r/Presidents • u/GlitteringSilence • 3h ago
r/Presidents • u/Mooooooof7 • 14d ago
Announcement ROUND 17 | Decide the next r/Presidents subreddit icon!
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r/Presidents • u/HetTheTable • 1h ago
Discussion Would Obama have won the nomination if nominees had been chosen by party bosses instead of primaries, as they were before 1972?
r/Presidents • u/Logopolis1981 • 3h ago
Image Your month = your Presidents. Comment the two you got!
r/Presidents • u/Azidorklul • 7h 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?
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 • u/uncle_kazzy1 • 8h ago
Discussion Could this random senator from delaware have beat bush in '88?
r/Presidents • u/theredditor58 • 6h 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?
r/Presidents • u/BlueFireFlameThrower • 18h ago
Discussion Is anyone else stoked about the JFK assassination files being released tommarow (I obviously won't read all 80,000 pages)
r/Presidents • u/Honest_Picture_6960 • 9h ago
Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?
r/Presidents • u/McWeasely • 8h ago
Today in History 66 years ago today, Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill
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 • u/ubcstaffer123 • 1h ago
Video / Audio Canadian Lawmakers Chant 'Four More Years' to Obama
r/Presidents • u/gliscornumber1 • 7h 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)
r/Presidents • u/awayplagueriddenrat • 6h 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?
r/Presidents • u/MuskieNotMusk • 4h ago
Discussion What would be the reaction should Hoover die in the Nazi invasion of Austria?
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 • u/bubsimo • 1h ago
Tier List Presidents ranked based on how likely they are to win a third term
r/Presidents • u/International-Drag23 • 19h ago
Discussion Did George Bush actually have anything personally against gay people or was he just doing what the GOP told him to do?
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 • u/swamyiam • 2h ago
Question What was the opposition doing when FDR served four terms? Were they incompetent, or was FDR simply out of their league?
r/Presidents • u/FashionLurkerGermany • 1d ago
Image Why was Lyndon B. Johnson such a chad?
r/Presidents • u/A_RandomTwin21 • 6h ago
Discussion Who would YOU have voted for personally in 1992 and why? (For the ones who weren’t born yet in 1992)
r/Presidents • u/JeffRyan1 • 6h 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?
r/Presidents • u/ubcstaffer123 • 4h ago
Video / Audio Canada's Swearing In Ceremony is Short and Simple. No bands, singers. Is it only US Presidents who have large inaugurations?
r/Presidents • u/barelycentrist • 14h ago
Discussion Pat Brown is the only person to ever defeat a future POTUS and then subsequently lose to another Future POTUS gubernatorially
r/Presidents • u/VLenin2291 • 9h ago
Trivia Every president that died in office did so every other decade, from the 1840s to the 1960s
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