PRESIDENTS WHO GET STUCJ IN BATHTUBS HAVE A BAD MOON RISING AND OTHER ZODIAC PECCADILLOES

Until 1971, both February 12 and February 22 were observed as federal holidays to honor the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and George Washington (February 22).

In 1971 President Richard Nixon proclaimed one single federal holiday, the Presidents' Day, to be observed on the third Monday of February, honoring all past presidents of the United States of America.

There have thus far been a total of 42 different individuals who have served in the office. 12 percent of them have had their Sun Sign in Scorpio or Aquarius Least apt to become elected are the Sun signs of Aries, Gemini or Virgo.

George Washington

GEORGE WASHINGTON with a Sun in Pisces - the famous fable of Washington, as a boy, admitting chopping down his father's cherry tree, with the words "Father, I cannot tell a lie," created a tradition of eating cherry pies in honor of his birthday. Washington gave the shortest inaugural address of all the Presidents, speaking only one hundred thirty-five words at his second inaugural.

JOHN ADAMS with a Sun in - Scorpio - served two terms as vice-president under George Washington and didn't like playing second fiddler. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." William Daniels played Adams in the movie 1776, a role played on Broadway by Brent Spiner

THOMAS JEFFERSON with a Sun in Aries - freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he was referred to as the "silent member" of the Congress. For fun, he played the violin.

JAMES MADISON James Madison - Pisces - a small, wizened man, appeared old and worn at his inauguration; Washington Irving described him as "but a withered little apple-John." Madison was the first president to servce ice cream in the White House, including official occasions - even the Inaugural Ball in 1813.

JAMES MONROE with a Sun in Taurus - almost too good to be true. Jefferson who said, 'Monroe was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it.' "

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS with a Sun in Cancer- the first President who was the son of a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father.

ANDREW JACKSON with a Sun in Pisces - fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel killed a man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel. He was always that way. As a child considered mischievous and hot-tempered, delighting in frightening and bullying other children. His inattention to school later gained him a reputation as one of the most poorly educated of American Presidents.At age thirteen, Andrew joined the "mounted militia" It is said that Andrew angrily refused to obey an order to clean a British officer's boots. The officer struck Andrew with his sword, cutting his left hand to the bone and badly injuring his face and head. These scars remained for the rest of Jackson's life. Charleton Heston starred as Andrew Jackson in The President's Lady.

MARTIN VAN BUREN with a Sun in Sagittarius - at 5 feet, 6 inches tall, was considered a clothes horse. He dressed fastidiously and maintained an impeccable appearance. He liked to sip champagne.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON with a Sun in Aquarius - when he arrived in Washington in February 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural Address, ornate with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, boasting in a jolly fashion that he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them." Harrison's son, Russell, had a pet goat named Old Whiskers. This goat was so ornery that one day the President was forced to chase him down Pennsylvania Avenue when he decided to run away with the Harrison grandchildren.

JOHN TYLER with a Sun in Aries - and his young bride Julia Gardiner lived at Sherwood Forest Plantation which contain a ghost. Known as the Gray Lady, who has been heard rocking in the Gray Room for more than 200 years.

JAMES K. POLK with a Sun in Scorpio - felt just fine when he was elected to the presidency, left the office with his health undermined from hard work. He died in June 1849.

ZACHARY TAYLOR with a Sun in Sagittarius - known as Old Rough and Ready

MILLARD FILLMORE with a Sun in Capricorn - at 15 was apprenticed to a cloth dresser. He attended one-room schools, and fell in love with the redheaded teacher, Abigail Powers, who later became his wife.

FRANKLIN PIERCE with a Sun in Sagittarius - two months before he took office, he and his wife saw their eleven-year-old son killed when their train was wrecked. Grief-stricken, Pierce entered the Presidency nervously exhausted.

JAMES BUCHANAN with a Sun in Taurus - was the only President who never married.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN with a Sun in Aquarius "If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. " Speech, Cleveland, Ohio, February 15, 1861. More actors have portrayed Lincoln than any other president. They include silent films by D.W. Griffith and performances by Walter Huston, Henry Fonda, Sam Waterston, Raymond Massey and Royal Dano.

ANDREW JOHNSON with a Sun in Capricorn - grew up in poverty. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy, but ran away. He opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle.

ULYSSES S. GRANT with a Sun in Taurus - became a running gag on television when Groucho Marx would ask contestants "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?" Grant, called Sam by his friends, exhibited obsessive/compulsive traits refusing to every take the same path twice. "Grant developed early in his life was an obsession with not reversing his tracks. He often made deliveries for his father using a horse and wagon. If he missed a fork in the road, or made a wrong turn, he would refuse to turn around, even if the distance was a very short one. He would drive on and spend several hours or more finding a different (and longer) route to the original destination," wrote historical John S. Cooper.

