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deadpresidents · 23 days
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"It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions."
-- Former President Calvin Coolidge, on the Presidency, "The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge," 1929.
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quotelr · 2 months
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You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.
Marilyn Manson
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Happy Presidents’ Day to those who celebrate. On this day, it’s important to remember those who truly fought to hold their nation together, like me, who signed the Compromise of 1850, and uh. Uhmmmmm uhhhhh. Did other positive things for the nation. Uhmmmmmm uhhhh
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James Madison at his Inaugural Ball in 1809
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wtfnameisavailable · 2 years
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Democrats won the popular vote in five out of six national elections for president, but two of those elections went to Republicans because of the Electoral College, and those two Republican presidents have in turn appointed five Supreme Court Justices, enough to overturn any damned thing they want.
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alwaysbewoke · 7 days
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dougielombax · 4 months
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Does the White House have a basement?
If so, it begs the question.
What’s inside?
Aside from old items and documents I mean.
I wonder.
Hmmm…
Perhaps a bowling alley?
A secret library?
Storage and filing cabinets?
Kid Named The Monument Monster:
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Shambling horrors living in the White House.
Bottom text.
No I didn’t draw them.
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youareinlovetv · 3 months
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Please look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 USA presidential candidate with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and she is actively trying to help Palestine and to improve conditions for working class people. If you like her, please help spread her name
thank you anon! i hadn’t heard of her before and im always happy to spread the word. thanks for bringing her to my attention! :)
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todaysdocument · 1 year
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President Johnson called for a partial halt to bombing in Vietnam, and announced his decision not to run for a second Presidential term, in this speech [page 3] on March 31, 1968. 
Collection LBJ-STMNT: Statements Files
Series: Statements Files
File Unit: 3/31/68 Original Drafts "Accordingly I Shall Not Seek - and Would Not Accept the Nomination of my Party for Another Term"
Transcription: 
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[typed] What [crossed out] has been [handwritten, inserted] We [typed] won [crossed out] in the unity of all our peoples [handwritten, inserted] when we [crossed out] all our people united [typed] must not now be lost in [crossed out] division [handwritten, inserted] division distrust and selfishness [typed] among any of our people.
Believing as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. With America's sons in the field far away, with America's future under challenge here at home, with our hopes -- and the world's hope -- for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour of my time to any personal partisan causes or [handwritten, inserted] to [resume typed text] duties other than the awesome duties of this office.
Accordingly, I shall not seek -- and [crossed out] would [handwritten, inserted] will [resume typed text] not accept -- the nomination of my party for another term as your President.
Let men everywhere [handwritten, inserted] however [resume typed text] know that a strong, confident, vigilant America stands ready to seen an honorable peace and ready to defend an honored cause, whatever the price, whatever the burden, whatever the sacrifice [crossed out] the duties of the future [handwritten, inserted] duty [resume typed text] may require.
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deadpresidents · 4 months
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"[President] Biden's primary point of comparison wasn't really [Franklin D.] Roosevelt; it was [Barack] Obama. By the end of their Presidency, Biden was so in sync with his boss that the pair had what the journalist Jonathan Alter described as 'secret code.' When Obama tipped back his chair in meetings, Biden took that as a cue to ask provocative questions that Obama wanted answered but didn't want to raise himself for fear of shifting the tenor of a meeting. But Biden also chafed at the constraints of his job -- and if Obama sometimes rolled his eyes at him, he would roll his own right back. There was the tinge of class rivalry to their gibes. The lunch-pail cornball and the effete professor culturally chafing each other. Biden told a friend that Obama didn't know how to say fuck you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants; it was how they must curse in the ivory tower."
-- Franklin Foer, on the unique dynamic of the relationship between then-President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden during the Obama Administration, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO), available now via Penguin Press.
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jfkkennedy · 1 year
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On this day in 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States, Senate Caucus room, Washington D.C.
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Some days I talk about my fascination with presidents like “none of them can be considered objectively good or bad people that can be judged by our modern understanding of what is or isn’t moral, history is complicated” and then I remember Lincoln lost his son in the beginning of the Civil war and then I’m like “history sometimes isn’t complicated, it’s just sad”
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smashing-yng-man · 1 month
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Trump Ranked Worst President in U.S. History
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rachelspoetrycorner · 9 months
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Excerpt from The Hill We Climb (2020) by Amanda Gorman
In Episode 167, Rachel takes us to the National Poetry Corner.
Rachel: Like, democracy, at its core, is people kind of fighting for what they want. And there’s been a lot of that lately, and it has been kind of gross, and, uh... that doesn’t mean, necessarily, that we’re broken forever. Y'know.
Griffin: Yeah. Do you have the line—the one that stood outto me, is the... being American is more than the pride we inherit. It’s the past we step into it and how we repair it.
Rachel: That’s exactly it!
Griffin: It’s fucking incred—I heard that line once this morning, and like, it stuck with me that hard.
If you’d like to hear more about the incredible value and importance of this poem and inauguration speech, you can do so here: The Christmas Crab, from 14:34 - 25:50
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tommy-288 · 1 year
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Gotta love when people bash Grant’s presidency but they all go quiet when someone brings up Woodrow Wilson.
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