| • america's
first: |
president
george washington had a dog named drunkard. he also owned
a hemp field and was given a jackass by the king of spain.
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| • america's
sixth: |
president
john quincy adams regularly swam nude in the potomac river.
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| • america's
10th: |
president
john tyler had just celebrated his 70th birthday when his
15th child was born.
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| • america's
12th: |
president
zachary taylor was also known as "old rough and ready."
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| • america's
13th: |
president
millard fillmore married his teacher.
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| • america's
14th: |
president
franklin pierce was arrested during his term for running
over an old lady with his horse.
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| • america's
20th: |
president
james garfield was ambidextrous and multilingual. he could
write greek with one hand while writing latin with the other.
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| • america's
23rd: |
president
benjamin harrison was afraid to touch light switches.
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| • america's
24th: |
president
grover cleveland personally answered the white house phone.
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| • america's
29th: |
president
warren g. harding launched a smear campaign against his
opponent entitled "cox and cocktails." he also wore size 14 shoes.
(you know what they say about men with big feet.)
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| • america's
31st: |
president
herbert hoover was a cross-dresser.
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| • america's
37th: |
president
richard millhouse nixon ate cottage cheese with ketchup
to manage his weight. he was also the first president whose name
contained all the letters in the word "criminal."
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| • america's
38th: |
president
gerald ford survived two assassination attempts by two different
women in just over two weeks. he also once worked as a fashion model.
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| • america's
40th: |
president ronald reagan's had a service codename "rawhide."
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| • america's
42nd: |
president
william jefferson clinton was the second president whose
name contained all the letters in the word "criminal."
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| • america's
43rd: |
president
george w. bush and wife laura only knew each other three
months before getting married. |
hail to the chief.
