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Presidents
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Richard Nixon has received more votes than any other person
in American history. His three Congressional terms, two terms
as Vice-President, his narrow defeat by JFK in the 1960 presidential,
his run for the California Gubenatorial, his first election
to the Presidency in 1968 and his landslide deafeat of Geroge
McGovern (the largest in Presidential history until that time)
makes Nixon the most voted for American politician ever. |
Did you know that a vice-president got away with murder? Aaron
Burr, who was Jefferson's VP, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton
on July 11,1804 in a duel. The men decided on the duel based
on insults exchanged over political issues. Burr was charged
for murder in New Jersey, but the State never pursued to convict
him on the grounds that 'civilized nations' do not treat dueling
deaths as 'common murders.' |
When the White House (President's residence) was constructed
it was built of freestone a form of sandstone that is very
porous and is highly susceptible to water damage, so the masons
sealed the stone with a wash of salt, rice and glue. It was
the building's first coat of white paint; soon it would be
nicknamed the 'White House'. |
John F. Kennedy had a sister, Rosemary, who was mentally retarded.
She had a lobotomy, at that time not known to be that bad.
She is still living and is eighty-five years old. |
Woodrow Wilson is the only U.S. president to this day to receive
an earned Ph.D. His degree was in History from Johns Hopkins
University. |
Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the U.S. didn't vote
until he was 62 years old and didn't even vote in his own election
because he was a soldier & moved so often he couldn't establish
legal residency until he retired. |
President John Quincy Adams owned a pet alligator which he
kept in the East Room of the White House. |
The four presidential heads of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson,
and Theodore Roosevelt were sculpted on Mount Rushmore in South
Dakota by Gutzon Borglum who had completed a colossal bas-relief
of Confederate heroes on the face of Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Work began in the summer of 1927 and dragged on for 14 years,
its cost escalating to $1 million. He died in 1941 shortly
before it was completed. His son oversaw the final work. |
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. Vice-President, once remarked "What
this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." Will Rogers
(1879-1935), American Humorist retorted "Our country has
plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge
fifteen cents for them." |
Ronald Reagan was the only president to have ever worn a NAZI
uniform. (He wore it as an actor in a movie)
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