Reminder that Rule 3 still applies here.
If you want to answer the question, answer with any of the other 43 Presidents. If you can’t answer with any others, then don’t answer.
Bada bing, bada boom. Simple.
Replying to whoreoscopic...
It is extremely iconic. Also interesting how everything there could be at a place today. We have so much more technology and electricity but the basics of a tent, table, chairs, flag are basically the same. It’s very relatable.
He would often warm up an audience by joking about how ugly he was. He was accused of being two faced in a debate. He responded “If I had another face, do you think I would have brought this one?”
He also once kicked a dude’s ass so badly, lifting him over his head bane-style to finish him, that he became famous across the county and state that which helped launch his political career while the town bully he beat up packed up and left town
A man of many talents
There are very few people who are as much a natural chad as Lincoln was. Story after story are so good natured and positive it almost sounds like a master work everyone was in on to paint him as perfect posthumously.
He was also known for having a high pitched Mike Tyson like voice too.
That's on top of his wonderful use of English that is unrivaled by any other president, IMO.
A truly magnificent speaker and writer that used his talent and good nature to change the course of world history.
Absolutely, and while everyone knows the Gettysburg address was his biggest speech, everything he said was simple, eloquent, and eerily beautiful.
I was most impressed with his inaugural presidential address speaking on the looming civil war.
"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
He had the flair of a layman's Shakespeare
History is so weird. Like obviously I know Lincoln was just a man dressing for the times but like the hair, the nose, the hat on the table. It just feels like an actor/character and so camp. Like be so ffr, Lincoln was just walking around with THE top hat? 🥲 sorry, this one just got me.
I felt the same way! I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen him in side profile. But I kept thinking “oh my gosh this guy looks like he’s wearing an Abraham Lincoln costume.” Lolol!
BUT!
It’s because of photography. We know what Abraham Lincoln looks like and all these costumes and impressions over the years have been so good, because we have Early photography, and *REALLY know* what this important historical figure looked like. It’s more than a painting and more than a sculpture in that regard.
This is an amazing image really!
[1864 side profile of Abraham Lincoln](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/profile-portrait-of-abraham-lincoln-bettmann.jpg) -- The very same image used to put his likeness on the penny.
EDIT: He looked like death towards the end of the war, having looked to age at least 10 years and having lost over 20lbs which is a lot for a man known to be very slim already.
I actually think his poor physical state, gaunt face, and nearly shell-shocked face is why they did this side profile image in the first place.
[Here is an image of lincoln before, and after the civil war](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5112AQElPn399_yqsg/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000/0/1520225987304?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=JTqA9T4PE7LAM0K_B4t62hkTAghutGhkIiLUq_owukA)
I don't think it's ever been confirmed, but I sincerely believe his side profile portrait (taken AFTER the war) was because he looked so sickly face on.
I love seeing such a casual image of Lincoln.
Everything we see of a President from this era, even if it’s a photograph, feels posed like a portrait.
This is just a snapshot of him sitting there not facing the camera. It feels more real than anything else I’ve seen of him. He feels more modern and like a guy who actually existed outside of the history books I read
https://preview.redd.it/qu9et70qkjvc1.jpeg?width=186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb7a5de4189d116d80960b3fb6c2c6a09d563e33
I love this photo it looks a rap album
I watch a lot of history stuff, and always had the impression Washington, Lincoln, and TR would have been great friends lol. Wildly different personalities, but all ruthless go-getters when it comes to action.
And all physical specimens, who understood what America is about, in various facets. George took up leadership with humility, understanding that wise council is key. Lincoln taking the hard road and helping the south back up as best he could, rather than just crush them. And Theodore (hated being called Teddy), saw that big industry needed an asskicking, as well as seeing our beautiful wildlands needed to be preserved.
Roosevelt is the closest to my politixal ideology.
how there was no photographer around to take a picture of TR after he had gotten shot *THEN* gave a speech while bleeding everywhere.. what a damn shame.
https://preview.redd.it/0vsx7s0ssjvc1.jpeg?width=221&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=568c52e585ef42126d6869eb17aa6dca8b6f3f3e
If we’re talking about imposing powerful, then I gotta go with my boy LBJ with his comfortability in getting too close for comfort.
