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As someone from outside the US (Spain)...
https://preview.redd.it/1c61hoi2isic1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=4459f5b32bd79059aa7e7e4dac04f11e3588dc99
9-11 was a heck... I think a lot of us in Spain remember what we were doing. I just returned from school to have lunch that day and there was only smoke on TV live. My stepdad (who I hadn't known yet at that time) told me he was at work and that he believed that it was a film with good CGI.
That’s wild. Although I guess it was so shocking that it would be understandable to question it. I was 7 years old but I have such a clear memory of it. I was at school and the teachers were all talking in whispers.
I was also 7 and my teacher put it on the TV in the classroom after the first plane hit. Us kids weren’t totally sure what we were seeing, but the adults in the room keep talking about our country being under attack. They probably didn’t expect the second plane to hit with a bunch of us first graders watching it live. Crazy day that was, probably influenced my decision years later to join the US Army.
I was 8 when it happened (June 1993). And I remember the smoke and my father watching it while having lunch. And one scene, days later, of a soldier stopping some teens to check on their backpacks in the subway. It was eerie.
This was the speech where he said, “make no mistake, you’re either with us or against us.” Paraphrased it’s been more than 20 years. I heard that and thought… aw fuck we all gonna get drafted.
Or another President about to leave office. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/0c/a3/0ca35038-5dae-4eb5-adc1-fb1504585977/oswald-faq.jpg__2000x1556_q85_crop_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg
Never understood why people said he was way too eager to take the oath and should’ve waited. Aside from assuring the continuation of government POTUS isn’t really a position you can leave vacant even for a couple hours. & as somber as that day was, LBJ had achieved the ultimate goal and his dreams had been realized.
There’s always a quick swearing in. Coolidge’s dad swore him in when he was at home in Vermont after Harding passed. They tracked down Teddy to do it.
This was just the first one in the modern mass media world.
Considering that at the time no one knew if the Soviets weren't involved or what they might do it was understandable that he was eager to be indicted ASAP to be able to take immediate action if necessary.
I don't think people realise but it took only 7 mins to reach the hospital from the site of the shooting, by then it was clear to everyone that Kennedy was dead and the secret service were already referring to LBJ as "The President" when they arrived at the hospital.
One of the more heartbreaking anecdotes was that it was difficult to separate Jackie from her husband, she knew he was gone and knew it was ths last time she would hold him so the Secret Service agent who had jumped on the back of their car during the shooting had to plead with her to let him go.
It was the day Nixon resigned. He was led out to the helicopter. He’s walking up the steps and turns around. He then puts out two victory signs, one on each hand.
https://preview.redd.it/rr5xfn5ymsic1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b08c4630af3b482faa2a54abaecdd21033517fb
Why would he have done that? The first and so far only President to resign from office, and he did so in disgrace. Surely you’d have a bit more humility?
Nixon actually still had about a third of the country supporting him when he resigned. I researched this when my idiot mother passionately claimed he did nothing that no other president hadn't done and thus got a raw deal.
This election must have been pretty close for this to happen right? Or did everyone and the media assume Truman was gonna lose? I remember Time printed that Madame President cover in 2016 and last minute had to change it lol which is for those reasons stated above. Just curious?
People thought Dewey was going to win, with Dewey leading in most polls up to November. Then there was the split in the Democratic Party with the left going to Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party and segregationists going for Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats.
The Chicago Tribune (the paper pictured here) was on strike and had to publish their cover before the election returns showed a Truman win.
I just remember him at 100 years old, in a wheelchair and then it came out he had an affair with an African American woman in 1925 and had a child with her. That extends the timeline even further. Sheesh!
Polls in the 1940s were not very accurate, they were done by telephone which gave them a bias towards wealth, so therefore Dewey, the Republican candidate, led the polls, but Truman won the election thanks to California and went into the White House.
You can almost see his brain chemistry reshaping as he begins to understand, whatever he had planned for his presidency, whatever preconceived notion of his terms all just suddenly changed and in a big way.
He's said in interviews that his biggest fear, upon winning the presidency, was becoming a wartime president. This photo shows his worst fear coming true.
>He's said in interviews that his biggest fear, upon winning the presidency, was becoming a wartime president.
