{"id":2702,"date":"2015-02-15T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2012\/02\/21\/presidents-week-some-presidential-trivia\/"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:08:54","slug":"presidents-week-some-presidential-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/2015\/02\/15\/presidents-week-some-presidential-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents Week &#8211; Some Presidential Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Here are some fun facts for President&#8217;s Week!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Click on the blue underlined words for more info on the fun fact!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At his inauguration,\u00a0George Washington only had one tooth. Contrary to popular belief, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6875436\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/t\/george-washingtons-false-teeth-not-wooden\/\">he never wore false wooden teeth<\/a>. However, at various times he did wear dentures made of human teeth, animal teeth, ivory and lead.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Jefferson and John Adams\u00a0were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/declaration\/signers\/index.htm\">only two presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence<\/a>. They also both died on the same day\u2014July 4, 1826\u2014the 50th anniversary of the signing.<\/li>\n<li>At 5 feet 4 inches, James Madison was the shortest president.<\/li>\n<li>Before he was president, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.rug.nl\/usa\/P\/aj7\/about\/bio\/duel.htm\">Andrew Jackson was wounded in a duel at the age of 39<\/a>. The bullet remained lodged in his heart until the day he died.<\/li>\n<li>Zachary Taylor let his old\u00a0Army horse, Whitey, graze on the White House lawn. Visitors took horse hairs as souvenirs.<\/li>\n<li>James Buchanan is the only president to <a href=\"http:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\/buchanan\/essays\/biography\/print\">remain a bachelor his entire life.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>While he was president, Ulysses S. Grant was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classroomhelp.com\/lessons\/Presidents\/grant.html\">arrested for riding his horse too fast and fined $20<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>James K. Polk&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.scholastic.com\/browse\/article.jsp?id=4670\">wife <\/a>did not allow card playing, dancing, or drinking in the White House.<\/li>\n<li>James A. Garfield could\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.scholastic.com\/browse\/article.jsp?id=4670\">write with both hands<\/a>. To entertain people he would write in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Harrison was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocanticohills.org\/presidents\/know.htm\">terrified of electric lights<\/a>. He would ask White House staff to turn them on and off for him.<\/li>\n<li>Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. president to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.2020site.org\/fun-facts\/Fun-Presidential-Facts.html\">use a phone<\/a> at the White House. Alexander Graham Bell personally showed him how to use it and his phone number was 1.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/funpresidentialfacts.net\/\">Calvin Coolidge<\/a> liked having his head massaged with Vaseline during breakfast in bed. He also rode his own mechanical bull and played &#8220;ding-dong ditch&#8217;em&#8221;\u2014he would ring the White House doorbell and then run and hide.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civil-liberties.com\/factoids\/july4_02.htm\">Robert Todd Lincoln<\/a>, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassinations of three presidents: his father&#8217;s, President Garfield&#8217;s and President McKinley&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>All presidents\u00a0receive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/weird\/487680-top-10-weird-presidential-facts#ixzz1EYqL8WIq\">code names<\/a> from the Secret Service. \u00a0Ronald Reagan was &#8220;Rawhide,&#8221; George H. W. Bush was &#8220;Timberwolf,&#8221; Bill Clinton was &#8220;Eagle,&#8221; George W. Bush was &#8220;Trailblazer&#8221; and Barack Obama is &#8220;Renegade.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/acafeonmars.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/abraham-lincoln-president-lawyerand.html\">Abraham Lincoln was a\u00a0licensed bartende<\/a>r. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in Springfield, IL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-979\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/lie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2012\/02\/presidents_2009_2.jpg\" alt=\"presidents_2009_2\" width=\"505\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some fun facts for President&#8217;s Week! Click on the blue underlined words for more info on the fun fact! At his inauguration,\u00a0George Washington only had one tooth. Contrary to popular belief, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6875436\/ns\/technology_and_science-science\/t\/george-washingtons-false-teeth-not-wooden\/\">he never wore false wooden teeth<\/a>. 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