Obey, you say? Madame... I am the President!

Did you know...

...Fun Fact #1 - Grover Cleveland excluded the promise "to obey" from the traditional wedding vows when he married Frances Folsom at the White House on June 2, 1886?

...Fun Fact #2 - On April 14, 1910, William H. Taft became the first president to throw out the season-opening pitch for professional baseball at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.?

...Fun Fact #3 - The first former first lady to receive a pension for being a president's widow was Anna Symmes Harrison? She received $25,000 when President John Tyler signed into law the first pension for a president's widow, in June 1841.

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." Mark Twain

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