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| What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954? |
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| What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut? |
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| What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs? |
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| Barbara Walters tagged along with me to China. |
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| I revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb at my last State of the Union address. |
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| I was the heaviest President. |
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| I was related to 11 other presidents. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Theodore Roosevelt (at 42) |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| My dog's name was Millie. |
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| My dog, Checkers, although not alive in my presidency, played an important part in my electoral career. |
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| I particularly like peanuts ;) |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| About which president did Truman say, "I'm not against the Pope. I'm against the Pop." |
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| Who was president during America's bicentennial? |
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| I was the first president to visit China while in office. |
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| I was the first president to be born in the 20th century. |
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| I was the first president to ride in an automobile. |
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| Which president described a certain brand of coffee as being "good to the last drop?" That became the company's slogan. |
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| I was the first president to be born in a hospital. |
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| Who was the first president whose mother could have voted for him. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| I was the president to die in office of natural cause. |
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| I was the fourth president to die in office of natural cause. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| In whose presidency was the Spanish-American War fought? |
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| During my term, America annexed the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico. |
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| I ordered the combat use of a nuclear weapon. |
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| I married in office (I'm between the 25th and the 44th president) |
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| I was the third president to be assassinated in office. |
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| Who was the only President to serve as President without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency? |
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| Which President after his term in office later served on the Supreme Court as the Chief Justice of the United States? |
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| Who was the US President during World War I? |
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| In whose presidency did the 1929 Stock Market Crash took place which ushered in the Great Depression? |
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| Who was the first President to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? |
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| Which President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after the tenure of his presidency? |
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| The U.S. highest mountain bears my name in Alaska. |
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick". |
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| I gave my dog its own seat at the cabinet table. |
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| I had a dog named Laddie Boy. |
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| some historians call me "likely the sickest man ever to hold office." |
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| I suffered from Addison's disease,a rare endocrine disorder |
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| I was the first president to have telephone on the Oval Office desk. |
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| I was the first president to become a millionaire. |
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| I was the first president to appear on television. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| I was the first president to ride in a submarine. |
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| I enlisted in the Civil War from Ohio. |
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| My superior officer was a future president (at that time). |
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| I was the first president to beat William Jennings Bryan. |
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| I beat the former U.S. representative from Nebraska. |
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| During my term, a treaty was signed annexing Hawaii. |
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| U.S.S. Maine exploded during my term. |
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| "Remember the Maine" campaign slogan |
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| The United States gained ownership of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico during my term. |
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| I was the first president to have used the telephone. |
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| My inauguration was the first inauguration to be filmed. |
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| I was the first president to appear on film extensively. |
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| I signed the act that established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money. |
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| I graduated from Harvard in 1880. |
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| I was the fifth cousin to a future president. |
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| I beat Alton Brooks Parker for the presidency. |
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| Oklahoma was admitted to the Union during my presidency. |
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| I suffered from malaria and leg inflammation after visiting Brazil. |
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| South American Expedition |
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| I attended Cincinnati Law School. |
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| I was Governor-General of the Philippines. |
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| I was Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| I became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
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| I was the second president to beat William Jennings Bryan. |
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| I actively pursued the economic development of the less-developed nations of Latin America and Asia through American investment in their infrastructures. |
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| One of my main goal's was to further the idea of world peace. |
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| I successfully argued for the construction of the United States Supreme Court building. |
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| I was the first president to earn a doctorate. |
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| I earned my degree in history and political science from John Hopkins University. |
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| I was president of Princeton University. |
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| I played baseball while at Davidson College. |
