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All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to be seen with them in public.
Franklin Pierce is the only President to have said "I promise" instead of "I swear at his Inauguration. He did it for religious reasons.
Ronald Reagan married his first wife, Jane Wyman, at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
At Andrew Jackson's funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed because it was swearing.
Bill Clinton is the only President ever to be elected twice without ever receiving 50% of the popular vote. He had 43 percent in 1992 and 49 percent in 1996.
Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes earned a Nobel Peace Prize.
Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Nixon's Secretaries of State have won Noble Peace Prizes.
The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
Grover Cleveland's real first name is Stephen, Grover is his middle name.
Warren G. Harding's middle name is Gamaliel.
The only President to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan.
When George Washington was elected President, there was a King in France, a Czar in Russia, an Emperor in China, and a Shogun in Japan. Only the office of President remained.
George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
Only three Presidents graduated from the military academies: Grant, Eisenhower (West Point) and Carter (Annapolis).
George Washington who commanded the Continental Army as a four-star general was promoted posthumously to the position of six-star "General of the Armies of Congress" by an order of Jimmy Carter, who felt America's first President should also be America's highest military official.
Andrew Johnson, was the only self-educated tailor. He is the only President to make his own clothes as well as his cabinet's.
The first President to ride in an automobile was William McKinley. After being shot, he was taken to the hospital in a 1901 Columbia electric ambulance.
William Howard Taft was the first President to own a car.
Warren G. Harding was the first American President to visit Canada. He stopped in Vancouver, British Columbia while he was on his way to Alaska.
Gerald Ford was the only President to have two women attempt to assassinate him. Both attempts were in California in September of 1975. The first attempt was September 6, 1975, by Lynette Fromme who thought she could impress Charles Manson by killing the President. The next attempt was by Sara Jane Moore on September 22, 1975. Her motive was simply that she was bored.
John Tyler, joined the Confederacy twenty years later and became the only President named a sworn enemy of the United States.
Andrew Jackson spent most of his adult life with a bullet no more than two inches away from his heart as a result of a duel he fought before becoming President.
Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams, was the first and only foreign-born first lady.
Abe Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms. Lincoln drank the milk.
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