Presidential Trivia

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Sons of the American Revolution.

My question:
An invitation has been given the Irish Head of Government to address a joint session of Congress later this year. As it happens, 3 American Presidents have addressed joint sessions of the Irish Parliament - which ones?

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Sons of the American Revolution.

Correct, after a zillion clues. 

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It would have to be Presidents after 1921.

My guesses are Reagan. Kennedy, and Clinton.

Got it in one

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FDR?

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After a bit of digging...George H.W. Bush.

My question: on which building was the design for the White House based?

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GWH Bush is correct, but I'd love to see the link (I saw it when it happened).

Cool...
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_22_00042.htm
Found it after a hunch on why a President might turn up...

My question: on which building was the design for the White House based?

The Palace of Versailles?

No

The correct answer is Leinster House.

Correct

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In the absence of anything else...

Which sitting US President was the first to visit Africa and to which country was this first visit made?

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I've no idea which President it was, but my semi-educated guess for the nation is Liberia.

Nope.

My guess would be FDR and Morocco.

Almost right.

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In response to Jas' question regarding Africa. I'll guess and say FDR and Libya.

Not Libya.

It was FDR as JJ also said, and JJ clearly spotted the ultimate reason for the trip to Africa.
(It's really very unlikely that the country will be guessed.)

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In response to Jas' question regarding Africa. I'll guess and say FDR and Libya.

Not Libya.

It was FDR as JJ also said, and JJ clearly spotted the ultimate reason for the trip to Africa.
(It's really very unlikely that the country will be guessed.)

I believe it was actually FRENCH Morocco

That's not what I'm looking for, FDR didn't go directly to Casablanca.

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In response to Jas' question regarding Africa. I'll guess and say FDR and Libya.

Not Libya.

It was FDR as JJ also said, and JJ clearly spotted the ultimate reason for the trip to Africa.
(It's really very unlikely that the country will be guessed.)

I believe it was actually FRENCH Morocco

Casablanca was in French Morocco, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Did he stop in the Canary Islands for refueling?

No. There were actually two overnight stops on the way to Casablanca, Trinidad was the first and the answer I'm looking for was the second.

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In response to Jas' question regarding Africa. I'll guess and say FDR and Libya.

Not Libya.

It was FDR as JJ also said, and JJ clearly spotted the ultimate reason for the trip to Africa.
(It's really very unlikely that the country will be guessed.)

I believe it was actually FRENCH Morocco

Casablanca was in French Morocco, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Did he stop in the Canary Islands for refueling?

No. There were actually two overnight stops on the way to Casablanca, Trinidad was the first and the answer I'm looking for was the second.

Bathurst (The Gambia)

Correct

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Hoover.

Which President made Christmas a federal holiday?

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I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

Close but incomplete.  He was first in line to succeed to the Presidency if Truman were to die or become incapacitated for those six days.  (Though Acting Vice President is not the correct term for that.)  However, plenty of people have held that honor, so what makes Morgenthau's term as the first in the line of succession distinctive from all others who have held that position?

He was the first sitting Secretary of the Treasury to be simultaneously first in the order of succession?

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My question recurs (again):

This presidential list begin with George Washington and ends with George H. W. Bush.  Eisenhower, Monroe, and Jefferson were never on it.

Nixon was on it, but got knocked off.  William Howard Taft was on it twice.

What is the list?

Oldest living President

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This Presidential list begins with Polk and ends with Nixon. The only other name on it is Wilson.
What list is it?