In 1948 while President, the piano in the bedroom of Harry Truman's daughter nearly crashed through the floor onto the floor below. Subsequent engineering studies revealed that the entire White House was in extreme danger of complete collapse unless immediate and drastic repair work was done. Rob...
Fascinating, detail-rich chronology of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's final trip — the train trip of his body from his vacation home in Warm Springs, Ga., to Washington, D.C., and then from D.C. to his burial in Hyde Park, N.Y., that is. Among the nuggets are details about the presence of Roosevelt'...