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| I was the first sitting president to attend a World Series game. |
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| I held the first presidential modern press conference. |
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| I was the first president to travel to Europe while in office. |
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| I was the first president to create funding through the sale of Liberty bonds. |
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| I became the first president to set up the War Industries Board. |
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| My idealistic internationalism called for the United States to always enter the world arena to fight for democracy. |
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| Nickname: The Idol of Ohio |
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| About the presidency: "I have had enough of it, heaven knows! I have had all the honor there is in this place, and have had responsibilities enough to kill any man." |
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| I was the first president to campaign by telephone. |
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| I said about another president "...has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair!" |
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| My wife crocheted thousands of pairs of bedroom slippers, which she gave away. |
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| Mark Hanna said of me "...has made it pretty hard for the rest of the husbands." |
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| I passed a tax on long-distance service. It was a popular tax since only wealthy Americans owned them at the time. |
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| During my presidency, the IRS announced that it would no longer collect the tax on long-distance telephone service imposed by William McKinley. |
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| An observation on me by William Allen White: "He was destined for a statue in the park and he was practicing the pose for it." |
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| I said "God told me to take the Philippines." |
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| I said "I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2000 miles!" [about the Philippines] |
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| Nickname: The Rough Rider |
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| "I enjoy being President, and I like to do the work and have my hand on the lever." |
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| I was the first president to leave the United States during my term as president. |
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| My son said of me "Father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." |
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| I refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting (it was a big deal). |
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| When a hotel I was in caught fire, I began to climb the stairs by the fire chief stopped me saying "Who are you?" he demanded. I replied "I am the Vice President!" and started to climb the stairs again but was stopped again by the fire chief. The chief said "Wait a minute, just what are you Vice President of?" I replied "Why am I the Vice President of the United States,". The chief replied "In that case, back to the loby," he ordered. "I thought you were Vice President of the hotel!" |
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| I said on the presidency "The nearer I get to the inauguration of my successor, the greater the relief I feel." |
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| I owned four automobiles: a White Steamer, a Baker Electric, and two Pierce Arrows. |
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| I was the first president to open the baseball season, which I threw the first ball prior to the game between Washington and the Philadelphia Athletics. |
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| I was offered a Chair of Law at Yale. I declined with a twinkle, saying that "a Sofa of Law" was more in keeping with my proportions. |
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| I called on of my presidential competitors a "dangerous egotist" and "a demagogue". |
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| I was called a "fat head", a "puzzlewit" and said that I had "less brains than a guinea pig." by my presidential competitor. |
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| I was called a "dangerous egotist" and "a demagogue" by my presidential competitor. |
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| I called my presidential competitor a "fathead", a "puzzlewit" and that he had "brains less than a guinea pig." |
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| Secretary of War Elihu Root sent me a cable asking about my health. I replied that I much better, and that I had just returned from a 24-mile horseback ride. Root replied "How is the horse?" |
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| I once commented "In my present life I don't remember that I ever was President." |
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| Nickname:The Phrase-Maker |
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| I was the first president to cross the Atlantic while in office. |
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| I said "Conservatism is the policy of 'make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.'" |
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| I am the only president to hold a Ph.D. |
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| "Congressional Government, a Study in American Politics." |
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| My competitor thought that he had one for sure, but when a reporter approached his home to tell that he lost the presidential election, one of his aides replied haughtily, "The PRESIDENT is sleeping!" The reporter was unimpressed, "When he wakes up, give him this message. Tell him he's no longer President." |
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| I suffered a stroke during my presidency. |
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| My could almost be considered the first woman president. |
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| Nickname: President Hardly |
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| I was the first president to ride in an automobile to my inauguration. |
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| Upon being informed that my party had nominated me for president, I replied a statesman like utterance: "We drew to a pair of deuces and filled." |
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| I invited Will Rogers, a popular comedian at that time to the White House. Rogers offered to cheer me up with some humor. "Mr. President, I'd like to tell you all of the latest jokes." I remarked "You don't have to. I have already appointed them to office." |
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| I bloviated in my speeches often (My speeches did not give my own position on one thing, but praised the good things, and scolded the bad things.) |
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| I said "In this job I;m not worried about my enemies, It's my friends, my goddamn friends who are keeping me awake nights." |
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| I said about the presidency "I think the American public wants a solemn ass as President, and I think I'll go along with them." |
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| My college classmates voted me the most humorous member of its graduating class. |
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| I said "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results." |
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| I said about my successor "For six years that man has been giving me unsolicited advice-all of it bad!" |
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My wife:I'm sorry I missed the sermon. What was it about?
