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Presidential Jeopardy 2 Flashcards

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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGAN YEARS–1000–“Help hustle Harry home”

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1948

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–200–This 1968 candidate reportedly urged South Vietnam’s President Thieu to scuttle possible peace talks

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Richard) Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–400–William Henry Harrison really had lived in one of these, his symbol in the 1840 campaign, but he added 12 rooms

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a log cabin

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–600–In early October 1992 he was spending $2 million a day, most of it his own money

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Ross) Perot

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–1000–Some historians call the election in which this man beat John Breckinridge the most important in U.S. history

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Abraham) Lincoln

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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS–1000–In the Gore Vidal novel set in this election year, the hero pins his hopes on Tilden

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1876

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–200–On June 12, 1971 she married law student Edward Finch Cox in the Rose Garden at the White House

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Tricia Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–400–In 1980 she told her dad that nuclear arms control was the most important issue of the day

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Amy Carter

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–600–From 1987-89 she served as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee

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Maureen Reagan

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–800–This former first daughter has written many murder mysteries including “Murder in the White House”

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Margaret Truman

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–1000–For a brief time in the 1960s actor George Hamilton dated this presidential daughter

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Lynda Bird Johnson

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–200–An amateur golf trophy, 1st awarded in 1958, is named for this president

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Dwight Eisenhower

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–400–Yes, he knew Ann Rutledge, but there’s no evidence of a great love affair

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Abraham Lincoln

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–600–When his K.C. habadashery failed, he threw his hat into the political ring with help from Tom Pendergast

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Harry Truman

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–800–He spent 5 of his 7 years in the Navy working in submarines under Hyman Rickover

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Jimmy Carter

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1000–The 2 presidents for whom Dolley Madison served as White House hostess or first lady

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Jefferson

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–100–Patricia Ann Reagan uses this name professionally

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Patty Davis

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–200–Princess Julia Cantacuzene, a granddaughter of this president & Civil War general died in 1975 at the age of 99

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Grant

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–300–Writer Jessamyn West babysat this cousin from Calif. who grew up to become president in the 1960s

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Nixon

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–400–It was the first name of William Henry Harrison’s father & grandson

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Benjamin

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–500–Unopened six-packs of this beverage named for Jimmy Carter’s brother are now a collector’s item

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Billy Beer

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PRESIDENTS–100–U.S. district judge Sarah Hughes administered the oath of office to him aboard Air Force One

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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PRESIDENTS–200–3 of his many nicknames were “Buffoon”, “Tycoon” & “Illinois Baboon”

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Abraham Lincoln

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PRESIDENTS–300–Facts About the Presidents lists “corporate spokesman” as one of his former occupations

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Ronald Reagan

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PRESIDENTS–400–He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying

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Theodore Roosevelt

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PRESIDENTS–500–This president appointed Warren Burger chief justice

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Richard Nixon

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–200–She was lively & talkative, unlike her husband who was famous for his reticence

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Grace Coolidge

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–400–Her parents were Republicans, but she married a Democrat anyway, on Sept. 12, 1953

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Jacqueline Kennedy

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–600–Julia Dent & this future president met in St. Louis where he was stationed with the 4th Infantry Regiment

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Ulysses S. Grant

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–800–The 1st name of either of Woodrow Wilson’s wives; they both began with (the letter) “E”

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Edith

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–1000–John Philip Sousa & The Marine Band played at their White House wedding in 1886

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The (Grover) Clevelands

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–200–He was our country’s 1st blue-eyed president

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George Washington

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–400–He won the presidency with help from a song called “Grandfather’s Hat Fits Ben”

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Benjamin Harrison

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–600–One of Reagan’s last official acts as president was writing a thank-you note to this world leader

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Margaret Thatcher

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1500–2 of the 7 men who were under 50 years old when they became president

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Cleveland, Garfield, Grant, JFK, Pierce, Polk

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PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA–1000–1 of the 2 presidents who could have used the Pony Express while in office

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Buchanan

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UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS–400–The first VP ever to succeed a resigning president & the actor who piloted the Millennium Falcon

