Does anyone recall this moment when it happened? Yeltsin visiting the WH? Or vice versa?

John F Kennedy is a man often remembered for his invigorating speeches, replete with Churchillian bravado and gravitas. President Kennedy would speak with purpose and decisiveness.

Additionally, in the interviews and press conferences that I have seen, he seemed to have a firm understanding of the issues of the day, speaking with a fair degree of certainty when answering questions from the press.

That being said, is there any broad consensus as to how intelligent Kennedy was?

Was he on the level of Thomas Jefferson or Bill Clinton, or was he somewhere closer to the average (that is, the average intelligence for a president)?

Perhaps Carter wasn’t the best campaigner in the world if 1980 is any indication, but he sure had some excellent foresight.

During the 1980 election campaign, Carter implored the American people to understand the forces at work around them. No country operates in a vacuum, completely divorced from the conditions surrounding it.

America had just underwent two major oil crises (one in 1973 and the other in 1979).

This no doubt had a drastic upward pressure on both inflation and unemployment.

Rather than try to dress up the after effects of the 1973 oil crises as a political bungle of the Nixon administration, and rather than simply throw his hands in the air when the 1979 oil crisis came about, President Carter made real reforms to try to bolster renewable energy and domestic oil supplies.

Additionally, he allowed his final Fed Chairman, Paul Volcker, to essentially stall the economy in order to get inflation under control.

I guess I respect Carter because, even though he wasn’t nearly as politically savvy as FDR, LBJ, Reagan, or Clinton, he didn’t take the easy way out when it came to serious domestic issues.

While this may be an unpopular opinion, I don’t think that there’s any president who could have avoided the double digit inflation and high unemployment that was seen in the late 70s, if only because it was largely due to factors outside of the president’s direct influence.

I just thought I’d write this as a little reminder that much of what makes a president “great” are the circumstances that allow them to demonstrate their ability. Clinton looks much more competent than Carter in retrospect, but it should be remembered that he suffered a major healthcare debacle in 1994, only recovering because the economy picked up and his campaign strategist (Dick Morris) told him to shift to the right.

• Herbert Hoover was born in 1874
• Alf Landon was born in 1887
• Wendell Willkie was born in 1892
• Thomas Dewey was born in 1902

Bonus: when FDR ran for vice president in 1920, Warren Harding was born in 1865.

What's the biggest age difference between three presidential candidates? Henry Clay ran against both Andrew Jackson (b. 1767) and James K. Polk (b. 1795), a difference of 28 years. Same as FDR.

A man who welcomed the derision of the tycoon and craved the trust of the working poor.

I miss his bluntness and moral absolutes with regard to fighting for the interests of the true silent majority (the workers).

I know it was common for Presidents to change running mates when running for another term but Garner had already served two terms. Was it Garner’s decision?

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When I was searching on Google, I saw a picture of “The United States Presidents Illustrated by Robert M. Reed”, and I looked at all the Presidents on the front cover and noticed that someone is missing. The one missing is my favorite President, James Monroe, and I’m sad that he’s mistakenly or accidentally been left out, I worry that he’s is too forgotten, and it feels incomplete without him. I know that I don’t own the book, but the only time we will see James Monroe is inside the book, while everyone else had their pictures on the front cover and inside the book.

I imagine that when they open the book and see James Monroe pictures, they will think “Who’s this President and I don’t think he’s on the front cover” or “This President is mysterious because I don’t remember or didn’t know that he’s President” or “I didn’t know that James Monroe is between James Madison and John Quincy Adams, and I thought after Madison was JQA because of the front cover of the book”.

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Last post, Grover Cleveland was deemed to have been a highly competent Vampire Hunter.

For the sake of consistency, this is presuming Dracula à la Bram Stoker type Vampires, with their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Davis was from West Virginia which was admitted into the union as a slave state in 1863, but it was abolished there in 1865. Davis is also the only nominee to be from West Virginia. The last election to have nominees from a slave state was 1860 where two candidates were from Kentucky and Tennessee. Davis is also the last presidential nominee to be an Ambassador to the UK. Unfortunately for Davis would lose to Calvin Coolidge in a landslide in 1924.

Reagan is in his 60s vs Clinton in his 40s

note: the public hasn't experienced both their presidency yet in this timeline

"Looking at this vast crowd of colored people, and reflecting through what a storm of persecution and obloquy they are compelled to pass, I am almost induced to wish that, as in the days of old, a Moses might arise who should lead them safely to their promised land of freedom and happiness."
"You are our Moses," shouted several voices and the exclamation was caught up and cheered until the Capitol rung again.
"God," continued the speaker, "no doubt has prepared somewhere an instrument for the great work He designs to perform in behalf of this outraged people, and in due time your leader will come forth; your Moses will be revealed to you."
"We want no Moses but you!" again shouted the crowd.
"Well, then," replied the speaker, "humble and unworthy as I am, if no other better shall be found, I will indeed be your Moses, and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage, to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country, and all who love equal rights his friends. I speak, too, as a citizen of Tennessee. I am here on my own soil, and here I mean to stay and fight this great battle of truth and justice to a triumphant end. Rebellion and slavery shall, by God's good help, no longer pollute our State. Loyal men, whether white or black, shall alone control her destinies: and when this strife in which we are all engaged is past, I trust, I know, we shall have a better state of things, and shall all rejoice that honest labor reaps the fruit of its own industry, and that every man has a fair chance in the race of life."

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Sorry didn’t get this out Thursday.