George Washington, the first U.S. president, never shook hands with his visitors; he bowed to them instead.
it wasn't until 1929 that an American president, Herbert Hoover, had a telephone on his desk. Before then, the telephone was located in a booth outside the executive office.
A career military man who never established a permanent address, Zachary Taylor had never voted in his life when he won the office of the presidency, and didn't vote for himself as president
Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president, was the first to receive a raise in salary (the salary of the president is established by Congress). Grant's presidential salary was increased in 1873 to $50,000. Today the president receives a salary of $400,000 plus a $50,000 expense account.
On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding, the 29th president, was the first to ride to his inauguration ceremony in an automobile. He was also the first president to speak on the radio and have a radio in the White House.
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In the White House Clinton discovered the previous administration had hardly used computers at all, instead finding many typewriters and few printers. There was a centralized email network running on a VAX server and also some 386 PCs that were basically used as glass terminals. The equipment was at least two generations old, and there was so little of it, that it’s rumored the Clintons wondered if the Bush administration had either taken or hidden their PCs. Other agencies outside of the President’s office were in much better shape, but they operated as islands and weren’t networked to one another in any way.
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