15 Facts About American President

1. American President was entombed at Mount Vernon, which in 1960 was designated a national historic landmark.

2. American President survived, although the illness left him with permanent facial scars.

3. American President holds a spot in the World Golf Hall of Fame in the Lifetime Achievement Category.

4. American President once got himself wedged into the White House bathtub and had to call his advisers for help getting out.

5. American President supported the American Colonization Society in its work to create a home for freed slaves in Liberia.

6. American President made rye whiskey, apple brandy and peach brandy in his Mount Vernon distillery.

7. American President met his wife, Bess, in Sunday school when he was six.

8. American President messed around with a woman named Nan Britton, who wrote a book called "The President's Daughter" about how her daughter was Harding's.

9. American President was left partially paralyzed and almost blind, but stayed in office until 1921.

10. American President started a tradition of sending State of the Union speeches as written documents to be read at Congress by a clerk.

11. American President added that the Pentagon will continue to develop a legislative proposal to meet the president's vision for a space force.

12. American President was, and remains, the only US president never to be affiliated with a political party.

13. American President is elected indirectly by the voters of each state and the District of Columbia through the Electoral College, a body of electors formed every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president to concurrent four-year terms.

14. American President has the power to nominate federal judges, including members of the United States courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.

15. American President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States.