Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a rib-tickling compendium of anecdotes from the last 70 years of presidential campaigns. As he showed in his popular book, Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II, sometimes the most intense situations yield the most unexpectedly funny stories. And few situations are more intense than a presidential campaign.

From FDR to Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail--a place where levity is always welcome. Osgood includes fragments of speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about candidates--no source is left untapped.