{"id":1635,"date":"2013-02-19T01:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/02\/19\/presidential-trivia\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T01:04:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:04:05","slug":"presidential-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/02\/19\/presidential-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential trivia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: normal;text-align: center;padding: 0px;margin: 0px\">Here are some fun facts for President\u2019s Week!<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: center;margin: 0px\">Click on the blue underlined words for more info on the fun fact!<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-top: 5px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left: 0px;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;line-height: normal;text-align: left;margin: 0px\">\n<li>At his inauguration,\u00a0George Washington only had one tooth. Contrary to popular belief,\u00a0<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\u00a0<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,\u00a0<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\u00a0<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\u00a0<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\u2019s\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 \u201cding-dong ditch\u2019em\u201d\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\u2019s, President Garfield\u2019s and President McKinley\u2019s.<\/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 \u201cRawhide,\u201d George H. W. Bush was \u201cTimberwolf,\u201d Bill Clinton was \u201cEagle,\u201d George W. Bush was \u201cTrailblazer\u201d and Barack Obama is \u201cRenegade.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/acafeonmars.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/abraham-lincoln-president-lawyerand.html\">Abraham Lincoln was a\u00a0licensed bartende<\/a>r. 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