var arrayFacts = [ "Isn't that ironic?

In 1929, President Hoover declared, 'We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of man.' This was said at the Republican National Convention, just months before the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The Great Depression followed quickly after and it brought millions of Americans into unemployment and poverty. It was an economic disaster the country did not fully recover from until the U.S. entered World War II.

Hoover came to the White House with shining ideals and left with shattered illusions.", "Separation of Powers.

William Taft was the only former President to swear in other Presidents. William Taft was the 27th American President, serving from 1909 to 1913.

Years later, in 1920 he gave the nomination speech for his friend and Republican nominee Warren G. Harding, who went on to win the presidency.

Only a year later, Harding appointed Taft to the Supreme Court after another judge died. Taft was confirmed unanimously, and quickly became Chief Justice, fulfilling a lifelong dream.

In this position, Taft swore in Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. He remains the only President to serve on the Supreme Court and the only man to lead both the Executive and Judicial branches of government.", "In this corner we have the president of the United States weighing in at...

In 1900, a secret society in China called 'The Boxers' started a rebellion which hoped to drive out all foreign influence.

In order to protect America's interests, President William McKinley sent in the marines.

Along with assistance from allies, they invaded, conquered, and made China pay compensation for the cost of the fiasco.

In a sense it could be said the President McKinley K-Oed the Boxers.", "Peanut President.The family of Jimmy Carter had a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia.

After his father was diagnosed with cancer, young Jimmy left the navy and took over the farm.

Overcoming hard times early, he built the farm into a large and prosperous business.", "A New World.

President Jimmy Carter was the first president of the United States to be born inside of a hospital.

He was born on October 1, 1924 in Georgia.", "From Rags to Riches.

Both of Herbert Hoover's parents died within a few years of each other when Hoover was a young boy. He was sent to live with relatives and raised by them. When Hoover graduated from college in California he was broke, but had a geology degree.

He then took up gold mining and engineering, which made him a millionaire by age forty.", "Don't believe everything you read. In the 1948 Presidential election, Harry Truman was considered to have so little chance of holding onto the White House that the Chicago Tribune actually hit the streets with the headline 'Dewey Wins.'

When the votes were counted, however, it wasn't Thomas Dewey, but Harry Truman who won.

Truman had alienated liberals by firing New Dealers who did not take him seriously and had alienated conservatives with his sweeping social reforms.

However, common people loved him for his honesty and forthrightness.", "Strike Out!

The air traffic controllers were not allowed to strike under federal law. When they walked out, Ronald Reagan fired 11,800 of them and decertified their union.", "Tight-lipped and Tight-fisted.Calvin Coolidge was a man of so few words that he earned the nickname 'Silent Cal.'It was said that he wanted his actions to speak for him. He came to enjoy the jokes about his nickname, which gave his dull personality a point on which to stand out. In addition to being tight-lipped, he was also tight-fisted - he was very careful about spending money.", "Fourth Time AroundFranklin D. Roosevelt was the only President to be elected to the U.S. presidency for four consecutive terms.After his death, on February 22, l951, Congress passed the Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution.

This states that a President may only run twice, unless he or she takes over from another President with more than two years remaining in a term, in which case he or she may only run once.", "Popular President.While a freshman Senator, John F. Kennedy underwent painful back surgery. While recovering, he wrote the book Profiles in Courage, which became a best seller and won Kennedy the 1957 Pulitzer prize. In the book he told the stories of people, including John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Sam Houston, and Lusius Cincinnatus Lamar, who took risks to stand up for what was right. In 1966, Arthur M. Schlessinger, Jr. won the Pulitzer with a book about John Kennedy, called A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House.

Kennedy remains the only president to have written and be the topic of a Pulitzer Prize winning book.", "Before he made news, he reported it.As a young man, Warren G. Harding got a job on a newspaper in Marion, Ohio. Fired by the paper's owner, Harding and two friends purchased a failing paper, The Marion Star. The paper grew, and Harding, with the help of his new wife, a business savvy divorcee, transformed it into an influential daily newspaper.", "A President's History.Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921.