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Gerald

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UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS–600–He Tippecanoed into the White House in 1841; she won our hearts in “Lord of the Rings”

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John

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UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS–800–The “Plains” folk governor & the long-imprisoned boxer

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Jimmy

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UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS–1000–Reconstruction ends in the South during his term & he constructs the voice of Chef Jerome McElroy for “South Park”

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Rutherford

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–This president was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution

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James Madison

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ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S iPOD–200–This “colorful” 1967 Van Morrison song made the presidential cut

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‘Brown Eyed Girl’

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ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S iPOD–400–Pres. Bush enjoys this John Fogerty song on his iPod that might remind him of his days as a baseball team owner

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‘Centerfield’

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ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S iPOD–600–“Danger Zone” by this singer might be more apt than his “Alive ‘n’ Kickin’” on Bush’s iPod

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Kenny) Loggins

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ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S iPOD–800–“The House Is Rockin’” by this Texas blues guitarist keeps the Prez rockin’ through his jogging & biking

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

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ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S iPOD–1000–Several songs by this country music legend appear on the first iPod, including “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

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George Jones

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY–100–Gerald Ford was the last president born under this “crab”by sign

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Cancer

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY–200–It’s Jimmy Carter’s sign, so don’t tip his scales

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Libra

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY–300–Appropriately, we’ve had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush & Kennedy

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Gemini

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY–400–Our last Sagittarian pres.; his last name sounds like something Sagittarius’ arrows could do

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Franklin) Pierce

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PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY–500–With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office

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Aquarius (W.H. Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley

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PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS–200–Southwest Texas StateINSERT INTO clue VALUES (class of 1930)

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Lyndon Johnson

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PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS–400–U.S. Military AcademyINSERT INTO clue VALUES (class of 1843)

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U.S. Grant

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PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS–600–HarvardINSERT INTO clue VALUES (class of 1940)

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John Kennedy

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PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS–800–HarvardINSERT INTO clue VALUES (class of 1755)

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John Adams

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PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS–1000–PrincetonINSERT INTO clue VALUES (class of 1879)

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Woodrow Wilson

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PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES–0–He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts’ 11th District from 1895 to 1901

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John Francis Fitzgerald

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PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES–400–This third president had siblings who were fraternal twins

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Thomas Jefferson

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ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN–400–He succeeded Janet Reno as Attorney General

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John Ashcroft

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ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN–800–It might ring a bell that he was John Adams’ Secretary of State before he became Chief Justice

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (John) Marshall

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ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN–1200–In 1993 this Texan cashed in his Senate seat to become President Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury

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Lloyd Bentsen

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ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN–2000–This Defense Secretary under Ronald Reagan received a full pardon for his role in the Iran Contra affair

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Caspar Weinberger

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ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN–2000–In 1989 he made a touchdown scoring the job of HUD Secretary

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Jack) Kemp

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VICE PRESIDENTS–0– serve, 2 full terms as president

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Thomas Jefferson

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–200–She graduated from Stanford & was impersonated by Julia Sweeney on “Saturday Night Live”

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Chelsea Clinton

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–1000–They were kids when she met her future husband at Ike’s inauguration

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Julie Nixon (Eisenhower)

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–600–A Columbia Law School graduate, she married museum designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986

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Caroline Kennedy

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–800–The press dubbed her “Watusi Luci” because she loved to dance the watusi (also the frug & the monkey)

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Luci Johnson

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PRESIDENTIAL DAUGHTERS–1000–Known as “Princess Alice”, she married a congressman who became Speaker of the House in the 1920s

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Alice Roosevelt

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0– ended during one calendar year

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William Henry Harrison (1841) & James Garfield (1881)

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20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–His mother, Louise, said, “I do not want my son to be president… his is a judicial mind and he loves the law”

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William Howard Taft

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PRESIDENTIAL FAST FACTS–200–In September 2004 he had heart-bypass surgery

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Bill Clinton

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PRESIDENTIAL FAST FACTS–400–In the 1970s he had the campaign slogan “He’s making us proud again”