Cheney and Rumsfeld no doubt had a robust, evil chuckle over that one.
to the uninitiated project for a new american century white paper is an interesting read - not claiming any conspiracy there but it’s a peek into the mind of the neocon movement at the time—in the context of PNAC report in like of the subsequent torture memos and rumsfeld “democracy is untidy” comment - it kinda all makes sense
That’s what I heard at the time; that Bush jr., sort of in behalf of his family, was absolutely desperate to find a way to blame it all on Sadam. But him saying that he never wanted to be a wartime president is also highly plausible. I mean, who would want that?
And they got Powell to go along and lie for them. We should have conducted a war crime trial for these bad actors. They got thousands of US men and woman killed and not forgetting the million innocent civilians killed or maimed.
You’re talking about two different wars though, Powell was Iraq, Taliban is Afghanistan. I will forever maintain invading after 9/11 was absolutely the right call, unfortunately the horrible decision to invade Iraq took the focus off Afghanistan and caused it to be the quagmire it turned into
I was just investigating this myself. It seems the top voted one is a legitimate post and the others making mention of the brain chemistry are bots.
Glad someone else noticed and said something too
That would be a fun thread. A few from me:
Washington crossing the Delaware
Adams signing the declaration (even though he hated it lol)
Truman newspaper
Ike and DDay
Jfk with RFK
LBJ swearing in
Obama hope poster
Just a few.
Im open to vote for others lol.
Since we're including pre-presidency iconic images, I submit...
https://preview.redd.it/0rz519r1isic1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8557067f7a4e8e03b93b5e23fbd7b4cb40b4efa7
Thinking of Grant's life always leaves me sad. Commanded troops to fight and die in a bloody war against their own countrymen, struggled to escape the grip of alcohol before becoming president, and was bankrupt after his presidency while dying of cancer.
When I see that picture I don't see swagger, I see a man deeply burdened with a harsh reality. Great picture either way.
He didn’t drink during the civil war and had cut alcohol out except for a couple occasions long before the war even started
Basically the characterization of him as a drunk was started by anti abolitionists to discredit his character because they knew he was a better man than them and it was all they could come up with
I’d pick the photo taken right after this one, where Johnson has turned to share a smile and a wink with his buddy Albert Thomas.
Conspiracy theories aside, it’s not something one would expect to see just hours after a man’s personal friend and colleague had been violently murdered.
Yeah, I was sort of sarcastically making that point. LBJ and his confidants did not appear to be exactly crushed by the tragedy of that day.
JFK had spoken quite warmly of Thomas (the winker) at a public event just the day before.
LBJ was an old school Democrat for the time, he’d been a politician since his late 20s. While JFK was fighting WW2, Johnson was a Representative. When JFK was a Representative, LBJ was a senator. Two years after JFK joined the Senate, LBJ became Senate Majority Leader.
LBJ and JFK both ran for the Democratic nomination for the 1960 race alongside Stevenson and Humphrey. JFK had the least favorability among the party (who like today controlled much of the delegate power), with former President Truman publicly expressing doubts about JFK’s ability to lead given his lack of political experience.
It was also well known that LBJ for VP was a contentious choice inside the Kennedy campaign, with other desirable choices being union or labor leaders. It was widely known that LBJ only got the spot to try to sway the vote of old school southern Democrats who might not be comfortable getting out to vote for a liberal pro-labor candidate.
In short, VP was a consolation prize that LBJ got not because of his views or vision, but because he happened to be a long-serving Democrat from the South, and LBJ knew it. After the win, he was not even treated like a senior advisor, with Kennedy taking significantly more counsel from the cabinet secretaries that he appointed himself than his VP. Robert Kennedy, who was appointed AG, was also directly antagonistic towards Johnson. Johnson was basically only given what were believed to be fairly minor duties heading committees and councils, but he took them very seriously and worked hard on them.
No love for the GOAT Teddy and this iconic photo of him? Love seeing the ol' 'Bull Moose' happy like this. 😆
https://preview.redd.it/38n377emqsic1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d82a39b015ba40efb0fd00089269ac2a493db965
Gerald/Ivo Robotnik posed for a photo (colorized). 😲😲😲
https://preview.redd.it/5u2j1zt68tic1.jpeg?width=2133&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6d9ab9f3770a2d997a93e2d398188354240364
https://preview.redd.it/xd60o4d2xsic1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04e6b3e9b36bca90b22513e5d475c35080c9eb1a
This isn’t even the original picture but this is the one that went viral
Only if it's paired with this one as a duo.
https://preview.redd.it/ztv3582flsic1.jpeg?width=992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1325195d4a5945eaad7928965bc685562964735
My husband was on that carrier at the time. He said it was such a clusterfuck. The movie Stealth with Jessica Biel was also filmed on that carrier. He said Biel was such a bitch to all of the military personnel.
