During the year 1881 , three men served as the President of United States. The first lady of United States doesn’t have to be president’s wife. Position can be filled by his daughtre , niece or sister instead. The USA President carries his own blood bank in the trunk of his car! No president of the United states was an only child. Every US president with a beard has been a republican. Half of the 42 U.S. Presidents are of Irish descent. Air Force One is not called Air Force One unless the President is on it. 42 of the 44 US Presidents are related except for Martin Van Buren and Barac Obama . The distant grandfather to which all these presidents can be traced is King John “Lackland” Plantagenet, the King of England in the 13th century. The 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826. They are the only two presidents to die on the same day of the same year. James Buchanan has been the only bachelor to serve as the President of the United States . President George H.W. Bush once vomited on the lap of the Japanese prime minister in January 1992. President George W. Bush and playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins ! Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital. Grover Cleveland, the 24th president of the US, worked briefly as an executioner before becoming president. He hung at least two convicted criminals. Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency. The 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time. Rutherford Hayes became U.S. President by one vote. 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. The United States had $ 0 debt only once in 1835 when president Andrew Jackson paid it all off. President Lyndon Johnson owned an amphibious car , the Amphicar and used to scar guests by driving them into his lake screaming about brake failure. In 1963, the year of John F Kennedy’s assassination , it was not a federal offense to assassinate the president . John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy! JFK’s assistant David Powers was in the car behind him filming everything when he was assassinated, but ran out of film just before the shooting! During his presidency John F. Kennedy never collected his salary of $ 150000. He donated the full amount to charity. There are no direct descendants of Abraham Lincoln alive today. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day , 2 nd February 1809.. Richard M. Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states. The only president to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan. President Teddy Roosevelt died from an “infected tooth.” Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine. President Theodore Roosevelt wrote 37 books Theodore Roosevelt read an average of one book per day even on days he was busy being the president. Theodore Roosevelt was shot, and then went on to give a 90 minute speach while covered in blood, the bullet still lodged in him. Theodore Roosevelt watched his mother die of Typhoid fever on Feb. 14, 1884 and immediately go upstairs to see his wife die of complications from child birth within a time of one hour. After his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari in Africa in 1909. He and his team killed or captured 11,397 different animals, including elephants, hippos, and even insects. He brought back so many animals on his trip that it took years for the Smithsonian Institution to mount them all. President William H. Taft had quite a second career. 9 years after his presidency, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Harding. President John Tyler had fifteen children. George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration. President George Washington oversaw construction of the White House, but he never lived there. It was our second President, John Adams, elected in 1796, who first lived in the White House. George Washington died on December 14, 1799 at age 67. He had rode his horse around his farm just the day before on a cold wintery wet day. He awoke the next morning very ill. His last words were “It is well”. He died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
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