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES with a Sun in Libra to the delight of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Lucy Webb Hayes carried out her husband's orders to banish wines and liquors from the White House.

JAMES A. GARFIELD with a Sun in Scorpio- fatherless at two, he drove canal boat teams, somehow earning enough money for college.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR with a Sun in Libra - son of a Baptist preacher.

GROVER CLEVELAND with a Sun in Pisces - A bachelor, Cleveland was ill at ease at first with all the comforts of the White House. "I must go to dinner," he wrote a friend, "but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring a Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis' instead of the French stuff I shall find." In June 1886 Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the only President married in the White House. First Lady Frances Cleveland created a "technology savvy" tree in 1895 when she hung electric lights on the White House tree.

BENJAMIN HARRISON with a Sun in Leo - 5 feet, 6 inches tall, a Republican, the Democrats called him "Little Ben."

WILLIAMS McKINLEY with a Sun in Aquarius - "Uncle Joe" Cannon, later Speaker of the House, once said that McKinley kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT with a Sun in Scorpio- thanks to him we have the Teddy Bear. A member of the Harvard boxing team while in college, and enjoyed a good fight for the rest of his life. In one incident that did not become known until after he left the White House, Teddy went blind in one eye as a result of a boxing blow from a military aide.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT with a Sun in Virgo - after he left the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930. To Taft, the appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don't remember that I ever was President." However, he should have remembered the bathrub. Taft was our heaviest President. His weight varied from 300 to 360 pounds. He got stuck in the White House bathtub, and a special tub had to be made and installed for his use.

WOODROW WILSON with a Sun in Aquarius - in the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote.

WARREN G. HARDING with a Sun in Scorpio - He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies; "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-flat cornet," he once remarked.

Calvin Coolidge

CALVIN COOLIDGE with a Sun in Cancer - Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." For fun Coolidge enjoyed playing the harmonica.

HERBERT HOOVER with a Sun in Leo - became the scapegoat for the depression and was badly defeated in 1932.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT with a Sun in Aquarius - on St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Ralph Bellamy starred as Franklin D. Roosevelt Sunrise at Campobello.

HARRY S. TRUMAN with a Sun in Taurus - last Thursday, February 13, the Truman Museum celebrates the 118th anniversary of First Lady Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace Truman's birth. Among the events was a Bess Truman Birthday Tea. Harry Truman impersonator Niel Johnson greeted visitors to the museum before and after the program. Then "President Truman" returned to the Museum on February 14 to offer a Valentine to the community as he joined the Truman Players in their production of The Love Letters of Harry and Bess. Truman loved to play the piano and once joked that if he had not gone into politics, he would have probably become the "piano player at a bawdy house."

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER with a Sun in Libra - "I like Ike" was an irresistible slogan. Not only did Eisenhower win a sweeping victory, but film star Clara Bow wrote him a fan letter.

JOHN F. KENNEDY with a Sun in Gemini - the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." James F. Kelly played JFK in the Sinatra. In Thirteen Days, veteran actor Bruce Greenwood portrayed President Kennedy. Martin Sheen has also played Kennedy and Clift Robertson won an Oscar for his role of JFK in PT 109.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON with a Sun in Virgo - got criticized when he picked his Beagle dogs up by the ears.

RICHARD M. NIXON with a Sun in Capricorn - appeared on Laugh In saying "Sock it to ... me? He was the only president known to have had psychotherapy. Anthony Hopkins was the title character in the saga Nixon.

GERALD R. FORD with a Sun in Cancer - played football for the University of Michigan in the early 1930s. He was selected as Most Valuable Player in 1934 and was named an All-American.

JIMMY CARTER with a Sun in Libra - Peanut farming, talk of politics, and devotion to the Baptist faith were mainstays of his upbringing. During his campaign he said he had been faithful to his wife, but had lusted in his heart for other women. Wife Rosalynn responded with the cryptic comment of; "Jimmy ... I want to talk to you." Carter spent Presidents' Day week-end in Las Vegas visiting his son who lives in Sin City.

RONALD REAGAN with a Sun in Aquarius - former actor known as The Great Communicator. On President's Day at his library there willl be Presidential look-alikes, historical re-enactors, storytelling, and a Presidential Quiz Bowl.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH with a Sun in Gemini- celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping from an airplane.

WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON with a Sun in Leo- plays the saxophone. Recently was the "opening act" for The Rolling Stones.

GEORGE W. BUSH with a Sun in Cancer - choked on a pretzel. Promised to chew his food more before he swallowed.

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