Gregg Stebben

“Because a rumor floating
around during the mid-1800s said
that President Martin Van Buren
was in fact the illegitimate son of former
Vice President (and traitor and
murderer, but we’ll get to
that later) Aaron Burr.”
― Gregg Stebben, White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

“Thomas Jefferson JOB: Given a choice, he once said, he would have rather been a gardener than president. He imported plants from other countries to study them, and while conventional wisdom of the time said tomatoes were poisonous, he grew and ate them for dinner. He was also an inventor and was responsible for the development of the dumbwaiter, the lazy Susan, an automatic closing door the design of which is still—fundamentally—in use on buses today, the revolving chair, the folding chair, and a machine that enabled him to make a duplicate copy of a letter as he wrote it. He was also an inventive chef and created both Baked Alaska and Chicken à la King (which George Washington loved!).”
― Gregg Stebben, White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History