…that no American president has been an only child?
…that President Dwight Eisenhower played golf as many as a hundred and fifty days a year?
…that Ulysses S. Grant claimed to smoke seven to ten cigars a day? He died of throat cancer.
…the warmest January inauguration on record was Reagan’s first: 55 degrees, the coldest his second: 7 degrees.
Find out more fascinating facts about U.S. presidents and vice-presidents in Richard Lederer’s book, Presidential Trivia. We’ve got two copies of this book, along with copies of Lederer’s other books, including:
Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon the English Language.
Puns Spooken Here: Word Play for Halloween.
(How do you enter a haunted house? With a skeleton key!)
Pun and Games.
Circus of Words.
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