A Couple of Fun Facts About this Nations Great Leaders
August 04, 2009 at 07:40 PM by mind2it
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- John Quincy Adams used to get up two hours before sunrise to go skinny dipping in the Potomac River.
- Andrew Jackson was the only president to ever kill a man in a duel.
- Zachary Taylor’s horse grazed on the Whiter House lawn.
- Abraham Lincoln was six feet four inches tall, the tallest President so far.
- Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding while driving a horse and buggy in Washington, DC. He had to pay a fine of $20.00 and walk back to the White House.
- Benjamin Harrison was so afraid of electric lights that he used to have White House staff turn them on and off.
- Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.
- The teddy bear was named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s mother forced him to wear dress until he was five years old.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only President elected to four terms. (1933-1945)
- John F. Kennedy’s father gave him $1,000,000 when he turned twenty-one. (Each of his nine brothers and sisters got a million dollars too!)
- President Reagan loved jelly beans and used to keep a bowl of them on his desk. His nickname was Dutch.
- Gerald Ford loved golf, but spectators had to watch carefully because the President was known for conking people on the head with his wild shots.
- President Ford was the only President not elected as President or Vice President. He was appointed Vice President by President Richard Nixon and then became President when Richard Nixon resigned. Ford was a model for Cosmopolitan and Look magazines in the 1940’s.
