Hoover was a postwar envoy for Truman and later lobbied to raise the presidential salary for poor Truman.

Hoover kept details of executive inefficiency under wraps for election, seeing the overhaul as more important than an election.

Truman refused to appear at a HUAC hearing because of executive privilege.

Bay of Pigs plan was inherited from Eisenhower but tweaked to failure by Kennedy.

LBJ wooed Ike and Truman hardcore after Kennedy assassination.

Nixon and Reagan’s letters back and forth during the 1968 campaign was them talking and dancing right past each other.

Johnson kept Wallace, Humphrey, and Nixon in the loop about 1968 Saigon peace talks, which helped Nixon spike them for his own benefit.

Nixon formed fake club called Chowder & Marching Society in Congress, of which Ford and George Bush became members.

Bombing Halt papers and Pentagon Papers got Nixon extra paranoid about security and breaking in to fix them.

Nixon dragged out the war in 1972 to ensure his reelection.

Ford blamed Reagan for his 1976 loss, for his primary challenge and for not campaigning for him hard enough.

Reagan and Ford almost had a co-ticket presidency in 1980.

Nixon, Carter, and Ford shared a plane ride to Cairo in 1981, where Ford and Carter patched things up and Nixon was himself.

Carter facilitated fair elections in Panama and Nicaragua and finally won praise for it.

Carter petitioned U.N. Security Council countries not to support the U.S. invasion of Kuwait, which Bush saw as treasonable.

Clinton sent Carter as unofficial envoy to North Korea and then to Haiti with Colin Powell to help quell troubles.