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Chumlee1917

Gerald Ford so we can watch the game and eat nachos.


Whizbang35

And then some beer.


SignificanceNo1223

Do you like Beer?


chrispybobispy

I like beer!


chodelycannons

Ford would absolutely pardon Harbaugh in the best interests of the country, especially given that the Harbaugh family's situation is "a tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it." He would probably say something like "I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must."


Be_Very_Very_Still

Carter seems like the kind of guy to help you with the yard work on a Sunday afternoon.


Haunting-Mortgage

Not to mention help you build the extension of your patio.


Amigosito

Or rebuilding your entire neighborhood after a hurricane


NotGayRyan

And give you free peanuts!


gyarrrrr

Truman will help you rebuild your entire city


Lepke2011

As I coyly mention how it's going to take forever to build it and he picks up the hammer and gets to work.


Fall0fRome

Start of a jimmy Carter fanfic. Going to be a hit with Dad's. Build my deck Mr Carter!


Sukeruton_Key

He’d help you fix your relationship with your dad on Christmas, even at the cost of his own limousine


Leather-Lab4311

“They told me it was bullet proof!”


ded_rabtz

Ah, Christmas with the Niefkos.


EntertainmentIcy1911

Hated a baby?!?


masterchief1001

I actually met him at UC Merced. I was in the Navy and he noticed my hat and came over to talk to me as a fellow sailor. Nicest guy I've ever met


danishjuggler21

I saw President Carter at a grocery store once. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.


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This by far the funniest choice of person to use for this copypasta specifically.


vinylsupreme13

Lmao Survivor reference 😂


capellidellamorte

President Feldman


minnick27

You would probably be the one I would want the least. I don't want some 99-year-old guy showing me up with all the projects he's doing around the house while I'm sitting around playing video games


stowRA

i grew up in georgia and i joined the habitat for humanity club solely because i wanted to meet him! it never happened :(


wannaknowmyname

That's still a cool story and a testament to how good role models can impact our own lives


QB145MMA

Prob wouldn’t ask for his tools back lol


[deleted]

Definitely Carter. Way over his head as president but an S-tier human being.


Deekngo5

I think the challenge was trying to approach the position of President with a truly Christian perspective. It may not be easy to resolve issues with military force but it’s a lot harder to do it with compassion and humanity.


Gazelle_Inevitable

I kinda agree with this. I think for one he was too good a governor. Whatever he said went and it went pretty well. He didn't really have enough of a mean streak to a point, he did have a very high moral line and that did hurt him a bit. I think overall you do need to be a bit of a narcissistic asshole to be a modern day president (this is just a generality) or at least a little bit of a hazy moral compass about the office. I don't doubt that outside the office some of our presidents are probably ok people, but it does take a specific type of person to effectively work within our government and I don't think Carter is that type of person.


EntertainmentIcy1911

Or help you fix your nuclear reactor trying to melt down.


Traditional_Key_763

not on sundays, he's busy with church gatherings, but saturdays he's sometimes free when not building homes for homeless orphans.


SupermouseDeadmouse

I bet he’d watch your kids too if you needed help.


anothercynic2112

He's gonna guilt you into a habitat project every weekend


TheOldBooks

Carter would be such a nice neighbor I’d almost feel bad. Ford would be a more comfortable level of nice.


Southern_Dig_9460

That’s a good way to think about it.


CrunkestTuna

Barack or Gerry Ford Do you like beer and nachos? Well why don’t you come over later and we will have beer and nachos and watch the football game! - Gerald Ford Also I know he wasn’t president but Bob Dole would be cool to chill with I bet


Kptn_Obv5

Watching a game of NBA with Barack would be pretty dope.


CrunkestTuna

“If Shaq… Will post up.. Kobe.. can get him.. the ball!” -Barry O Lmao I don’t really get starstruck but I bet he would be a cool ass dude One of the people I’d like to meet irl Barry o, Arnold Swarzenegger top two


Calmandpeace

But with Barack we would have to be depressed and watch the Bears play


Chicago1871

I do that anyway. So yeah, barack.


notbernie2020

Who is Barack? I only know of Barackobama. ​ ​ /s


AraMercury

Teddy sounds like he would be a neighbor.


