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Presidents

  1. President Nixon was first US president to resign from office?
  2. The White House in Washington, DC. has always been white?
  3. The first U.S. President to be born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter?
  4. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp and Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper?
  5. Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters in the word "criminal." William Jefferson Clinton was the second?
  6. George Washington was the first President to be seen at a postage stamp?
  7. John Kerry's hometown newspaper, the Lowell Sun, endorsed George W. Bush for president. Bush's hometown newspaper, the Lone Star Iconoclast, endorsed John Kerry for president?
  8. Martin Van Buren, the eighth president in U.S., was the first president to be born in the United States of America?
  9. Thomas Jefferson was the first President of the U.S. to live in the White House?
  10. George Washington's salary a year was $25,000?
  11. Abraham Lincoln had no middle name?
  12. Millard Fillmore was the first President in U.S. to have a stove in the White House?
  13. John F. Kennedy is the only president to have died before his parents?
  14. Before you can run for President in the U.S. you must be a natural born citizen, a citizen for at least 14 years and be 35 years of age?
  15. President Gerald Ford had a different name at birth? His name was Leslie King?
  16. Jimmy Carter once reported a UFO in Georgia?
  17. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons?
  18. James Madison was the smallest president in U.S. history? He stood 5 foot 4 inches long and weighed about 90 pounds?
  19. At least three the U.S. presidents were left-handed? Harry S. Truman, James Garfield and Jerry Ford?
  20. According to the film Fahrenheit 9/11 George Bush Sr. was sitting in a room with bin Laden's brother on the day that 9/11 happened?
  21. The only president to be born on July 4th is Calvin Coolidge in 1872?
  22. The first President to have a Christmas tree in the White House was Benjamin Harrison?