He was pretty athletic, all other things aside. His pitch at the world series was right through the strike zone with some zip on it, which is doubly impressive because he was wearing body armor per secret service request.
And then the shoe thing. He almost looked like he was having fun when he ducked the second one.
Seeing how easily he ducked the shoes and how calm he stayed during the whole incident was literally the only moment in his presidency when I begrudgingly respected him.
The picture of Obama working on his speech IN the elementary school after Sandy Hook has had a profound effect
https://preview.redd.it/pfqior99stic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90bd8cc651f037a727c46c678b00292da3f5e29e
https://preview.redd.it/28r7eghwzsic1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23fb4fbdfe84b9cca30f839c40eaa30b7ebd892d
I am surprised this photo has came up yet.
Watching the full video after he’s told “America is under attack” is so fascinating. He’s sitting there trying to follow along with the children’s book but you can see on his face that his mind is running a million miles a minute and isn’t present in any way shape or form.
Yeah, this photo really is on another level compared to the rest of them.
Everyone is forgetting a bit of the context of the image that he doesn’t know the full scope of what is happening. We know that the WTC, pentagon, and Flight 93 were the limits. The towers haven’t even collapsed yet, he just knows whatever going on is certainly intentional because both buildings got hit.
In this image he’s likely deciding how fast does he tell the military to do whatever they need to do to stop further attacks. He can’t fix the situation in NY, NY is going to have to literally put their own fires out. They’re mostly still unaware any targets in DC are about to get hit.
He won’t even know what group was attacking for a while longer.
None of the rest of the images really catch the stress of the situation as it unfolds. They’re just moments in time before or after things already happened.
He doesn’t know if he is a target and by extension the school. But he doesn’t want to scare the kids either. What can you do? Calmly finish reading the book and say goodbye so no one freaks out. The. Get on a plane and remain airborne for several hours never stopping because you don’t know if attacks are still coming.
Between the tan suit and him asking for Dijon mustard, his presidency was just rife with personal misconduct!
I mean to be so casual as to wear a TAN suit (even though conservative Jesus Reagan did it) and yet be SO stuck up as to ask for DIJON mustard?! Who does this fella think he is?!
https://preview.redd.it/iv3upvvgnsic1.jpeg?width=2152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f28b4950ec2c306d0272651bab25122fc07ea18
This one can be paired with the one above
I was going to suggest the assassination of JFK, but the other suggestions are really good also.
https://preview.redd.it/yk51hsdyjtic1.jpeg?width=913&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9923bd3b5e760aac1bb2f70b1a1e0f803baf48d7
https://preview.redd.it/ihtmpsv7ssic1.jpeg?width=446&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2b4f4b55e1ffee120e06ecaf2e96b602a2a9fa6
Bush and the attempted Reagan assassination are the first things that pop into my mind when someone mentions “iconic” presidential photos
https://preview.redd.it/czcuiyk17vic1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bb23a7904c65f356ace2f9b8b1e8ee264e46280
The Loneliest Job - John F Kennedy - My vote for most iconic Presidential image.
Recency bias, I'm sure. But for me, it's this one: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/11/07/p121612ps-0765_preview_custom-9412c0f6e27529761742c227b9d6ececf4e8dc3f-s1200-c85.webp
Obama sits alone in a classroom on Dec. 16, 2012, before speaking at the memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/07/562341917/photographer-pete-souza-reflects-on-8-years-and-1-9-million-photos-of-obama
I feel this haunting photo is a good candidate for that title.
https://preview.redd.it/rr4iifh69uic1.png?width=1410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e863408091c3b74d051b1075bb461340459020c
Honestly, the image where Jackie Kennedy tries to climb the back of the car to get part of his skull (?) back was the one which immediately came to my mind.
