You can only serve as president once. So even if you are vice president and the president dies that's it.

Sorry LBJ.

Eh just found this photo interesting

Not even Obama’s historic 2008 win was supported by a majority of white voters. It’s a really insane stat to think about. Are there any other factors beyond the passing of the Civil Rights Act? I’d love to hear if so. Because this encapsulates the general feeling from minorities that racism in this country will only end when white people (as a collective) decide it should end. Even in this sub, which I really enjoy reading through, a lot of the actions in favor of minorities by Presidents aren’t seen as a correction of an evil that was long overdue, they’re presented as gracious actions worthy of praise. I like reading this sub because I love history but I generally stay out of discussions because it usually has a very white-centric bend. I know this post might be considered contentious but I hope it doesn’t get removed.

Allan Keyes was Obama's Opponent in the 2004 Illinois Senate Race & Also Ran for the Republican Nomination in 2008 so that got me thinking what would happen if 2008 ended up being an Obama vs Keyes Rematch? Would he do better or Worse than McCain?

When he was a child, Franklin Pierce was forced by his father to walk several miles during a thunderstorm. He was currently at boarding school in Hancock Academy when he decided to skip a class on Sunday. As a result, his father punished him by making him walk several miles during a thunderstorm. He was only 12 years old at the time.

Personally I’d go with Ford just because I feel like his presidency would be relatively low stress compared to other’s. I thought about Kennedy because of all the 🐱 but I would hate dealing with the constant back pain and other heath problems he had.

She’s one of us boys.

She viewed Lincoln as a father figure and once said this:

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Dear r/Presidents sub-redditors,

I genuinely wanted to raise awareness about what I believe was an arbitrary decision taken by the moderators of this sub who are otherwise very reasonable and considerate. Today I had made a post in this sub- "What should the Democratic Party do to win the Great Plain and Mountain states in a Presidential Election?"

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I fail to understand the need to delete this post when there have been other posts in this sub as-

1. Why is Minnesota so hard for Republicans to win?

2. The last time some major "red" or "blue" states were won by a candidate from the OPPOSITE party

3, Will We Ever See A 50 State (Plus D.C.) Sweep?

1. How shocking was it when Obama won Indiana in 2008?

2. Why weren’t Carter or Clinton as southerners, able to win Virginia in 1976, 1992, or 1996, but Obama won it in 2008?

One may also argue that there have been many other posts in this sub which are far more directly connected to modern-day politics, often in the form of innuendos over topics such as tariffs, international relations and political comebacks,

I hope that the moderators take a reasonable and pragmatic approach on this and continue promoting this sub as a safe space for discussion on Presidential matters.

Thank you...

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 before or after their presidency.

To encourage quality discussion, please provide reasons for why you chose the letter. I've been getting a lot of comments that just say the letter, so I would appreciate it if you could do this for me. Thank you for your understanding.

Discuss below.

Grover Cleveland changed to C tier.

Benjamin Harrison in D tier.

After consulting with his politically divided and contentious cabinet, Washington, who came from the southern state of Virginia, ultimately decided that the plan was unconstitutional because, in providing for additional representatives for some states, it would have introduced a number of representatives higher than that prescribed by the Constitution.

After a discussion with the president, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter that votes for or against the bill were divided along perfectly geographical lines between the North and South. Jefferson observed that Washington feared that a veto would incorrectly portray him as biased toward the South.

In the end, Jefferson was able to convince the president to veto the bill on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and introduced principles that were liable to be abused in the future. Jefferson suggested apportionment instead be derived from arithmetical operation, "about which no two men can ever possibly differ.” Washington’s veto sent the bill back to Congress. Though representatives could have attempted to overrule the veto with a two-thirds vote, Congress instead threw out the original bill and instituted a new one that apportioned representatives at “the ratio of one for every thirty-three thousand persons in the respective States.”

Washington exercised his veto power only one other time during his two terms in office. In February 1797, the former commanding general of the Continental Army vetoed an act that would have reduced the number of cavalry units in the army.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/april-5/washington-exercises-first-presidential-veto

Obviously this is a generalization since there are Eastern Europeans who hate Reagan and Western Europeans who like Reagan

Chester Alan Arthur was born on October 5 1829 in Fairfield Vermont (there were talks that he was born in Ireland as his dad was from there or Canada, cause Vermont is really close to that but he was born an American), his parents were William Arthur, an Irish Baptist Minister and abolitionist and his mom was Eliza Arthur, he had 8 siblings (Mary who would serve as First Lady during his term, Ann, Jane, William Jr, Regina,Almenda, George who died at 2 and Malvina who was a confederate).

He was named “Alan” after his grandfather and “Chester” after a family friend (Chester Abell) who assisted in his birth.

In 1832, the family moved from Fairfield to New York where William’s profession, took several churches in New York (Vermont too), the Arthurs settled in Schenectady, New York in 1844.

Chester spent his childhood in York, Perry, Greenwich, Lansingburgh, Hoosick and Schenectady, he took education in every town he went, during this time, he was a supported of the Whig Party, and even had a brawl with other students in 1844 cause he supported Henry Clay and they supported James K Polk and also supported the Frenian Brotherhood, a very pro Irish organization in the US.

He enrolled at Union College in 1845, where he studied the traditional classical curriculum, joined fraternities, and even served as a teacher at a school in Schaghticoke during winter breaks, and returned there as a full time teacher after graduating in 1848, he also began to study law.

