- President Lyndon Johnson used to smoke three packs of cigarettes a day.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Both Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter, U.S. presidents, were peanut farmers at one time.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan once wore a Nazi uniform while acting in a film during his Hollywood days. The name of the movie was "Desperate Journey," which was filmed in 1942.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the United States.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first United States president to visit China was Richard Nixon.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - William Taft who was the U.S. president between 1909-1913 once got stuck in the White House bathtub.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only man to receive the "Time's Man of the Year" award three times. He received it in the years 1932, 1934, and 1941.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - American President John Tyler had 15 children.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The first president to ride in an airplane was Franklin Roosevelt.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Herbert Hoover, who was the 31st president of the United Stated, turned over all the Federal salary checks he received to charity during the 47 years he was in government.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - George Washington had teeth made out of hippopotamus ivory.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The heaviest United States President was William Howard Taft who weighed 332 pounds.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In his youth, United States president George W. Bush used to play for the Midland (Texas) Central Little League. He played the position of the catcher.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In 1907, at the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt shook hands with 8,150 people on New Year's Day.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - American President Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) used to like Vaseline being rubbed on his head while he ate breakfast in bed.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan worked as a lifeguard in his youth at a beach near Dixon, Illinois and saved over 77 lives.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Thomas Jefferson had three achievements placed on his headstone at his request, "Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson/Author Of The Declaration Of American Independence/Of The Statute Of Virginia For Religious Freedom/And Father Of The University of Virginia.? He never mentioned being President of the United States.
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