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Gerald Ford

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PRESIDENTIAL FAST FACTS–600–He was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

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Thomas Jefferson

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PRESIDENTIAL FAST FACTS–800–He died in September 1881, 2 months after he was shot

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Garfield

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PRESIDENTIAL FAST FACTS–1200–He was the only 20th century president who didn’t attend formal college

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Harry Truman

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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–100–In early 1865 he said, “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice”

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Abraham Lincoln

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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–200–In 1964 he told a National Urban League conference, “We must open the doors of opportunity”

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Lyndon Johnson

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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–300–Truman said, “I never sit on” one of these. “I am either on one side or another”

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Fence

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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–400–In a 1963 speech at Vanderbilt University, he said, “Liberty without learning is always in peril”

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John F. Kennedy

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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–500–In 1897 he said, “War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed”

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William McKinley

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PRESIDENTIAL AILMENTS–200–A confirmed hypochondriac, he was in constant pain because of false teeth

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George Washington

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PRESIDENTIAL AILMENTS–400–He hated & feared doctors so much, this tall redhead endured a permanent wrist deformity

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Thomas Jefferson

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PRESIDENTIAL AILMENTS–600–Weak eye muscles & crossed eyes caused this bachelor pres. to walk with a habitual tilt of the head

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Buchanan

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PRESIDENTIAL AILMENTS–800–Our shortest president, his fear of crowds made him almost hysterical when asked to speak in public

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James Madison

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PRESIDENTIAL AILMENTS–1000–His operation for cancer of the jaw was kept secret until long after he left office in 1897

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Grover Cleveland

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE–400–Buried at Arlington National Cemetery

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (John) Kennedy

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE–800–Has a state capital named for him

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Lincoln

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE–1200–Died in the first year of a century

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McKinley

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE–1600–Buried with wife Marion in Florence–oops, with wife Florence in Marion

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Harding

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PRESIDENTS WHO DIED IN OFFICE–2000–The second big Whig to die in office

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Zachary Taylor

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–2 of the 5 U.S. presidents who played football for their college teams

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Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford & Reagan

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–The last names of 8 different presidents end with this 3-letter combination

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Son (Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, A. Johnson, B. Harrison, Wilson & L. Johnson)

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FACTS ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS–0–He was the only 20th century president who had previously served as U.S. House Minority Leader

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Gerald Ford

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VICE PRESIDENTS–200–He was the second person to resign from America’s second-highest office

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Spiro Agnew

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VICE PRESIDENTS–400–John Quincy Adams had John C. Calhoun; James Buchanan had this John C.

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John C. Breckenridge

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VICE PRESIDENTS–600–Alben Barkley’s 10-year-old grandson came up with this slang “title” for the vice president

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veep

98
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VICE PRESIDENTS–800–The cartoon seen here lampooned this vice president

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Elbridge) Gerry

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VICE PRESIDENTS–1000–Vice president from 1933 to 1941, he’s best remembered for his acerbic quips about the job’s worthlessness

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John Nance Garner

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PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES–200–As seen in the photo, this president liked to paint to help himself relax

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Eisenhower

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PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES–400–In good weather, John Quincy Adams liked to spend his mornings skinny-dipping in this river

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the Potomac

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PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES–600–Fond of this sport, Richard Nixon lived life in the fast lane, often scoring in the 170s or higher

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bowling

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PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES–800–Even when pushing 300 pounds, this 27th president enjoyed playing golf & tennis

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Taft

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PRESIDENTIAL PASTIMES–1000–& in other news… during a fishing trip in Georgia in 1979, Jimmy Carter was attacked by a “killer” one of these

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a rabbit

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King

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James Buchanan

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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–1 of 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th c. who never had a house of Congress controlled by his party

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush

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THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO…–200–…was the first to be tried for treason

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Aaron Burr

108
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THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO…–400–…received a law degree from Indiana University in 1974

