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• [President fact 1]  British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was so unliked by senior members of the army and MI5 that there allegedly were discussions about a military coup against the government in 1974.

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• [President fact 2]  Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States, had not voted in an election prior to his own Presidential election.

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• [President fact 3]  When future US President Lyndon Johnson was Senate majority leader, he instructed his staff to make his scotch and soda significantly weaker than his guest’s, so that he could keep a clearer head.

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• [President fact 4]  William “Billy” Lee was George Washington’s slave and personal valet. He fought alongside Washington through the entire American Revolutionary War and was the only slave of Washington's who was emancipated immediately upon his death.

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• [President fact 5]  Fido is a common name for a dog because of Abraham Lincoln's dog Fido. Fido was "assassinated" by a drunk with a knife a few months after Lincoln's assassination.

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• [President fact 6]  Rutherford B. Hayes is a national hero in Paraguay and even has a province named after him because he mediated the treaty that prevented Argentina and Brazil from annexing them.

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• [President fact 7]  General Ulysses S. Grant was once so offended by the mistreatment of a team of horses that he had the perpetrator tied to a tree for 6 hours.

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• [President fact 8]  A politician and rabid abolitionist named Cassius M. Clay was once shot during a debate. He proceeded to chase down his assassin, stabbing him and throwing him off an embankment. He later fended off 6 men, even though they had guns and he only had a bowie knife. He was a candidate to be Lincoln's Vice President.

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• [President fact 9]  In 1966, Ronald Reagan wrote Jelly Belly a thank you letter for "keeping the state gov running smoothly" as the jelly beans worked as an alt. to smoking, allowing them to get through meetings and make decisions.

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• [President fact 10]  JFK took numerous medications during his time in office prescribed by a doctor nicknamed "Dr. Feelgood" (Max Jacobson). He was forced to stop administering Kennedy drugs by White House officials, and JFK's leadership notably improved, leading to successes such as the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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