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Secrets About the Presidents

1. George Washington2. John Adams3. Thomas Jefferson4. James Madison5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams7. Andrew Jackson8. Martin Van Buren9. William Henry Harrison10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk12. Zachary Taylor13. Millard Fillmore14. Franklin Pierce15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln17. Andrew Johnson18. Ulysses S. Grant19. Rutherford B. Hayes20. James A. Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur22. Grover Cleveland23. Benjamin Harrison24. Grover Cleveland25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt27. William Howard Taft28. Woodrow Wilson29. Warren G. Harding30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover32. Franklin D. Roosevelt33. Harry S. Truman34. Dwight D. Eisenhower35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson37. Richard M. Nixon38. Gerald R. Ford39. Jimmy Carter40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush42. William J. Clinton
2. John Adams

2. John Adams

I taught myself to speak Dutch. Then I hopped in a boat to the Netherlands, where I borrowed money to keep America from going broke.


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