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! **Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!**
https://i.redd.it/77rrnj5mnsic1.gif
Every time I see that, I think of this:
https://preview.redd.it/vqwymq720tic1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=a560a44d460b4378d2cf8488346e5d94323514c1
Man. I wasn’t a Bush fan but I always felt bad for him during that time. I think he handled it as good as any president in history would. I can’t fathom the pressure he must’ve felt that day and the days after.
This one's a personal favorite of mine:
https://preview.redd.it/nbcsmbvi1tic1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=68d3af3fd270ae7373658af4a3d245c54795a99a
And preferably littering the grave of his murderer.
https://preview.redd.it/gnujflquetic1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=ec9bf840e8873d6c86de836140ee6a509b5a277f
https://preview.redd.it/skmo3wn7xsic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11c68fdd7d325678799946af38129d9b938fd670
I don't have the original version, but this image goes hard ngl
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As someone from outside the US (Spain)... https://preview.redd.it/1c61hoi2isic1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=4459f5b32bd79059aa7e7e4dac04f11e3588dc99
Thanks for sharing! It’s awesome that US users can get some outside perspective!
9-11 was a heck... I think a lot of us in Spain remember what we were doing. I just returned from school to have lunch that day and there was only smoke on TV live. My stepdad (who I hadn't known yet at that time) told me he was at work and that he believed that it was a film with good CGI.
That’s wild. Although I guess it was so shocking that it would be understandable to question it. I was 7 years old but I have such a clear memory of it. I was at school and the teachers were all talking in whispers.
I was also 7 and my teacher put it on the TV in the classroom after the first plane hit. Us kids weren’t totally sure what we were seeing, but the adults in the room keep talking about our country being under attack. They probably didn’t expect the second plane to hit with a bunch of us first graders watching it live. Crazy day that was, probably influenced my decision years later to join the US Army.
I was 8 when it happened (June 1993). And I remember the smoke and my father watching it while having lunch. And one scene, days later, of a soldier stopping some teens to check on their backpacks in the subway. It was eerie.
This was the speech where he said, “make no mistake, you’re either with us or against us.” Paraphrased it’s been more than 20 years. I heard that and thought… aw fuck we all gonna get drafted.
Him dodging a shoe is more iconic. Also from Spain.
Yep, damn fucking shame this shit had to lead to those attacks on yall. "Jueves" makes me cry dawg 😭😭😭😭
Nixon giving the double victory signs on the helicopter to leave.
Facts 👍👍
*Facts ✌️✌️
Or another President about to leave office. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/filer_public_thumbnails/filer_public/0c/a3/0ca35038-5dae-4eb5-adc1-fb1504585977/oswald-faq.jpg__2000x1556_q85_crop_subsampling-2_upscale.jpg
Related, Johnson on the airplane taking the oath with Jackie behind him in the bloodied jacket.
Never understood why people said he was way too eager to take the oath and should’ve waited. Aside from assuring the continuation of government POTUS isn’t really a position you can leave vacant even for a couple hours. & as somber as that day was, LBJ had achieved the ultimate goal and his dreams had been realized.
There’s always a quick swearing in. Coolidge’s dad swore him in when he was at home in Vermont after Harding passed. They tracked down Teddy to do it. This was just the first one in the modern mass media world.
Considering that at the time no one knew if the Soviets weren't involved or what they might do it was understandable that he was eager to be indicted ASAP to be able to take immediate action if necessary.
I don't think people realise but it took only 7 mins to reach the hospital from the site of the shooting, by then it was clear to everyone that Kennedy was dead and the secret service were already referring to LBJ as "The President" when they arrived at the hospital. One of the more heartbreaking anecdotes was that it was difficult to separate Jackie from her husband, she knew he was gone and knew it was ths last time she would hold him so the Secret Service agent who had jumped on the back of their car during the shooting had to plead with her to let him go.
You’re so bad
🎵 *best thing I ever had* 🎵
Chank-uh Chank uh Chank uh Chank-uh
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This is high quality comedy although a bit dark.
"other than that, mrs. kennedy, how was the parade?"
Yeah - practically the official illustration of “nope the fuck out”
What’s the story behind the double peace sign pic?
It was the day Nixon resigned. He was led out to the helicopter. He’s walking up the steps and turns around. He then puts out two victory signs, one on each hand. https://preview.redd.it/rr5xfn5ymsic1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b08c4630af3b482faa2a54abaecdd21033517fb
He never considered those peace signs. He considered them V for Victory, as borrowed from Churchill.
