President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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There was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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Former U.S. Congressman John Jenrette once had sex with his wife on the steps of the Capitol Building during a break in a late night Congressional session.
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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
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John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!
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