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Fun Facts About Presidents For President’s Day: Part 2

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Fun Facts About Presidents For President’s Day: Part 2

In 1992 toward the end of a trading tour in Asia, George HW Bush was attending a state dinner held at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister. All was going well but then President Bush was overcome by nausea and fell forward and vomited. As he fainted George Bush he said arigato gozaimasu which is “thank you” in Japanese. it’s been magnificently memorialized in Japan itself where there’s now a word for public vomiting that literally translates as to “do the Bush thing” Mushu sudo mojo holux bushusudo.

George W bush was a cheerleader in high school . In High school and in university George w was decidedly not too gifted at conventional masculine pastimes so Bush got his bit of sport field glory by becoming head cheerleader. He’s even been pictured in full skirt and wig pom-pom attire while on stage mocking a rival school.
Gerald Ford was once a fashion model. President Ford had an all-American charm about him which landed him both the opportunity to play professional football and also the odd modeling gig. Boyishly good-looking he even found himself on the front cover of Cosmopolitan on one occasion.

Lyndon Johnson was well-endowed. There’s no official record detailing the dimensions of the presidential downstairs regions but if there was then Lyndon Johnson would probably top it. But Johnson wasn’t just endowed down there he really knew he was endowed down when you name your little guy jumbo. He ordered tailored suits with extra room for movement and ordered a special shower nozzle be installed solely to rinse off the appendage.

Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel. Andrew Old Hickory Jackson ran for president in 1828. If you’re wondering how he got such a lame nickname it’s because he used to carry around Hickory cane and beat people senseless with it. Plenty of presidents are indirectly responsible for ending other people’s lives international conflict makes that an unfortunate inevitability and we’ve seen how Grover Cleveland played lawful executioner but 7th President Andrew Jackson actually killed someone outright before he took the top job. Jackson was notoriously violent and often inclined to traditionally duel with his enemies. Jackson shot one such enemy Charles Dickinson as Jackson attempted to defend his wife’s honor. He was subsequently outcast as a dishonorable man.

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