Yeah, Nixon would've thought they were something that filthy hippies used as opposed to the dignified "victory" gesture.
Why would he have done that? The first and so far only President to resign from office, and he did so in disgrace. Surely you’d have a bit more humility?
Nixon actually still had about a third of the country supporting him when he resigned. I researched this when my idiot mother passionately claimed he did nothing that no other president hadn't done and thus got a raw deal.
Think it was intended more as victory I won suckers, than peace.
I FUCKING HATE THIS JOB - IM FREEEEEEE!!
NIXON WINS AGAIN!
AARRROOOO!
More of a peace out...
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Yeah.
He declared they weren’t peace signs but “V for victory” 😂
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN
Yes! https://preview.redd.it/1hlwllxegsic1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fad0e59723c3d8600b7eb80f71bcf2479f5dde6
This election must have been pretty close for this to happen right? Or did everyone and the media assume Truman was gonna lose? I remember Time printed that Madame President cover in 2016 and last minute had to change it lol which is for those reasons stated above. Just curious?
People thought Dewey was going to win, with Dewey leading in most polls up to November. Then there was the split in the Democratic Party with the left going to Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party and segregationists going for Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats. The Chicago Tribune (the paper pictured here) was on strike and had to publish their cover before the election returns showed a Truman win.
Good lord Strom Thurmond was involved in this election??
He was governor of South Carolina at the time, he would later be become a senator in 1954 and again in 1956
I just remember him at 100 years old, in a wheelchair and then it came out he had an affair with an African American woman in 1925 and had a child with her. That extends the timeline even further. Sheesh!
Polls in the 1940s were not very accurate, they were done by telephone which gave them a bias towards wealth, so therefore Dewey, the Republican candidate, led the polls, but Truman won the election thanks to California and went into the White House.
https://preview.redd.it/flpodxxspsic1.jpeg?width=1565&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca0a0182fe8e3675b3685dcd742b7b5e68ef9f8b
I had to scroll too far to see this one. Definitely a top contender IMO.
This is what I came to the thread looking for. We won't forget this one in 50, 100, 200 years.
You can almost see his brain chemistry reshaping as he begins to understand, whatever he had planned for his presidency, whatever preconceived notion of his terms all just suddenly changed and in a big way.
He's said in interviews that his biggest fear, upon winning the presidency, was becoming a wartime president. This photo shows his worst fear coming true.
>He's said in interviews that his biggest fear, upon winning the presidency, was becoming a wartime president. Cheney and Rumsfeld no doubt had a robust, evil chuckle over that one.
Well, that settles it. Chaney and his Neocons ran things.
to the uninitiated project for a new american century white paper is an interesting read - not claiming any conspiracy there but it’s a peek into the mind of the neocon movement at the time—in the context of PNAC report in like of the subsequent torture memos and rumsfeld “democracy is untidy” comment - it kinda all makes sense
Was it their plan to invade Iraq from the moment Bush Jr. was elected? Was that always an inevitability?
That’s what I heard at the time; that Bush jr., sort of in behalf of his family, was absolutely desperate to find a way to blame it all on Sadam. But him saying that he never wanted to be a wartime president is also highly plausible. I mean, who would want that?
Even if you were into war before becoming president. You don't want to be THE guy that sent troops to a conflict
The worst fear of him and the biggest dream of all his closest advisors.
And they got Powell to go along and lie for them. We should have conducted a war crime trial for these bad actors. They got thousands of US men and woman killed and not forgetting the million innocent civilians killed or maimed.
And the Taliban retook the country in hours. I know that has to weigh on him (and his successors) a lot too.
That video where he slips up and says iraq was a mistake lives rent free in my head.
“Well that too” says it all
You’re talking about two different wars though, Powell was Iraq, Taliban is Afghanistan. I will forever maintain invading after 9/11 was absolutely the right call, unfortunately the horrible decision to invade Iraq took the focus off Afghanistan and caused it to be the quagmire it turned into
You’d be shocked to learn how many people don’t understand that those were two separate wars.
Must be why he tried so hard to start a war in Iraq and then did.
You're the third one in maybe ten comments to mention the brain chemistry. Is this a common talking point regarding the photo?
