Presidential Trivia (Washington, Asians, JFK, Chinese)

[censusdata]

Name this president:

Was found dead from his 3rd lifetime heart attack with a phone in his hand (apparently trying to call for help)

[John Walmsley]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Name this president:

Was found dead from his 3rd lifetime heart attack with a phone in his hand (apparently trying to call for help)

Lyndon Johnson was found dead by Secret Service agents with a phone in his hand. Johnson was one our most flamboyant presidents and a man of great contrasts. He could be ruthless in political contests, but compassionate and caring in other ways. One story* suggests that he considered firing J. Edgar Hoover, but changed his mind saying, "I'd rather have him inside the tent pi__ing out, than outside pi__ing in." Another story tells of the time when Johnson prepared to leave an airport he walked toward the wrong helicopter. A concerned staff sergeant noticed and said pointing, "Mr. President, that is your helicopter over there." A smiling Johnson threw a big arm over the sergeant's shoulder and said, "Son they are all my helicopters."

*Stories paraphrased from The People's Almanac by David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace

[cpg35223]

I think LBJ was basically a thug and a buffoon, even more so than our current president. His Great Society program and the metastasizing government it created will cause misery for this country. What's more, his ruthlessness for power was shocking even to the most jaded Washington insiders. I'm no conspiracy whacko, but the more I read about Lyndon Johnson, the more I readily accept that LBJ could have been responsible for Kennedy's death.

[Trudy Rose]

Name the president who passed the first immigration act...

[cpg35223]

Which one?


1882 Chinese Exclusion Act — Barred the entry of any Chinese for 10 years, made permanent in 1904 until it was rescinded in 1943.

1907 Gentlemen's Agreement — Barred the entry of Japanese and Koreans.

1917 Immigration Act — Passed over President Wilson's veto, it established a literacy test and created the "Asiatic Barred Zone," virtually prohibiting immigration from Asia.

1921 Quota Act (Johnson Act) — Set the first immigration quotas in the nation's history, equal to 3 percent of the foreign born of admissible nationality in the 1910 census. There was still no limit on immigration from the Western Hemisphere.

1924 Immigration Act (Johnson-Reid Act) — Set an annual ceiling of 154,227 for the Eastern Hemisphere. Each country had a quota representative of its population in the U.S. as of the 1920 census.

1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) — Passed over President Truman's veto, it reaffirmed the basic provisions of the national origins quota system, and the annual ceiling remained 154,277. It abolished immigration and naturalization exclusions against Asians and allotted 100 visas for each Asian country. In addition, the act instituted a system to give preference (within the national origins quotas) to foreigners with education or skills, as well as relatives — this was the predecessor of today's preference system. Immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean remained exempt from numerical limits.

1965 Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Celler Act) — See "Details" section of this paper.

1976 Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act — Extended a version of the seven-category preference system previously applied to Eastern Hemisphere countries to all Western Hemisphere countries. Also imposed an annual ceiling of 20,000 immigrants from any one country in the Western Hemisphere.

1978 Amendments to Immigration and Nationality Act — The two hemispheric ceilings were combined into a worldwide quota of 290,000. The U.S. now had a policy that, on paper, applied uniformly to the people of all countries.

1980 Refugee Act — Established a separate admissions policy for refugees, eliminating the previous geographical and ideological criteria, and defining "refugee" according to United Nations norms. It abolished the seventh preference category for refugees (see Details). It set a separate target for refugees at 50,000 and reduced the annual worldwide ceiling for immigrants to 270,000.

1981 Report of the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy — The 16-member commission was created by Congress to evaluate immigration and refugee laws, policies,

and procedures. The Commission's recommendations were summed up as follows by its chairman, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh: "We recommend closing the back door to undocumented, illegal migration, opening the front door a little more to accommodate legal migration in the interests of this country, defining our immigration goals clearly and providing a structure to implement them effectively, and setting forth procedures which will lead to fair and efficient adjudication and administration of U.S. immigration laws."

1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) — Tried to control and deter illegal immigration by providing amnesty and temporary status to all illegal aliens who had lived in the United States continuously since before January 1, 1982; extended a separate, more lenient amnesty to farmworkers; imposed sanctions on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens; increased inspection and enforcement at U.S. borders.

1990 Immigration Act (IMMACT) — Modified and expanded the 1965 act; it significantly increased the total level of immigration to 700,000, increasing available visas 40 percent. The act retained family reunification as the major entry path, while more than doubling employment-related immigration. The law also provided for the admission of immigrants from "underrepresented" countries to increase the diversity of the immigrant flow.

[Trudy Rose]

The First one..1882...If you know that.. you already know...Chester Arthur

[Yeledaf]

Name the first president of the United States.

Hint: his last name begins with H.

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by cpg35223

I think LBJ was basically a thug and a buffoon, even more so than our current president. His Great Society program and the metastasizing government it created will cause misery for this country. What's more, his ruthlessness for power was shocking even to the most jaded Washington insiders. I'm no conspiracy whacko, but the more I read about Lyndon Johnson, the more I readily accept that LBJ could have been responsible for Kennedy's death.

Can't disagree with anything you say.
As for the JFK murder, who had the most to gain from his death? That's where a real investigation would have started.

[mm34b]

First homosexual President was ......................

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by Yeledaf

Name the first president of the United States.

Hint: his last name begins with H.

Samuel Huntington was the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, that is, the presiding officer of the Congress of the Confederation, the sole governing body of the first central government of the United States of America. His office was not that of today's President of the United States, which is a federal chief executive position created under the later United States Constitution.