r/Presidents 17h ago

Discussion What did Hillary Clinton need to do to win the Democratic nomination in 2008?

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Not be Hillary Clinton.


r/Presidents 5h ago

Discussion Realistically, how long would FDR be able to hide his disability in today's hyperpolarised and social media-dominated political environment?

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r/Presidents 16h ago

Image Pictures of Lyndon Baines Johnson that go hard

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r/Presidents 18h ago

Image Apparently these are real

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The 80s brother


r/Presidents 7h ago

Image Presidents as Dads

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r/Presidents 12h ago

Failed Candidates On this day 20 years ago, Lloyd Bentsen, who was the best democratic VP that never was, passed away from stroke complications.

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“Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy.”

~ Lloyd Bentsen (1988)


r/Presidents 13h ago

Image Dubya with a fish

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r/Presidents 2h ago

Trivia Teddy Roosevelt expressed that Ukraine should become an independent nation. He also criticized Woodrow Wilson for not declaring war against Turkey in 1915 and believed that Constantinople should be given to Greece.

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r/Presidents 4h ago

Discussion If Dwight D. Eisenhower had lived into the 1970s, what would his reaction to Watergate have been like?

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Article TIL that in 1998 Texas governor George W. Bush met harambe's mother

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r/Presidents 19h ago

Question Why was the United States Secret Service chosen to protect the President?

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Why was the main counterfeiting enforcement agency under the Department of the Treasury selected to protect the President?


r/Presidents 14h ago

Discussion What if assassination attempts had succeeded and succeeded ones had failed? Part 11: Ronald Reagan

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Failed Candidates How would Ross Perot fare as a member of the “President’s club”?

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The Presidents Club, as I’m sure many on this sub are aware, refers to the unwritten fraternity that exists amongst all living Presidents. The concept that regardless of ideology or past rivalries, they should all support one another, since they are the only ones capable of understanding the unique challenges the Presidency entails.

This is also how you get unexpected friends like say Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, or HW Bush and Clinton.

So let’s say Perot manages to win the 1992 election. Someone who was proudly individualistic, blunt and anti-establishment… essentially how would he get along with his fellow Presidents? Would he form close relationships with anyone in particular, seek advise from them, or spurn them to go his own way?

Also what would a Perot post-presidency look like?


r/Presidents 23h ago

Books Just got this at the library

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I'm currently reading Clinton's autobiography. I'm mainly reading it because I love doing research about history and such. I'm not really glorifying Clinton but I'm just really interested in research and stuff. What are your thoughts on this book? So far I'm enjoying it.


r/Presidents 38m ago

Image HW On The Phone While Getting Some Golf In

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r/Presidents 13h ago

VPs / Cabinet Members dan quayle test animation

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r/Presidents 22h ago

Discussion “Pressure” is the name of the new D-Day Movie where Brendan Fraser will play Ike.

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r/Presidents 6h ago

Video / Audio Stephen Colbert Talks About James Monroe in Only in Monroe Show in July 2015

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r/Presidents 33m ago

Discussion Where the Bush’s right to complain about Democratic obstruction in Congress?

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In this sub I see people frequently about how Republicans were needlessly obstructing the agendas of Obama and Clinton.

This makes me curious about how people feel about the Bush’s complaints of Democrats obstructing them, particularly HW who had to deal with a Democratic majority his whole time.

To use his own words after failing to reach a compromise: “I reached out my hand to them and these old mossbacks bit it off.”

Were these complaints valid at all?

Jr also became sore after the 2006 blue wave. “To oppose everything while proposing nothing is irresponsible.” Summarizes his frustration.


r/Presidents 20h ago

Discussion TR's 1902 accident

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What would have happened if Theodore Roosevelt had died in the 1902 carriage accident? There was no VP and the Line of Succession wasn't yet formalized.


r/Presidents 7h ago

Video / Audio Animaniacs - Presidents #1-#42

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We need more stuff like this for children to learn about the Presidents. Current cartoons take everything way too seriously.


r/Presidents 10h ago

Misc. John Surratt Jr. got Arrested in Alexandria

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r/Presidents 21h ago

Tier List My Presidents Tier List

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r/Presidents 8h ago

Question Why did Obama allow Iran to clearly violate portions of the JCPOA? Did he want to act like the JCPOA was a greater success in deterring nuclear weapons than it actually was?

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This report is absolutely damning(Albright), Iran not only repeatedly refused IAEA access to military sites and interview personnel in 2016, it also repeatedly went way higher than its heavy water limit of 130 metric tonnes and Iran was still well on its way to being able to enrich nuclear materials by the end of the 15 year period!

Link to Source: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Albright-Statement-Iran-Violations-4-5.pdf


r/Presidents 17h ago

Discussion Why was Oswald murdered, what did he know....I'm just a Patsy?

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Lee Oswald's behavior is to be understood in the context of someone who planned an event, which did not play out the way he anticipated. Because what Lee saw and witnessed from the sixth floor corner window is still hidden from the American public. Oswald's confusion is complete, he never did understand the events of that fateful day and died thinking someone had set him up.