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Interesting facts about US presidents.





George Washington loved horseback riding. However, he insisted that the horse on which he had to sit down, was perfectly clean. Washington even check the cleanliness of the teeth of the animal.

Thomas Jefferson self-created design of your tombstone and wrote lyrics for it, which does not indicate that he was president.

John Quincy Adams often at dawn to swim naked in the Potomac River. He almost did not change clothes and sneaked a suit over a decade.

Andrew Jackson was an inveterate duelist. During one of the duels he was shot in the chest, surgeons were unable to remove it, and Jackson lived with this piece of lead life. Martin Van Buren after leaving the White House wrote an interesting memoir, which never mentions his wife.

The inauguration ceremony of William Harrison (1841) was carried out in an extremely cold day. The new president immediately caught a cold. Soon his cold developed into pneumonia from which he died a month later. He led the US record time.

John Tyler is best for large president in US history. He had eight children by his first wife, and 7 - from the second. His 15th child was born when the president was over seventy.

Zachary Taylor everywhere and always chewed tobacco. During all official events he held in his hand the snuffbox with tobacco.

Millard Fillmore refused to accept the mantle of an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. He explained this by saying that nothing is done for science.

When the Eleventh US President James Polk was 17 years old, he removed the gallbladder. Doctors conducted anesthesia, the future president watered brandy.

James Buchanan - the only US president who was not married. He was once engaged, but his fiancee broke off the engagement, and soon died.

President Abraham Lincoln always wore a tall black cylinder, inside which he kept writing, financial papers, bills and notes.

Andrew Johnson never attended school. Taught him to read his future wife Eliza McCardle MakKardelEliza 17 years of age. President Johnson wore only suits that kroil and sewed himself.

Throughout his life, Ulysses Grant smoked 20 cigars a day. He died of throat cancer.

President James Garfield was fluent in both hands and was a polyglot. He was able to write at the same time with one hand on the Greek and the other - in Latin. He died as a result of a cut finger - during treatment there was blood poisoning.

In the wardrobe of Chester Arthur was about 100 pairs of pants.

Grover Cleveland underwent secret surgery, during which he removed part of the jaw, affected by cancer.

Benjamin Harrison hated electric light and demanded that during his tenure in the White House light turns off and lit candles.

During the hunt, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a bear with a cub. After that, a new toy - teddy bears, which became known as "Teddy Bears,» teddy bears («Teddy" - -laskatelnaya diminutive form of the name "Theodore").

William Taft weighed more than 136 pounds. The White House has been established for a special bath increased size.

Warren G. Harding played poker at least twice a week. Once he even lost the entire Chinese porcelain set that belonged to the White House. His advisers called "Poker Cabinet" Poker Cabinet, since they are its main partners in this game of chance.

Calvin Coolidge was a sick stomach. For the treatment and prevention he slept 10-11 hours at night and rest during the day. At the White House with him were two hand raccoon.

Herbert Hoover wrote and published more than 16 books. One of his books is called "Fishing for fun and purification of the soul" Fishing for Fun And to Wash Your Soul.

Franklin Roosevelt had a kinship with 11 his predecessors in the White House.

Harry Truman was handmade goat, which was grazing on the White House lawn.

Military leader and President Dwight Eisenhower was a great lover and master of cooking. He even invented a recipe for vegetable soup, which consisted of the stems of nasturtium.

John F. Kennedy was the first in US history scout, who became president.

Lyndon Johnson loved to make gifts to their employees and visitors. His favorite gift was electric toothbrushes. Author of a biography of Johnson for 10 years, received from his hero 12 brushes.

Richard Nixon always warms your room with a fireplace, refusing to use the central heating.

Gerald Ford in the 12-year age of the parents reported that adopted him.

Jimmy Carter was the first president of the United States, published a historical novel ("Hornet's Nest» The Hornet's Nest). True Carter wrote the novel after leaving the White House.

Ronald Reagan became known that overcame "the 20-year-old curse" of the White House, according to which every president elected in a year ending in zero, dying or died before the end of his presidential term.

George HW Bush was distinguished by the fact that loved Mexican and Chinese food, but never eaten broccoli.

Bill Clinton ordered the creation of a personal web site of your cat Sox.

George W. Bush and his wife Laura were married only three months after the date of his acquaintance.