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I forget which president it was, but I remember that one of them would frequently insist on bathing in the Potomac.
John Quincy Adams.
Every day, at about 5:30 in the morning, totally naked.
Anne Royall, one of the first female journalists, allegedly forced Adams to do an interview with her by taking his clothes and refusing to give them back to him until he answered all her questions.
Andrew Jackson for his inauguration party invited literally anybody who showed up to attend, and a bunch of people got roaring drunk and wrecked up the White House.
The fuck happened to us man
As a huge fan of the musical 1776, I unfortunately imagined Mr. Feeny as John Adams in the nude. Shudders
Back then everybody swam naked in the Potomac. Ben Franklin is another one with written records about it.
If you see the Potomac River today, you'd wonder what the hell happened, it is absolutely filthy and not even a rat would swim in it. well maybe a rat would drown & die in it.
Free market baby! You sound like a commie.
The Potomac ain't that bad.
That was John Quincy Adams. I remember because I also learned that he did this nude, an image I've been trying to get out of my head for 30 years.
You've been trying to get that image out of your head for 30 years? How often do you have to try hard not to picture John Quincy Adams naked?