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 refused 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 Jefferson (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.

喬治·華盛頓是美國歷史上演講最短的總統(tǒng)——他的演講兩分鐘都不到，僅有133個單詞。

喬治·華盛頓是唯一一位全票當選的美國總統(tǒng)（1732-1799）。他謝絕了每年2.5萬美元的總統(tǒng)工資。

安德魯·杰斐遜是唯一一位當上總統(tǒng)的裁縫。作為總統(tǒng)，他經(jīng)常向路過的裁縫店里打招呼，據(jù)說，他只穿自己做的制服。

喬治·華盛頓一生未在白宮居住。在他任期內(nèi)，美國的首都在費城和其他城市。華盛頓也是唯一一位無黨派的美國總統(tǒng)。

詹姆士·艾布拉姆·加菲爾德是第一位使用電話的美國總統(tǒng)。當他接通了13英里外的電話線，和電話的發(fā)明者亞歷山大·格雷厄姆·貝爾通話時，他說的第一句話是：“請講慢點。”

托馬斯·杰斐遜是第一位在美國首都華盛頓就職的美國總統(tǒng)。

OK這個英語單詞據(jù)說來自馬丁·范布倫總統(tǒng)（1782-1862年）。Kinderhook是他的家鄉(xiāng)，所以人們給他起了個外號“Old Kinderhook”（類似于中國的“小廣東”，“小沈陽”等）。當時紐約有一個OK俱樂部，成員都是范布倫的支持者。

格羅弗·克利夫蘭是美國唯一兩次當選卻不連任的總統(tǒng)，第22任和第24任。

約翰·肯尼迪總統(tǒng)膾炙人口的競選演說“不要問你的國家能為你做什么，而要問你能為你的國家做什么”跟很多名人的演講很相似。古羅馬政治家西塞羅，美國著名法學家，美國最高法院大法官奧利弗·溫德爾·霍姆斯都做過類似的演講。1916年，沃倫·G·哈丁總統(tǒng)在共和黨大會上講道：“我們必須有這樣的公民，少關注政府能為他做點什么，多考慮他能為國家做點什么。”

馬丁·范布倫是第一位美國公民當上的總統(tǒng)，之前的美國的總統(tǒng)都是英國公民。

叫詹姆斯的美國總統(tǒng)有6位：詹姆斯·麥迪遜，詹姆斯·門羅，詹姆斯·波爾克，詹姆斯·布坎南，詹姆斯·加菲爾德和詹姆斯·卡特。

德懷特·戴維·艾森豪威爾是唯一一位參加過一戰(zhàn)和二戰(zhàn)的美國總統(tǒng)。

理查德·尼克松是第一位訪遍美國50州的總統(tǒng)，也是首訪中國的美國總統(tǒng)。他是歷史上唯一一位辭職的總統(tǒng)（“水門事件”）。

吉米·卡特據(jù)說是第一位親眼目睹UFO的美國總統(tǒng)。

赫伯特·克拉克·胡佛給他的白宮侍衛(wèi)制定了嚴格的規(guī)定，他們在胡佛走過的時候都必須迅速回避，做不到的侍衛(wèi)有被解雇的風險。