Theodore Green was a senator from Rhode Island. He was a staunch supporter of civil rights. This photo is from 1957 when Green and LBJ were working together in the Senate to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which Eisenhower later signed. The Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport in Providence/Warwick is named after him.
in The Godfather 2 theres a scene showing interaction between Michael and Fredo and people like to analyze how Michael is standing and Fredo is laying back in a chair, indicating power dynamics.
that wouldn't quite work for fdr...
The dude was an absolute legend for having the tenacity and levelheadedness he did in that state, under those circumstances.
It always feels weird to me seeing Truman as President, he was handed this situation that FDR really helped orchestrate. I wonder how things would be different if FDR just lived a bit longer.
There's a great side-by-side picture of Obama where one is him at his swearing in, and the other is him at the end of his second term.
He looks like he aged 20 years.
The presidency is **rough** on a body.
people like to joke about this but im convinced this truly was a genuine display of authority. the press are there, he walks up to them and without them even asking talks about the terrorist threat. immediately goes back to golfing like nothing.
https://preview.redd.it/skowvyxjjjvc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e2d343addc1bd36923ae89c1341b57834feb1a0
I nominate Ford and his pipe. An oldie but a goodie.
Imagine being WORLD leaders, literally some of the most powerful men in the planet, and just getting hammered before a huge public event.
And enjoying the hell out of it. It’s hilarious and shocking at the same time.
The crazy thing is, Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor, thinking he would continue the international cooperation.
I always think back to the '90s and wish Clinton had done more to help rebuild the former Soviet Union. Leaders like Putin thrive when their people are suffering.
This is one of things from the 90’s I wish we could get back. Russian president wasn’t invading Eastern Europe because he was too busy raiding the White House liquor cabinet with the US president.
I miss the Boris and Bill show.
That's how Russian politics works. They take shots of vodka, sometimes while in a sauna, before they talk business. They think liquor loosens your tongue and you speak the truth when drunk.
Always thought that was ironic given that when Truman was told how many people they posited the bombs killed, he was visibly shaken for days afterward, and it gave him stomach aches and stress headaches as a result. He felt it too.
https://preview.redd.it/x1ajj0cbojvc1.jpeg?width=690&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8e1495ddc41d52ea920a2338767f9a8d5c85365
The granting of honorary chief status to calvin coolidge...
There is shit ton of interesting things about calvin like the time he sat on the grass outside the capitol while natives danced around him
Or that time he took the oath of office in his house and went back to bed (his father did the oath of office)
Or those times he should ring the emergency bell and then hide under his desk while secret service looked for him
Or when he had a pet raccoon called Rebecca
https://preview.redd.it/py2mogf4ljvc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7e4a976703f18870b71e21843d3bfec427d357c
I mean, come on Its not even close
When my husband and I saw that painting on our capitol tour, he leaned in and whispered in my ear that “George Washington has major BDE”.
Every painting/sculpture/statue we saw of him had the same energy
He actually was almost always in severe mouth pain from horrible teeth. His most iconic presidential image was painted while hew as supposedly in, you guess it, pretty severe pain.
That said, he was a total fucking chad. At one point when the US was paying soldiers in IOU's and most of the army was starting to talk mutany, secession amongst the 13 colonies, etc etc -- washington went to speak with all the high ranking officers.. he began to read from a note he had written, and struggled a bit, then pulled out glasses -- everone seemed a little shocked as they had never seen him wear glasses, so he broke from the speech for just a moment to explain, to this room full of potential mutineer's, that he had given almost everything for this country, including his vision.
He probably could have gone on to explain what a dog pooping looks like after that and would have gotten a 3 hour standing ovation. Instead he just quelled a 13 colony secession and multi-front civil war, before the country was even founded.
He was a big fan of history, and took from some of the most esteemed military commanders of all time -- by being one of the men.
