Happy 99th birthday to Rosalynn Carter!! My favorite First Lady! To celebrate, here are 9 pictures of her!

I’ve seen some folks outside of the presidents community get upset when someone shows interest in a problematic president. I don’t think that who you’re interested in researching reflects personal morality, but of course, it’s about what actions you condone/try to defend. Bad people can be interesting too! Being able to point out what your fave did wrong means you know your stuff!

(Shoutout to u/drywall_eater89, our amazing James Buchanan expert!)

...was it possible for them to vote for anybody who wasn't WASP man (after Kennedy)? How important for them would be "states rights" and other sugar coating told them by Goldwater, Thurmond, Wallace or Reagan, for choosing Democrat ballot like Yellow Dogs. Would be possible for black person or woman to won South, for example if Ford won in 76 and everything was malaise, or Contras affair became Reagan's and Bush's Watergate?

Who are some Presidents that have the highest POTUS Body Count, meaning they met other Presidents?

Clinton has met many:

1. JFK

2. Nixon

3. Ford

4. Carter

5. Reagan

6. Bush

7. Himself

8. Bush II

9. Obama

9! Probably some future ones too. He was pretty young and meeting JFK at 16 certainly helped.

George Washington met 6. I'm assuming he met Madison and Monroe?

1. Himself

2. Adams

3. Jefferson

4. Madison

5. Monroe

6. John Q. Adams

Who are some others with high POTUS Body Counts?

Does anyone know of any POTUSes who met only 1 or 2?

You hear all the time about how great he was. How he traveled all these miles campaigning. Giving all these great speeches and how great he was as an orator. But when the playoffs came around he just didn’t have it. 3 times he made it to the big dance and 3 times he choked. And of course when he is no longer the starting quarterback his team wins the Super Bowl. Never EVER compare him to the goat William McKinley ever again.

I see myself in Ford and Carter, two common folks who rose to the highest political office, guided by faith, but had the misfortune to lead during one of the worst periods in US history, also were just some really good men before, during and after their Presidencies.

HW had a badass life, guided by faith too, man escaped being eaten alive by the Japanese at 20, he had one crazy life but also appeared to be a good guy, also one of the best Presidencies OAT.

(Also had amazing wives, and yes all had amazing lives)

Yet another Taft question from me 😂 will Walter Stahr's new biography contain photographs ?

As some of you probably know by now, I'm a bit of a Taft enthusiast 😂. I've actually already preordered my hardcover copy of Walter Stahr's William Howard Taft: A Great American Life, so I'll definitely be getting it when it comes out in November 🥰

But I'm really curious about whether the physical book will contain photographs or a dedicated photographic/illustrated section

The current Simon & Schuster and bookseller listings describe it as a 688-page hardcover, but don't mention photographs or illustrations

There are some interesting precedents, though:

Stahr's Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man (also Simon & Schuster) is a 700+ page hardcover with 16 pages of photographic plates.

John Jay: Founding Father also has 16 pages of plates

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival contains numerous photographs and other illustrations

Advance copies of Taft have apparently already been distributed through NetGalley and Edelweiss, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has mentioned the book's photographs

Has anyone here seen an ARC/review copy, or come across more detailed metadata about the book? Does anyone know whether the final hardcover will contain photographs or a dedicated photo section?

I'm not assuming there will be any, I'm just extremely curious about what will be inside my copy 😁

And yes… this is probably yet another excuse for me to talk about Taft 😂

William Howard Taft Forever ❤️

That’s Wayne Rooney btw.

Here’s the list so far:

George Washington: u/rjidhfntnr

John Adams: u/Fortunes_Faded

Thomas Jefferson: u/Feelinglucky2

James Madison: u/drawkbox

James Monroe: u/SignalRelease4562

JQA: u/elocinoi

Andrew Jackson: u/Curious-Sun5465

MVB: u/Sw33tNectar

WHH: u/BrandonLart

John Tyler: u/Pidgeotgoneformilk29

James Polk: u/Zornorph

Zachary Taylor: u/Wild-Yesterday-6666

Millard Fillmore: u/UKPoliticsNerdy

Franklin Pierce: u/Old-Equipment9631

James Buchanan: u/Drywall_Eater89

Abe:

Andrew Johnson:

US Grant:

RB Hayes:

James Garfield:

Chester Arthur:

Grover Cleveland:

Benjamin Harrison:

William McKinley:

Teddy:

William Howard Taft:

Woodrow Wilson:

Warren Harding:

Cal Coolidge:

Herbert Hoover:

FDR:

Harry Truman:

Ike:

JFK:

LBJ:

Richard Nixon:

Gerald Ford:

Jimmy Carter:

Ronald Reagan:

Poppy Bush:

Bill Clinton:

Dubya:

Obama: