History class never told us that John Quincy Adams conducted interviews while swimming naked or that LBJ held meetings from the toilet. Yet these strange presidential habits reveal more about our leaders than most official biographies. Across nearly 250 years of American history, the most powerful people in the nation have harbored peculiar obsessions, unusual pets, and downright weird daily rituals. This collection of 37 presidential oddities strips away the formal portraits to show the truly human (and often bizarre) individuals who’ve occupied the Oval Office.
