6. Homework Help

6.3. Presidential Lists

[FFTP 62] [lefty, southpaw, left-handed]

Email: Please tell us the seven presidents that were left handed.  We can only find five.  Clinton, Garfield, Bush, Truman, Ford.  My son's teacher says there are seven.

Reply: Sorry to say, your teacher is incorrect.  Your list is correct. There are web sites (and recently a History Channel quiz) which claimed that there have been seven.  The other two they say are Hoover and Reagan.  I sent an e-mail to the Hoover library (see below) and they reviewed films that proved that Hoover was right handed.  I have no absolute proof for Reagan, but get any book on his life which has pictures.  They always show the picture of him as a college football player kicking very high with his right leg.  That should be pretty strong evidence that he was also right handed.

Email: In the past 25 years president Jimmy Carter was the only president to do what?

Reply: My best guess: He is the only one who did not play golf.

Email: Would you believe the answer was "Be right handed"?

Reply: But Reagan was also right handed!

From: Mike Day
To: library#hoover.nara.gov
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 21:18:11 -0700
Subject: Herbert Hoover

Hello,

I have a Herbert Hoover trivia question I hope someone there can help me with:

Was President Hoover right handed or left handed?

Thank you very much.

Mike Day

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From: "Library Hoover" <library#hoover.nara.gov>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:45:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Herbert Hoover

October 17, 2000

I checked with our AV Archivist who handles the Hoover films that we have, and he said that Hoover was right-handed.

Sincerely,

[Name deleted]
Archives Technician