Here are just a few….
President No. 2: John Adams spoke with a lisp because he stubbornly refused to wear dentures.
President No. 6: John Quincy Adams was partial to skinny-dipping in the Potomac. Once, he was surprised mid-swim by an intrepid female reporter, who forced him into a naked interview.
President No. 29: As president, Warren G. Harding bet a priceless set of White House china on a poker game—and lost.
President No. 34: Dwight D. Eisenhower hated cats. When he retired to Gettysburg, Penn., he’d shoot any cat that came near his house.
President No. 38: Gerald Ford was a male model who once graced the cover of Cosmopolitan.
President No. 42: Bill Clinton won a 2004 Grammy along with Sophia Loren and Mikhail Gorbachev for the group’s recording of Peter and the Wolf.
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I always knew I liked Ike!
Gerald Ford was the only President that did not win a Presidential or Vice-Presdential election.
Richard,
Our President was not “elected” in 2000, he was installed by Supreme Court fiat.
You are really getting to be a major downer…
I had no idea that ‘Dubya’ gave a damn about foreign automobiles.
Fiat?? Even the Supremes won’t buy American??
#14- A month after his election, but before he was sworn in to office, Franklin Pierce was traveling with his family by rail when the train derailed and rolled down an embankment. Their 11 year old son was thrown from the train and his head was crushed. Mrs Pierce saw the mangled body, and went into a life-long depression and spent the rest of her years in seclusion, writing letters to her dead son.
All three of their children, all sons, died in childhood.
#8- Martin Van Buren was the first US president to be a US citizen.
#37- Nixon was the first prez to visit all 50 states.
It’ll take Obama longer to visit all the states now that there are 57.
Gerald Ford’s birth name was Leslie King, Jr.
I wonder why there aren’t any Leslie King Jr. boulevards?