Me: Sin.
My wife: What did the minister say about it?
Me: He was against it. |
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| I had a dog named Rob Roy. |
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| When my took a portrait wearing a red dress with a white dog, I said that I would have preffered a white dress. Someone mentioned that the white dress and the white dog whould not present sufficient visual contrast. I was convinced a replied that I supposed it would be cheaper to buy a red dress than to dye the dog. |
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| I gave advice to the incoming president about how to handle White House visitors "If you keep dead still, they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile, they will start up all over again." |
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| My wife is in one of the most striking admired portraits in the White House. |
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| A White visitor once said to me "I bet someone that I could get more than 2 words out of you." I replied "You lose." |
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| I am the only president to be born on the Fourth of July. |
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| I knew of my wife's father before we were married because he was my nemesis in the industry I was in. :O |
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| I was lieutenant governor of Ohio. |
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| I was a Ohio State Senator. |
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| I was a U.S. Senator from Ohio. |
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| I defeated James M. Cox for the Presidential election. |
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| Charles Evans Hughes was a cabinet member during my presidency. |
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| Andrew Mellon was a cabinet member in my presidency. |
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| Albert Fall was my secretary of the interior. |
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| I was the first president to die before his father. |
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| I was the first president to take an active role in federal expenditures. |
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| I was the first president to take questions and enter them into a pool to be answered at a press conference. |
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| The formation of the Soviet Union took place during my presidency. |
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| The Matewan Massacre in West Virginia occurred during my presidency. |
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| The treaty to idemnify Colombia for its loss of Panama occurred during my presidency. |
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| The Indian Citizenship Act was signed during my presidency. |
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| I appointed William Taft Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
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| I was visiting San Francisco when I died. |
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| My middle name was Gamaliel. |
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| My middle name was Gamaliel. |
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| I attended Ohio Central College. |
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| I was governor of Massachusetts. |
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| I was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. |
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| Soon after I married my wife I gave her a bag filled with 52 socks with holes in them. |
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| I was the first president to appear in a sound film. |
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| I was the first president to accept follow-up questions at press conferences. |
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| I was the first president to deliver his inaugural address on the radio. |
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| I defeated the Former Ambassador to the United Kingdom John W. Davis of WV for the presidency. |
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| I implemented the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
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| I signed the Immigration Act. |
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| I vetoed the World War I Veterans' Bonus Bill. |
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| I permanently withdrew U.S. forces from the Dominican Republic. |
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| I lifted the arms embargo against Mexico. |
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| I supported the elected government of Mexico and sent his close friend Dwight Morrow to Mexico as the American ambassador. |
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| My first year at Stanford was the first year of the school's existence and students were not required to pay tuition. |
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| I was Secretary of Commerce under two presidents. |
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| I defeated Governor Al Smith of New York for the Presidency. |
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| I was the first president to be born west of the Mississippi River. |
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| I mediated a conflict between Chile and Peru on the sovereignty of the cities of Arica and Tacna. |
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| I negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway but it was not supported by Congress. |
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| I implemented the Emergency Relief and Construction Act. |
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| I published a book called "Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul." |
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| I was appointed to a commision who's mission was to reorganize the executive departments by a future president and elected chairman of it. |
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| One of my biggest challengers for the nomination of my party was Former New York Gov. Al Smith. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| I defeated Herbert Hoover for the presidency. |
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| The approximate unemployment rate when I entered office was 25%. |
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| I said Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and have abdicated." |
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| Good Neighbor Policy- a re-evaluation of U.S. policy towards Latin America. |