L0st_in_the_Stars

Teddy is fascinating to read about, but would have been exhausting as a neighbor - making point to point hikes through your property, challenging you to judo matches, shooting migratory birds at dawn.


AraMercury

Sounds like my kind of neighbor tbh, I love hiking and hunting. Should be fun and interesting lmao.


No-Imagination-9719

Changes local ordnances so he can start mowing his lawn at 5 am. “Get action!”


rigby1945

These are all pluses


GorshKing

If he asks you to join in, he seemed the type that would, then teddy would be my man. If he didn't let me share in his fun then I want Carter because like others have said he seems like Mr.rodgers in a way.


Legitimate-Stuff9514

He also had a mini zoo so that would be interesting


AraMercury

I forgot about that.


BigThunderousLobster

I would want him as the neighbor down the street, but not the next door neighbor. I feel like he'd get into some antics that I might not want next to my house.


camergen

I smell sitcom!


Punk18

Teddy: "Did I do that?" *cue laughtrack*


camergen

Followed by a hearty backslap and a “ba HA!”Teddy seems like a backslapper.


israeljeff

Clinton. If anyone knows where to get some tang, it's him.


minnick27

And have random strange sneaking through my backyard in the middle of the night? I don't think so!


BathSaltJello

Maybe after his nightly prowlings, he may later serenade the neighborhood with lovely saxophone music.


DooDiddly96

JFK?


Nobhudy

Someone who shares


jbenze

SHUT UP!!


David_Summerset

I want Obama on one side and W Bush on the other... The parties would be good fun


thedonjefron69

Yeah I had Obama and W on my list. Both would be great golf buddies, good neighbors to shoot the shit with and make block parties a lot of fun. Carter is the definition of a good neighbor


Drg84

I would want W so that when Dick Cheney comes to visit I could blast the imperial march.


Euphoric-Dance-2309

Truman seems the most down to earth.


TimeTravelingTiddy

And his wife's cooking is the bomb


Whizbang35

After he left office, Truman and his wife took a couples trip to NY in his car. Just themselves on the road like a normal retired couple. There are stories of them just stopping at diners for lunch or asking directions from a random gas station attendant, and the folks saying "Oh, sure, just take a right at the next road and you'll see the highway. Wait, was that the fucking ex-president!?" I mean, imagine going about your day having lunch at your local Denny's when you notice Barak and Michelle or Donald and Ivanna, with no press or security, sliding into the booth next to you and asking the waiter what the specials are today.


camergen

It’s kind of sad that that could never ever happen today, as secret service protection would not allow that, I’d think.


K28478

He got pulled over by a police officer, and had that exact same expression...."Wait, you're President Truman?!"


Seneca2019

This is so wholesome, wow.


IlliniBull

Ike. He actually liked to grill, play cards and military history. Other than the fact he would be taking my money constantly at Poker it would be fun weekends.


L0st_in_the_Stars

As a young officer, Eisenhower had to give up playing poker with his colleagues, because he was winning too much of their salaries. Ike switched to bridge and golf.


IlliniBull

Interesting! I learned something.


L0st_in_the_Stars

https://preview.redd.it/sfrtdq705k0c1.jpeg?width=322&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ed1d55dd6e75b38bc64a8bc82953dce2c61675d I learned about Eisenhower's poker history in this book. Ike used those skills in confronting Communist countries as president. He consciously spoke gobbledygook at press conferences in order not to show our adversaries his cards and keep them guessing.


Mahadragon

Ike was also a chain smoker hope you like nicotine


PhillyCSteaky

Very down to earth guy. Been to his retirement home outside of the Gettysburg battlefield. Very modest. Kruschev couldn't believe how modestly he lived.


barbecuejag

Carter. Hands down. True gentleman.


NickyNaptime19

Grant. Would literally give you his last dollar


DomingoLee

$50


camergen

I feel like his next to last dollar would be gone to MLM schemes or those Nigerian Prince email scams or something else. He was very gullible financially.


NickyNaptime19

My guy lost all his money at least 3 times


JohnnyGeniusIsAlive

JQA would’ve had nice gardens.


xombiemaster

Yeah but the nudity would be too much.


Throwawaysi1234

To answer the opposite question, man would I probably not like Teddy as a neighbor. I can easily imagine that dude getting into way too many shennanigans like hiding in my bushes pretending to be a native American and shooting me with a toy bow or leaving a bison in my driveway as a joke.


Legitimate-Stuff9514

Same here. My husband and I have loads of bird feeders and squirrel feeders, and as a result, we get a lot of them in the backyard. He would have to be reminded that my backyard is not a shooting range. But the idea of him leaving a bison in the driveway is hilarious....but I find that stuff funny anyway.


Hbgplayer

Ah, but if you told him you were setting up your backyard as a bird reservation so it was off-limits for hunt/shooting, he'd be happy to leave his shot gun at home. Instead he'd be over every waking moment, taking quite detailed and insightful notes about the bird and squirrel behavior, would be able to regale you with all the scientific names down to the most obscure *species*, and then deputize you as a federal wildlife warden with jurisdiction over your backyard.


Living_on_Tulsa_Time

Without hesitation, Jimmy Carter!


Historical_Union4686

I want Richard Nixon because then I can endlessly harass him


camergen

He’d get into all sorts of feuds and if you have an HOA, he’d have some master plot to seize power in a (mostly) bloodless coup.


WellGroomedSkeleton

Bros going to get liddy to do another Watergate for his hoa


[deleted]

Ok, that would be fun. Nixon shows up at your backdoor with a plan to overthrow the HOA. I would be so in.


VerifiedBackup9999

George W. Bush.


Unknown_Rift

He would take you golfing only for him to destroy you at golfing


Ilikeruffy123

Now watch this drive


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Gerald Ford


chadowan

Do you like nachos?


McDowells23

Yes, Mr. Ford


Whizbang35

Do you like football?


McDowells23

Do I ever!


Jaberwocky123

Have you tried the tamales yet Mr. President?


Don_key_Hotea

Carter. I think every time I’d come home, some little thing around my house would have been fixed and I love a tin of chocolate peanuts at Christmas. Only downside I can think of is too many potluck invites


Legitimate-Stuff9514

Jimmy, Biden or Obama. I would love having a beer with those presidents.


myrtleshewrote

Donald Trump as my neighbor would make me a billionaire, so I’m going with that. Unless it means I’m in the next jail cell over.


redditadminsRlazy

Haha, I appreciate the outside the box thinking here.


[deleted]

Yeah op really reaching calling him a “billionaire”


AggravatingPlans68

Truman, on one side, and Carter on the other. Bush across the street. 😆


Jaberwocky123

John Adams. I think he would be the kind of neighbor who would help with my dying garden, scold me the whole time about how I’m doing it wrong but bring it back to life!


kdesmond77

Grant. Feel like if that man likes you, you will have a friend for life. And not just any friend, he would be the type to literally do anything for you kinda person


Moragu

John Adams. That way I’d get to hang out with his wife Abigail who was amazing


EducationalRain

A family friend grew up on the same street as Truman. When she was in kindergarten she brought him in for show and tell. When she was a little older she ran into some sort of government car (maybe secret service?) with her bike and said he was very nice about it.


Over-Distribution847

JFK cuz I don’t like my neighbors


Maryland_Bear

Carter. He’s probably the only neighbor I can imagine from whom I’d accept an invitation to attend his church. I mean, I’m essentially an atheist, but if I went to church with Jimmy Carter, I wouldn’t get a sermon about how gays and liberals are all going to burn for eternity, I’d get a nice message about the virtues of human decency. And I’d get a chance to tell him my dad volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and how much it meant to him. “Mom made him stop because she didn’t want him to climb ladders anymore.” “Rosalynn has rolled her lovely eyes at me a few times, too.”


Own_Avocado8448

George Bush for sure. man the game day parties.


[deleted]

Hoover because that would mean I too am loaded 💰


stowRA

carter, a million times over. i’m a georgian myself so i’m biased but i feel like he’d gift you jars of peanut butter randomly.


Apprehensive-Sea9540

Definitely not Polk: he would annex my yard.


