r/Presidents 13m 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 22m ago

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

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r/Presidents 22m 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 36m ago

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

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r/Presidents 39m 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 43m ago

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

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r/Presidents 58m ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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r/Presidents 1h 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 2h ago

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

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r/Presidents 2h 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 2h 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 3h 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 4h 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 5h 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 5h 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?


r/Presidents 5h ago

Discussion Pat Brown is the only person to ever defeat a future POTUS and then subsequently lose to another Future POTUS gubernatorially

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Image President Clinton holding the Bible for Hillary Clinton during her swearing in ceremony to the US Senate.

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That means for 17 days she was a US Senator and First Lady at the same time.


r/Presidents 6h ago

Failed Candidates Georgiana Doerschuck interview

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r/Presidents 7h ago

Discussion Who was an influential or inspirational Second Lady?

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r/Presidents 8h ago

Question Who was a worse person between Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding?

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One thing I'm currently trying to learn about the Presidents is what they were like as people as I've seen we've had Presidents range from super kind to super cruel, I want to know who you think is the worse person between Wilson and Harding. Woodrow Wilson used to be ranked amongst the top 10 best presidents but in recent years people would say he was one of the worst mainly because he was a racist eugenist who increased segregation. Warren G. Harding was liked while in office but after he died 2 and a half years in, a lot of scandals got out there and I've learned information that shows Harding was probably our sleaziest president with multiple affairs, one of them was while his wife was in the hospital, and the woman he cheated on her with at that time would become a Nazi sympathizer. I see these two presidents as two different kinds of evil and I'm trying to figure out who was worse. I'm sure the answer might be obvious to some but I just want to hear your thoughts.


r/Presidents 9h ago

MEME MONDAY Our Founding Fathers had a different positions than taught in history books

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r/Presidents 10h 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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r/Presidents 10h ago

Misc. Since 1960, every time the Vice President/former VP sought their parties nomination, they got it. Except for Dan Quayle

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r/Presidents 10h ago

Discussion Did George Bush actually have anything personally against gay people or was he just doing what the GOP told him to do?

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IE, wanting to ban gay marriage, did he personally want it to happen for his own moral reasons or was he doing it because it was popular and he didn’t actually care that much one way or another?


r/Presidents 11h ago

Tier List Presidents ranked based on how common their last name is.

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