840-1960
I think it is a stretch to say that Washington ran "uncontested." At that time, the Constitution specified that the top two Electoral College vote getters would be POTUS/ VP. Therefore, the electoral process was not really built for "running unopposed" at that time. In fact in the first election, several people received Electoral votes. Also, it was considered to be in bad taste at the time to actively campaign for the office. The other candidates might not have actively campaigned against Washington, but he didn't really run "unopposed."