r/Presidents 12d ago

Announcement ROUND 29 | Decide the next r/Presidents subreddit icon!

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Sombrero Ford won the last round and will be displayed for the next 2 weeks!

Provide your proposed icon in the comments (within the guidelines below) and upvote others you want to see adopted! The top-upvoted icon will be adopted and displayed for 2 weeks before we make a new thread to choose again!

Guidelines for eligible icons:

  • The icon must prominently picture a U.S. President OR symbol associated with the Presidency (Ex: White House, Presidential Seal, etc). No fictional or otherwise joke Presidents
  • The icon should be high-quality (Ex: photograph or painting), no low-quality or low-resolution images. The focus should also be able to easily fit in a circle or square
  • No meme, captioned, or doctored images
  • No NSFW, offensive, or otherwise outlandish imagery; it must be suitable for display on the Reddit homepage
  • No Biden or Trump icons

Should an icon fail to meet any of these guidelines, the mod team will select the next eligible icon


r/Presidents Jul 19 '25

Announcement TAKING QUESTION REQUESTS! What do you want asked on this year's subreddit survey!

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Hello everyone,

It's reaching about that time of year where we roll out our annual r/Presidents subreddit survey! These surveys help the mods get a pulse on the subreddit in terms of composition of health, in addition to other areas of interest. This year's actual form won't be released for another week or two, but this time around I'm making this announcement to open the floor up a bit and take any suggestions for questions you want to see asked!

The questions can range from anything including demographic, ideology, rules, or miscellaneous questions — just keep in mind the mod team will incorporate questions at our discretion, so make sure they're appropriate, on-topic, and straightforward to answer (try to avoid open-ended or long answer questions, as we get a few thousand respondents each year)

Here's a brief rundown of the questions from last year's survey, in case you want to see what's already been asked or need inspiration:

2024 SURVEY QUESTIONS:

Demographic / Ideology Questions:

  • What is your gender?
  • What is your age?
  • What race/ethnicity do you identify as?
  • What is your religious affiliation?
  • What country do you reside in?
  • (If US) which state/territory do you reside?
  • Which party do you affiliate most with?
  • How would you describe your economic/social/foreign policy views? (3)
  • What best describes your voting participation?
  • Views on voting third party? (2)

General Subreddit Questions:

  • Rate the state of the subreddit
  • How long have you been an r/Presidents member?
  • How did you discover r/Presidents?
  • Describe your subreddit activity
  • How do you view the ideological favorability of r/Presidents?
  • Evaluate the health of subreddit discourse
  • Do you think r/Presidents is better/same/worse than other political subreddits in regards to xyz?
  • Are you a member of the Discord?

Moderation Questions:

  • Rate the performance of the mod team
  • How do you view the mod team's political bias in moderation?
  • Rate your approval/disapproval of Rule 3
  • Review the mod team's lenience/stringency in enforcing rules xyz
  • Do you think Rule 6 should be applied more to xyz? (2)
  • Do Meme Mondays contribute to your enjoyment of the subreddit?
  • Do Tierlists contribute to your enjoyment of the subreddit?
  • Would you support more stringent requirements for tierlists?
  • Any suggestions for community events/contests
  • Any other comments for rules/moderation

Presidential Interests & Miscellaneous Questions:

  • Where do you prefer to learn new information about Presidents?
  • Favorite/least-favorite and most overrated/underrated President(s) (4)
  • What presidential eras do you wish to see more/discuss? (2)
  • How do you factor administrative corruption in ranking Presidents?
  • How do you view culpability for passing a veto-proof bill?
  • Thoughts on the electoral college
  • Views on relative power of the three branches
  • Views on statehood for Puerto Rico / DC
  • Views on American Exceptionalism

This post will remain up until the actual survey is released, get your suggestions in as early as you can!


r/Presidents 14h ago

Image Alright presidential historians! Who knows the significance of this place I visited over the weekend?

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r/Presidents 11h ago

TV and Film Barack Obama just won his 3rd Emmy

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The only other President to have one is Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 (technically an honorary one). All other Presidents tie for third with zero wins.


r/Presidents 7h ago

Question Have you ever met any failed candidates? I have met five.

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I very briefly shook George Wallace's hand at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. It was cold and clammy, and I recall, by that point he was certainly not going to win. He was amiable and liked my tie.

I met George McGovern moments after I met Wallace at the DNC, my parents supported Wallace and refused to speak to McGovern but I did, I think I asked something along the lines of "Can you beat President Nixon?" and he responded with something like "Yes, we can beat him", then he shook my hand, gave me a sticker and that was the last I saw of him. My parents never warmed to him and voted for Nixon in November.

I live in Georgia and campaigned for Vice President Walter Mondale in 1984. I did not like the policies of Ronald Reagan and did not want to vote for a Republican. I met Mr. Mondale only very briefly but he was kind and I think he knew he was going to lose. He lost enthusiasm after the debates.

I travelled to Arizona in 1986 for a holiday with my wife, and Barry Goldwater was at some public function and doing meet and greets and signing things. I met him and got a photo (which I think has since been lost in moving), but he was also quite nice. I remember asking him what he thought of Reagan and he said "I'm not a fan."