But long before his presidency, Wilson became a professor of law at Princeton University in 1890. He was both a popular lecturer and a respected researcher. In his spare time, wrote the five-volume epic, History of the American People.Interesting note: He received $12,000 for the book, which is the equivalent of about $260,000 today.", "Forget Atkins, try Teddy's Jungle Diet!In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt read a book by Sinclair Lewis called The Jungle.

The Jungle exposed the horrendous conditions in the meat packing industry. This influenced Theodore Roosevelt to seek legislation requiring inspections. He obtained passage of the Pure Food Act, which regulated all aspects of the food industry.", "Who needs enemies, with friends like these?Although the Teapot Dome and other scandals were not investigated until after the death of President Warren G. Harding, he had become aware of the corruption in his administration. He confided to Herbert Hoover and others that he felt betrayed by many people he had trusted.The strain was obvious, and on a trip to Alaska, Harding suffered several attacks of ill health and was finally ordered to bed rest after collapsing in San Francisco. Four days later, on August 2, l923, Warren G. Harding was dead. The cause of death was listed as an embolism.Some, however, believe Harding was poisoned in order to keep him from testifying in court about the corruption in his administration.", "President Rat, Bonzo, and GipperBefore going into politics and serving as the 40th President, Ronald Reagan was an actor who starred in movies. These included Brother Rat (1938), Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) , and Knute Rockne, All American (1940).During the course of his acting career, Reagan starred in more than fifty films.", "A Nuclear PresidentJimmy Carter graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1946.

He went on to do graduate work in nuclear physics at Union College. While in the navy in the early 1950s, he assisted Admiral Hyman Rickover in developing the nuclear submarine program.", "A (Non)Declaration of WarOn April 30, 1970, after his Secretary of State assured Congress that the US would not be sending troops to Cambodia, Richard Nixon announced that U.S. troops were, in fact, marching into that country. Congress joined in bipartisan protest of this, since under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to wage war. They voted to cut off all funding for military action in Cambodia.It later came to light that Nixon had been waging a secret war in Cambodia since 1969 without the knowledge of the Congress.", "A Leak in the PlumbingSoon after the Watergate scandal came to light, it was discovered that since 1971, a White House group called the 'plumbers' had been engaged in criminal activities on behalf of President Richard Nixon.The group included White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, Presidential Assistant, John Eherlichman, former FBI agent and special assistant, G. Gordon Liddy, and former CIA agent Howard Hunt. Among other things, they burglarized the offices of the Democratic National Committee and psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg, who had publicized classified documents called the 'Pentagon Papers', which disclosed government deceptions concerning the war in Vietnam.

Incidently, until his death Richard Nixon always maintained his innocence in the Watergate Scandal.", "Heroes on Heroes

During World War II, John Kennedy became commander of PT Boat 109 in the South Pacific. In August of 1943, a Japanese destroyer rammed the boat, slicing it in half. Kennedy and the other survivors first clung to the wreckage, then swam to a small island about three miles away. Kennedy towed a wounded crew member by clenching the long strap of the injured man's life jacket between his teeth. For the next four days he swam looking for help, until finally friendly natives came to his aid. Kennedy received the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for heroism not involving conflict with the enemy. Later, as a Senator, he would write a book entitled Profiles in Courage about those who risked their careers to take unpopular stands.", "Task Force on National Health Care reform developed terminal illness.

During his first campaign for the presidency, Bill Clinton made national health care a major issue.

First Lady, Hillary Clinton, headed up a task force that proposed a plan, but it encountered stiff opposition from health insurance companies and the Republicans in Congress.

Clinton was unable to reach a compromise with Republicans in the Senate, and health-care reform never came to pass.", "Destroy all the Evidence

After his death, Mrs. Harding burned every scrap of paper she could find that had anything to do with Warren Harding or his presidency.

The notes and papers that are cherished by history and saved in the presidential libraries of others were, in the case of President Harding, burned to ashes.

Interesting note: For all the care Mrs. Harding took to get rid of any evidence of wrong-doing, forty years after Harding's death, love letters were found linking him illicitly to a Marion, Ohio women.", ];