More Presidential Trivia

[rpannier]

1. Obama is left handed which means 5 of the last 7 Presidents were left handed

2. 1872: Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman to run for president, though her name didn’t appear on the ballot. Her running mate was Frederick Douglass.

3. 1884: Belva Ann Lockwood becomes the first woman to run for president and appear on official ballots.

4. 1892: Grover Cleveland becomes the first and only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms. (Cleveland is also the only President to spank Grandpa Simpson on 2 non-consecutive occasions)

5. 1920: Women in all states vote in a presidential election for the first time, helping elect Warren G. Harding.

6. 1939: Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the first president to appear on television -- when he opened the New York World's Fair.

7. 1960: John F. Kennedy becomes the first Catholic elected president. He also was the first president who was a Boy Scout and the youngest president ever elected (age 43).

8. 1974: Gerald Ford becomes the first and only president not to have been elected as president or vice president.

9. 1980: Ronald Reagan becomes the first person elected president who had been divorced.

10. 2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African American – and first non-white – man elected as president. He also becomes the first president not born in the continental United States (Hawaii).

link:
http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=422123

[Optical.Catalyst]

1. 2001 George Bush becomes the first President without a brain

[beac]

2. or a heart or courage.... though he did have a "little dog" and appeared to be "over the rainbow"

during most of his presidency. Is it too much to hope a house will drop on him tomorrow??