A few photos from history:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Two Countries, One Umbrella – President Dwight D. Eisenhower with Indian President Rajendra Prasad, in India, December 11, 1959 (anyone have the year?)
President John F. Kennedy
Aide holds umbrella for First Lady Jacqueline and President John F. Kennedy, inaugural night, 1961.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives for church services in Honolulu, February 6, 1966, during Vietnam negotiations. To Johnson’s immediate right, Rep. Spark Matsunaga; on Johnson’s left, a Secret Service agent. National Archives photo
President Richard M. Nixon
Caption from The AtlanticWire: In 1960, Richard Nixon pledged to campaign in all 50 states. He was not even rewarded for this foolishness with nice weather in Hawaii.
My memory is that no other presidential candidate has campaigned in Hawaii since then. Has any other candidate campaigned in Alaska?
Collection: NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection Title: Nixon and Paine at Apollo 12 Launch Full Description: Dr. Thomas Paine, NASA Administrator, shields First Lady, Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, from rain while the President and daughter Tricia, foreground, watch Apollo 12 prelaunch activities at the Kennedy Space Center viewing area. Following the successful liftoff, the President congratulated the launch crew from within the control center. Date: 11/14/1969 NASA photo, on Flickr
The image of Nixon in the rain was captured several times.
From the AtlanticWire: Even amid his staff and security, Nixon looks like a lonely man helpless against the elements. (AP photo?)
President Gerald R. Ford
Wally McNamee photo, University of Texas Center for American History. UPI caption for their photos: As Betty Ford holds the umbrella, a military aide rushes forward to assist President Ford as he trips and falls on the lower steps of the plane ramp following his arrival in Salzburg, Austria on June 1, 1975. (UPI Photo/Files)
President Ronald Reagan:
Undated photo of First Lady Nancy and President Ronald Reagan being sheltered on an airport in an unnamed place. Image from BigotBasher.
Reagan at the White House, in the rain:
White House staff shelter President Reagan’s waving. Freakout Nation image
President George H. W. Bush:
Barbara Bush held the umbrella for President George H. W. Bush in July 1989 (in Italy?). From The AtlanticWire.
President George H. W. Bush found himself in the rain again, in late 1989. AtlanticWire image
President Barack Obama:
President Barack Obama took the stage amidst a downpour at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois, on Memorial Day. He announced that the event was being canceled because of the severe weather, and he told the crowd to seek shelter, May 31, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
More:
- Obama scandals: Now, umbrella-gate (tv.msnbc.com)
- Sometimes an Umbrella Is Just an Umbrella (balloon-juice.com)
- Under My Umbrella: POTUS Edition (itsspencerbrown.com)
- Presidents Look Like Doofuses in Rain (theatlanticwire.com)
- From the 2012 campaign: “30 pictures of President Obama’s rain-soaked speech,” (buzzfeed.com) (Warning: Cute kids loving on Obama in the mix)
- Journalists, especially those with a rightward tilt, complain about the sunshine, moments before the rain (buzzfeed.com)
- “Presidents don’t use rain delays,” Brooklyn Public Library account of FDR’s 1944 campaign visit to New York and Ebbetts Field in the rain
- “Even Obama’s umbrellas are a scandal now,” Post Politics blog
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
Many national leaders struggle with umbrellas.
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May 18, 2015, from ABC News on Facebook.
ABC said:
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James,
The rumor — which was never confirmed — was that when Senator Obama won the Democratic Primary, Caribou Barbie said, “Wow. So Sambo beat the b*tch”.
I gave her the benefit of the doubt at the time and still do.
However, her shock and outrage over this certainly seems and feels like a privileged member of a racial majority who is offended at the uppity African American being served by a white person.
My best guess, though, is that she just reacted. Because the woman is entirely incapable of intelligent thought or comment on anything.
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[…] This is just so odd that it merits our attention, so long as we’re talking about presidents and umbrellas. […]
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Dear Republicans, maybe its time for you to reconsider things if you’re reduced to trying to make a controversy out of an umbrella.
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[…] Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub provides some old photos of presidents and umbrellas. I wonder if the right wing has finally jumped the shark…ok it has done so a long time ago […]
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Google says 2 horsepower dec 11 1959
President Rajendra Prasad and President Eisenhower driving in state for the opening ceremony of the World Agriculture Fair on December 11, 1959.
ebay copy says dec 12th but that is (presumably) publish date?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1959-Press-Photo-President-Eisenhower-Indian-President-Rajendra-Prasad-/281005051047
short video of arrival?
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675047256_Dwight-D-Eisenhower_Rajendra-Prasad_Jawaharlal-Nehru_Mughal-Gardens
available at library
Click to access Eisenhower_John_DDE_Albums.pdf
48 Certificate from the First World Agriculture Fair, New Delhi, India, 12/11/1959
19 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws, University of Delhi, India, 11 December 1959
mentioned in itinerary at 1:21
2 1/2 week trip
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675070008_Dwight-Eisenhower_175th-press-conference_2%C2%BD-weeks-trip_President-speaks
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