It's officially No-Shave November, and you know what that means. Now begins a full month of dudes letting their facial hair grow and grow until Dec. 1 all in the name of raising cancer awareness.
While this is obviously a wonderful cause and something many men around the world will be involved in during the month, not everyone will be participating. One guy who probably won't get in on the action is President Barack Obama, who said "I can't grow facial hair" in a 2006 interview with The Hill. "I get whiskers," he told reporter Betsy Rothstein.
While President Obama may be unique in his lack of ability to grow facial hair, he's certainly not alone in bringing a clean-shaven face to the White House. Surprisingly few presidents have had facial hair. Out of 44 presidents, only nine of them have grown beards and mustaches. These hairy men include Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft. If you want to split hairs, some presidents have also had prominent sideburns, including George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor.
And let's not forget about the possibility of the next president being a woman. With that in mind, let's hope the clean-shaven presidential look is here to stay.
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