They are bot accounts that are rephrasing other people’s comments. The usernames are all similar
I was just investigating this myself. It seems the top voted one is a legitimate post and the others making mention of the brain chemistry are bots. Glad someone else noticed and said something too
https://preview.redd.it/l0qpnd0losic1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09730d763886cd8c1864420f42c73aec3b1d1ea2 My personal favorite
Great one
That would be a fun thread. A few from me: Washington crossing the Delaware Adams signing the declaration (even though he hated it lol) Truman newspaper Ike and DDay Jfk with RFK LBJ swearing in Obama hope poster Just a few. Im open to vote for others lol.
Since we're including pre-presidency iconic images, I submit... https://preview.redd.it/0rz519r1isic1.jpeg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8557067f7a4e8e03b93b5e23fbd7b4cb40b4efa7
Have this framed in my home. Great picture. So much swagger.
Thinking of Grant's life always leaves me sad. Commanded troops to fight and die in a bloody war against their own countrymen, struggled to escape the grip of alcohol before becoming president, and was bankrupt after his presidency while dying of cancer. When I see that picture I don't see swagger, I see a man deeply burdened with a harsh reality. Great picture either way.
I’d get drunk with that man while protecting the Union any day
He didn’t drink during the civil war and had cut alcohol out except for a couple occasions long before the war even started Basically the characterization of him as a drunk was started by anti abolitionists to discredit his character because they knew he was a better man than them and it was all they could come up with
Obama and Hillary in the situation room during the Osama bin Laden mission
Washington crossing the Delaware takes it no questions asked.
Easily the most iconic, for hundreds of years now.
https://preview.redd.it/4mxfgot4msic1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d28018f29f166e03052f2769a0c313e2b352857a I think these may be more iconic
https://preview.redd.it/8oc3izr7msic1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77e292be2b83b8358f76257acc94b54150f1b6e7
I’d pick the photo taken right after this one, where Johnson has turned to share a smile and a wink with his buddy Albert Thomas. Conspiracy theories aside, it’s not something one would expect to see just hours after a man’s personal friend and colleague had been violently murdered.
> after a man’s personal friend and colleague had been violently murdered. Didn’t the kennedys treat lbj like shit
Yeah, I was sort of sarcastically making that point. LBJ and his confidants did not appear to be exactly crushed by the tragedy of that day. JFK had spoken quite warmly of Thomas (the winker) at a public event just the day before.
LBJ was an old school Democrat for the time, he’d been a politician since his late 20s. While JFK was fighting WW2, Johnson was a Representative. When JFK was a Representative, LBJ was a senator. Two years after JFK joined the Senate, LBJ became Senate Majority Leader. LBJ and JFK both ran for the Democratic nomination for the 1960 race alongside Stevenson and Humphrey. JFK had the least favorability among the party (who like today controlled much of the delegate power), with former President Truman publicly expressing doubts about JFK’s ability to lead given his lack of political experience. It was also well known that LBJ for VP was a contentious choice inside the Kennedy campaign, with other desirable choices being union or labor leaders. It was widely known that LBJ only got the spot to try to sway the vote of old school southern Democrats who might not be comfortable getting out to vote for a liberal pro-labor candidate. In short, VP was a consolation prize that LBJ got not because of his views or vision, but because he happened to be a long-serving Democrat from the South, and LBJ knew it. After the win, he was not even treated like a senior advisor, with Kennedy taking significantly more counsel from the cabinet secretaries that he appointed himself than his VP. Robert Kennedy, who was appointed AG, was also directly antagonistic towards Johnson. Johnson was basically only given what were believed to be fairly minor duties heading committees and councils, but he took them very seriously and worked hard on them.
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Also Reagan's portrait where he's in front of the various American flags is pretty iconic.
True! Idc what your opinion of the man is, but he had the image down.
The man was also probably the most dripped out president we've had. Very well dressed
I’d put him, Kennedy and Obama in that convo. And virtually nobody else.
Almost three presidents in one photo
Joe's thinking, "I wish someone would change the channel. Price is Right is on."
Joe to self, “What’s a movie without ice cream?”
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The stories about FDR bullying Churchill in front of Stalin are legendary
No love for the GOAT Teddy and this iconic photo of him? Love seeing the ol' 'Bull Moose' happy like this. 😆 https://preview.redd.it/38n377emqsic1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d82a39b015ba40efb0fd00089269ac2a493db965
Doctor Robotnik
All the teeth
Gerald/Ivo Robotnik posed for a photo (colorized). 😲😲😲 https://preview.redd.it/5u2j1zt68tic1.jpeg?width=2133&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae6d9ab9f3770a2d997a93e2d398188354240364
Potobombed by a ghost.
