#presidents

[g-richardmontgomery]

Chester Alan Arthur was 2 things in life. President, and, a man with 3 first names.

[deadpresidents]

Dear George,

...This letter is about your leadership and the way you have conducted yourself as you face an accumulation of problems that no American President in the last 150 years has faced.

You have borne the burden with no complaining, no posturing. You have led with conviction and determination...

The other day I started to tell a group of very close friends how I felt about you and your service to our country...I shamefully choked up, the tears running down my aging cheeks. I was embarrassed, but then I realized that I shouldn't worry if people see this visible manifestation of a father's concern, a father's love...

Devotedly, Dad AKA George Bush #41

-- Excerpts from a personal letter that former President George H.W. Bush (the 41st President) sent to his son, President George W. Bush (the 43rd President), on April 9, 2003.

[evilrichardnixon]

[ansy1984]

Opinion | Todd Blanche Affirms the President’s Conduct

He shouldn’t be confirmed for the position of attorney general. Source link

Opinion | Todd Blanche Affirms the President’s Conduct

[deadpresidents]

Charles P. Pierce's Top 10 Presidents in American history, ranked for America's 250 birthday and published in Esquire's Summer 2026 issue.

I'm glad to see LBJ getting his due at #7 and there aren't any surprises -- except for Chester A. Arthur at #10, which is a HUGE surprise. I don't think I've ever seen President Arthur ranked so high by any writers or historians, but as the author of the article points out, the "Elegant Mr. Arthur" has had a bit of a renaissance since last year's Netflix series, Death by Lightning!

[deadpresidents]

I know that presidents and vice presidents have had a range of different working relationships over the course of US history, from very amicable to very fractious. Is there any book that examines the relationship between the president and the VP in various regimes?

Here are a few books that are not just general histories of the Vice Presidency, but examine some of the President-Vice President relationships through the years:

•First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Kate Andersen Brower [2018]

•American Roulette: The History and Dilemma of the Vice Presidency by Donald Young [1972]

•Crapshoot: Rolling the Dice on the Vice Presidency by Jules Witcover [1992]

•The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2014]

•The White House Vice Presidency: The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joel Goldstein [2016]

And these are even more directly focused on specific Administrations:

•Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Gordon S. Wood [2017]

•Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary (BOOK | KINDLE) by Joseph Wheelan [2005]

•The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 (BOOK | KINDLE) by Irwin F. Gellman [2015]

•Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jeffrey Frank [2013]

•The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency by Leonard Baker [1966]

•In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique by Paul R. Henggeler [1991]

•Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jules Witcover [2007]

•Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Peter Baker [2013]

•Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Barton Gellman [2008]

•The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Gabriel Debenedetti [2022]

[deadpresidents]

Are there any professional wrestlers that you think would make a good president?

We have a President right now who has used professional wrestling tactics every step of the way during his political career, is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, was one-half of a WrestleMania storyline, and literally stole his reality show catchphrase from his real-life good friend, Vince McMahon. Stone Cold Steve Austin has hit the Stone Cold Stunner on the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. Hulk Hogan was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention! I think we have had enough pro wrestling influence on the White House.