Unique Facts About the U.S. President

Here are the unique facts relating to the President of the United States are quoted from various sources:
The oldest president ever elected was Ronald Reagan (69 years) while the youngest president was Kennedy (43). But Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president since he was only 42 when replacing William McKinley who was killed in 1901.
Before becoming president, Andrew Johnson was a seamstress, the 39th president Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer. Ronald Reagan, a former actor and Harry Truman was a draper.
James Polk, the 11th president, was the first president to be photographed, Theodore Roosevelt was the first president who drive to work, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president to ride an airplane. Andrew Jackson was the president who first boarded the train. Rutherford B. Hayes, president of the 19 th was the first president to use the phone and the phone number is 1. While Franklin D. Preside Roosevelt was the first television appearances.
The slain U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. While the president who died because of illness are: William H. Harrison, Zackary Taylor, Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the president has ever suffered an assassination attempt is Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton and G. W. Bush.
James Buchanan was the only U.S. president who never married. Five other presidents remarried after the death of his first wife, Reagan was the only divorced president. Six presidents had no children, while John Tyler had 15 children.
President Lincoln with the highest is 6 foot 4 inches while the shortest was James Madison with 5 feet 4 inches. While the 27th president William Howard Taft, earned the nickname "Big Bill," because he has a 6 foot 2 inches and weighs 330 pounds. (Ill: cosmos.com)
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Anthony Weiner Lewd Photo Controversy Prompts Congressman To Issue Apologies

(AP) NEW YORK -- His political career in jeopardy, Rep. Anthony Weiner has been making calls to colleagues to apologize for sending raunchy texts and photos to several women.
He also apologized to former President Bill Clinton, who officiated at Weiner's wedding last July, said a person with knowledge of the call. The person, who wasn't authorized to discuss the call publicly, spoke only on condition of anonymity. Weiner married Huma Abedin, a close adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a lavish ceremony on Long Island last summer.
He reached out to fellow Democratic Rep. Edolphus Towns of New York, according to Towns' spokesman, Julian Phillips, who declined to discuss what the two lawmakers talked about.
So far, none of Weiner's House colleagues have come to his defense as pressure on him to resign has increased.
Tim Kaine, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who is running for the Senate in Virginia, became the first major Democrat to call for Weiner to step aside.
"Lying is unforgivable," he told WCAV-TV in Charlottesville, Va., on Tuesday. "Lying publicly about something like this is unforgivable and he should resign."
Weiner joined the growing list of New York politicians caught in headline-grabbing sex scandals. The disclosure by the married congressman that he sent raunchy texts and photos to several women online placed him in a rogue's gallery of Empire State elected officials better known for sexual shenanigans than legislative accomplishments.
Weiner's confession this week came just four months after an upstate New York lawmaker, Republican Rep. Chris Lee, stepped down after shirtless photos he sent to a woman he met on Craigslist were published online. A Democrat, Kathy Hochul, won a special election to replace Lee, and Democrats hailed the victory as a turning point for the party following its drubbing in the 2010 midterm elections.
But since the photo of a man's bulging underpants was sent on Weiner's Twitter account nearly two weeks ago, the "Weinergate" controversy has dominated the news and distracted attention from Democrats' efforts to slam Republicans for proposing deep cuts to Medicare. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi formally requested an ethics probe to determine whether Weiner broke House rules, while other Democrats have stayed largely silent on his plight.

"Anthony Weiner was never known as a mature guy, and his abrasiveness has not made him any friends among his congressional colleagues," Democratic consultant George Arzt said. "I don't think he ever grew up. His behavior has always been a little out of sync from his duties."
Even if Weiner's political career does survive the controversy in the short term, his dream of running for New York mayor has likely been dashed for good. A new Marist poll showed 56 percent don't want him to be mayor, even though half don't believe he should resign his seat in Congress.
And Weiner will almost certainly be sidelined as one of the party's leading champions of liberal causes.
Scandal-weary Democrats in New York and Washington could seek other ways to marginalize Weiner, like eliminating his Brooklyn and Queens congressional district when lawmakers redraw the state's political boundaries with the results of the 2010 census. New York is to lose two seats. They could also recruit another Democrat to mount a primary challenge to Weiner if his district remains intact.
Leaders of the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday issued their first statement about Weiner but did not say an investigation was under way.
New York in recent years has emerged as something of a hub for reckless politicians who risk their power, families and reputations for sex.
Democratic Rep. Eric Massa resigned his upstate seat last year amid allegations he had sexually harassed male staffers. Massa denied the allegations but acknowledged having "tickle fights" with men in his office.
Following a drunken driving arrest in 2008, Republican Rep. Vito Fossella, a married father of three, was forced to acknowledge he had fathered a daughter with a mistress. Fossella, who represented the New York City borough of Staten Island, declined to run for re-election that year.
One of New York's most infamous political sex scandals involved former Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after 14 months in office after being identified as "Client 9" in a prostitution bust. Before becoming governor in 2006, Spitzer, the state's former attorney general, had earned a national reputation in part for prosecuting prostitution rings.
Now a host of a political talk show on CNN, Spitzer on Monday described as "cringe-worthy" the extraordinary news conference at which Weiner acknowledged sending a photo of his barely clothed crotch to a young woman on Twitter.
"Believe me, I know. I've been there," Spitzer said, adding that the decision on whether to resign is "deeply personal."

