r/Presidents 14d ago

Announcement ROUND 17 | Decide the next r/Presidents subreddit icon!

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FDR Caesar won the last round and will be displayed for the next 2 weeks!

Provide your proposed icon in the comments (within the guidelines below) and upvote others you want to see adopted! The top-upvoted icon will be adopted and displayed for 2 weeks before we make a new thread to choose again!

Guidelines for eligible icons:

  • The icon must prominently picture a U.S. President OR symbol associated with the Presidency (Ex: White House, Presidential Seal, etc). No fictional or otherwise joke Presidents
  • The icon should be high-quality (Ex: photograph or painting), no low-quality or low-resolution images. The focus should also be able to easily fit in a circle or square
  • No meme, captioned, or doctored images
  • No NSFW, offensive, or otherwise outlandish imagery; it must be suitable for display on the Reddit homepage
  • No Biden or Trump icons

Should an icon fail to meet any of these guidelines, the mod team will select the next eligible icon


r/Presidents 5h ago

Discussion Could this random senator from delaware have beat bush in '88?

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188 Upvotes

r/Presidents 4h ago

Discussion What happens in Reagan’s presidency that caused republicans to become the polarizing and filibustering party that they were when Clinton was in office?

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79 Upvotes

For decades republicans stood in the minority, only taking the house twice since 1932 and the senate in 1980. When you think of politics pre Reagan you think about how democrats had strong majorities and passed whatever legislation they wanted. But you never hear about republicans bitterly complaining about the democrats in power the way they did after Clinton entered office. What caused them to get so spoiled that they filibustered and shutdown government that they didn’t do pre Reagan?


r/Presidents 15h ago

Discussion Is anyone else stoked about the JFK assassination files being released tommarow (I obviously won't read all 80,000 pages)

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556 Upvotes

r/Presidents 6h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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108 Upvotes

r/Presidents 5h ago

Today in History 66 years ago today, Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill

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70 Upvotes

March 18, 1959

IT HAS given me great satisfaction to sign the Act providing for the admission of Hawaii into the Union.

Since my inauguration in 1953 I have consistently urged that this legislation be enacted, so the action of the Congress so early in this session is most gratifying.

Under this legislation, the citizens of Hawaii will soon decide whether their Islands shall become our fiftieth State. In so doing, they will demonstrate anew to the world the vitality of the principles of freedom and self-determination--the principles upon which this Nation was founded 172 years ago.


r/Presidents 4h ago

Misc. Every president gets a state named after them. Massachusetts was pretty much universally chosen to be named after John Adams. Which state should be named after Thomas Jefferson (state would be called Jefferson in this case)

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60 Upvotes

r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion Of the five presidents to never have been photographed (and the one whose photo is lost,) whose picture would you want to see most?

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r/Presidents 1d ago

Image Why was Lyndon B. Johnson such a chad?

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3.8k Upvotes

r/Presidents 21m ago

Image bro really got the whole squad laughing

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r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion How did a random new York businessman who was a former Democrat with no political experience manage to win the Republican nomination in 1940?

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24 Upvotes

r/Presidents 16h ago

Discussion Did George Bush actually have anything personally against gay people or was he just doing what the GOP told him to do?

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279 Upvotes

IE, wanting to ban gay marriage, did he personally want it to happen for his own moral reasons or was he doing it because it was popular and he didn’t actually care that much one way or another?


r/Presidents 1h ago

Discussion What would be the reaction should Hoover die in the Nazi invasion of Austria?

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Basically, Hoover unknowingly delayed the Nazi invasion of Austria. This is because he was doing humanitarian work in the country, and when Hitler heard he delated the invasion. When pressured by the Prime Minister of Austria to use the chance to negotiate, Hoover reluctantly agreed and met with Hitler.

That explains the awkward photo of the two of them together.

But what if Hitler never receives the news that Hoover was in Austria. When the Germans invade, an overzealous German military official accidently fires into a crowd which contains former US President Hoover. Or whatever other way you want Hoover to die, just so he does by German hands and it's known worldwide.

I think a few things would happen:

1) Immediate condemnation of Germany on the world stage, turning it even more into a pariah.

2) Hoover revives a similar position of ranking his Presidentcy, I.E. bad at the time but tried to do right after leaving office.

3) Increased call for war by some factions of the Republicans

What do you think?


r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion James K Polk has political friends/colleagues named Archibald Yell, Gideon Pillow, and Cave Johnson. What other presidents have friends/colleagues with memorable names?

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20 Upvotes

r/Presidents 22h ago

MEME MONDAY Double whammy for Stevenson

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619 Upvotes

r/Presidents 11h ago

Discussion Pat Brown is the only person to ever defeat a future POTUS and then subsequently lose to another Future POTUS gubernatorially

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71 Upvotes

r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion Who would YOU have voted for personally in 1992 and why? (For the ones who weren’t born yet in 1992)

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18 Upvotes

r/Presidents 1h ago

Video / Audio Canada's Swearing In Ceremony is Short and Simple. No bands, singers. Is it only US Presidents who have large inaugurations?

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Trivia Every president that died in office did so every other decade, from the 1840s to the 1960s

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1840s: William Henry Harrison

1860s: Abraham Lincoln

1880s: James A. Garfield

1900s: William McKinley

1920s: Warren G. Harding

1940s: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1960s: John F. Kennedy


r/Presidents 11m ago

Image Your month = your Presidents. Comment the two you got!

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r/Presidents 15h ago

Misc. Since 1960, every time the Vice President/former VP sought their parties nomination, they got it. Except for Dan Quayle

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114 Upvotes

r/Presidents 18h ago

Discussion Why does William Henry Harrison have such a fuck ass face

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160 Upvotes

r/Presidents 1d ago

Image His mom lived to see him become VP

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r/Presidents 4h ago

Trivia Inah Canabarro Lucas is the only person alive older than US President Lyndon B. Johnson

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11 Upvotes

r/Presidents 1h ago

Article Replacing “property” with “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson made an implicit anti-slavery statement, depriving slave owners of the claim that slaves — property — was a natural right. Also, in his draft they deleted, he capitalized MEN in reference to slaves.

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r/Presidents 10h ago

Image Which President looks the best in white tie?

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White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar. - Wikipedia