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　　George Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long.

　　The only president to be unanimously elected was George Washington (1732-1799). He also rused to accept his presidential salary, which was $25,000 a year.

　　Andrew Johnson is the only tailor ever to be president. As president, he would typically stop by a tailor shop to say hello. He would wear only the suits that he made himself.

　　George Washington never lived in the White House. The capital was actually located in Philadelphia and other cities when Washington was president. He is also the only president who didn’t represent a political party.

　　12.James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) is the first president to ever talk on the phone. When he spoke to Alexander Graham Bell, who was at the other end 13 miles away, he said: “Please speak a little more slowly.”

　　Thomas Jferson (1743-1826) was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.

　　The term “O.K.” derives from President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) who was known as “Old Kinderhook” because he was raised in Kinderhook, New York. “O.K.” clubs were created to support Van Buren’s campaigns.

　　President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president.

　　John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s (1917-1963) famous inaugural line “Ask not what you your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” echoes similar directives made by many others, including Cicero, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and President Warren G. Harding, who told the 1916 Republican convention: “We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”

　　Martin Van Buren was the first to be a United

　　States citizen. All previous presidents were born British subjects.

　　Six presidents were named James: Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, and Carter.

　　President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the only president to serve in both WWI and WWII.

　　Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was the first president to visit all 50 states and the first to visit China. He is the only president to resign.

　　Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO.

　　.Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) gave his White House servants strict orders to hide from him whenever he passed by. Those who failed to do so were at risk of being fired.

　　乔治·华盛顿是美国历史上演讲最短的总统——他的演讲两分钟都不到，仅有133个单词。

　　乔治·华盛顿是唯一一位全票当选的美国总统(1732-1799)。他谢绝了每年2.5万美元的总统工资。

　　安德鲁·杰斐逊是唯一一位当上总统的裁缝。作为总统，他经常向路过的裁缝店里打招呼，据说，他只穿自己做的制服。

　　乔治·华盛顿一生未在白宫居住。在他任期内，美国的首都在费城和其他城市。华盛顿也是唯一一位无党派的美国总统。

　　詹姆士·艾布拉姆·加菲尔德是第一位使用电话的美国总统。当他接通了13英里外的电话线，和电话的发明者亚历山大·格雷厄姆·贝尔通话时，他说的第一句话是：“请讲慢点。”

　　托马斯·杰斐逊是第一位在美国首都华盛顿就职的美国总统。

　　OK这个英语单词据说来自马丁·范布伦总统(1782-1862年)。Kinderhook是他的家乡，所以人们给他起了个外号“Old Kinderhook”(类似于中国的“小广东”，“小沈阳”等)。当时纽约有一个OK俱乐部，成员都是范布伦的支持者。

　　格罗弗·克利夫兰是美国唯一两次当选却不连任的总统，第22任和第24任。

　　约翰·肯尼迪总统脍炙人口的竞选演说“不要问你的国家能为你做什么，而要问你能为你的国家做什么”跟很多名人的演讲很相似。古罗马政治家西塞罗，美国著名法学家，美国最高法院大法官奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯都做过类似的演讲。1916年，沃伦·G·哈丁总统在共和党大会上讲道：“我们必须有这样的公民，少关注政府能为他做点什么，多考虑他能为国家做点什么。”

　　马丁·范布伦是第一位美国公民当上的总统，之前的美国的总统都是英国公民。

　　叫詹姆斯的美国总统有6位：詹姆斯·麦迪逊，詹姆斯·门罗，詹姆斯·波尔克，詹姆斯·布坎南，詹姆斯·加菲尔德和詹姆斯·卡特。

　　德怀特·戴维·艾森豪威尔是唯一一位参加过一战和二战的美国总统。

　　理查德·尼克松是第一位访遍美国50州的总统，也是首访中国的美国总统。他是历史上唯一一位辞职的总统(“水门事件”)。

　　吉米·卡特据说是第一位亲眼目睹UFO的美国总统。

　　赫伯特·克拉克·胡佛给他的白宫侍卫制定了严格的规定，他们在胡佛走过的时候都必须迅速回避，做不到的侍卫有被解雇的风险。