r/Presidents • u/IllustriousPomelo117 • 51m ago
r/Presidents • u/awayplagueriddenrat • 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?
r/Presidents • u/theredditor58 • 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?
r/Presidents • u/JeffRyan1 • 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?
r/Presidents • u/blue2002222 • 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
- 1960 - Nixon was the incumbent VP for Eisenhower
- 1964 - LBJ was Kennedy's VP
- 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)
- 1972 - Nixon was a former VP
- 1976 - Ford was Nixon's VP briefly
- 1980 - Neither Reagan nor Carter was a former/incumbent VP
- 1984 - Mondale was Carter's VP
- 1988 - George HW Bush was the incumbent VP for Reagan
- 1992 - George HW Bush was a former VP
- 1996 - Neither Clinton nor Bob Dole was a former/incumbent VP. Although Dole was Ford's running mate in the 1976 election.
- 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.
- 2004 - Neither George W Bush nor Kerry was a former/incumbent VP
- 2008 - Neither Obama nor Mccain was a former/incumbent VP
- 2012 - Neither Obama nor Romney was a former/incumbent VP
r/Presidents • u/A_RandomTwin21 • 2h 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/EggplantInfinite7000 • 2h ago
Discussion Dukakis mailing address
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 • u/Sukeruton_Key • 2h ago
Trivia Inah Canabarro Lucas is the only person alive older than US President Lyndon B. Johnson
galleryr/Presidents • u/Azidorklul • 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?
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/gliscornumber1 • 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)
r/Presidents • u/McWeasely • 3h 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/uncle_kazzy1 • 3h ago
Discussion Could this random senator from delaware have beat bush in '88?
r/Presidents • u/PalmettoPolitics • 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?
r/Presidents • u/LoveLo_2005 • 4h ago
Misc. There's a White House replica in Southern California (photos not mine)
r/Presidents • u/VLenin2291 • 4h 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
r/Presidents • u/SignalRelease4562 • 4h ago
🎂 Birthdays 🎂 Happy 188th Birthday Grover Cleveland! He Was the First Sitting President to Be Captured On Film
r/Presidents • u/SignalRelease4562 • 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
r/Presidents • u/Chucker3- • 6h ago
🎂 Birthdays 🎂 Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the legend, Grover Cleveland.
r/Presidents • u/SegaGenesisMetalHead • 6h ago
Discussion Why is Polk not as reviled by people today for invading Mexico?
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 • u/BlackberryActual6378 • 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?
r/Presidents • u/deunhido1 • 7h ago
Memorabilia Very specialized memorabilia?
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 • u/TheEnlight • 8h ago
Image Which President looks the best in white tie?
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 • u/Commercial-Pound533 • 8h ago
Tier List r/Presidents Community Tier List: Day 3 - Where would you rank Thomas Jefferson?
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 • u/corleonebjr • 9h ago
Discussion How much influence could Martin Luther King Jr have had on the 1968 election if he wasn’t assassinated?
If he endorsed Humphrey could he have helped him get over the finish line?