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| National Labor Relations Act backed by Senator Robert Wagner it established the federal rights of workers to organize unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes. |
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| One of my biggest challenger's for the nomination of my party was New York lawyer Henry S. Breckinridge. |
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| I defeated Governor Alfred Landon of Kansas for the presidency. |
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| the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) |
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| The main obstacles for my programs to pass was the Supreme Court. |
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| I appointed 8 justices to the Supreme Court. |
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| Ohio Senator Robert Taft formed a conservative coalition with Southern Democrats, virtually ending my ability to get my domestic proposals enacted into law. |
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| The Quarantine Speech-calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations." |
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| The draft that I and Congress enacted was unique because it was the first peacetime draft in United States history. |
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| I was opposed by the America First Committee. |
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| I was supported by the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. |
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| My biggest challenger for the nomination of my party was John Nance Garner. |
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| I defeated Wendell Wilkie for the presidency. |
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| One of my Vice presidents was Henry A. Wallace. |
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| "...a day that will live in infamy" |
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| Operation Overlord occurred during my presidency. |
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| I attended the Cairo Conference. |
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| I was largely unchallenged against anyone for the nomination of my party. |
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| I was the first president to defeat Thomas Dewey for the presidency. |
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| One of my Vice Presidents was Harry S. Truman. |
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| I attended the Yalta Conference. |
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| I was a lifetime smoker of cigarettes which contributed to my high blood pressure and heart disease. |
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| I died of a cerebral hemorrhage. |
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| I died at my vacation home in Warm Springs, GA. |
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| At my time of death, I was sitting for a portrait painting. |
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| There is a famous unfinished portrait of me. |
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| I am buried in Hyde Park, New York. |
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| I founded the what is know known as the March of Dimes. |
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| I founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. |
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| My first school was called Groton. |
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| I edited the college newspaper the Crimson. |
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| I began to work as a lawyer for Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. |
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| I contracted polio in August, 1921. |
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| I was assistant secretary of the navy under Wilson. |
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| Louis Howe was interested in me and became my mentor and confidante. |
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| My nomination speech was about presidential candidate Alfred Smith. |
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| I was Vice President of the Fidelity and Deposit Company. |
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| My high school friend Charlie Ross later became my press secretary. |
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| My wife was Bess Wallace. |
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| Paul Hume was a newspaper critic that criticized my daughter's singing ability. |
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| I relieved U.S. General MacArthur on insubordination. |
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| I wrote "He is the great one of the age. I am sure lucky to have his friendship and support" about George Marshall. |
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| I served as an aid to General MacArthur. |
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| When WW2 began, I was at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. |
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| I defeated Adlai Stevenson for the presidency. |
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| Both the Democrats and the Republicans wanted me to be their presidential candidate. |
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| I sent federal troops to force integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
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| I sent US troops to intervene with the Lebanese government fighting rebels. |
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| I was criticized for failing to publicly oppose McCarthyism, an anti-communist movement led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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| I ended diplomatic relations with Cuba. |
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| I assisted Chinese Nationalists from attack by Chinese Communists on Quernoy Islands |
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| In my farewell speech, I warned against the nation's reliance on the military-industrial complex. |
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| I wrote a book called "Profiles in Courage" that won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. |
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He had never run for public office until two years before
his election as President. |
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He narrowly escaped defeat in his campaign for reelection.
