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• the regulations issued by an outgoing U.S. president's administration got the name midnight regulations when a record quantity of new rules was issued during Jimmy Carter's last months in office?
• prominent American Jewish leader Alan Solow called President Barack Obama "the first Jewish president"?
• in its heyday, the historic Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, hosted U.S. Presidents Lincoln, Grant, and Buchanan?
• the epic anti-war film Civilization (poster pictured), depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916?
• the American Thanksgiving holiday was moved a week earlier from 1939—1941 because of The Great Depression and was referred to as Franksgiving after President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
• the Economy Act of 1933 repealed all federal laws in the U.S. regarding veterans' benefits but permitted the President to re-establish them via executive order?
• the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey, and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt?
• former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970?
• eleven U.S. presidents stayed at the Portland Hotel, a Queen Anne-style, Châteauesque hotel which opened in Portland, Oregon in 1890?
• at the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia?
• as special counsel investigating loans made to Jimmy Carter, Paul Curran became the first lawyer to question a sitting U.S. President under oath in an investigation of that president?
• as President of the College of New Jersey, John Maclean, Jr. conveyed a Doctor of Laws degree to President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War?
• because of his race, U.S. President Barack Obama has been the subject of multiple assassination threats and alleged plots?
• before his inauguration, President Barack Obama read The Defining Moment, planning to apply some of Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategies outlined in the book into his own administration?
• early photographer Alexander Gardner was the last person to photograph American President Abraham Lincoln before his assassination—and also photographed the conspirators and their public execution?
• descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in Leiden, the Netherlands, include four U.S. presidents?
• the Guinea hog breed of pig was kept by former US President Thomas Jefferson?
• the Hollenden Hotel, established in 1885 and demolished in 1962, provided accommodations for the five U.S. Presidents following Grover Cleveland when they visited Cleveland, Ohio?
• the term "Obama Doctrine" was used more than a year before Barack Obama (pictured) became President of the United States?
• the release of Game Change, a book about the 2008 United States presidential election, led Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize over remarks he made about President Barack Obama?
• the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968?
• the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts created the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese, a four-foot-wide cheese wheel, to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential electoral victory?
• the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
• three of the last four U.S. Presidents have been left-handed, as are both major party candidates for the 2008 election?
• three former Presidents of the United States currently appear on American currency two times each (one coin and one bill)?
• the Citizen's Briefing Book is a compilation work of citizen recommendations to Barack Obama, to be presented to him after his inauguration as President of the United States?
• the Slovakia Summit 2005 between Presidents Bush and Putin will mark the first occasion when a sitting President of the United States visits Slovakia?
• the Palm Court, called "the most beautiful room in Los Angeles," has been the site of speeches by Presidents Taft and Wilson and balls where Rudolph Valentino danced with starlets?
• the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York, includes one President of the United States, a Secretary of State from both the Union and the Confederacy, and numerous Congressmen?
• the Irazú volcano in Costa Rica erupted violently in 1963, on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy arrived in the country for a state visit?
• the Casa Alcaldia de Ponce (pictured) has been used as a jail, for executions, and as the site of speeches from three Presidents of the United States?
• the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library in Odessa, Texas is uniquely dedicated to the presidential office rather than specific presidents?
• the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term "axis of evil", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address?
• the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan?
• although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian, high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews"?
• after earning the Medal of Honor in 1890, U.S. Cavalryman Frederick E. Toy went on to serve as an orderly to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
• Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book?
• Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon received regular briefings on the Vietnam War from Democratic President Lyndon Johnson during Nixon's 1968 campaign against Johnson's Vice President?
• presidential advisor John P. Lewis argued that aid to developing nations was a necessary component of American foreign policy, despite the budgetary costs and the potential for misuse?
• Theodore Roosevelt contracted Cuban fever during the Spanish–American War, and had recurring symptoms before, during, and after his time as President of the United States?
• American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial?
• Ash Lawn-Highland, the former home of U.S. President James Monroe, has been transformed into a 535-acre working farm, museum, and site for the performing arts?
• Alice Allison Dunnigan became the first African-American journalist to accompany a U.S. president while traveling?
• U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
• U.S. President LBJ once battered Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson over Canada's Vietnam War policy?
• President of the United States James A. Garfield knew both Latin and Greek, and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?
• political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon?
• Kentucky political boss Thomas Rhea was instrumental in getting delegates from Southern states to vote to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt for president at the 1932 Democratic National Convention?
• President Barack Obama called to congratulate baseball pitcher Mark Buehrle after his perfect game?
• President Benjamin Harrison's 1890 speech at the Coal Palace in Ottumwa, Iowa, was drowned out abruptly by noise from an indoor waterfall?
• U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, a known Stalwart, signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds?
• U.S. President Benjamin Harrison appointed James R. Tanner Commissioner of the Pension Bureau in 1889, but had to remove him six months later because he vastly exceeded his office's budget?
• Dan Fefferman was director of a group organized by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon to support Richard Nixon when the U.S. President faced impeachment?
• Dorothy Sarnoff taught presentation skills to U.S. President Jimmy Carter that included having him tone down his smile?
• Thomas C. Molesworth designed furniture for the houses of the Rockefeller family and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed for inaugurations of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush?
• Socks was one of Bill Clinton's two pets while President of the United States?
• Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski as President of the United States?
• Wilma B. Liebman (pictured), the second woman ever to be Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, was named to the position by President Barack Obama on his first day in office?
• U.S. President Herbert Hoover was once the manager of the Gwalia Gold Mine in Western Australia?
• Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits?
• Rapidan Camp, the rustic mountain fishing retreat of U.S. President Herbert Hoover located near Big Meadows in Virginia, was the forerunner of Camp David in Maryland?
• La Casa Pacifica, President Richard Nixon's private retreat in San Clemente, California, became known as the "Western White House"?
• Imero Fiorentino has served as a lighting designer for every U.S. President since Dwight D. Eisenhower?
• Hiram Wesley Evans (pictured), the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President?
• Jane Delano, a relative of U.S. President FDR, founded the American Red Cross nursing service?
• John Dement (pictured) served as Receiver of Public Moneys in the U.S. Land Office under five presidential administrations?
• Kermit Roosevelt III, author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law, is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt?
• Josiah and William Forster, early members of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, visited U.S. President Franklin Pierce to promote their cause?
• actress Dorothy Kilgallen, who claimed to have information about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died under suspicious circumstances?