Health and Medical History of President

Rutherford Hayes

In the Hayes White House, profanity, tobacco, and liquor vanished. Although the people blamed his wife, "Lemonade Lucy" Hayes, the President took the credit himself. But he could joke about it. Once, when he was red from poison ivy, he made it a point to tell his audience that his skin appeared so, not because he had abandoned his principles, but because of the poison ivy 1a.

Reliability of this information is uncertain. 2