He won the Presidency by defeating the incumbent and a former
President in a three-way race. |
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Before becoming president, he was in charge of distributing
food to Europe after the outbreak of World War I. |
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This President sent 5000 Marines to Nicaragua to protect
American interests during a revolution. |
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During his
administration, John Thomas Scopes was found guilty of
teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee Law. |
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| This President would answer reporter's questions only in writing. |
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| he took his oath of office on his mother's Bible. |
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He attended Harvard University and later Columbia
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During the Civil War he enlisted as a private and was later
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This Vice President was on a camping trip in the mountains
when he received word that the President of the U.S. had died. |
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Born in the Midwest, this President won a landslide
election because the people were fed up with the Democrats. |
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| His friends were involved in scandals, but he died in office before having to face the truth. |
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| During his first term the U.S. fought a short but successful war. He had a different vice president when he was reelected to a second term. |
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The country was prosperous during his administration and he
won a second term on a slogan, "The full dinner pail." |
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| He was the last President who was a veteran of the Civil War. |
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| He was a cornetist, played many other musical instruments, and managed a dance band. |
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| Because he was not nominated until the 9th ballot, he was called "Everyone's second choice." |
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His Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, caused his
administration its most embarrassing scandal involving the
leasing of government lands at Teapot Dome to oil companies. |
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| I was a railroad timekeeper before being president. |
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| I was a mail clerk before becoming president. |
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| I was a haberdasher before becoming president. |
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He was a railroad timekeeper, a mail room clerk, a
bookkeeper, a soldier, and a haberdasher before he entered politics. |
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| He was rejected by West Point for defective eyesight but did serve in World War I in the artillery. |
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He won the Presidency by defeating his predecessor by more
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| He was bitterly hated by many wealthy Americans but loved by the poor and unemployed. |
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He won the nomination chiefly through the efforts and
support of the man he succeeded, but this same man ruined his
chances for reelection. |
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The sinking of the Lusitania occurred
during his administration. |
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| Work on the Panama Canal began during his Presidency. |
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| As a young man he was a mining engineer and worked all over the world. |
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| When running for President, he promised all Americans workers a "square deal." |
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Under him Congress set up the
Department of Labor. |
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| Millions of acres were set aside as a forest preserve during his administration. |
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To protect areas of natural beauty,
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| The Panama Canal was opened during his term in office. |
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| He served as president of an eastern college. |
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He was one of the Allied leaders known as the "Big Four"
and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| The 16th Amendment, making national income tax constitutional, was ratified during his administration. |
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He attained national prominence during a Boston police
strike by declaring "There is no right to strike against the
public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime." This helped him
win the election as vice-President. |
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During his Presidency, Miss Ida Fuller received the first
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The Taft-Hartley Act, enacted to limit power of the labor
unions, was passed over this President's veto. |
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was formed
during his administration. |
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| He ordered U.S. troops to come to the aid of South Korea. |
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| This President's campaign promised to lower tariffs. He tried to accomplish this by signing into law the Payne-Aldrich bill. This actually did very little to reduce tariffs. |
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| He was the first President whose wife rode with him to the inauguration. |
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| He also dedicated Lincoln's birth place. |
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| He was the first President to have a government car. |
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His
wife pastured their cow, Pauline Wayne, on the White House lawn. |
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| I was the first Roman Catholic president. |
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| My wife's name was Jacqueline. |
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| My grave is marked by the "Eternal Flame" |
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| I was the first president to be in a series of televised presidential debates. |
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| I served briefly as Lt. commander in WW2 and won a silver star in the South Pacific. |
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| I became the youngest minority leader in Senate history. |
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| My famous beagles were named "Him and Her" |
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| My Vice President was Hubert Humphrey. |
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| I was Vice President under Eisenhower. |
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| I declined a scholarship to Harvard because I didn't have the financial means to do so. |
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| I was so good at playing poker, it helped finance my first campaign for Congress. |
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| I appointed Warren Burger, Harry Andrew Blackmun, Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. and William Rehnquist. |
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| I was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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| I consider achieving the rank of Eagle Scout as one of my greatest accomplishments, even after attaining the presidency. |
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| I played football as a varsity sport at my college. |
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| I was prompted to join the military because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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| I was nearly killed by a typhoon in the Philippines. |
