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ObaPresident Travia
Mckinley to George H.W. Bush
| Question | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William H. Taft Republican | pres.salary to 75,000 | biggest pres ever, special bathtub installed for him | 1st to throw "first pitch" -did not want to be pres | Chief Justice of Supreme Court for 9 years | 1909-1913 | |||
| Warren G. Harding Republican | Liquor in White House despite prohibition | immigration quote law | spent time in a sanitarium - Tea Pot Dome scandal | first Pres. to have a radio and speak to public on it. | 1921-1923 | |||
| Gerald R. Ford Republican | once got locked in White House stairwell | he and wife were models | birth name Leslie Lynch King, Jr | pardoned Nixon | 1974-1977 | |||
| Herbert C. Hoover Republican | stock market crashed | orphaned at age 9 | went to Standford when it first opened | shanty town named for him | "great humanitarian" | 1929-1933 | ||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat | created new deal | distant nephew of Teddy | wife Eleanor was first US representative to UN | died during fourth term | was in a wheelchair due to adulthood polio | 1933-1945 | ||
| Harry S. Truman Democrat | pres.salary to 100,000 expenses | bomb dropped | UN charter signed | middle initial just a letter | cold war began | 1945-1953 | ||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | sputnik launched by USSR | first pres. of 50 US states | supreme commander of D-day landing | sent fed. troops to little Rock for desegregation | "i like Ike slogan" | 1953-1961 | ||
| John F. Kennedy Democrat | youngest pres. ever elected | Marilyn Monroe fan | started the peace Corps | cuban Missile Crisis | only Catholic Pres | assassination conspiracy? | refused to take salary | 1961-1963 |
| Richard M. Nixon Republican | salary to 200000 plus 50000 expense account | firt pres to visit communist China/ russia | VP agnew resigned | resigned: Watergate scandal | nick named" tricky Dick" | 1969-1974 | ||
| Calvin Coolidge Republican | born:July 4, 1872 | kelloo-Brian Pact | knew sin language | known for being a friend to big business | first to have a son protected by the Secret Service | 1923-1929 | ||
| James E. Carter, Jr. Democrat | peanut farmer before becoming politician | Camp David Accords | Iran Hostage Crisis | Dept, of Education created | pardoned all draft dodgers | economic down-tum | 1977-1981 | |
| Ronald W. Reagan Republican | once governor of CA | successful actor | increased defense speanding | Trickle down Econimis | wife began"Just Say No" | Iran Contra Scandal | 1981-1989 | |
| George H.W. Bush Republican | said" read my lips, no new taxes, then raised taxes | Persian Gulf War | was ambassador to UN | was CIA director | vomited on Japanese prime minister | 1989-1993 | ||
| William J. Clinton Democrat | Rhodes Scholar to Oxford | met JFK when he was 17 | economic upswing | wife is first, First lady to be elcted Senator | impeached for scandal, acquitted in Senate | 1993-2001 | ||
| George W. Bush Republican | lost popular vote, won in electoral college | 9/11 attack | salary up to 4000000 with 50000 expense account | owned part of Texas Rangers baseball club | 2001-2009 | |||
| Barack H. Obama Democrat | first plack pres | both he and wife graduated from Harvard Law School | first to keep cell phone | economic downturn | won 2 grammys (books) | 2009-present | ||
| Order of the presidents! | William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. taft, Woodrow Wilsom, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Jownson, Richard M. Nixon, | Gerald R. Ford, James E. Carter, Ronald Reagon, Geaorge H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, Geaorge W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama | ||||||
| William McKinley Republican | Spanish-American War -annexed Hawaii | shot by anarchist, did not want assassin hurt | first to campaign by phone | after his death, secret service given to president | 1897-1901 | |||
| Theodore Roosevelt Republican | youngest pres. ever | panama Canal built | rough rider | ran for third term w/ Bull Moose Party | wrote corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | 1901-1909 | ||
| Woodrow Wilson Democrat | Great War president | Won Noble Peace Prize for League of Nations idea | wife died while in office | women's suffrage passed | child labor prohibited | prohibition instituted | 1913-1921 | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson Democrat | wife named Lady Bird | oath of Office taken on Air force one | sent more troops to Vietnam | Civil Rights Act sighed | created " Great Society" programs | 1963-1969 |