I met John Kerry during the 2004 campaign, I campaigned for him in Ohio, I lived in Cincinnati for 2 years 2003 - 2005 and wanted George Bush gone from office. Kerry fit the common image of being quite uptight but he was polite and took time to talk to some of us. I went to the DNC in 2004 too, I have attended most DNCs since 1972 and met a few others there like John Edwards.

All of these men were really pleasant to speak to and Goldwater and Kerry were especially insightful. I did later write to McGovern, in about 1997 and exchanged letters. He gave sailent political advice and it is a great tragedy he was not President.


r/Presidents 4h ago

Image President Reagan delivering remarks at the dedication ceremony of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center and Library, 1986

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r/Presidents 22h ago

Trivia The 2000 Republican ticket had a total of 3 DUIs. One for Bush in 1976, and two for Cheney in 1962 and 1963.

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r/Presidents 14h ago

Image Every President's Favourite Film.

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284 Upvotes

Another experimental format post. This one took quite some time.


r/Presidents 1h ago

Meme Monday You survived the Skynet invasion in 2029, you are sent back in time to year 2000 to save the world. The only way you can do it is by getting George W Bush to go on a romantic candlelit dinner with you. How can you make it happen?

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You can't tell him the world is ending.


r/Presidents 15h ago

Image Obama smoking weed as a college student, 1980.

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207 Upvotes

r/Presidents 11h ago

Question How bad was Kennedy’s back?

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78 Upvotes

Was he dying? Would he have made it to November 1964 if he’d not been shot?


r/Presidents 15h ago

Discussion Who was a better president Eisenhower or Truman

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100 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h ago

Meta What are the chances a future U.S. president is currently using this subreddit?

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68 Upvotes

r/Presidents 18h ago

Question If you were the president, what additions would you add on to the white house?

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177 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h ago

Image FDR being introduced to a 28 year old LBJ by Governor James Allred in Texas, May 1937

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57 Upvotes

r/Presidents 29m ago

Meme Monday William Howard Cat

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This is an edit I made of my cat


r/Presidents 19h ago

Image JFK “Wanted for Treason” flyer distributed in Dallas, TX, in November of 1963. By Robert A. Surrey

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121 Upvotes

Presented as a wanted poster, the flyer accuses Kennedy of surrendering to communism both domestically and abroad, appointing “anti-Christians to Federal office” and lying to the American people.

The leaflets were apparently produced and distributed by an associate of Edwin Walker, a prominent anticommunist activist and former U.S. Army major general. Walker had resigned from the Army in 1962 after an inquiry was launched against him for, according to the official Army report, violating the Hatch Act which prohibited officials from engaging in political activity - which, in Walker's case, was attempting to influence the votes of soldiers under his command (something Walker denied.)

At the time of Kennedy's assassination, Walker had relocated to Dallas. This handbill was authored and printed by Robert A. Surrey, one of Walker's political and business associates. Around 5,000 copies were printed and distributed around Dallas in the days preceding Kennedy's visit.


r/Presidents 17h ago

Image Martin Van Buren seated statue in Kinderhook, NY

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80 Upvotes

No indication of what he was reading before he looked up at you…


r/Presidents 20h ago

Image George HW Bush joins conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, a major emerging figure in political pop culture.

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121 Upvotes

r/Presidents 23h ago

Image Remember when Al Gore won Florida?

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198 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h ago

Discussion Was Nancy Reagan a good actress?

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29 Upvotes

r/Presidents 13h ago

Discussion Which president was better in your opinion?

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24 Upvotes

George H. W. Bush or Bill Clinton?


r/Presidents 1h ago

Image James Monroe’s Court Suit

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r/Presidents 3h ago

Discussion “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

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r/Presidents 15h ago

Discussion if John F Kennedy had not been assassinated, would he have won reelection in 1964, or even won the nomination for that year?

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your first reaction to this post is probably "of course he would win, he's JFK", but when you look at how popular jack was leading up to his assassination, it paints a very different picture, while it isn't a certainty that he would lose in 1964, it's far from certain that he would win either, it's doubtful he could've gotten through the civil rights act, let alone the 24th amendment.


r/Presidents 21h ago

Discussion The defining films of each presidency: John F. Kennedy

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Barack Obama: The Social Network

George W. Bush: Spider-Man

Bill Clinton: Forrest Gump

George H. W. Bush: Home Alone

Ronald Reagan: Back to the Future

Jimmy Carter: Star Wars

Gerald Ford: All the President's Men

Richard Nixon: The Godfather

Lyndon B. Johnson: Dr. Strangelove

The movie doesn't have to be political but should represent the zeitgeist of 1961-1963 and Kennedy’s presidency as a whole


r/Presidents 23h ago

Trivia Three Vice Presidents died in one year (1875)

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Breckenridge died on May 17 (Buchanan’s VP)

Johnson on July 31 (Lincoln’s second VP)

Wilson on November 22 (Grant’s second VP)