President Harry S. Truman answered male friends wanting to know what he wished to do if he had not been elected president. He said, "I always wanted to be a piano-player in a whorehouse."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt said the critics came after him, his wife, his daughter and sons, and cousin President Teddy Roosevelt and his family. They even attacked his Scottish Terrier, Fala. He replied, "We humans could deal with it, but my dog can't."
President Martin Van Buren had the support of President General Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory. who preceded him, his vice president. In 18334 after Henry Clay's angry disapproval of President Jackson's economic policy that went against Clay's backers, Van Buren went up to Clay and in a stage whisper asked him if he could borrow a pinch of "fine maddaboy shuff." Even Jackson's enemies laughed at the political charade.
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