Little Known facts about the Presidents

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Wahington:

He had a dog named Sweet Lips.

He introduced the jackass to America.

He loved cream of peanut soup.

He liked fishing and spelunking.

He was the only President that didn't belong to a political party.

Madison:

His friends called him "Jemmie".

He was the smallest president. 5'4" and less than 100 lbs.

His wife Dolly saved the portrait of G.washington from the burning white house in 1812.

He was the first president to wear long trousers.

Adams:

He was the first president to be photographed.

Jackson:

He bought 20 spitoons for the white house east room for $12.50 each. Some thought it a great waste of money, while other's thought it would save the carpeting.

He loved kids and raised 11 of them in the white house, none were his.

He was the first president to ride on a train.

Harrison:

He was the first to die in the white house after serving only 1 month to the day.

Tyler:

He was on his knees playing marbles when he heard of Harrisons death and his turn to be president.

He was the first to marry in office. 2 wives and 15 children.


too be continued.........feel free to add your own whacky facts.

 

[Pure]

Harding was part Black

Hoover was a Quaker; Nixon a lapsed one.

Reagan's future wife N. was once mistakenly identified as a commie.

Kennedy was of fragile health; lots of needles ('vitamins') and meds.

Ike had an affair.

Johnson's Johnson was enormous.

 

[Guest]

FDR's wife/first lady was a dyke.

Perdita

 

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Polk:

Didn't allow dancing in the white house, thought it was a frivolous waste of time...this one's for you Polky...

Gaslights came on in the white house during his administration.

He died three months after his term ended from exhaustion.
He should have danced more!!

Fillmore:

He married his teacher Abigail Powers. She was two years younger. She arranged for the first cooking stove in the white house, but the cook couldn't figure it out. The Pres went to the patent office and read up on how it worked and taught the cook how to use it.
rumor has it they had hot wings and nachos.

Pierce:

He was the first to have a Christmas tree in the white house.

He was also the youngest and handsomest pres up to that time.
everyone wanted to wrap his package at christmas.

Buchanan:

He was the bachelor pres.

He liked to give sauerkraut and mashed potato parties.
Think I figured out why he was a bachelor.

More to come, whether you like it or not.

 

[Guest]

George W Bush is the first closet gay president of United States of Jewmerica, and he's so stupid he doesn't realise it.

 

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FDR's wife/first lady was a dyke.

Perdita

Have you ever read her love letters???? I bet she would have been a lit writer if she were alive today.

 

[Guest]

Have you ever read her love letters???? I bet she would have been a lit writer if she were alive today.

No, but I always liked her and was glad to know she had love in her life. I always thought her beautiful too. P.

 

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No, but I always liked her and was glad to know she had love in her life. I always thought her beautiful too. P.

She was quite passionate too.

 

[Guest]

Ronald Reagan was the best cocksucker the Hollywood had to offer.

Nancy Reagan fucked the studio bosses a lot.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

I live about 10 minutes from where Lincoln was born, so I know a few tidbits about him.

He was 6`4.

He loved to wrestle.

His parents came to Kentucky with Daniel Boone.

He was born in a one room cabin that is still in existance. A larger building was built around the cabin somewhere around 1900 to preserve the cabin as a National landmark. The cabin is tiny, I'd say no bigger than a 2 car garage.

His wife had 4 brothers that served in the confederate army during the civil war. Some people rumored that she was a confederate spy. LOL, the South lost the war, so apparently she wasn't a very good spy.

Lincon was the first president to be assasinated.

Lincoln was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth was also in that photo.

 

[Guest]

And I'm fat.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

And I'm fat.

Ha!!!!
I knew it!

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I live about 10 minutes from where Lincoln was born ... He was born in a one room cabin that is still in existance. ... The cabin is tiny, I'd say no bigger than a 2 car garage....

Both Lincolns, too, I suppose.

 

[rgraham666]

Washington: He introduced the jackass to America.

How could he have introduced the jackass to America.

The jackass is, in the word's of H. Beam Piper, "quite common and widely distributed."

