The only President to ever meet face-to-face with Hitler

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One day after Andrew Jackson left the White House in 1837, a reporter asked whether he had any regrets from his time in office. Yes, he replied, “I regret I was unable to shoot Henry Clay or hang John C. Calhoun.”

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Lyndon B. Johnson confronting Senator Richard Russell, the leader of the filibuster against the civil rights bill.

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The first US President to visit Japan (1879)

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The only president not buried under the American flag

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Harry S. Truman getting his hair done in New York, 1953

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This man’s inauguration address was delivered completely from memory in the middle of a snowstorm

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Did you know that Ulysses Grant was the last president who personally owned slaves?

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Polk=not based.

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The first president to not have an African-American foreign ambassador to Haiti in over 40 years

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