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| I appointed The Warren Commission on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy |
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| I nominated Nelson Rockefeller for Vice President. |
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| I was defeated by Jimmy Carter. |
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| I escaped two assassination attempts. |
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| Lynette "Squeakly" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson tried to kill me. |
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| Sara Jane Moore tried to kill me. |
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| I was born and raised in Georgia. |
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| I graduated from the United States Naval Academy. |
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| My family was in the peanut business. |
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| My brother Billy seemed as a beer-drinking Southern boy. |
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| The only child living with my wife and I during the presidency was Amy Lynn Carter. |
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| My brother, sister, and mother all died from pancreatic cancer. |
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| There was a documentary video named Man from Plains that hilighted my humanitarian work. |
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| I signed legislation that bailed out the failing Chrysler Corporation. |
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| I brought about a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. |
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| I created the Department of Education. |
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| I created the Department of Energy. |
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| The U.S. transfers control of the American-built Panama Canal to the nation of Panama during my administration. |
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| The U.S. reinstated the draft registration for young men during my administration. |
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| The U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow during my presidency. |
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| I was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize after leaving the office of president. |
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| I was the first president to wear contact lens. |
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| I was the first president to be a Rhodes Scholar. |
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| My first job was as a lifeguard. |
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| I took a job broadcasting home football games for the University of Iowa. |
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| I served in the army but was excluded from serving overseas because I was nearsighted. |
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| I was George "The Gipper" Gipp |
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| I was President of the Screen Actors Guild. |
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| I hosted the show General Electric Theater. |
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| "Time for Choosing" speech |
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| I raised 1 million dollars for Barry Goldwater. |
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| 52 U.S. hostages held by Iran were released during my inauguration address. |
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| I suffered from a collapsed lung. |
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| My greatest dissapointment for my presidency was the national debt increasing from $700 billion to $3 trillion. |
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| I fired 11,345 air traffic controllers. |
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| I defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale. |
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| Tower Commission (John Tower,Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie) |
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| I said to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "Tear down this wall!" |
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| I was in favor of appealing the 22nd amendment on term limits for Presidents. |
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| There is a Presidential Library named after me in Simi Valley, California. |
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| I was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft fire and was rescued from the water by a U. S. submarine. |
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| I was first base on my college's varsity baseball team. |
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| Before entering politics, I was a successful man in the oil industry. |
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| I defeated Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for the presidency. |
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| I sent American troops into Panama to overthrow the corrupt regime of General Manuel Noriega. Noriega was then brought to the U.S. to face charges of drug trafficking. |
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| I signed Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) along with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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| H. Ross Perot ran against me for the presidency. |
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| There is a library named after me at Texas A&M Univeristy. |
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| The Brady Bill passed in my presidency. |
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| A bill was passed that imposed a 5-day waiting period on handgun purchases |
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| I was the first Democratic President to be re-elected to another term since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. |
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| One of my secretary's of state was Madeleine Albright. |
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| My Vice President was Al Gore. |
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| Americans enjoyed the largest federal budget surplus in U.S. history |
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| One of my Secretaries of state was William Christopher. |
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| I assembled a group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers. |
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| "axis of evil" countries that were "arming to threaten the peace of the world and posed a grave and growing danger" |
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| I was at an elementary school when I heard of terrorist attacks. |
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| I modernized Medicare by adding prescription drug benefit. |
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| I created the Department of Homeland Security. |
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| My self-chosen nickname is "Dubya." |
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| I was lecturer of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. |
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| I was elected to the Illinois State Senate. |
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| I married Michelle Robinson. |
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| I co-sponsored the "Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act" along with the person I defeated for the presidency! |
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| I said that my alternate career choice would be an architect. |
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| During my presidency, Italian forces under Benito Mussolini conquered Ethiopia |
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| the first self-sustained nuclear reaction was achieved at the University of Chicago during my presidency. |
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| My wife was one of the most admired women in the world. She wrote a newspaper column called "My Day." |
