Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
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President Lyndon Johnson smoked at least 3 packs of cigarettes a day.
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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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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John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President of the USA!
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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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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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