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President Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other while simultaneously playing Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik with his left foot!
President Franklin Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with a horse. The case was dropped when it was discovered the woman was drunk and shouldn't have been riding the horse in the first place. Robert Todd Lincoln son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at the assassination of three presidents: his father's, President Garfield's and President McKinley's. He vowed never to attend another one. He died July 25, 1926, 36 years and almost 4 months before a scheduled vacation in Texas.
John Adams expressed a desire to live until July 4, 1926 - the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. On that day he slipped into unconsciousness. That afternoon he momentarily revived and moments before his death uttered the words: "Jefferson survives." In this he was mistaken for Thomas Jefferson had died earlier that same day.
Oddities:George W. Bush:
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