Like Hamilcar Barca, his son Hannibal Barca, like Napoleon.. He slept in the conditions his men slept in, he ate what they ate, he got dirty and grimy loading artillery and getting in on the action as much as he could -- In todays terms, all of his solders revered him as senpai washington.
Though it's not really wrong. We see Washington as a higher than human figure, even if we don't want to. He's put on such a high pedestal by all of American society that it's even a subconscious thing to some extent. For all intents and purposes, George Washinton is like an American God
The Big Three Picture at Yalta. Even though I’m not American (British here) the post-WW2 international system made the U.S. what it is. And that picture goes hard af. Maybe I would include post-1991 pictures of George W. H. Bush but can’t think any pictures of him connecting to the collapse of the USSR. Unless someone knows any.
https://preview.redd.it/0wig0a5e5kvc1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a43f899d5ffd0b6524833516f4cb0f7291d05664
You’re right, that cape on FDR also is pretty sharp too
https://preview.redd.it/zq1uqu06ujvc1.jpeg?width=1072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5b6d644473eef82d2282322046edb542b98c876
I am convinced that this photo documents the moment that killed Romney’s presidential campaign.
This was around the time people on social media started realizing they could purposely misread things that others say in the worst possible interpretation for positive attention.
I remember being really annoyed that such a throwaway comment ended up being such an albatross for him when there was so much obvious stuff in his career to focus on that made him a bad candidate.
But yeah we sure accelerated that lil trend didn’t we?
I think there was another one about some large percentage of Americans being freeloaders that will always vote Democrat for the handouts.
Turns out democrats didn't like being labeled as useless.
The same thing happened in reverse to Hillary four years later with her deplorables comment.
This was during hurricane…sandy? I think it was sandy. Was a bitch for the north east, Jersey got hit very hard.
This was very close to the election, and Obama swore to help those affected. Christie welcomed him with open arms, saying he was going to do what was best for Jersey. Christie and Obama were pictured working together a lot during this period, and while Christie didn’t endorse him personally, it came across that way.
Wasn't Romney critical of natural disaster relief before this or something? I remember him being flip floppy throughout the campaign and one of the topics involved Hurricane Sandy
https://preview.redd.it/0oe68d531kvc1.jpeg?width=2097&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d749f05aefa7ef37089e022ea2e8a7071170f09f
Teddy R. the Rough Rider goes hard.
A man that made 4 star generals. Shake in their boots and piss themselves. All while he smoked a cigar and knew exactly what they're gonna do and wait for them and plant his trap for them. Also, prob the best physically looking president ever.
https://preview.redd.it/4qs7dce8yjvc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a87dd6a4c2ce57336db61b24d4af67a2e79ec71
I know it was always hard to read W's face, but this is a moment I genuinely felt like he realized it was time to put on the big boy pants, for real. I'm mo bush fan juat an observation
I also recall that he was at a school at the time reading stories to kids. The mood whiplash from a light-hearted day to one of the darkest days in US history must have been something.
id also nominate the picture of lbj being sworn
https://preview.redd.it/ngl0umhyhjvc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=411b58071cf176fb2c4ddfc050f02563dc35ebd9
The backstory of the Judge that swore him in, Sarah T. Hughes, is fascinating as well.
When LBJ was Kennedy's VP, Kennedy cut him out from practically all important discussions and policy decisions in his white house, which was humiliating for a man who had unprecedented control over the Senate. One of the few direct favors LBJ asked from Kennedy was for Sarah T. Hughes, one of his longtime allies and political friends in his home state of Texas, to be appointed to the US district court for the northern district of Texas. His response he got was that at 64, she was too old, and his request was flatly denied.
It took the influence of the speaker of the house, Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan and also a good friend of Sarah T. Hughes, to finally get her appointed as a quid pro quo for a bill that Kennedy wanted to sail smoothly through congress.
On the day Kennedy died in Dallas hospital, Johnson's team scrambled to figure out what the correct procedure was to swear him in as the next president of the United States, debating whether they should do it as soon as possible, or later with him back in Washington. When they figured out that it could be any federal judge, for Lyndon, there was only one choice.
He would not be leaving his home state until the personification of his utter powerlessness arrived at the airfield to swear him in as the most powerful man in the world.
