Clark Kerr, the president of the University of California during the Free Speech Movement, wrote in 1959 that the students of "this generation [...] aren't going to press many grievances [...] there aren't going to be any riots."⁴⁸

President John Kennedy, a dashing ladies’ man, enjoyed Ian Fleming’s James Bond books. His favorite was From Russia with Love.⁴⁹

While in college, Lyndon Johnson (who as a senator and president would champion civil rights) was briefly engaged to the daughter of a powerful leader in the Texas Ku Klux Klan.⁵⁰

Lyndon Johnson was just over 6’3”. The only president ever taller was Abraham Lincoln.⁵¹

Diana Oughton, one of the three Weathermen killed while building a bomb in their Greenwich Village townhouse, was the great-granddaughter of William D. Boyce, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America.⁵²