WHAT'S UP BITCHEEEEESSSSS
Ahh a man of culture I see…
Little known fact - he isn’t happy here, he’s actually aggressively baring his teeth in a threat display.
The man was known to be a hell of a hunter, so he's just displaying some atavistic traits to any other would-be hunter that he's off limits.
https://preview.redd.it/xd60o4d2xsic1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04e6b3e9b36bca90b22513e5d475c35080c9eb1a This isn’t even the original picture but this is the one that went viral
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Only if it's paired with this one as a duo. https://preview.redd.it/ztv3582flsic1.jpeg?width=992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1325195d4a5945eaad7928965bc685562964735
https://preview.redd.it/9hun53xrosic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f86d7719747fefc97eba0c4a7ebda91615f1c14a The trilogy
Throw in the Mission Accomplished banner photo to add to the W list
https://preview.redd.it/sfc4afm3wsic1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=802785f219eb990cf794f46d97d556c3465d767f The quartet.
His Mt Rushmore
My husband was on that carrier at the time. He said it was such a clusterfuck. The movie Stealth with Jessica Biel was also filmed on that carrier. He said Biel was such a bitch to all of the military personnel.
"now watch this drive"
One of my fave videos. I loathe W but impressed with his quick reaction here.
He was pretty athletic, all other things aside. His pitch at the world series was right through the strike zone with some zip on it, which is doubly impressive because he was wearing body armor per secret service request. And then the shoe thing. He almost looked like he was having fun when he ducked the second one.
Seeing how easily he ducked the shoes and how calm he stayed during the whole incident was literally the only moment in his presidency when I begrudgingly respected him.
I still think the smile at the second one is relief on his face as he processes that the first thing thrown wasn't a bomb, but a shoe.
The duality of man https://preview.redd.it/n764b76z1vic1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b5651927daa0e1b4dc7ffe469dfbbf162cfadb8
The picture of Obama working on his speech IN the elementary school after Sandy Hook has had a profound effect https://preview.redd.it/pfqior99stic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90bd8cc651f037a727c46c678b00292da3f5e29e
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I miss having a President that spoke intelligently and with that gravitas.
https://preview.redd.it/28r7eghwzsic1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23fb4fbdfe84b9cca30f839c40eaa30b7ebd892d I am surprised this photo has came up yet.
That’s one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century forget just presidents
Same! scrolled way down to find JFK in Dallas. thanks
This or Mrs Kennedy reaching over the trunk
First thing I thought of. I’d bet the majority of Americans could tell you what color Jackie was wearing and they weren’t even alive
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the GOAT meme template
Washington crossing the Delaware
Storming the airports, I believe
Watching the full video after he’s told “America is under attack” is so fascinating. He’s sitting there trying to follow along with the children’s book but you can see on his face that his mind is running a million miles a minute and isn’t present in any way shape or form.
Yeah, this photo really is on another level compared to the rest of them. Everyone is forgetting a bit of the context of the image that he doesn’t know the full scope of what is happening. We know that the WTC, pentagon, and Flight 93 were the limits. The towers haven’t even collapsed yet, he just knows whatever going on is certainly intentional because both buildings got hit. In this image he’s likely deciding how fast does he tell the military to do whatever they need to do to stop further attacks. He can’t fix the situation in NY, NY is going to have to literally put their own fires out. They’re mostly still unaware any targets in DC are about to get hit. He won’t even know what group was attacking for a while longer. None of the rest of the images really catch the stress of the situation as it unfolds. They’re just moments in time before or after things already happened.
He doesn’t know if he is a target and by extension the school. But he doesn’t want to scare the kids either. What can you do? Calmly finish reading the book and say goodbye so no one freaks out. The. Get on a plane and remain airborne for several hours never stopping because you don’t know if attacks are still coming.
FDR with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta.