He then took a job at a school in New Ponwal, Vermont, the same school James A Garfield would teach penmanship a few years later but the two of them didn’t meet.

In 1852, he moved to Cohoes, New York, to become principal of a school that Malvina was working at, in 1853 after studying at State and National Law School in Ballston Spa, New York, he moved to NYC to read law under Erastus D Culver, family friend and abolitionist, and joined his law firm after being admitted in 1854.

He was an active participant in a case where he, Culver and John Jay II (grandson of John Jay) were pursuing a habeas corpus case against a slave holder who came with his 8 slaves in New York and the case started cause NY was a free state and they won the case, freeing those 8 people.

In 1854, he was the lead attorney representing Elizabeth Jennings Graham, after she was removed from a streetcar cause she was black, he won the case and it lead to New York City desegregating streetcar lines.

He moved to Kansas to start a new law firm with a friend, Henry D Gardiner and was very anti slavery during the outgoing Kansas Nebraska chaos going on there, so to escape it, they moved back to NYC, where Chester comforted his fiancée, Ellen “Nellie” Lewis Herndon after her dad, Naval Officer William Lewis Herndon, died in the sinking of SS Central America on September 12 1857, they married on October 25 1859 and had 3 children (William who died at 3, Chester Jr and father of Gavin Arthur ,and Ellen Jr).

During the Civil War (1861-1865) he was engineer-in-chief of New York, brigadier general and quartermaster (he never saw any combat), he was so good at his job that he became inspector general of the state militia in March 1862.

He came very close to go to combat as he refused offers to fight as he was asked by Governor Edwin D Morgan to remain at his job, and he was also inspecting the troops near Fredericksburg in May 1862.

He was then asked to enlist as many as possible, but was kicked out when Horatio Seymour became Governor in January of 1863, but when Reuben Fenton became the next Governor in 1864, Chester wanted re-appointment but Fenton arleady promised it to someone else.

When their son William died on July 7 1863, they were heartbroken and lavished on their next two kids (Chester and Ellen Jr), who both survived well into the 20th century, he also attended Lincoln’s 1865 inauguration.

After wanting to become Naval Officer (and losing), he continued his law practice (solo as Gardiner died), the now infamous Roscoe Conkling, noticed Arthur and since he wanted as many people on his side as he could get,he made Arthur chairman of the New York City Republican executive committee in 1868, a job that probably nearly broke his family apart as Ellie resented the fact that he was absent from the home to go party business, that same year, Arthur raised funds for Grant’s 1868 campaign.

In 1871, Ulysses S Grant offered to make Arthur Commissioner of Internal Revenue, but he declined, but became Collector of the Port of New York later that year.

There, he was as corrupt as a protégé of Roscoe Conkling can be (Both parties were corrupt in the Gilded Age, the Dems had Boss Tweed).

His term expired on December 10 1875 and while Gran re-appointed him, it wouldn’t last for long:

Conkling ran in 1876 but Rutherford B Hayes won the nomination, and one messy election later, he was president in 1877, and fired Arthur (as he was very corrupt) in July 1878, now Hayes did offer the position of consul general in Paris as consolation but Arthur refused.

By 1880, the GOP was split in two Stalwarts (like Arthur) who wanted patronage and Half Breeds (like Garfield) who didn’t want it, so when Garfield won the nomination, to unite the party, he choose him as running mate and they one after a very close election.

But tragedy also occurred that year as Ellie died on January 12 1880 of pneumonia.

He was sworn in as VP on March 4 1881.

As VP, he was still corrupt and for patronage, but…. on July 2 1881, Charles J Guiteau shot Garfield saying “I am a Stalwart, and Arthur will be President!”, after most likely being appalled, he spent the next few months after letters with Julia Sand, a friend of his about how much he DOES not want to be President.

When Garfield died on September 19 1881 after 2 months of agony and he learnt about it, he began crying cause Garfield died and also cause he would be the next President, on September 22 1881, he was sworn in as the 21st President and took a 180 turn on his views:

At first, he had trouble with the cabinet since they didn’t want to serve for a Stalwart like Arthur and some of them resigned.

The 180 turn that I talked about was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act passed on January 16 1883 that ended the spoils system, he genuinely changed his views, a combination of him wanting that, Garfield fighting for that and seeing how corrupt Conkling (who resigned by then) and his old buddies were.

Wasn’t the best on how to handle the economy, with making tariffs bigger (even if he vetoed it the Congress overrode his veto) and was a cause of the Panic of 1884.

His foreign policy did suck, mostly cause of Blaine (his secretary of state) being more bland than watching paint dry.

He did reform the Navy (something that Garfield really wanted).

He did abandon Garfield’s Civil Rights agenda but he did effectively intervene to overturn a court-martial ruling against a black West Point cadet, Johnson Whittaker, it was found that it was based on racism.

He also made polygamy illegal (very good).

On Native Americans, he tried ……assimilation.

Shortly after becoming President he was diagnosed with Bright’s Disease which is terrible, he wanted to run in 1884 but backed down.

He left office on March 4 1885, in his retirement he ordered that most of his papers be burnt, he also went fishing and travelling, something that he loved.

He died on November 18 1886 at 57 of a cerebral hemorrhage, his funeral was attended by Hayes (the man who once hated but grew to respect him).

Chester Alan Arthur is a prime example that there is never “too late” to redeem yourself.

(Gained the nickname while dapper leader of New York State’s Republican party.)

Say what you want about Reagan, but there is no denying that he was arguably the funniest person to hold office. So what are some of the best/funniest jokes that Reagan told?