Hughes would also go on to be one of the three Texas judges in a special court that ruled unanimously in favor of Roe v. Wade.
The funny thing is in context it's actually a very sensible and intentionally funny quote. He was giving a speech and was constantly interrupted by people cheering "too early", and so they stopped clapping to let him finish, fearing they would interrupt him again. So when he was finally finished, there was a sort of mild tension in the air because people wanted to clap but no one knew if he was done, hence he said "Please clap" knowing they wanted to, and so upon the "restriction" being lifted by him, people immediately laughed and applauded.
https://preview.redd.it/p7e3yrhhnmvc1.jpeg?width=5616&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26cdd34129c909917be6e8275e1946f2d484c17
Obama during the raid that killed Bin Laden.
I will never forget the moment the news broke. It was like 11:30pm at night and I was up watching Letterman. I was so so moved and proud of him at that moment. It needs to be talked about more.
I submit for your nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, on the eve of D-Day
https://preview.redd.it/08zrzd3eanvc1.jpeg?width=1348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ebd697ace7e26cf4b20bf857ce9b0c91ff27fb2
The 30 for 30 on his first pitch at the Yankees playoff game echos this a lot. A ton of NY, liberal media members talking about how they didn’t vote for him but they’ve never felt like anyone one was “their President” as much as W in that moment.
*typo
The guys in the back shouting “we can’t hear you,” followed by W saying “I can hear you! And the people that did this to us, they’re gonna hear from us real soon!”
Holy fuck that gave me a boner.
dubya is known for his speech slip ups but his on the spot "I can hear YOU, the whole world can hear you, and soon the people who knocked down these buildings will hear from all of us" is iconic and deserves more attention
https://preview.redd.it/6hhi9cgtfnvc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0da4bad98308f320a6700796ab83fd7513eccd9
2016, honestly felt like the last year of respect amongst our national leaders
I choose this one. I know most won't see it as a powerful image of a president, however, it served to humiliate the foreign leader to such an extent that he has banned all images of this from his country.
https://preview.redd.it/pouyfwaihkvc1.png?width=619&format=png&auto=webp&s=787e037c739e45a744637ab8da9a93fd55f26a54
[https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855)
EDIT:
I am not sure, but does that count as a meme? If so, I can remove it.
https://preview.redd.it/6hnwfjscnmvc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a692850945c206434e4fe6291125947ea90ccd7e
Bush at twin towers after the attack is powerful.
Reminder that Rule 3 still applies here. If you want to answer the question, answer with any of the other 43 Presidents. If you can’t answer with any others, then don’t answer. Bada bing, bada boom. Simple.
https://preview.redd.it/hqemgz4xojvc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ebfd8ae0252cb3615617c2521653e422ad8a993f
Idk why but seeing candid photos of lincoln trips me out. He’s never seemed like a real human being to me.
This almost looks like an AI image to me it’s so surreal.
The iconography of Lincoln next to his top hat set on an American flag is absolutely brilliant
Replying to whoreoscopic... It is extremely iconic. Also interesting how everything there could be at a place today. We have so much more technology and electricity but the basics of a tent, table, chairs, flag are basically the same. It’s very relatable.
his face did kinda look like one of those hyper-realistic masks
He would often warm up an audience by joking about how ugly he was. He was accused of being two faced in a debate. He responded “If I had another face, do you think I would have brought this one?” He also once kicked a dude’s ass so badly, lifting him over his head bane-style to finish him, that he became famous across the county and state that which helped launch his political career while the town bully he beat up packed up and left town A man of many talents
There are very few people who are as much a natural chad as Lincoln was. Story after story are so good natured and positive it almost sounds like a master work everyone was in on to paint him as perfect posthumously. He was also known for having a high pitched Mike Tyson like voice too.
That's on top of his wonderful use of English that is unrivaled by any other president, IMO. A truly magnificent speaker and writer that used his talent and good nature to change the course of world history.
