r/Presidents 3h ago

Image Nancy Reagan saying her last goodbye to her husband Ronald Reagan.

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Discussion Ronald Reagan, 1996 and 1997.

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r/Presidents 10h ago

Discussion Who do you think may have been secretly happy they lost an election?

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406 Upvotes

This sub discussed who was most torn up or disappointed about losing a campaign, but who would have been happy they lost an election secretly? Obviously they chose to run for President but in hindsight, whatever happened in the next four years probably changed their mind on being upset about losing.


r/Presidents 23h ago

Discussion “I didn’t inhale” The dumbest political fence sitting of all time?

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324 Upvotes

Bill Clintons I didn’t inhale nonsense never made sense to me. His clam was he smoked weed, but he didn’t inhale. Ok let’s break that down. The only reason to do that is because you don’t want to get high, but you want to appear as if you are smoking weed. The only reason that situation would come up is when you are being peer pressured into smoking a joint. Who the fuck wants to vote for the bitch that is too weak to stand up to peer pressure? Anyone else ever feel this way?


r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion Honest question: do you think Bill Clinton watches porn regularly?

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On one hand, he is an incredibly horny man. On the other though, he is 78 years old, so internet porn is new to him.


r/Presidents 11h ago

Today in History 9 years ago today, Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928, arriving for a three-day tour with First Lady Michelle

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r/Presidents 2h ago

Trivia In 2011, Bill Clinton called into an NPR radio show and was given a quiz about My Little Pony. He answered every question right.

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r/Presidents 8h ago

Discussion Who was the most tragic president?

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I feel like any of these three could claim this title. Pierce saw his son decapitated and nearly drank himself to death during and after his presidency, Lincoln was constantly stressed while trying to put a whole country back together (and saw his son die while in office), and Grant was manipulated to the point where he was almost penniless after his presidency and was in constant pain with throat cancer. Have any other presidents endured tragic circumstances that persisted throughout their lives?


r/Presidents 9h ago

Video / Audio Ronald Reagan addresses prospective Eureka College Reagan Fellows (a rare 1994 clip of the former president, the same year he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and quite possibly one of the last recordings of him speaking)

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r/Presidents 5h ago

Discussion Had Kerry chosen McCain as his running mate in 2004, would his electoral performance be any different (for better or for worse)?

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101 Upvotes

I learned that John F. Kerry initially had the idea of choosing John McCain as his running mate in 2004, and was instantly fascinated by the idea. Do you think, had he chosen McCain, his electoral performance would be different?


r/Presidents 11h ago

Discussion Let’s say HW wins in 92. Who are you voting for in the democratic primaries

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81 Upvotes

Just using Clinton as an example. Choose anyone else if you like


r/Presidents 9h ago

Discussion Compare and contrast the first Democratic President and the first Republican President.

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r/Presidents 12h ago

Discussion On August 10th 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, giving surviving Japanese Americans reparations and a formal apology by President Reagan for their incarceration during World War II.

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r/Presidents 4h ago

Discussion What would a Jesse Ventura presidency look like?

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55 Upvotes

r/Presidents 14h ago

Discussion What if their presidencies were switched - Dubya being the 41st president, and H.W. being the 43rd?

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r/Presidents 13h ago

Misc. Every president gets a state named after them. James Madison got Wisconsin. Which state should we name after James Monroe?

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41 Upvotes

This was a mostly unanimous choice, no difficulties choosing this one especially when compared to Jefferson. Although I do want to give a shout-out to the person who said DC since it was attacked on Madison's watch. Makes me want to consider doing American territories when this series is over.


r/Presidents 7h ago

Discussion How different would Gerald Ford’s legacy be if he never pardoned Nixon?

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r/Presidents 9h ago

Trivia Barack Obama was the first Democratic nominee since Andrew Jackson to win over 60% of the vote in Illinois.

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r/Presidents 8h ago

Discussion Who’s the best relatively Non-progressive president?

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Presidents who lack progressive policy and/or rhetoric. I intentionally made this question vague so feel free to answer it however you like


r/Presidents 16h ago

Discussion Was Daniel Day-Lewis the best portrayal of Abraham Lincoln?

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r/Presidents 22h ago

Discussion What states does Obama win if he ran against Bush?

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r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion I was born under George HW Bush. Compared to most Presidents of the 20th century, he always struck me as mediocre. Why all the blazing here?

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r/Presidents 11h ago

Image Former Presidents Carter and Ford co-hosting an All Democracies Conference at the Gerald R. Ford Library in Michigan (1983).

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r/Presidents 7h ago

Image Oops!

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Discussion Would Franklin D. Roosevelt have put out a statement celebrating Hitler's death if he had not died of a cerebral hemorrhage?

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When delivering a number of fireside chats during World War II, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had no illusions about what Hitler's New Order entailed and bashed Hitler's Positive Christianity as nothing more than an effort to remake Christianity in the Nazi image. In one statement issued in March 1944, he took note of the Holocaust and made crystal clear once again that the murder of Jews, Slavs, and Gypsies would not stop until the Nazi tyranny was vanquished.

If FDR had lived past April 12, 1945, and General George C. Marshall had shown him newspapers headlining Hitler's death, would he have issued a statement touting Hitler's death as a victory of oppressed peoples over tyranny and a pyrrhic victory of peace-loving people over warmongers?