The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November 29, 1963. The Commission took its unofficial name from its chairman, Chief Justice Earl Warren.
At 6 ft 3 3/4 in, Abraham Lincoln surmounts Lyndon B. Johnson as the tallest president.
Hooverball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician, Medal of Honor recipient Joel T. Boone, to help keep then-President Hoover fit. The Hoover Presidential Library Association and the city of West Branch, Iowa still co-host a national championship each year.
George Washington was widely admired for his strong leadership qualities and was unanimously elected President by the Electoral College in the first two national elections.
Although Ronald Reagan was 73 years old when he began his second term, he was only 69 when he first became President. Donald Trump was 70 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017.
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the first President to have been born in Hawaii, making him the first President born outside of the contiguous 48 states.
Although Calvin Coolidge is the only U.S. president born on July 4, three of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe all died on Independence Day.
In 1967, Lyndon B. Johnson nominated civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Theodore Roosevelt's successful efforts to broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War won him the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
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