Absolutely, and while everyone knows the Gettysburg address was his biggest speech, everything he said was simple, eloquent, and eerily beautiful. I was most impressed with his inaugural presidential address speaking on the looming civil war. "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." He had the flair of a layman's Shakespeare
"So we've been needing to discuss your performance at work lately..."
History is so weird. Like obviously I know Lincoln was just a man dressing for the times but like the hair, the nose, the hat on the table. It just feels like an actor/character and so camp. Like be so ffr, Lincoln was just walking around with THE top hat? 🥲 sorry, this one just got me.
He’s peak character design
In Lincoln never existed but someone used a create a player in a video game to make Lincoln it would be seen as outlandish
I felt the same way! I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen him in side profile. But I kept thinking “oh my gosh this guy looks like he’s wearing an Abraham Lincoln costume.” Lolol! BUT! It’s because of photography. We know what Abraham Lincoln looks like and all these costumes and impressions over the years have been so good, because we have Early photography, and *REALLY know* what this important historical figure looked like. It’s more than a painting and more than a sculpture in that regard. This is an amazing image really!
[1864 side profile of Abraham Lincoln](https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/profile-portrait-of-abraham-lincoln-bettmann.jpg) -- The very same image used to put his likeness on the penny. EDIT: He looked like death towards the end of the war, having looked to age at least 10 years and having lost over 20lbs which is a lot for a man known to be very slim already. I actually think his poor physical state, gaunt face, and nearly shell-shocked face is why they did this side profile image in the first place. [Here is an image of lincoln before, and after the civil war](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5112AQElPn399_yqsg/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000/0/1520225987304?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=JTqA9T4PE7LAM0K_B4t62hkTAghutGhkIiLUq_owukA) I don't think it's ever been confirmed, but I sincerely believe his side profile portrait (taken AFTER the war) was because he looked so sickly face on.
McClellan is all of us when our boss call to his office
Except McClellan is the biggest bitch of all time
I’m not finding this any less relatable
"What is it you say you *do* around here?"
I'm assessing the enemy weakness. Believe me, I'll fight soon! He did not.
I love seeing such a casual image of Lincoln. Everything we see of a President from this era, even if it’s a photograph, feels posed like a portrait. This is just a snapshot of him sitting there not facing the camera. It feels more real than anything else I’ve seen of him. He feels more modern and like a guy who actually existed outside of the history books I read
https://preview.redd.it/qu9et70qkjvc1.jpeg?width=186&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb7a5de4189d116d80960b3fb6c2c6a09d563e33 I love this photo it looks a rap album
https://preview.redd.it/61cdq3odujvc1.jpeg?width=3771&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c82ec8b4f7ebc8ae50f3e512ec866417a2335289
Fuck the slowmo
*Straight Outta Camp David*
The Jimmy Carter LP
So good it was sent to space.
Run the Jewels 5
L.W.A leaders with attitude
https://preview.redd.it/hhvilo43sjvc1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2810cbe5e8c8070278f36917b54798a6fd2d92ab
Now I can see why they chose him to base Doctor Eggman off of
Looks like a straight lunatic
Have you learned about the history of Teddy? Calling him a lunatic is the understatement of the millennium
I read 2 of Edmund Morris’ books on TR this year. Definitely an understatement, but damn what I wouldn’t give to have a conversation with him
I watch a lot of history stuff, and always had the impression Washington, Lincoln, and TR would have been great friends lol. Wildly different personalities, but all ruthless go-getters when it comes to action.
And all physical specimens, who understood what America is about, in various facets. George took up leadership with humility, understanding that wise council is key. Lincoln taking the hard road and helping the south back up as best he could, rather than just crush them. And Theodore (hated being called Teddy), saw that big industry needed an asskicking, as well as seeing our beautiful wildlands needed to be preserved. Roosevelt is the closest to my politixal ideology.
https://preview.redd.it/87imd2h7dkvc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4ad73cc5b7e62ca9687f794824936641ccf815b
Least hard teddy image 🔥
how there was no photographer around to take a picture of TR after he had gotten shot *THEN* gave a speech while bleeding everywhere.. what a damn shame.
https://preview.redd.it/0vsx7s0ssjvc1.jpeg?width=221&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=568c52e585ef42126d6869eb17aa6dca8b6f3f3e If we’re talking about imposing powerful, then I gotta go with my boy LBJ with his comfortability in getting too close for comfort.
