A history of presidential rages and tantrums, from Adams to Trump

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A history of presidential rages and tantrums, from Adams to Trump
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Two presidents may have violently attacked people while in office. Others hurled things, screamed, cursed and threw big tantrums.

points to an unknown journalist as the likely “visitor” who told the story. True or not, she wrote, Harding and his aides never denied it, believing it made him look good., described Dwight D. Eisenhower’s struggles to control his rage. When angry, he would try to calm himself down by reciting a proverb or writing down names to put in an “anger drawer.” He even took up golf to help him mellow out.

At least Eisenhower tried. Lyndon B. Johnson seemed to savor scaring pretty much everyone around him. He yelled at, cursed at and loomed Nixon railed about “Jewish cabals” and “f---ing academics” and frequently made racist remarks about a variety of ethnic groups. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said several times, “If the president had his way, we’d have a nuclear war every week,” according to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their book “In the nights before his resignation, Nixon began drinking heavily and talking to paintings of other presidents.

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