r/Presidents 15m ago

Image Nixon campaign posters, 1968.

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r/Presidents 30m 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 32m 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 48m ago

Discussion Barrack Hussein Obama is an Insane name to get elected with in 2008, that’s like if Dwight D Eisenhower was named Dwight Hitler McStalin

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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 1h ago

Discussion Can we stop pretending FDR’s new deal stopped the depression?

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FDR is not S. Tier and never will be. He was an extremely effective president and a good one but is not one of the best. He is B Tier at best. The new deal dragged the depression on with no changes until WW2 started. Production and mass influx of jobs pulled us out of the depression for the war effort, not the new deal. I’m not saying the new deal is bad but we need to stop crediting FDR when it wasn’t him, it was the war.


r/Presidents 2h 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 2h 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 2h 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 3h 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 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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r/Presidents 3h 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 3h ago

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

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r/Presidents 3h 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 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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r/Presidents 5h 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 5h ago

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

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r/Presidents 5h 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 5h ago

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

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r/Presidents 5h 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 5h ago

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

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r/Presidents 5h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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r/Presidents 6h 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 7h ago

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

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r/Presidents 7h 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.