This is a thread about Presidents and their dirty little secrets. lol

Or things that you may have not known about.

If you have something to share then please do.

I will start it for you.

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Which President signed the first Civil Rights legistation?

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1960, signed an administration - backed bill that provided sanctions against obstructing the voting rights of blacks. Three years earlier, Eisenhower had dispatched troops to Arkansas to ensure the safety of black students attempting to enroll at a Little Rock high school.

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Who was the first president to deliver the same address from the Oval office in two languages?

George W. Bush in March 2001 delivered the Saturday radio address first in English and then in Spanish.

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Who was the first president to recognize the State of Israel?

Harry Truman. In 1948, Truman was the first head of a major country to recognize Israel. The recognition was opposed in Truman's own State Department. They thought it would antagonize the Arab world and that it was influenced by political considerations in a presidential election year. Secretary of State George C. Marshall told President Truman that because of this action against Marshall's recommendation, he would not vote for Truman in the November election.

more to come....

Who was the first President who didn't kiss the Bible as a part of his inaugeration?

Dwight D Eisenhower

Wow I didn't know that. Very interesting

Which President delivered his own collection of books to establish the Library of Congress?

Thomas Jefferson. When the British burned the Capitol in the War of 1812, they destroyed its collection of books. To replace them, Jefferson sold his 6,500 volume collection to the United States for $23,950. It took eleven wagons to transport Jefferson's books to Washington. Jefferson at the time was heavily in debt.

In warm weather, 6th president of the United States John Quincy Adams customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

That skinny dipper Quincy

Which two presidents died on the fourth of July in the same year?

On July 4, 1826, fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, two signers - Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - political foes who became friends died.

Adam's last words were: "Jefferson survives," not knowing that the president who had defeated him in 1800 had died earlier that morning.

Many clergymen at the time interpreted the doulbe death of the two presidents on the fifttieth anniversary as a sign of Divine Providence.

James Garfield, the 20th President, was the first left-handed President.

and look what happened to him

One president, according to some historians, was born in Canada and not the United States and, therefore, was ineligible to be president. Who was the president?

Chester Alan Arthur always claimed that he was born in North Fairfield, Vermont, although no birth certificate has ever been found to confirm it. His political foes and some historians believed he was born across the border in Canada. Of course, if he had been born in Canada, he would have been ineligible to be vice president or president. Vice President Arthur succeeded James A. Garfield died of an assassin's bullet in 1881.

James Buchanan was the only president never to marry.

yup assassinated

Geez, you had to kiss it, thought you just has to lay your hand on it.

Didn't know this - and found this

George Washington, the 1st U.S. President who served in 1789 to 1797, added the phrase “So help me God” after taking the oath in 1789, and he kissed the Bible–two traditions that have been carried out by most presidents since.

Franklin Pierce, 14th U.S. President, in 1853 was the first to affirm the oath of office, rather than swear it. Both are allowed. He used a Bible, but he didn’t kiss it.

in actuality would not the bill of rights be considered civil rights

or the rights of women to vote

or even the emancipation proclamation

just a thought

but hey

what do i know

The 22nd President • Grover Cleveland personally answered the White House phone.

THE TALLEST president was Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", Madison was the shortest.

JAMES BUCHANAN was the only president never to marry. Five presidents remarried after the death of their first wives——two of whom, Tyler and Wilson, remarried while in the White House. Reagan was the only divorced president. Six presidents had no children. Tyler——father of fifteen——had the most.

THE TERM "First Lady" was used first in 1849 when President Zachary Taylor called Dolley Madison "First Lady" at her state funeral. It gained popularity in 1877 when used in reference to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. Most First Ladies, including Jackie Kennedy, are said to have hated the label.

Who was the first president to be born in the United States?

Martin van Buren. All of the preceding presidents were born on what is now U.S. soil but as British subjects. The eighth president was born on December 5, 1782 - after surrender of General Cornwallis's army in Yorktown in 1781.