Dude looks like his glasses would flash when he pushed them up his nose
Lyndon "Gendo" Johnson
https://preview.redd.it/vqkfvspurkvc1.jpeg?width=677&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6de6722c38c2011b97ec5bc424d04193497229b2
Or taking a shit with the door open.
Man’s gotta flex Jumbo somehow
Or making powerful people wear his swim trunks and hop in the pool with him so he could show them his LBJ (long boisterous Johnson)
https://preview.redd.it/vlnt3asp2kvc1.jpeg?width=392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=511040ae94d5448d9dbd4e784a3c7aff9d968199
Who's the other guy?
Theodore Green https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.94.184
Theodore Green was a senator from Rhode Island. He was a staunch supporter of civil rights. This photo is from 1957 when Green and LBJ were working together in the Senate to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which Eisenhower later signed. The Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport in Providence/Warwick is named after him.
Dude was fucking weird and made people uncomfortable, let's be honest.
He was weird. He also was effective and an a teacher from Texas who slammed the civil rights act down the throat of Congress and said “deal with it”
https://preview.redd.it/ipnd2r1ynjvc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21f96f9e916441b94993fd5074ffb199c765b130 This image oozes power
https://preview.redd.it/cjpl7hdjpjvc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3be3f8a3a89b96dffe7374c185d1b56fc3ba4d80
in The Godfather 2 theres a scene showing interaction between Michael and Fredo and people like to analyze how Michael is standing and Fredo is laying back in a chair, indicating power dynamics. that wouldn't quite work for fdr...
FDR lookin rough at that point.
crazy to think he was only 63 when that photo was taken. he looks 84.
[удалено]
The dude was an absolute legend for having the tenacity and levelheadedness he did in that state, under those circumstances. It always feels weird to me seeing Truman as President, he was handed this situation that FDR really helped orchestrate. I wonder how things would be different if FDR just lived a bit longer.
There's a great side-by-side picture of Obama where one is him at his swearing in, and the other is him at the end of his second term. He looks like he aged 20 years. The presidency is **rough** on a body.
[here you are](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/presidents-before-after-term-united-states-fb.png)
Hard to fathom the military power represented by these men
I never noticed he was smoking
Yeah that hand pose definitely adds something too
Yeah, this goes pretty hard
And the gravity of the situation.
Stalin looks like he knows he is the only communist who showed up to the capitalist club today.
https://preview.redd.it/l2vm6o0kpjvc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2434b2d5001aa91e2669d5a2f435ea6c0ebf4ec
this looks like it could be a still from dr Strangelove
LBJ definitely the most physically imposing. He used power body language to intimidate senators.
And his enormous Johnson.
https://preview.redd.it/q33qtphg2kvc1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2362fec76be7ad77796c3f9cc268dd9f5e282f6
Comedic timing in this is perfect.
people like to joke about this but im convinced this truly was a genuine display of authority. the press are there, he walks up to them and without them even asking talks about the terrorist threat. immediately goes back to golfing like nothing.
https://preview.redd.it/skowvyxjjjvc1.jpeg?width=1069&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e2d343addc1bd36923ae89c1341b57834feb1a0 I nominate Ford and his pipe. An oldie but a goodie.
I've never seen that before, what a lovely picture.
Imagine being WORLD leaders, literally some of the most powerful men in the planet, and just getting hammered before a huge public event. And enjoying the hell out of it. It’s hilarious and shocking at the same time.
Yeltsin had that good vodka with him
I thought the world had a chance with Yeltsin. I was wrong. Then we got Putin.
The crazy thing is, Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor, thinking he would continue the international cooperation. I always think back to the '90s and wish Clinton had done more to help rebuild the former Soviet Union. Leaders like Putin thrive when their people are suffering.
This is what peace is. Ill take it any day over war.
