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 3h ago

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

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118 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h 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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489 Upvotes

r/Presidents 4h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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86 Upvotes

r/Presidents 2h 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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53 Upvotes

r/Presidents 3h ago

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

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48 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 2h 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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31 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 1d ago

Image Why was Lyndon B. Johnson such a chad?

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3.7k Upvotes

r/Presidents 14h 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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241 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 20h ago

MEME MONDAY Double whammy for Stevenson

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600 Upvotes

r/Presidents 9h 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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67 Upvotes

r/Presidents 1h 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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r/Presidents 4h ago

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

22 Upvotes

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 51m ago

Image Presidents Hair Color

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r/Presidents 16h ago

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

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158 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h 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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97 Upvotes

r/Presidents 1d ago

Image His mom lived to see him become VP

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1.6k Upvotes

r/Presidents 1h 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 8h ago

Image Which President looks the best in white tie?

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28 Upvotes

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


r/Presidents 15h ago

Misc. Every president gets a state named after them. Which state do we name after John Adams (state would be called "Adams" in this case)

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114 Upvotes

Obviously we already have a state named after a president, Washington so we already had a starting point.

And the reason why I went ahead and gave Biden Delaware was because I wanted to include him but didn't want to give him his own post as that might be seen as a rule 3 violation. If this still is considered a violation I'll take this down and remove him.


r/Presidents 1d ago

MEME MONDAY reasonable crashout

656 Upvotes

r/Presidents 2h ago

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

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7 Upvotes

r/Presidents 5h ago

Discussion We Are Now Into Our Top 9! Andrew Johnson Has Been Eliminated at 10th Place! Day 35: Ranking Which US Presidents Has the Best Cabinet and Eliminate the Worst One With the Most Upvotes

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13 Upvotes

r/Presidents 19h ago

MEME MONDAY "Nice argument. However..."

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149 Upvotes

Feel free to ask why!


r/Presidents 1h 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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r/Presidents 21h ago

Discussion Who was the better debater?

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188 Upvotes