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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Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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The system of democracy was introduced 2,500 years ago in Athens, Greece.
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No president of the United States was an only child.
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Theodore Roosevelt read at least one book every day.
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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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Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!
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