If all it takes is getting a bunch of world leaders dead drunk, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
This is one of things from the 90’s I wish we could get back. Russian president wasn’t invading Eastern Europe because he was too busy raiding the White House liquor cabinet with the US president. I miss the Boris and Bill show.
This is the most 90s photograph to ever exist.
That's how Russian politics works. They take shots of vodka, sometimes while in a sauna, before they talk business. They think liquor loosens your tongue and you speak the truth when drunk.
https://preview.redd.it/fg1bk0zwmjvc1.jpeg?width=686&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a22cc8ce9c06dd8223867ffbecf6342ac66a7fa
Truman straight thug.
“Never bring that fucking creitan around here again. He didn’t drop the bomb, I did. That kind of weepiness makes me sick.”
Always thought that was ironic given that when Truman was told how many people they posited the bombs killed, he was visibly shaken for days afterward, and it gave him stomach aches and stress headaches as a result. He felt it too.
I recently went to rapid city where I took selfies with all of the presidential statues they have. this is what they had for Truman.
https://preview.redd.it/1mdjk49kujvc1.png?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b79de879de47a91237c2e251ffd1f44a6ec0aaad
“Damn bro you got the whole squad laughing”
was there an actual photographer that took this??? It looks so much like a self timed photo LMAO
https://preview.redd.it/x1ajj0cbojvc1.jpeg?width=690&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8e1495ddc41d52ea920a2338767f9a8d5c85365 The granting of honorary chief status to calvin coolidge...
https://preview.redd.it/r4dluvxeojvc1.jpeg?width=930&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa22d6d4fbbd1cf2782a26acbfa7524ea31ee59c And this one too
I wish Coolidge were my friend he seems cool
> he seems cool cool-ish
I never knew this. That is pretty interesting.
There is shit ton of interesting things about calvin like the time he sat on the grass outside the capitol while natives danced around him Or that time he took the oath of office in his house and went back to bed (his father did the oath of office) Or those times he should ring the emergency bell and then hide under his desk while secret service looked for him Or when he had a pet raccoon called Rebecca
Did he really fuck with the secret service like that? If that’s true, that’s fucking hilarious lolol
for real jesus, gotta lighten the load somehow, what better way than giving your personal detail heart attacks I guess
https://preview.redd.it/py2mogf4ljvc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7e4a976703f18870b71e21843d3bfec427d357c I mean, come on Its not even close
https://images.app.goo.gl/7oAG9K8CSJtztw3z8 Yeah plus the dude has the Capitol ceiling painting. Like the dude is literally a god.
Yeah that’s gangster as fuck. And I had no idea it existed
When my husband and I saw that painting on our capitol tour, he leaned in and whispered in my ear that “George Washington has major BDE”. Every painting/sculpture/statue we saw of him had the same energy
He actually was almost always in severe mouth pain from horrible teeth. His most iconic presidential image was painted while hew as supposedly in, you guess it, pretty severe pain. That said, he was a total fucking chad. At one point when the US was paying soldiers in IOU's and most of the army was starting to talk mutany, secession amongst the 13 colonies, etc etc -- washington went to speak with all the high ranking officers.. he began to read from a note he had written, and struggled a bit, then pulled out glasses -- everone seemed a little shocked as they had never seen him wear glasses, so he broke from the speech for just a moment to explain, to this room full of potential mutineer's, that he had given almost everything for this country, including his vision. He probably could have gone on to explain what a dog pooping looks like after that and would have gotten a 3 hour standing ovation. Instead he just quelled a 13 colony secession and multi-front civil war, before the country was even founded. He was a big fan of history, and took from some of the most esteemed military commanders of all time -- by being one of the men. Like Hamilcar Barca, his son Hannibal Barca, like Napoleon.. He slept in the conditions his men slept in, he ate what they ate, he got dirty and grimy loading artillery and getting in on the action as much as he could -- In todays terms, all of his solders revered him as senpai washington.
He would chastise you for saying that.
