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John Tyler was the first president to be widowed and remarried. With his second marriage, Tyler was the first president married in the White House.

Grover Cleveland is the only United States president to have been married in the White House.

Journalists, wanting to save precious headline space, immediately adopted the initials HST for new U.S. president Harry S Truman following FDR's death; they also used "Ike" for Eisenhower, and, of course, the initials JFK and LBJ for Kennedy and Johnson. However, Nixon's name was short enough to work with, and journalists saw no need to shorten it. Nixon was offended that he wasn't referred to by his initials by the press.

Grover Cleveland was supposed to serve in the military during the Civil War, but purchased a substitute to serve for him.

Julia Dent Grant spent the “happiest period” of her life as the First Lady. After leaving office, the Ulysses Grants traveled around the world.

Grover Cleveland's two non-consecutive terms as U.S. president spanned from March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889 and from March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897. His vice president for the first term was Thomas A. Hendricks, and for the second, Adlai E. Stevenson.

Lady Bird Johnson's full legal name was Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson.

Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Leslie Lynch King, Jr. is the birth name of American president Gerald R. Ford. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. When his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, he adopted the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.

Harry S. Truman was the first American president to be paid a salary of $100,000.

Less is known about Millard Fillmore than any other U.S. president — after his death in 1874, his son buried all of his father's private papers and letters.

Harry Truman presided over the Korean war and approved the creation of NATO.

Lou Henry, Herbert Hoover's wife, loved to entertain and they seldom dined alone. Lou was the first woman to earn a degree in geology from Stanford.

Harry Truman started his career as a banker in Missouri. He was also an artillery officer in World War I.

Harry Truman was the first U.S. president to travel underwater in a modern submarine.

During the first few weeks of his presidency, President Jimmy Carter refused to let "Hail to the Chief" be played when he entered a room, and didn't want the presidential flags mounted on his vehicle in the presidential motorcade.

During the height of the U.S. Civil War, many Northern soldiers called President Abraham Lincoln "Father Lincoln." He was known to welcome regiments as they traveled to Washington, D.C. Lincoln was also a familiar figure at hospitals, and he opened his heart (and sometimes his wallet) to the soldiers. Lincoln opened the White House to young men and boys in blue. He even spent time talking with Confederate soldiers, trying to console them during their recovery of injuries at Washington's hospitals.

During Woodrow Wilson's term, the 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments were established. He is the only president buried in Washington, D.C.

During World War I, Woodrow Wilson's wife grazed sheep on the front lawn of the White House.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the allied commander of the D-Day invasion.

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