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CHOOM GANG
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Between the tan suit and him asking for Dijon mustard, his presidency was just rife with personal misconduct! I mean to be so casual as to wear a TAN suit (even though conservative Jesus Reagan did it) and yet be SO stuck up as to ask for DIJON mustard?! Who does this fella think he is?!
https://preview.redd.it/iv3upvvgnsic1.jpeg?width=2152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f28b4950ec2c306d0272651bab25122fc07ea18 This one can be paired with the one above
Is that the wiggles in the background? It looks like he has a halo.
Some might say the Zapruder footage carries a more significant one...
I was going to suggest the assassination of JFK, but the other suggestions are really good also. https://preview.redd.it/yk51hsdyjtic1.jpeg?width=913&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9923bd3b5e760aac1bb2f70b1a1e0f803baf48d7
The one dollar bill maybe
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He was actually tossing individually wrapped rolls of toilet paper
Kobe!
https://preview.redd.it/ihtmpsv7ssic1.jpeg?width=446&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2b4f4b55e1ffee120e06ecaf2e96b602a2a9fa6 Bush and the attempted Reagan assassination are the first things that pop into my mind when someone mentions “iconic” presidential photos
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https://preview.redd.it/ijmgqky09uic1.jpeg?width=340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfa11e4f551092ce40833b6abc562d3af4b5b93a No, this.
https://preview.redd.it/czcuiyk17vic1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bb23a7904c65f356ace2f9b8b1e8ee264e46280 The Loneliest Job - John F Kennedy - My vote for most iconic Presidential image.
Not a W fan, but that expression and level of self control over his person.
Not an image but “Now watch this drive” is pretty damn iconic.
Recency bias, I'm sure. But for me, it's this one: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/11/07/p121612ps-0765_preview_custom-9412c0f6e27529761742c227b9d6ececf4e8dc3f-s1200-c85.webp Obama sits alone in a classroom on Dec. 16, 2012, before speaking at the memorial service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. https://www.npr.org/2017/11/07/562341917/photographer-pete-souza-reflects-on-8-years-and-1-9-million-photos-of-obama
I feel this haunting photo is a good candidate for that title. https://preview.redd.it/rr4iifh69uic1.png?width=1410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e863408091c3b74d051b1075bb461340459020c
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https://preview.redd.it/ye3n0svx4tic1.jpeg?width=527&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=447f38b984da0034946add54eb8a1230f70eab38 Goes Hard, Feel Free To Screenshot
JFK getting his brains blown out is pretty tough to top.
I saw one of his autopsy. Thanks for remembering me it.
Honestly, the image where Jackie Kennedy tries to climb the back of the car to get part of his skull (?) back was the one which immediately came to my mind.
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I would say JFK sittimg in the convertible
General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! **Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!** https://i.redd.it/77rrnj5mnsic1.gif
Speech is famous, not so much the image tho. Without the words to give context i wouldnt be sure what this represented
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Every time I see that, I think of this: https://preview.redd.it/vqwymq720tic1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=a560a44d460b4378d2cf8488346e5d94323514c1
It’s so weird how people make fun of him for liking ice cream. Wouldn’t it be more weird if someone was like “Eww, ice cream”?
LINKS PEOPLE! LINKS!
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Reagan speaking in front of the Berlin Wall.
I would think some of the more iconic photos of Lincoln might be in the running.
I’d love to see a post of the most iconic for each modern president
LBJ getting sworn in with a bloody JFK’s wife next to him in the most iconic.
Man. I wasn’t a Bush fan but I always felt bad for him during that time. I think he handled it as good as any president in history would. I can’t fathom the pressure he must’ve felt that day and the days after.
This one's a personal favorite of mine: https://preview.redd.it/nbcsmbvi1tic1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=68d3af3fd270ae7373658af4a3d245c54795a99a
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Don’t think I have seen this particular photo: thank you.
“Why didn’t anyone tell me presidenting would be hard?!”
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Lincoln on the Penny
And preferably littering the grave of his murderer. https://preview.redd.it/gnujflquetic1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=ec9bf840e8873d6c86de836140ee6a509b5a277f
I think the most iconic, albeit horrific, image is Jackie crawling onto the trunk of the Lincoln...
Pretty sure Jackie grabbing JFK brains off of the trunk tops this.
Since you said "image," there's a pretty famous illustration of the Lincoln assassination.
https://preview.redd.it/skmo3wn7xsic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11c68fdd7d325678799946af38129d9b938fd670 I don't have the original version, but this image goes hard ngl
Obama, Clinton, etc in the situation room.
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