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one-time-i-dreamt · 1 year
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I had a job as a sort of butler who’d just bring stuff around to various rooms and put them on tables there.
Every room was a different D&D-type roleplay group, some for Earth, others for other worlds, and there were a lot for subsections, like for the specific parts of Earth wars was related to them, their environments, etc.
I was going to the American politics one often and overheard something like, “Well then, because someone decided there has to be four presidential impeachments, we’ll have to get rid of one.”
I watched as they whispered what that even meant and who it was about and then soon enough there was this Billboard of every US president, real, current, and possible future, with some faces being covered in static.
Jimmy Carter’s face also turned to static, and I felt the memory of him dripping away. Then I spent the next day wondering who the president between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan was.
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coolthingsguyslike · 1 month
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excitementshewrote · 8 months
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deadpresidents · 6 months
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Gerald Ford vs. Teddy Roosevelt, no holds barred MMA fight. Who wins?
Despite his portrayal as a clumsy oaf, Gerald Ford was almost certainly the best athlete to ever serve in the White House. He was a legendary college football player who won two national championships at the University of Michigan, and was MVP of the team in his senior year. Ford turned down contract offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, but turned down a career in the NFL in order to attend law school. Ford was a avid skier until his 80s and continued swimming regularly for exercise into his 90s, and he would have had a notable size advantage over Theodore Roosevelt.
However, if someone genuinely knows what they are doing during a mixed martial arts fight, they are going to be very difficult to defeat -- even against an opponent who might be a superior athlete in every other sense. That has been a lesson learned throughout the growth of MMA as a mainstream sport dating back to Royce Gracie easily handling much bigger opponents in the early UFC with his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Or Rickson Gracie calmly controlling and systematically dominating literally everyone he fought in Japan, no matter who Pride FC threw at him.
Theodore Roosevelt would be giving up quite a bit of size and athletic ability against Gerald Ford, but TR was an early student of martial arts. As President -- in the White House itself -- Roosevelt kept active with wrestling (always the best foundation for a mixed martial artist) and boxing. And he was among the first Americans to actually train in jiu jitsu and judo, receiving lessons directly from the legendary Yamashita Yoshiaki. Because of that experience, I think Theodore Roosevelt probably would have given any of his fellow Presidents a rough day at the office if they had an MMA fight, no matter how big or strong or athletic his opponent might be.
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starlight-tequila · 1 month
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Something I made ages ago
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grumpyseaman · 4 months
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Never really looked into Richard Nixon - excepted what I was fed in those days as truth
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whilomm · 1 year
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shane madej regarding former United States president Gerald Ford
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philibetexcerpts · 9 months
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On 7 July 1976, the Queen and Prince Philip danced with President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford, respectively, during the State Dinner at the White House.
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beardedmrbean · 10 months
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You win this round Norse Atlantic Airways, lmao
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daddies-i-love · 1 year
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing & Gerald Ford
in 1974
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forever70s · 28 days
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U.S. President Gerald Ford with his former college football teammate, Willis Ward (1976); Ford was the first American President to enact Black History Month
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coolthingsguyslike · 10 months
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tomorrowusa · 1 month
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Happy Presidents Day! It's time for the results of the annual Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey
So here are the five best and five worst presidents according to the 2024 survey. BTW, Grover Cleveland only gets counted once for this survey.
Here are the historians' collective rankings for the top five and bottom five.
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I'm fully in agreement with #1 and #45.
The entire 12 page article (PDF) can be read here.
Lincoln, FDR, and Washington are in an exclusive group of greatness by themselves. Trump is in an exclusive group of odium all by himself. The ghosts of James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson are undoubtedly pleased that thanks to Trump, they'll never need to worry again about being considered the worst ever POTUS.
Some other tidbits from the survey.
Jimmy Carter (#22 overall) was chosen as the most underrated POTUS.
John F. Kennedy (#10 overall) was chosen as the most overrated.
The biggest rise in the rankings was by Barack Obama who rose 9 places since 2015.
The biggest decline goes to Andrew Jackson who tumbled 12 places since 2015.
Joe Biden is at #14 overall – in between John Adams and Woodrow Wilson. Though Biden is essentially tied with Adams; both having received scores of 62.66 points.
The ratings average which Republican historians gave to Biden (47.69) was significantly higher than the ratings average which Democratic historians gave to Trump (6.66). No, I didn't make up that 666. 👿
It's only history scholars who participated in this survey. They tend to take a longer view than most of us.
My biggest disagreements are that I would have placed Gerald Ford and John Quincy Adams higher and George W. Bush much lower.
A couple of articles about the 2024 rankings...
MAGA freaks out after Fox News reports Obama in top 10 presidents — and Trump in dead last
Presidential experts rank Biden 14th among presidents in survey, Trump comes in last
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emperornorton47 · 3 months
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deadpresidents · 24 days
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"Her Majesty was our guest for the bicentennial celebration in the nation's capital. We had a most enjoyable evening. At a state dinner [at the White House], the President and the First Lady usually go down and greet the main guests, and then take them to the second floor for a few minutes of private conversation.
We took the Queen and Prince Philip to the elevator, and went up to the second floor. The door opens, and there's our son Jack standing without a shirt on, waiting to go up to the third floor. Mrs. Ford and I apologized to the Prince and the Queen, who smiled and said, 'Don't worry, we have one at home just like him.'"
-- President Gerald Ford, on an expected encounter between Queen Elizabeth II and the President's 24-year-old son, Jack, while hosting the British Royals for a State Dinner at the White House in July 1976.
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ifelllikeastar · 1 month
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Happy President's Day 🇺🇲
George Washington who born February 22, 1732, had a successful liquor distiller business and was only a scholar in name because he never attended college.
Tidbits about other U.S. presidents:
•John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4.
•James Madison was the shortest president.
•John Quincy Adams went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River daily.
•John Tyler was a father to 15 children.
•Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at 6’4”, may have had Marfan Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes people to be very tall, thin and long limbed.
•Andrew Johnson apparently cared for a family of White House mice, which he called “the little fellows.”
•Franklin D. Roosevelt was a movie buff.
•Gerald Ford used to be a model before president and a star football player at the University of Michigan he turned down offers from both the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers.
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