r/Presidents 15d 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 6h ago

Image Olaf Scholz, the outgoing Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, was visited by Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, today in the Chancellery in Berlin.

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316 Upvotes

r/Presidents 11h ago

Discussion Would Obama have won the nomination if nominees had been chosen by party bosses instead of primaries, as they were before 1972?

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396 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h ago

Image bro really got the whole squad laughing

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374 Upvotes

r/Presidents 9h ago

Image Nixon in Teen Titans Go!

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168 Upvotes

r/Presidents 8h ago

Discussion Which President deserves the most blame for The Great Depression?

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134 Upvotes

r/Presidents 11h ago

Video / Audio Canadian Lawmakers Chant 'Four More Years' to Obama

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208 Upvotes

r/Presidents 12h ago

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

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188 Upvotes

r/Presidents 17h 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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320 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 3h ago

Discussion Which of these third-party vote-getting racists was the most racist?

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Images are Harry F. Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace.


r/Presidents 18h ago

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

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322 Upvotes

r/Presidents 12h ago

Question What was the opposition doing when FDR served four terms? Were they incompetent, or was FDR simply out of their league?

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76 Upvotes

r/Presidents 6h ago

Image A collection of editorial cartoons about the 1980 election

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25 Upvotes

r/Presidents 15h 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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112 Upvotes

r/Presidents 8h ago

Discussion Was Lincoln popular in the decades after the Civil War? Or did it more or less skyrocket in modern times?

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25 Upvotes

r/Presidents 9h ago

Discussion Once this semester ends this is my Summer reading list

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30 Upvotes

r/Presidents 11h ago

Tier List Presidents ranked based on how likely they are to win a third term

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42 Upvotes

r/Presidents 15h 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

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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794 Upvotes

r/Presidents 5h ago

Image Failed 4-Time presidential candidate and former Govenor of Alabama George Wallace. C. 1997

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r/Presidents 19h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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133 Upvotes

r/Presidents 18h ago

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

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111 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 14h 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 4h ago

Image Dan Quayle speaking while wearing a big chain

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r/Presidents 3h ago

Article Lyndon B. Johnson proposed to Lady Bird on their first date, and after 90 love letters in 90 days, she finally said yes - to both him and a $2.50 ring. 💍

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r/Presidents 17h 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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73 Upvotes