Trump doesn’t like to read, preferring TV for information. Roosevelt, on the other hand, read multiple books daily and loved boxing. Taylor was nearly illiterate, while Buchanan enjoyed reading biographies of George Washington.
It has often been said that President Donald Trump does not read much, preferring to get his information by watching television. According to some White House insiders, Trump doesn’t even like to read short political memos or documents. President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt was on the other end of the bibliophile spectrum. The 26th President of the United States (serving 1901-1909) read multiple books every day, often completing an entire book before breakfast. “Reading with me is a disease,” Roosevelt once said.
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Roosevelt was also a boxing aficionado and would hit a few rounds with anyone willing to step into the ring with him. At the age of 50, he was severely punched in his left eye, a blow that led to partial blindness.
President Zachary Taylor was nearly illiterate. His “formal education was limited and his early writings suffer from bad spelling and unusually bad grammar,” according to a biography.
James Buchanan loved biographies of George Washington. “The reading of him embraced all classes of literature and intelligently conversed on all subjects,” according to an 1883 biography.
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