Charlottesville Residents Take the Presidents Day Challenge

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Can you recite every U.S. president by memory? There are some people in Charlottesville who can.

NBC29's Whitney Harris hit the streets on Monday to see who would be willing to take the Presidents Day challenge - and correctly name every commander in chief.

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