Syndicated Columnist Scott Clarkson Launches New Book Today About The Personal Quirks of the Presidents: “HAIL TO THE CHIEFS”

For the past twenty years Scott Clarkson has been studying  and researching  the  U.S. Presidents. However, he  did not study them to only learn their political views or their historical significance but he wanted to venture one step deeper and learn about their human side. In this book, HAIL TO THE CHIEFS, Clarkson explains how he got to spend time with the last six  U.S. Presidents and the experiences he had along the way.

“I believe it has been worth the countless hours of research I had to do not only discover the very personal side of these great men and their families, but to also have the unique experience of meeting them.  My goal is to show that the Presidents and the first families are similar to you and I; common people who have had the same struggles and unusual happenings that often occur in our everyday  life, ” stated Clarkson.

By reading his book , he shares his  twenty- year journey with the U.S. Presidents. The reader will walk away with a little more knowledge about these men and also come away knowing that they are human and have interesting quirks like anyone else.

This book is a fascinating and unique  journey that delves into the personal and many times the  funny side  of our Commander in Chiefs.

S. Scott Clarkson earned his B.A. from Bluffton University in  Ohio and earned  his Masters in Education from the University of Findlay .  He has been studying the U. S. Presidents since he was twelve-years-old when his grandmother first gave him a small booklet to read about them.

Since then, Scott has met the last six U.S.Presidents in person and  he writes a popular syndicated column titled, ” First Family ” which is widely  read by over 200,000+ readers each week in seven states.  As a foremost authority on the personal side of the Presidents Scott has been featured on numerous radio and TV shows  throughout the country. He  loves the Presidency so much that he named his two daughters Reagan and Kennedy. (They will have great kitchen debates.)

Scott currently teaches High School in Columbus , Ohio . He is always telling his students that the Presidents have had many of the same troubles in life they have and if our Commanders-In-Chief can achieve success, so can they.  He has also established the “S. Scott Clarkson Scholarship for Underprivileged Students” and was chosen as one of the Most Outstanding Young Men of America.

Samples of Presidential Trivia from
Hail To The Chiefs

1. After Ronald Reagan was turned down for a radio announcer’s job in Chicago, he hitchhiked back to his hometown of Dixon, Illinois.  There, he applied for a job at Montgomery Wards managing their sporting goods department. When the job was offered to someone else, he borrowed the family car and applied at another radio station where he soon received a job offer.
2. Harry Truman would never allow the White House staff to wash his underwear or socks.  He did not think any person should have to do this for another man no matter how powerful he was.
3. When Bill Clinton taught law, he resembled the “Nutty Professor.”  He once forgot to write the final exam and students were answering the questions as he was writing the next one on the board.  Another time, he lost the blue books for another test he gave.  He was also this forgetful with his personal finances.  Once, his electric was shut off after forgetting to pay the bill and he had a credit card canceled for the same reason.
4. One summer during college, President George W. Bush took a job in the sporting goods department at Sears.
5. While visiting Germany , a group of teenagers saw Ronald Reagan’s motorcade coming down the street and they decided to all moon the president.  Reagan laughed it off by telling his staff that those kids sure had big smiles.
6. John F. Kennedy loved to smoke cigars when flying on Air Force One . Just before he would exit the plane, he’d take the cigar out of his mouth and place it in his suit jacket.  He then walked down the stairs and into his awaiting limousine where he wold take out the cigar and get a few more puffs.  This prevented him from having to light another one but he sometimes would burn holes in his jacket.
7. Has a U.S. President ever had to pay child support?  Yes.  Warren G. Harding once had an affair with a woman named Nan Britton .  He sent her child support payments via a banker.
8. To make extra money during college, President Gerald Ford became a model and also sold his own blood plasma when things got really hard.
9. Ida McKinley, wife of President William McKinley had a brother who got entangled in a dangerous love affair .  George Saxton fell in love with a dressmaker who eventually left her husband to be with him; however, George lost interest in her.  One day as he went to visit his new girlfriend, his former lover came out of the bushes and fatally shot him three times in the stomach.  A jury took pity and found her not guilty.
10. In 1878, John Scott Harrison , the father of future president Benjamin Harrison , passed away.  Shortly after his death, his body was stolen from its gravesite by students from a local medical college for research.  In time, the body was recovered and the takers were arrested.

For More Information or to purchase the book go to: www.hailtothechiefs.us