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Dan Quayle

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THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO…–600–…pleaded no contest to income tax evasion & wrote a novel, “The Canfield Decision”

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Agnew

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THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO…–800–…filled Hubert Humphrey’s Senate seat in 1965

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Walter Mondale

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THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO…–1000–…served from 1941 to 1945

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Henry Wallace

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VICE PRESIDENTS–200–This Hoosier, elected to Congress at age 29, was put on the vice-presidential ticket in 1988

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Dan Quayle

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VICE PRESIDENTS–400–These 2 unelected vice presidents follow each other in the sequence of vice presidents

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Gerald Ford

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VICE PRESIDENTS–600–He was the last vice president to act as president of the Senate over 4 congresses: 97, 98, 99 & 100

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George Bush

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VICE PRESIDENTS–800–Prior to becoming a Republican in the 1850s, Schuyler Colfax belonged to this party

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Whigs

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VICE PRESIDENTS–1000–He was the only vice president between Millard Fillmore & Chester Arthur to become president

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Andrew Johnson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?–200–Monticello, in Virginia

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Thomas Jefferson

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U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?–400–A rose garden in Hyde Park, New York

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?–600–Riverside Park, New York City

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Ulysses S. Grant

120
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U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?–800–Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York

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Martin Van Buren

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U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?–3000–The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio

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Warren G. Harding

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–200–On January 25, 1993 this first lady was appointed head of the task force on national health care reform

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–400–In 1984 Doubleday published “C. Fred’s Story”, her humorous book told from the dog’s point of view

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Barbara Bush

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–600–He narrowly won the New York governorship in 1928, but won the presidency by a large margin 4 years later

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–800–In 1913 this man featured on the old $100,000 bill signed the bill creating the Federal Reserve System

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Woodrow Wilson

126
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–1000–On April 22, 1878 she instituted the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn

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Lucy Hayes

127
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HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN…–200–the U.S. Senate rejected the Versailles Treaty

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Wilson

128
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HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN…–400–South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union

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Buchanan

129
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HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN…–600–Joe DiMaggio hit safely in a record 56 straight games

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FDR

130
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HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN…–800–Lindbergh first flew the Atlantic solo

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Coolidge

131
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HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN…–1000–The U.S. Battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor

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McKinley

132
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VICE PRESIDENTS–200–John C. Calhoun was the first vice president to resign; he was the second

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Spiro Agnew

133
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VICE PRESIDENTS–400–Originally, to become vice president, you had to do this in the general election

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Come in second

134
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VICE PRESIDENTS–600–After serving as Buchanan’s vice president, John Breckenridge went on to be this president’s Secretary of War

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Jefferson Davis

135
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VICE PRESIDENTS–800–Until this man was sworn in with F.D.R. in 1933, the vice president took the oath of office in the Senate

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John Nance Garner

136
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VICE PRESIDENTS–1000–Co-winner of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his plan re-scheduling German reparations

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Charles Dawes

137
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–In 1749 he was appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia

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George Washington

138
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–On June 16, 1858 he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”

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Abraham Lincoln

139
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–600–While he was vacationing at his father’s Vermont home, word reached him that Harding had died

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Calvin Coolidge

140
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–800–While governor of New Jersey, he enacted the state’s first workmen’s compensation law

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Woodrow Wilson

141
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–2000–The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison’s distant cousin

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Zachary Taylor

142
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–The Roosevelt dime made its debut the year this president was born

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Bill Clinton (born in 1946)

143
Q

VICE PRESIDENTS–0– also won a Nobel Peace Prize

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Charles Dawes & Theodore Roosevelt

144
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED–400–Bel Air,California

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Ronald Reagan

145
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED–800–Warm Springs,Georgia

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FDR

146
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED–1200–Buffalo,New York

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McKinley

147
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED–5000–In the Speaker’s Room at the House of Representatives

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John Quincy Adams

148
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WHERE THE PRESIDENT PASSED–2000–Kinderhook,New York

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INSERT INTO clue VALUES (Martin) Van Buren

149
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U.S PRESIDENTS–0–A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states

