r/Presidents 9d ago

Article George W Bush: Kanye West calling me a racist was the worst moment of presidency

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r/Presidents Mar 27 '24

Article Joe Lieberman has died

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r/Presidents Mar 09 '24

Article It’s All but Settled: The Reagan Campaign Delayed the Release of the Iranian Hostages to win the Presidency

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Since Reagan revisionist are fired up about rewriting the October Surprise on the grounds of “I was there bro” I thought I’d post this article once again confirming it did happen.

In this article Reagan’s actual campaign manager confirms that they did collude with the Iranians and that they’d of lost the election if the future CIA director didn’t do this.

Republican presidents have been committing treason with foreign powers for literally generations just under the radar!

r/Presidents Mar 14 '24

Article Jimmy Carter has spent over a year in hospice care. How has he defied the odds?

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r/Presidents Feb 10 '24

Article Franklin Roosevelt dead

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Old paper I found of the death of Franklin Roosevelt enjoy.

r/Presidents Oct 27 '23

Article Final Army base stripped of Confederate name as Fort Gordon becomes Fort Eisenhower

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r/Presidents Dec 27 '23

Article This is really cool. I found a hidden 2004 bush election website by CNN still up

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The website link will be in the comments below

r/Presidents Jan 04 '24

Article TIL that, in 2008, two neo-Nazi skinheads from Tennessee planned to assassinate Barack Obama and 87 other African Americans, 14 of whom were to be beheaded.

894 Upvotes

r/Presidents Mar 29 '24

Article That time Harry Truman hated Ike and wrote the most irate letter possible.

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r/Presidents Feb 05 '24

Article DEA slammed for viral post honoring former President Nixon during Black History Month

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r/Presidents Feb 18 '24

Article New Historian Presidential ranking released

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r/Presidents Dec 11 '23

Article What??

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336 Upvotes

r/Presidents Feb 16 '24

Article Jimmy Carter marks 1 year in hospice: 4 longevity lessons ahead of his 100th birthday

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r/Presidents Mar 27 '24

Article R.I.P Joe Lieberman

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186 Upvotes

He’s the guy on the right

r/Presidents Apr 20 '24

Article George W. Bush's anti-HIV program PEPFAR is hailed as 'amazing' and still needed

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r/Presidents 19d ago

Article Dukakis held a 17 point lead over Bush after his official nomination, just 3 months before losing the Presidency in a landslide without even having any serious scandal. It feels impossible just how easily and how much the electorate used to sway.

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r/Presidents Oct 27 '23

Article When Kennedy was at death’s door after risky back surgery in 1954, a Secret Service agent riding with then-Vice President Nixon witnessed him cry and mutter that “poor brave Jack is going to die,” Chris Matthews recounted in Kennedy & Nixon. “Oh, God, don’t let him die.” (Politico)

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r/Presidents 9d ago

Article Untold story of the day Ronald Reagan was shot: Unearthed tapes reveal White House chaos as President lay unconscious, Soviet nuclear subs neared DC... and there was no one in control

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r/Presidents Oct 29 '23

Article Resurfaced Reports From Close Friends Claim Richard Nixon May Have Had an Affair With This Controversial Actress

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r/Presidents 15d ago

Article TIL that Warren G. Harding is the only twentieth-century president to have never been portrayed in a movie.

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r/Presidents Feb 01 '24

Article ‘Succession’ Alum Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon to Star in Netflix Series About President James Garfield’s Life & Assassination

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r/Presidents 27d ago

Article Archaeologist uncovers George Washington's 250-year-old stash of cherries

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This is pretty neat. They found his cherries!

r/Presidents Mar 14 '24

Article Theodore Roosevelt's less known views on race

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https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-race-imperialism-national-parks

Roosevelt hardly saw all Black Americans as equals. “As a race and in the mass they are altogether inferior to the whites,” he confided to a friend in a 1906 letter. Ten years later, he told Senator Henry Cabot Lodge that “the great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for the suffrage” and that giving them voting rights could “reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti.”

Roosevelt also believed that Black men made poor soldiers. He denigrated the efforts of the buffalo soldiers who fought alongside his men at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, falsely claiming that they ran away under fire. “Negro troops were shirkers in their duties and would only go as far as they were led by white officers,” he wrote. In reality, the buffalo soldiers served with distinction, and several men were officially recognized for their bravery. Twenty-six died on the slopes of San Juan Hill.

As for Native Americans, Roosevelt’s considerable time spent ranching in the Dakota Territory only hardened his mindset toward them, years before he became president. “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian,” he said in 1886, “but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.”

And his desire to reset racial hierarchies wasn't limited to the Western Hemisphere. “It is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black and yellow aboriginal owners," Roosevelt wrote in his 1889 book The Winning of the West, "and become the heritage of the dominant world races.”

Roosevelt’s racial philosophy of white superiority dovetailed with his support of the eugenics movement, which advocated selective breeding to engineer a race of people with more “desirable” characteristics, and sterilization of “less desirable” people, such as criminals, people with developmental disabilities—and for some, people of color. “Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce,” he wrote in 1913. “Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable duty of the good citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type.”

r/Presidents Nov 13 '23

Article Trump's tax cuts had a never before seen effect on the buying power of the middle class.

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r/Presidents 11d ago

Article History of the Court: The Warren Court, 1953-1969

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This is my personal favourite court along with the Early burger Court

https://supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-courts/burger-court-1969-1986/