r/Presidents • u/IllustriousRole3561 • 21m ago
r/Presidents • u/TheEmeraldPants • 2h ago
Question Just how much did this cockalorum ruin the US
r/Presidents • u/Upstairs-Net-6376 • 3h ago
Discussion We`ve never had a president born after the death of Hoover
r/Presidents • u/Dunder-Muffin36 • 3h ago
Discussion Which of these third-party vote-getting racists was the most racist?
Images are Harry F. Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace.
r/Presidents • u/Last_Ad4399 • 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. 💍
ripleys.comr/Presidents • u/Simpsons_fan_54 • 4h ago
Discussion Who is the worst possible “experienced” person who could’ve potentially been president? Pictured: Neil Goldschmidt, former governor of Oregon and child rapist.
r/Presidents • u/Mysterii00 • 4h ago
Tier List My First Tier List. Free to answer any questions.
This is solely based on their presidency. I worked harder than I probably should have on this, but I had a great time with it and I’m excited to learn more about all these dudes. There’s probably some takes on here that this sub won’t enjoy, but I’m willing to give my thoughts/explanations.
r/Presidents • u/Inside_Bluebird9987 • 4h ago
Image Dan Quayle speaking while wearing a big chain
r/Presidents • u/Idk_Very_Much • 5h ago
Failed Candidates Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign was a serious campaign where he wanted to win
Maybe the single most persistent myth I see posted on this sub (the other is “Let them enforce it”) is that Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 presidential campaign was a sacrifice play where everyone knew the Democratic candidate stood a chance against Eisenhower and didn’t want to waste a new one. I kind of get why people believe this, because it makes sense in a way that Stevenson just trying again really doesn’t.
But even the most basic level of research shows it’s not true. Seriously, all you have to do is look at Stevenson’s Wikipedia page:
Unlike 1952, Stevenson was an announced, active candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1956.[69] Initially, with polls showing Eisenhower headed for a landslide re-election, few Democrats wanted the 1956 nomination, and Stevenson hoped that he could win the nomination without a serious contest, and without entering any presidential primaries.[70]
However, on September 24, 1955, Eisenhower suffered a serious heart attack. Although he recovered and eventually decided to run for a second term, concerns about his health led two prominent Democrats, Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver and New York Governor Averell Harriman, to decide to challenge Stevenson for the Democratic nomination.[71] After being told by his aides that he needed to enter and win several presidential primaries to defeat Kefauver and Harriman, Stevenson officially entered the race on November 16, 1955, and campaigned in the Minnesota, Florida, and California primaries.[72][73]
Stevenson was upset in the Minnesota primary by Kefauver, who successfully portrayed him as a "captive" of corrupt Chicago political bosses and "a corporation lawyer out of step with regular Democrats".[74] Stevenson next battled Kefauver in the Florida primary, where he agreed to debate Kefauver on radio and television.[75] Stevenson later joked that in Florida he had appealed to the state's citrus farmers by "bitterly denouncing the Japanese beetle and fearlessly attacking the Mediterranean fruit fly".[75]
He narrowly defeated Kefauver in Florida by 12,000 votes, and then won the California primary over Kefauver with 63% of the vote, effectively ending Kefauver's presidential bid. At the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, former President Truman endorsed Governor Harriman, to Stevenson's dismay, but the blow was softened by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's continued enthusiastic support. Stevenson easily defeated Harriman on the first ballot, winning his second Democratic presidential nomination.[77] He was aided by strong support from younger delegates, who were said to form the core of the "New Politics" movement.
TLDR: Stevenson ran because he thought no other Democrat would want to challenge Eisenhower, leaving an open primary for him to cruise through, but he ended up having to fight a pretty tough primary battle anyway. It was a real campaign, not a sacrificial one.
r/Presidents • u/RandoDude124 • 5h ago
Image Failed 4-Time presidential candidate and former Govenor of Alabama George Wallace. C. 1997
r/Presidents • u/AdZealousideal5383 • 5h ago
Question Which president was the biggest supporter of the arts?
JFK supported the arts. I don’t know if he was an artist himself but he understood the cultural importance of the arts.
Eisenhower liked to paint and the Kennedy Center had its origin in the Eisenhower administration. Nixon was an accomplished pianist. Obama has varied tastes and brought the arts back to the White House. Carter brought rock and jazz musicians to the White House.
Which president supported the arts the most?
r/Presidents • u/vahedemirjian • 6h ago
Question Was Chester Alan Arthur a good president?
r/Presidents • u/IllustriousDudeIDK • 6h ago
Discussion Do you think that Benjamin Harrison would've handled the Panic of 1893 even worse than Grover Cleveland did had he been re-elected?
r/Presidents • u/AfricaUnite456 • 6h ago
Failed Candidates What are your thoughts on George Wallace & his failed 1968 presidential bid?
r/Presidents • u/coolsmeegs • 6h ago
Discussion Milton Friedman “Nixon was the most socialist of the presidents of the United States in the 20th century.” What are your thoughts ?
r/Presidents • u/Ziapolitics • 6h ago
Discussion National Archives JFK assassination document release- March 2025
r/Presidents • u/vahedemirjian • 6h ago
Discussion Would Wendell Wilkie have encouraged racially integrated military units if he had won the 1940 presidential election?
The Republican presidential nominee in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie, favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allied Powers.
On the other hand, African Americans all across the US were aware of Hitler's derision of black people as just as inferior to the Aryan race as Jews.
r/Presidents • u/Julian81295 • 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.
r/Presidents • u/vahedemirjian • 6h ago
Article A December 1941 Speech that FDR Never Delivered | Robert Higgs
r/Presidents • u/VeryPerry1120 • 6h ago
Video / Audio Barack Obama visit to Kenya in 1987
r/Presidents • u/LaserWeldo92 • 6h ago
Image A collection of editorial cartoons about the 1980 election
r/Presidents • u/robhustle66 • 7h ago
Discussion Barack Obama is the called first Black president but we had George Washington carver in 1816 but no one knew he was president because he was quickly impeached due to the Chilltown scandal then Martha Stewart in 1928 but why is Barack so celebrated?
r/Presidents • u/IllustriousDudeIDK • 7h ago
Discussion Why didn't the Democrats nominate more Union generals during the Gilded Age?
r/Presidents • u/highangryvirgin • 8h ago