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1.20.2005
Presidents' Deaf side??
Presidents' "deaf" side
True or False?
• Thomas Jefferson had a deaf slave family at Monticello; their expertise contributed to making the finest Virginian wine from its vineyard.
• Theodore Roosevelt had a deaf guide on his exploration of the West; they discovered an area what is now known as Yellowstone National Park.
• George W. Bush often jogged with I. King Jordan on the Gallaudet track.
• Abraham Lincoln learned fingerspelling from Edward Miner Gallaudet at the White House before attending Ford Theater that evening.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower often used deaf war department civilians to send secret codes in sign language to his field officers before D-Day to avoid interception by the Nazis.
• George Washington temporarily used a Yorktown deaf family’s home as his headquarters in October 1781, site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
• Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson once killed a deaf man in a duel over his girlfriend before the War of 1812 in New Orleans. • Ronald “The Great Communicator” Reagan once had a character role of Alexander Graham Bell in a film that was never released.
• John F. Kennedy often partied on Martha’s Vineyard in which a few local deaf residents were in attendance.
• In 1918, Woodrow Wilson became the only President ever to be a commencement speaker at Gallaudet College. He used the occasion to promote the League of the Nation.
• A deaf White House aide pushes Franklin D. Roosevelt, a victim of polio, in his wheelchair on his campaigns for re-elections.
• Richard M. Nixon was the first president to use a certified sign language interpreter. Unfortunately, it was used for his resignation speech shortly after Watergate.
These trivia are all deemed true!
True or False?
• Thomas Jefferson had a deaf slave family at Monticello; their expertise contributed to making the finest Virginian wine from its vineyard.
• Theodore Roosevelt had a deaf guide on his exploration of the West; they discovered an area what is now known as Yellowstone National Park.
• George W. Bush often jogged with I. King Jordan on the Gallaudet track.
• Abraham Lincoln learned fingerspelling from Edward Miner Gallaudet at the White House before attending Ford Theater that evening.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower often used deaf war department civilians to send secret codes in sign language to his field officers before D-Day to avoid interception by the Nazis.
• George Washington temporarily used a Yorktown deaf family’s home as his headquarters in October 1781, site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
• Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson once killed a deaf man in a duel over his girlfriend before the War of 1812 in New Orleans. • Ronald “The Great Communicator” Reagan once had a character role of Alexander Graham Bell in a film that was never released.
• John F. Kennedy often partied on Martha’s Vineyard in which a few local deaf residents were in attendance.
• In 1918, Woodrow Wilson became the only President ever to be a commencement speaker at Gallaudet College. He used the occasion to promote the League of the Nation.
• A deaf White House aide pushes Franklin D. Roosevelt, a victim of polio, in his wheelchair on his campaigns for re-elections.
• Richard M. Nixon was the first president to use a certified sign language interpreter. Unfortunately, it was used for his resignation speech shortly after Watergate.
These trivia are all deemed true!
