Presidential Trivia Answers (Sept. 27 & 28)

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(1) QUESTION: Who was the first sitting President to participate in a televised presidential debate?

ANSWER: Gerald Ford.  The first televised debate was in 1960, but neither candidate was then the sitting President. A second televised debate didn’t occur until 1976 when Ford was running for re-election.

(2) QUESTION: The 101st Airborne Division’s insignia contains a bald eagle, and the division’s nickname is “Screaming Eagles.” There was a real bald eagle that started this tradition, and it was named after which President?

ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln.  The eagle was Old Abe, and I wrote a story about him a few days ago.  The story is here.

(3) QUESTION: Which President was the first to go aboard a submarine?

ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt.  He was underwater for three hours and even got to pilot the submarine!