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A history of presidential firsts

Published: Oct 30 2012 06:18:05 PM CDT Updated On: Oct 31 2012 02:47:14 AM CDT

The history of the American presidency is full of firsts -- from groundbreaking to the just plain goofy.

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Who was the first president with a phone in the White House? The first to be divorced? From George Washington to Barack Obama, there have been many firsts in the history of the American presidency. Here are just a few.

White House after dark

George Washington portrait

John Adams

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

Presidential Firsts - Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

James Garfield

Presidential Firsts - Teddy Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Herbert Hoover

FDR

Dwight D Eisenhower

Presidential Firsts - Kennedy

Richard Nixon resigning from office

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

Mubarak Clinton

Presidential Firsts - Obama

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