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Other 12 things you didn't know about the Presidents:1. Thomas Jefferson has a Deaf slave family at Monticello. Their expertise in making the finest Virginian wine from its vineyard.
2. Theodore Roosevelt has a Deaf guide on his exploration of the west discovered an area what is now known as Yellowstone National Park.3. George W. Bush often jog with I. King Jordan on the Gallaudet track.
4. Abraham Lincoln learned fingerspelling from Edward Miner Gallaudet at the White House before attending Ford Theater that evening.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower often uses a Deaf war department civilians to send secret codes in sign language to his field officers before the D-Day to avoid interception by the Nazis.6. George Washington temporary uses a Yorktown Deaf family's home as his headquarters in October 1781, site of the last battle of the Revolutionary War.
7. Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson once killed a Deaf man in a duel over his girlfriend before the War of 1812 in New Orleans.
8. Ronald "The Great Communicator" Reagan once had a character role of Alexander Graham Bell in a film which was never released.9. John F. Kennedy often party on Martha's Vineyard in which a few local Deaf residents in attendance.
10. in 1918, Woodrow Wilson became was the only president ever to be a commencement speaker at Gallaudet College. He uses the occasion to promote the "League of Nation."
11. A Deaf White House aide pushes Franklin D. Roosevelt, a victim of Polio, in his wheelchair on his campaigns for reelections.
12. Richard M. Nixon was the first president to use a certified sign language interpreter, unfortunately it was for his resignation speech shortly after watergate.
Is these are all true? I think so.
This helped me in research for a paper in my deaf sign class at Pacific Lutheran U in Tacoma Wa.
Posted by Deborah Springer | May 17, 2010 5:00 PM