On this day, August 19, 1962, this president was not wearing a tan suit.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Swimmer Eva Ban and her family enjoy seeing her on front page of Los Angeles Times after she was photographed with JFK on Santa Monica beach, sixty years ago today:

Here is the actual photo of JFK's surprise visit to Santa Monica beach sixty years ago today:

Link to tweet

[Polybius]

1. Fun question:

How many Presidents have been photographed topless while they were President? So not counting Reagan in movies in the 50's, who? I believe Obama was photographed at a beach. That's 2.

[Sanity Claws]

2. I think we should be grateful that so few

Were photographed topless. Can you imagine 45 topless?

[Ocelot II]

4. Don't make my brain go there, but judging from some recent pics

of TFG in a sweaty golf shirt, I think we can guess... But he'd probably think he looks ripped and studly.

[Norbert]

3. George H W Bush had a swimming pool at his private residence

I think there was a couple pic of him in his trunks.

45 would have probably had the photographer arrested if he snapped a picture of him topless.

[Wednesdays]

8. Some...

Clinton:


Bush 43:


LBJ:


Harry Truman was proud to stay fit:


Before Truman, all the presidents wore tank tops, if they ever went swimming at all.


There are others, but I decided not to post the ones requiring eye bleach.

[Polybius]

10. There are others, but I decided not to post the ones requiring eye bleach.

Well there are none of Trump thankfully lol. Which ones would require eye bleach?

[NYC Liberal]

15. John Quincy Adams used to go skinny dipping in the Potomac.

Not even a tank top there!

[IggleDuer]

11. Any topless First Ladies?

Besides Melena.

[SoFloDenny]

12. +1

[Polybius]

14. Lol, hmm, while they are First Lady, how many bathing suit pics are there?

Jacqueline Kennedy and Hillary Clinton are two that I know of.

[NYC Liberal]

16. Jackie Kennedy. Well, Onassis since it was later on.

[quaint]

5. Shirtless President Photos: Kennedy Nixon Ford Reagan Clinton Obama

Shirtless President Photos

[sl8]

6. "W. Berliners Stone GIs, Russians"

I'm guessing that had to do with this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Peter_Fechter

Killing of Peter Fechter

Peter Fechter (14 January 1944 – 17 August 1962) was a German bricklayer who became the twenty-seventh known person to die at the Berlin Wall. Fechter was 18 years old when he was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross over to West Berlin.

[...]

Death

On 17 August 1962, around one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Fechter and Helmut Kulbeik attempted to flee from East Germany. The plan was to hide in a carpenter's workshop near the wall on Zimmerstrasse and, after observing the border guards from there, to jump out of a window into the "death-strip" (a strip running between the main wall and a parallel fence which they had recently started to construct), run across it, and climb over the two-metre (6.5 ft) wall topped with barbed wire into the Kreuzberg district of West Berlin near Checkpoint Charlie.[2]

Their plan was initially successful as both Fechter and Kulbeik reached the final wall, but as they began to climb the East German border guards fired at them. Although Kulbeik succeeded in crossing over the wall, Fechter was shot in the pelvis while still climbing, in plain view of hundreds of witnesses. He fell back into the death-strip on the East German side, where he remained in view of West German onlookers, including journalists. Despite his screams, Fechter received no medical assistance from the East German side, and could not be tended to by those on the West side. West Berlin police threw him bandages, which he could not reach, and he bled to death after approximately one hour. As a result of his death, hundreds in West Berlin formed a spontaneous demonstration, shouting "Murderers!" at the border guards.[2] The lack of medical assistance for Peter Fechter was attributed to mutual fear: Western bystanders were apparently prevented at gunpoint from assisting him, although according to a report in Time magazine, a second lieutenant of the US Army on the scene received specific orders from the US Commandant in West Berlin to stand firm and do nothing.[3] It also emerged during the trial that any aid attempt from the West had indeed been made impossible, but according to a report from forensic pathologist Otto Prokop, "Fechter had no chance of survival. The shot in the right hip had caused severe internal injuries."[4]

[...]

[Bayard]

7. He looks like he had a bit of a 6-pack going on

[Harker]

9. Does Nixon on Roger Stone's back count? n/t

[2naSalit]

13. Naw, it's just his top.