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Abraham Lincoln

150
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–On his mother’s side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox

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James Knox Polk

151
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–100–Milhous

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Richard M. Nixon

152
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–200–Howard

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William H. Taft

153
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–300–Alan

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Chester A. Arthur

154
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–400–Clark

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Herbert C. Hoover

155
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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES–500–Rudolph

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Gerald R. Ford

156
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–0–He was the first president to use a middle name

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John Quincy Adams

157
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HE’S MY VICE PRESIDENT!–100–Nelson A. Rockefeller

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Gerald Ford

158
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HE’S MY VICE PRESIDENT!–200–Hubert H. Humphrey

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Lyndon Johnson

159
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HE’S MY VICE PRESIDENT!–300–Hannibal Hamlin

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Abraham Lincoln

160
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HE’S MY VICE PRESIDENT!–800–Calvin Coolidge

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Warren G. Harding

161
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HE’S MY VICE PRESIDENT!–500–Schuyler Colfax

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Ulysses S. Grant

162
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT–400–He was governor of Arkansas

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Bill Clinton

163
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT–800–He lived the life of a cowboy on his North Dakota Ranch

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Teddy Roosevelt

164
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT–1200–He was the head of Princeton University

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Wilson

165
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT–1600–He was mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee

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Andrew Johnson

166
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BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT–900–He was editor & owner of the Marion, Ohio Star newspaper

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Warren G. Harding

167
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PRESIDENTS–0–One of the two Whig Party presidents who did not die in office

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Millard Fillmore or John Tyler

168
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–400–Hailing from West Branch, Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi

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Hoover

169
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–800–He wrote the letters collected in the book “Dear Bess”

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Harry Truman

170
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–1200–In the 1870s she banned not only alcohol from the White House but smoking as well

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‘Lemonade’ Lucy Hayes

171
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–2000–In 1848 this former president from New York ran for office again, this time on the Free-Soil ticket

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Martin Van Buren

172
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PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES–2000–This early president’s British-born wife Louisa was the only First Lady born abroad

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John Quincy Adams

173
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PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–200–The “Man From Missouri”

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Harry S. Truman

174
Q

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–400–The “Hero Of San Juan Hill”

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Theodore Roosevelt

175
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PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–600–“Old Rough And Ready”

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Zachary Taylor

176
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PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–800–The “Hermit Author Of Palo Alto”

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Herbert Hoover

177
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PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES–1800–“James The Second”

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James Monroe

178
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PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS–200–Henry Jolt

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John Tyler

179
Q

PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS–400–Sir Lowdown Woo

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Woodrow Wilson

180
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PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS–600–Acid Logic Novel

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Calvin Coolidge

181
Q

PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS–800–A Carbon Hillman

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Abraham Lincoln

182
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PRESIDENTIAL ANAGRAMS–1000–Swank Jean Cord

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Andrew Jackson

183
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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–100–Because he said “Ich bin ein Berliner”, not “Ich bin Berliner”, it could have meant “I am a doughnut”

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John F. Kennedy

184
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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–200–“May none but honest & wise men ever rule under this roof”, said this 1st occupant of the White House

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John Adams

185
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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–300–“Presidents come & go, but the court goes on forever”, this massive Chief Justice said knowingly

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Taft

186
Q

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–400–In his farewell, he warned against the influence of “military-industrial complex”

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Eisenhower

187
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PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES–500–When his wife woke him in 1893, fearing burglars in house, he said, “In the Senate maybe, not the House”

A

Grover Cleveland

188
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–100–In a letter to Horace Greeley he wrote, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union”

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Abraham Lincoln

189
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–200–In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life

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Harry S. Truman

190
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–300–From 1890 to 1902, he served as professor of jurisprudence & political economy at Princeton

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Woodrow Wilson

191
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–400–At 8,445 words, his inaugural address was the longest – that’s a little more than 263 words per day in office

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William Henry Harrison

192
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U.S. PRESIDENTS–500–In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers

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Ulysses S. Grant

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