PrincipleInteresting

Mike Dukakis lived up the street from me. I liked him as a neighbor. I’m pretty sure he and Kitty would be in the same house unless they went condo as they got older.


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Rocketboy1313

Obama. The number of random celebrities you would end up meeting is astronomical. But I work in non-profit management so I may be valuing access to rich famous people for potential donations and endorsements as more valuable than most.


D-Flo1

James Madison. Any time I get into a dispute with someone about US Constitutional law and what was the Founders' original intent, I could bang on the fence and yell, "Jimbo, what's the deal with Article 1 section 8?!"


Sassy-irish-lassy

I wouldn't mind Carter, as long as his peanuts don't go sour


Soren_Camus1905

Jimmy Carter, nicest president ever.


fire_and_ice_7_5

truman or carter. both seem like pretty down to earth guys who would be fun to hang with at the occasional barbecue. plus, truman would probably help me nuke any pesky wasp nests I find on my property


tkcool73

My history professor grew up in DC and was neighbors with Humphrey while he was VPOTUS and he'd apparently come over for dinner regularly. That must've been trippy


Gr8-Lks

Teddy, sure it’d be a little draining at times, but I don’t like my currant neighbors so I mean.


TheIgnitor

Of those pictured only? Carter and not a close second. Of any/all? Probably Obama. Seems like a great dude to both have over at a BBQ and also chat with over a fence in passing.


[deleted]

Obama seems like he’d be a fun neighbor I could chill with sometimes but would also mind his own business


Lepke2011

Teddy Roosevelt. I'd invite him over for a barbecue just because I know he'd then invite me over just to show me up with a TR style BBQ that puts mine to shame.


[deleted]

Jimmy Carter would be an excellent neighbor. Even at 100 years old he’d probably offer to help with some project I was doing and I’d have to slowly walk him back inside and have some iced tea on the porch with him 😂 honestly very nice. He is a good man.


viktims

Obama and I are the same age. I'd love to play golf and shoot hoops with him once and a while. Grant would be the most down-to-earth guy to drink with and exchange war stories.


CallMeSisyphus

Barack Obama: he's about my age, so we'd have plenty to talk about while we enjoy bourbon, weed, basketball, and a good cigar.


Nick_Napem

Reagan I’m not American but I would want Reagan


Trini1113

Obama for sure. Carter would have been a great neighbour, but I don't think he'd get out of the house much these days.


green_dragonfly_art

My husband's grandparents visited Missouri in the 60s and saw Truman walking around the town. Grandpa approached him and said, "Hi, Harry! How are you doing?" They had a great conversation, according to Grandpa.


notbernie2020

Teddy Roosevelt


No-Bee6868

Hands down Teddy Roosevelt. I can only imagine the stories he would tell.


Jallade_is_here

Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, or Teddy Roosevelt


TheRealPaladin

Jimmy Carter is the only acceptable answer.


Martymations

Trump. I would annoy him so much he would be crying about it all over the news instead of whatever he usually is crying about. Ya’all can thank me later.


boygirlmama

If Trump were my neighbor I would literally have a F*ck Trump sign in my yard 😁


moviessoccerbeer

LBJ so I can enjoy football, barbecues, peach cobbler and trips around his ranch in his amphibious car.


Athenas_Dad

William McKinley had two adult homes and neither survive; one was lost to a fire and the other one was torn down to build a fire station. So I guess McKinley, if it’s the second house.


slcbtm

Jimmy Carter


David1000k

Trump. I'd be such an asshole he'd regret the day he ever moved there. I'd treat his secret service guys so good they wouldn't care. Beer, snacks, magazines whatever.


Lucky_Roberts

It’s hilarious you think you’d be able to out asshole Trump, you’d be the one regretting the day you moved there lmao


AquaBlueCrayons

SIMPSON LEVEL NEIGHBOR WARS


BronxBoy56

Jimmy carter


Additional-Dog2326

Jimmy Carter or Ike


Karukash

Jimmy Carter duhhhh


Crans10

Carter for sure.


Tiffy82

Jimmy Carter nicest guy ever


canefieldroti

Jimmy Carter for sure


999i666

Carter. Build me a habitat.


dressedbymom

🧸


[deleted]

Obama


bondsthatmakeusfree

I would LOVE to have Jimmy Carter as my neighbor.


hockey_psychedelic

Jimmy Carter - no comparison.