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• Anthony Weiner (born September 4,1964) is an American politician in the Democratic party. He represents New York's 9th District. He is known for being somewhat short tempered. See pictures

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married. (Getty Images)

Anthony Weiner (Getty Images) Anthony Weiner continues to stay in the news, as reports surfaced today that his wife was expecting a baby, causing people the world over to search for more pictures of the embattled (and embarassed) congressman.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that three independent sources have told them Weiner's wife Huma Abedin is pregnant with their first child. Weiner, 46, and Abedin, 35, were married last summer, and the congressman has insisted that they plan to stay together through the current scandal.

If you only came here to see more pictures of Anthony Weiner and not to read about his host of problems, then here you go:

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married. (Getty Images)
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Retransmission with alternate crop.) Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married. (Getty Images)
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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married. (Getty Images)
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) appears at a press conference at the Sheraton Hotel on 7th Avenue on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual 
relationships online while married. (Getty Images)

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Anthony Weiner Says Wife Huma Abedin Will Stay, But Will She?

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., poses with his wife Huma Abedin, close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, for a formal wedding portrait at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., in this July 10, 2010 file photo provided by Marie Ternes. (Barbara Kinney/AP Photo)

Recognition of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner that he lied about sexting photo to the Seattle woman and at least five others during the last three years was shocked almost 11-month marriage to Huma Abedin.

Abedin was the old assistant to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 34 years have experienced embarrassing headlines in The New York Post - "balloon scandal," "Hide Weiner" and "What a Weenie" - after word got out that 21 years Gennette Cordova has received the now-famous photograph of a man's crotch congressman Twitter account it.

At the conference, press the tear-stained half-hour. yesterday, Democratic Congressman said his wife would stand by him, despite week-old scandal.

"We have no intention to split over this," said Weiner, 46, who added he will not resign from Parliament. "We will weather this I love him .. He loves me."

He said that he had told his wife about sexting with women before their marriage, but not about the latest activities online, including one with a single mother of Meagan Broussard started in April this year.

Weiner said he had never met these women personally and do not have sex outside of marriage.

The Congressman said Abedin only learned the truth he Pls Monday about the toll her sexting. She Did not show up for the press conference.

"Anybody Who is so imprudent to do any of this, is mind-boggling to me," wrote Roxanne Roberts about the affair in the gossip column, "The Reliable Source," which she co-authors for the Washington Post. "From a purely practical standpoint - what was he thinking?"

ABCNews.com made calls to both Weiner and Abedin That were the resource persons not returned.

The couple - with irony "there remains Some noted by pundits - was married last July by former President Bill Clinton, WHO Himself was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998 over an affair with Monica Lewinsky.

When he officiated at the ceremony of Long Island, Bill Clinton reportedly toasted Abedin, saying she was like a daughter to uterus.

Hillary Clinton weathered the Same Pls public humiliation her husband was Unfaithful with a White House intern, yet chose to stand by her man.

"The thought did cross into my mind - 'Who is the person most upset about these circumstances?" - And I am guessing it's probably a tie, "said Roberts. "I bet it's both these women."

"[Abedin] has been extremely private about her longtime relationship working for Hillary Clinton," she said. "She has established a reputation for someone completely loyal and utterly discreet."

Whether she takes the Clinton's path or ultimately leaves Weiner is anyone's guess.

"I would never even attempt to speculate," said Roberts. "Nobody knows much about her emotional life or how likely, she will from this process. It all goes back to the old dictum - you can not know what a marriage is like by just looking in."

Abedin began her career in 1996 as a White House intern, then later served as Hillary Clinton's traveling chief of staff and "body woman" During her 2008 presidential campaign.

Born in Kalamazoo, Mich.., She was the daughter of an Iranian scholar of Indian descent and a Pakistani mother Who is a Sociology professor in Saudi Arabia, Nowhere she was raised. She Came to the United States to attend George Washington University.

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Rick Santorum formally joins GOP presidential field

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, shown here delivering a speech in April in New Hampshire, made his presidential bid official Monday. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Reporting from Washington —

Former Sen. Rick Santorum on Monday became the latest Republican to formally declare for the 2012 presidential nomination.

Like rival Mitt Romney, who announced his bid Thursday, Santorum's entry had been expected for some time.

"We're going to be in this race, and we're in it to win," Santorum said on ABC's "Good Morning America." He said his campaign has a "lot of momentum" in the early primary states.

Santorum planned to give a speech later Monday morning in western Pennsylvania, near where his immigrant Italian grandfather worked in coal mines.

On ABC, host George Stephanopolous asked a question which has been on the mind of many political observers: How can a man who lost his last Senate race (to Bob Casey) by 18 points make a credible case for the White House?

Santorum responded by saying he has stuck to his core conservative principles. He blamed his loss in 2006 on a poor electoral climate for Republicans.

Best known for his strong stance on social issues, Santorum also plans to be a loud voice in the room on entitlement reform. Not only did he renew his call for reforming Social Security on Monday, he said that the Paul Ryan Medicare revamp plan, which Republicans have been handling delicately ever since it emerged as a volatile and polarizing political issue this spring, doesn't go far enough because it wouldn't affect current seniors.

Santorum, 53, has shown little strength in polls, routinely scoring in the low single digits. He served two terms in the House and two terms in the Senate before his 2006 loss to Casey.

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