Oh wait! Narf! You're talking about that long eared horse-like thingy aren't you?

Never mind.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Not as much about a pres as about the parties, but did anyone know that both the Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant were slurs against each party at first?

Nast showed the GOP as a bull elephant running amok in a political cartoon. And the Democratic donkey was actually a jackass, I can't remember if that was a Nast cartoon or not.

-Colly

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Lincoln is always portrayed with a beard, but he was actually clean-shaven most of his precidency, and only got a beard the last few years.

The Kennedy family had their daughter lobotomized because they didn't approve of her sexuality.

Clinton... well, is there really ANYTHING we don't know about him by now?

Bush: http://www.michaelmoore.com

 

[Guest]

Joe Kennedy Sr. had his daughter 'fixed' without telling his wife or family. He, like so many others, did not know what a cruel thing it was, thought it would merely quieten her. Tragic. P.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Makes one wonder if Dubya's parents have done the same thing to him...

 

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Johnson:

Never went to school, taught himeself to read after friends showed him the letters of the alphabet.

Was buried wrapped in an American flag with his well worn copy of the Constitution under his head.

Grant:

His favorite breakfast was a cucumber soaked in vinegar.

He suffered from intense migranes that people mistook for bouts of drunkeness.

He owned a slave aquired from his father in law. He desparately needed money which would have been made by the sale of this slave, but instead signed a document declaring his freedom.

Hayes:

During his administration the first phone was installed, he called Alexander Graham Bell who lived 13 miles away.

He was a no booze in the white house president.

He and his wife Lucille started the easter egg roll.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

Clinton... well, is there really ANYTHING we don't know about him by now?

Here's one you don't know about Clinton, yours truly damn near killed him in 1990. LOL.

True story: I was in the Air Force, stationed in Arkansas. Clinton was governor at the time. The base I was at was scheduled to close. When a base closes, it is turned over to the state. Clinton was there as Governor to basically see what his state was getting.

I was working up inside the landing gear of a B-52. People that work on the planes know that you always look up to see if someone is there before you walk under the gear. Clinton wanted to see a plane, but didn't know the rules. Just as I'm jumping down from the landing gear, he walks right under without looking. I had to pull myself back in mid air to avoid crashing down on top of him. I landed on my feet with our noses about 6-8 inches apart. It scared the shit out of both of us. Him because some guy just dropped out of nowhere and is suddenly 6 inches from his face, and me because some dumb jerk just walked under the plane........oh shit, that's the Governor. What the hell is he doing here?

After a few seconds, we collected our wits and wound up having a very nice conversation for 15-20 minutes. He's a pretty cool guy in person. This was during the time that there was speculation that he would run for President. I asked him if he was going to run, and his answer was "I think so".

Imagine the profound impact I could have had on world history if I had landed on him and broken his neck in 1990.

 

[EarthquakeMan]

A typo from a 1915 Washington Post in a story about President Wilson taking his fiancée, Edit Galt, to the theatre to "entertain" her. The story reported that rather than watch the play, the President "spent most of his time entering Mrs. Galt."

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Hayes:
He was a no booze in the white house president.
He and his wife Lucille started the easter egg roll.

President Hayes: "Let's have the kids roll Easter Egg's on the lawn this Sunday."

Lucy Hayes: "Have you been drinking, Rutherford? Let me smell your breath."

President Hayes: "Leave me be, 'Lemonade Lucy,' just because you finished college ... I'm still the President, you know!"


Did You Know:

Lucy Hayes was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" because of her habit of serving only lemonade and soft drinks in the White House.

Lucy Hayes was the 1st First Lady to finish college.

 

[A7inchPhildo]

Great story wild,

I would just love to hear more reality tales like that one.

 

[Guest]

Lincoln was the first president to be photographed at his inauguration. John Wilkes Booth was also in that photo.

COME ON Osama!

Kill George!

 

[Wildcard Ky]

COME ON Osama!

Kill George!

The level of absolute hatred that some people have is mind boggling to me. I simply can't comprehend hating someone that you've never met so much that you hope terrorists kill them.