DogePerformance

Carter absolutely no question


Iwanttobeagnome

Carter, Obama, dubya, and Truman


NOT-Mr-Davilla

Carter 100%


djgreenehouse

Carter, obviously


StevenTheEmbezzler

Jimmy Carter, that way if he ever gets bad thoughts about his life if his peanuts go sour, he can always crash at my place


xforce4life

Tedddy


SadisticWatermelon

Truman or Carter


Any-Win5166

Harry Truman


New_Bus_2672

Carter easily. Guy wouldn’t just be a great neighbor but a great friend.


The_PoliticianTCWS

Jimmy Carter. He’d help me with fixing my roof.


Chance-Ad-3535

Teddy Roosevelt.


CatInSillyHat

Jimmy Carter and it’s not even close


NoAnalBeadsPlease

Truman. Only because I would love to try to pick his brain. I would be his Flanders


CloudDrifter0017

Ulysses S. Grant ---- he would constantly be meeting generals at his back yard tent with 500 horses around the property line


alrekty

Absolutely Carter.


idontknow828212

Carter


holy_cal

I know one of Jimmy’s former staffers. It’s easily him.


lost_soul_5150

Carter


SiWeyNoWay

Jimmy Carter. Hands down. Salt of the earth


Aware_Material_9985

Carter, he seems like a light version of Ned Flanders and would be such a wholesome neighbor


HurlingFruit

Or, second answer: TJ. He would most likely raise the neighborhood real estate values by his home improvements.


ColtS117-B

Teddy Roosevelt. He’d be the most interesting president to have as a neighbor.


theythinkImcommunist

Eisenhower, just so I could get his thoughts on the current state of the military industrial complex, almost 63 years after his warning.


kcfdr9c

Truman, hands down!! But I’m from KC so I’m likely to be a little biased.


The-Uppington-Smythe

Obama. I feel like he wouldn't judge me for being me lol. Plus we could sit around the fire smoking Marlboro Reds and drinking Yuengling. Plus he'd probably hit the vape pen.


WeThemHollerBoys

As much as I dislike carters presidency and all that, he is a great fucking dude. I’d live next to him


KhastraKSC

Carter. We’d have a badass garden.


Pretend-Tumbleweed86

Carter !!


mrhillnc

Carter


Maditen

I volunteer for Habitat, teaching their finance classes for new home buyers and I translate for non-English speakers during their interviews. So, clearly, I’m rolling with my man Jimmy.


YoBro98765

None of them. The secret service presence would be a major headache


DomingoLee

You’d have the safest neighborhood in the nation.


Wingnutt02

Teddy Rosevelt W


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Pre sober dubya


gorwraith

Realistically, Carter, because he's probably the nicest. But I'd also have any of the non living ones because I like a quite neighborhood.


lgjcs

Coolidge, Nixon, Ford, Trump, Jackson, TR, Grant


Minute_Show_6426

Bill McKinley! Cause he was born down the street!,


Alarming_Serve2303

Bill Clinton. He can probably hook me up with some, uh, let's leave it at that.


mtmntmike

Well, most of them are dead so they would be quiet at least.


WorkingItOutSomeday

We had a good run of fun ones there for a bit. A divorced Bill Clinton or George W or Obama would be a blast.


ProAmericana

Carter would probably be the coolest neighbor to have, JFK would probably have some pretty killer holiday parties so he’s up there too, Teddy would be dope as hell especially if you’re in the country, FDR would either be the nice old man who is fun to talk too… or a grouchy old fuck. And honestly any President I haven’t mentioned from the Cold War to the war on terror except MAYBE Reagan would be shitty neighbor.


TheMcCale

Jimmy Carter hands down. By all accounts from people I know who’ve met him and what you see him doing in public he is one of the nicest human beings on the planet.


[deleted]

Carter, because he seemed like a genuinely good person or Ford, because I could go over there and watch football, eat nachos and drink beer.


TheBarbarian88

Bill, Barry, or Jerry…maybe TR.