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| I enjoyed sailing, stamp collecting, and naval books. |
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| I was the first president to use the radio, giving frequent "Fireside Chats." |
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| I was the first president to visit a foreign country while in office. |
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| I originated the phrases "lunatic fringe" and "my hat is in the ring." |
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| While delivering a campaign speech in Milwaukee, I was shot in the chest by an assassin but spoke for 50 minutes before being taken to a hospital. |
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| It was a good thing I was long-winded because the folded copy of the speech in my pocket deflected the bullet when I was shot. |
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| I considered construction of the Panama Canal among my greatest achievements. I served less than two terms as president. |
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| Son of a Presbyterian minister, I was born and died in the South.In my first presidential election, I received a minority of the popular vote but a majority of the electoral votes. |
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| One of my greatest contributions was my "Fourteen Points." |
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| My picture appeared on a special $100,000 gold certificate bill issued in 1934 by the U.S. Treasury. |
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| I earned a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University in 1886, making me the only president to earn this degree. |
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| I started the custom of throwing out the first ball at the start of the baseball season. |
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| The president I succeeded called me "the most lovable personality I have ever known." |
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| I was born less than 25 years prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. I attended college in a state that is east of the state I was born in. |
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| Before the presidency, I was secretary of war. During my term, the Titanic sank on its maiden voyage - but not because I was on it. A White House aide, Archie Butt, was among the victims. |
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| I defeated William Jennings Bryan in both my election victories despite Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech. |
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| My campaign manager was industrialist Mark Hanna |
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| The vice president during my first term was Garret Hobart of New Jersey. |
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| Charles Lindbergh flew non-stop across the Atlantic during my administration. |
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| The first talking movie was produced during my administration. |
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| An animal lover, I walked my pet raccoon on a leash. |
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| I was sworn in as president the first time by my father and the second time by a former president. |
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| The election was the first one in which the returns were communicated by radio. |
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| My Cabinet included such notables as Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. |
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| My cabinet included Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. |
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| My cabinet included Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. |
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| My election was helped by the support of women, who were voting for president for the first time. |
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| As president, I declared World War I officially ended. |
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| During my administration, the Marshall Plan gave aid to war torn countries |
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| the U.S. and its allies set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| the Atomic Energy Commission was created. |
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| On election night, the Chicago Daily Tribune prematurely published a headline that my Republican opponent, Thomas Dewey, had defeated me |
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| I sent U.S. troops as part of a United Nations force resisting North Korea's invasion of South Korea. |
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| I married my college sweetheart, Lou Henry. Prior to my presidency, we traveled the world. |
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| While I was president, the Papal State, extinct for nearly 30 years, was revived and named Vatican City. |
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| After World War II, President Truman made me coordinator of the European Food Program. |
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| During my lifetime, I received over 75 honorary degrees. |
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| I made my fortune as a mining engineer before devoting myself to public service. |
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| My wife was a college graduate known for her gracious and cultured manner. |
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| However, during our stay in the White House, social activities were ended by the deaths of the younger of our two sons and of my father. |
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| One of my statements was "The business of America is business." |
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| My secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, obtained tax breaks for big business. |
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| Although my party was eager to renominate me for another term, I announced, "I do not choose to run." |
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| Because of the 20th Amendment I was the last "Lame Duck" president. |
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| I was the first Republican to carry more than one southern state since the Civil War. |
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| Before being president, I headed the U.S. Food Administration that had broad power over the prices, production, and distribution of food. |
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| I gave all my income from government employment, including my pension, to charity. |
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| A Quaker, I served only one term. |
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| A Florida bricklayer attempting to assassinate me while I was president-elect killed the mayor of Chicago |
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| During my administration, Wiley Post made the first round-the-world solo flight. He later crashed, killing himself and Will Rogers, his passenger. |
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| The U.S. recognized the Soviet Union during my presidency, which lasted more than one term. |
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| For a while during my administration, the nickel contained no nickel as a result of wartime metals shortage. |
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| In my first inaugural address, I spoke the memorable words, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." |
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| Michigan's "Point-a-minute" football team defeated Stanford 49-0 in the first Rose Bowl game while I was in the White House. |
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| The name of the president's home was officially changed to the White House. The west wing was added to house presidential offices. |
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| My oldest son was a World War I hero and later became the oldest man among the forces landing on Normandy on D-Day |
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