First to live in the White House: John Adams
First President to shake hands instead of bow: Thomas Jefferson
First to have a Christmas tree in the White House: Franklin Pierce
First to both be sued for sexual misconduct and forced to give a deposition while in office: William Jefferson Clinton
First to die while in office: William Henry Harrison
First and only President to pay off the National Debt: Andrew Jackson (Note: President Clinton has made substiantial progress in paying off the current Debt. I commend him for doing so.)
First and only Vice President to be drunk at his inauguration: Andrew Johnson (His doctor prescribed an alcoholic drink to relieve some pain.)
First to be playing marbles when he learned that he would become President: John Tyler
First to be playing poker when he found out that he would become President: Harry Truman
First and only President to become the Chief Justice of the United States: William Howard Taft
First President to appear on a postage stamp: George Washington
First President to have a grandchild born in the White House: Thomas Jefferson
First President to wear trousers instead of knee breeches: James Madison
First and only President to name a son George Washington: John Q. Adams
First President to ride a train: Andrew Jackson
First to have a veto overridden: John Tyler
First to have his inauguration reported by telegraph: James Knox Polk
First to establish a permanent library in the White House: Millard Fillmore
First to wear a beard while in office: Abraham Lincoln
First and only President to get a speeding ticket while in office: Ulysses S. Grant
First to use a telephone while in office: Rutherford B. Hayes
First to use electricity in the White House: Benjamin Harrison
First to fly in an airplane: Teddy Roosevelt
First to hold a press conference: Woodrow Wilson
First to speak over the radio: Warren G. Harding
First to have an asteroid named for him: Herbert Hoover
First to appear on television: Franklin Roosevelt
First to travel underwater in a modern submarine: Harry Truman
First Boy Scout President: John F. Kennedy
First President born in a hospital: Jimmy Carter
First to publicly refuse to eat broccoli: George Bush
First President to have been a Rhodes Scholar: William Jefferson Clinton
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