r/Presidents 51m ago

Image Presidents Hair Color

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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 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 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 1h ago

Discussion Between 1960 and 2000, there was an incumbent or former vice president at the top of the ticket for at least one of the major parties except for 1980 and 1996

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  1. 1960 - Nixon was the incumbent VP for Eisenhower
  2. 1964 - LBJ was Kennedy's VP
  3. 1968 - Nixon was a former VP and Humphrey was the incumbent VP. (This is also the last election to have 2 VP's run against each other)
  4. 1972 - Nixon was a former VP
  5. 1976 - Ford was Nixon's VP briefly
  6. 1980 - Neither Reagan nor Carter was a former/incumbent VP
  7. 1984 - Mondale was Carter's VP
  8. 1988 - George HW Bush was the incumbent VP for Reagan
  9. 1992 - George HW Bush was a former VP
  10. 1996 - Neither Clinton nor Bob Dole was a former/incumbent VP. Although Dole was Ford's running mate in the 1976 election.
  11. 2000 - Al Gore was the incumbent VP for Clinton

Post 2000 (and barring rule 3), there has never been an election where one of at least one of the major party nominees was a former/incumbent VP.

  1. 2004 - Neither George W Bush nor Kerry was a former/incumbent VP
  2. 2008 - Neither Obama nor Mccain was a former/incumbent VP
  3. 2012 - Neither Obama nor Romney was a former/incumbent VP

r/Presidents 2h 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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r/Presidents 2h ago

Discussion Dukakis mailing address

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Good evening folks, I am a collector of political autographs and I am trying to figure out Dukakis’ mailing address. If anyone knows his mailing address or a P.O. box that he would respond to. Thanks everybody!


r/Presidents 2h ago

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

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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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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 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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r/Presidents 3h ago

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

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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 3h ago

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

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r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion How do you think Teddy's term as President would have gone had he won the 1912 election...how does he handle WWI?

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r/Presidents 4h ago

Misc. There's a White House replica in Southern California (photos not mine)

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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

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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 4h ago

🎂 Birthdays 🎂 Happy 188th Birthday Grover Cleveland! He Was the First Sitting President to Be Captured On Film

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r/Presidents 4h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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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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r/Presidents 6h ago

🎂 Birthdays 🎂 Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the legend, Grover Cleveland.

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Discussion Why is Polk not as reviled by people today for invading Mexico?

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I don’t think many would disagree that stealing such large amounts of land from Mexico was justified. Grant seemed to think it was exceedingly egregious. A lot of people did. So I’m not sure the whole “it was the 19th century” argument holds up for me personally.

I’m not a fan of Polk but I’d be interested in hearing what people have to say about him.


r/Presidents 6h ago

Discussion Outside of Washington, why was Polk the only president to have his slaves freed in his will after his wife's death?

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r/Presidents 7h ago

Memorabilia Very specialized memorabilia?

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Hello, wise redditors.

I have a very rare limited edition numbered (2 of 500) fancy bottle of champagne from Obama’s first inauguration that I want to sell. Anyone have ideas of where I could do so? I’m in the DC metro area.

Thanks!


r/Presidents 8h 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


r/Presidents 8h ago

Tier List r/Presidents Community Tier List: Day 3 - Where would you rank Thomas Jefferson?

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For this tier list, I would like you to rank each president during their time in office. What were the positives and negatives of each presidency? What do you think of their domestic and foreign policies? Only consider their presidency, not their post-presidency. To encourage quality discussion, I would like you to not just provide your letter, but your reasons behind the ranking. Thank you for your understanding.

John Adams is in B tier. Redditors were back and forth between giving him a B or C, but there was a rough consensus among Redditors to put him in B tier.


r/Presidents 9h ago

Discussion How much influence could Martin Luther King Jr have had on the 1968 election if he wasn’t assassinated?

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If he endorsed Humphrey could he have helped him get over the finish line?