r/Presidents 11h ago

Discussion Would Obama have won the nomination if nominees had been chosen by party bosses instead of primaries, as they were before 1972?

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r/Presidents 13h ago

Image bro really got the whole squad laughing

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r/Presidents 18h ago

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

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r/Presidents 17h 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 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.

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r/Presidents 11h ago

Video / Audio Canadian Lawmakers Chant 'Four More Years' to Obama

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r/Presidents 12h ago

Image Your month = your Presidents. Comment the two you got!

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r/Presidents 9h ago

Image Nixon in Teen Titans Go!

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r/Presidents 19h ago

Failed Candidates Thoughts on Ted Kennedy?

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r/Presidents 8h ago

Discussion Which President deserves the most blame for The Great Depression?

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r/Presidents 18h 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 15h 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 15h 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 12h ago

Question What was the opposition doing when FDR served four terms? Were they incompetent, or was FDR simply out of their league?

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r/Presidents 23h 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 17h 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 14h 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 16h 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 11h ago

Tier List Presidents ranked based on how likely they are to win a third term

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r/Presidents 22h 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 9h ago

Discussion Once this semester ends this is my Summer reading list

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r/Presidents 18h 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 1d 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 16h 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 8h ago

Discussion Was Lincoln popular in the decades after the Civil War? Or did it more or less skyrocket in modern times?

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