8 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Presidents
Presidents’ Day Monday, February 20th
8 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Presidents
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John Qunicy Adams (6th President) approved a real life “Journey to the Center of the Earth!”
- Andrew Jackson put the kibosh on it 4 years later when he was elected
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Abraham Lincoln (16th President) turned down the chance to host elephants
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The King of Siam offered them as a gift to be “Beasts of Burden” during the civil war. Abe politely said no and used steam engines instead
- Ulysses S. Grant (18th President) was arrested for speeding
- On a “Horse!”
- Howard Taft (27th President) took a custom bathtub on a trip to Panama
- It was 7 feet long and weighed a ton
- Warren Harding (29th resident) lost the White House china in a poker game
- Herbert Hoover (31st President) didn’t want to be seen or to see his staff
- They piled into closets or hid behind bushes
- Gerald Ford (38th President) was once a model on the cover of Cosmopolitan
- Uncredited in his Navy uniform and he married a model - later known as First Lady Betty Ford
- William “Bill” Clinton (42nd President) is a “My Little :Pony” Expert