President facts and facts about presidents, from the Random Facts shelf.
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George W. Bush is the first u.s. president to declare himself exempt from over 750 U.S. laws, sidestepping most of the bill of rights including the constitutional requirement that the president follow all laws. Yes, they mentioned it specifically to suppress tyranny.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
As of 2007 it now costs more than 1 cent to produce 1 cent.
No president of the United States was an only child.
Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980
The story of 9/11 is a confusing one. One clear fact that officials continue to deny is the president's plane, also known as the doomsday plane because it is a flying command center in case of a nuclear event, was the mystery plane in the air on 9/11/2001.
The president is the highest ranking official in the government including the military.
Requirements needed to apply for president are must be at least 35 years old, a native born citizen, and be at least a 14 year resident of the united states.
According to about.com and their top 25 funny jokes "I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message that no matter what happens to America she will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world." --Comedian Stephen Colbert, roasting Bush at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
Our favorite: “To the vice president's credit, he did own up to it (shooting hunting partner in the face). On FOX News he said the fault was his, he can't blame anybody else. Boy, it's amazing, the only time you get accountability out of this administration is when they are actually holding a smoking gun." --Bill Maher
In 1816 James Monroe won the presidency of the United States, winning the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34. He took over the spot vacated by James Madison.
The nineteen thirties were a challenging decade with the Great Depression and the stock market crash.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a plan called The New Deal a set of initiatives to build infrastructure including dams for the exploding demand for electricity while providing people with jobs.
The government of Singapore is based on the British system of parliamentary government with shared powers.
There are fifty-five parliamentary constituencies in Singapore which vote to put a representative in Parliament. The government is headed by a prime minister who leads a cabinet of ministers of state selected from the ranks of the members of Parliament.
The constitutional head of state was the president, who occupied a largely powerless and ceremonial role.
When a poll tells us a candidate for president of the United States is favored by ___% of the population, they tell us it has a "margin of error" of +-__% .
For example, August 6, 2008, CBS poll on the president of the United States put John McCain with 39% of the vote and Barrak Obama 45% of the vote, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The World Fact Book reports U.S. population at over 300 million, 301,139,947 (estimate as of 2007).
How many people do you think you'd have to poll to get within plus or minus 3% or 300,000 of the correct vote?
10 million? 1 million? This particular CBS pre-poll accurately extrapolates the minds of over 300 million people by polling just 906 people, or .00009 % of the population.
We're not so different after all!