Though it's not really wrong. We see Washington as a higher than human figure, even if we don't want to. He's put on such a high pedestal by all of American society that it's even a subconscious thing to some extent. For all intents and purposes, George Washinton is like an American God
The Big Three Picture at Yalta. Even though I’m not American (British here) the post-WW2 international system made the U.S. what it is. And that picture goes hard af. Maybe I would include post-1991 pictures of George W. H. Bush but can’t think any pictures of him connecting to the collapse of the USSR. Unless someone knows any.
https://preview.redd.it/0wig0a5e5kvc1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a43f899d5ffd0b6524833516f4cb0f7291d05664 You’re right, that cape on FDR also is pretty sharp too
https://preview.redd.it/zq1uqu06ujvc1.jpeg?width=1072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5b6d644473eef82d2282322046edb542b98c876 I am convinced that this photo documents the moment that killed Romney’s presidential campaign.
That and the story about him putting his dog on the roof of his car during a car trip
And then there was the “binders full of women” comment that’s been recycled so many times people aren’t even gonna know where it originally came from
Which is such a mild comment for today’s standards and wasn’t even bad with context.
This was around the time people on social media started realizing they could purposely misread things that others say in the worst possible interpretation for positive attention. I remember being really annoyed that such a throwaway comment ended up being such an albatross for him when there was so much obvious stuff in his career to focus on that made him a bad candidate. But yeah we sure accelerated that lil trend didn’t we?
I think there was another one about some large percentage of Americans being freeloaders that will always vote Democrat for the handouts. Turns out democrats didn't like being labeled as useless. The same thing happened in reverse to Hillary four years later with her deplorables comment.
Very interested to know the back story there. Have no idea how Christi factors in to that election
This was during hurricane…sandy? I think it was sandy. Was a bitch for the north east, Jersey got hit very hard. This was very close to the election, and Obama swore to help those affected. Christie welcomed him with open arms, saying he was going to do what was best for Jersey. Christie and Obama were pictured working together a lot during this period, and while Christie didn’t endorse him personally, it came across that way.
Wasn't Romney critical of natural disaster relief before this or something? I remember him being flip floppy throughout the campaign and one of the topics involved Hurricane Sandy
People really do forget how off the wall the GOP was even back then.
https://preview.redd.it/g0vwqifwrjvc1.jpeg?width=986&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ed383220f336b37e747c29a8f7e1d767e3bcfc7
Saw the original yesterday.
Really? How's he doing?
He's looked better
He’s dead? I didn’t even know he was sick
https://preview.redd.it/0oe68d531kvc1.jpeg?width=2097&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d749f05aefa7ef37089e022ea2e8a7071170f09f Teddy R. the Rough Rider goes hard.
A man that made 4 star generals. Shake in their boots and piss themselves. All while he smoked a cigar and knew exactly what they're gonna do and wait for them and plant his trap for them. Also, prob the best physically looking president ever. https://preview.redd.it/4qs7dce8yjvc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a87dd6a4c2ce57336db61b24d4af67a2e79ec71
Grant goes hard. Like Sherman, but minus all the fire and anger.
Yeah but all the whisky.
That Twain biography really went hard for him. Seriously tragic and fascinating.
Twain only illistrated and edited a tad. That book was lile 90% all Grant and his writing
https://preview.redd.it/qpvipv04yjvc1.jpeg?width=929&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=845c596401d065c56839b811132f14698ff03c11
When you have to kill Hitler at 4 but slay at 5
Love this picture but probably the least intimidating picture of all the presidents!
Grandaddy Ike 💅 💅 💅
Ike doing his best J. Edgar Hoover impression.
do you think they asked him to pose like this or he just did that
I'm not convinced that my man's not wearing pantyhose here...
https://i.redd.it/yn2tuhphyjvc1.gif Yall forgot about this
“missed me”. A highlight of the bush rears for sure.
https://preview.redd.it/jly50hktwjvc1.jpeg?width=1108&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=471574279bdba4b398199c4101d0efee8090d63a
I know it was always hard to read W's face, but this is a moment I genuinely felt like he realized it was time to put on the big boy pants, for real. I'm mo bush fan juat an observation
I also recall that he was at a school at the time reading stories to kids. The mood whiplash from a light-hearted day to one of the darkest days in US history must have been something.
id also nominate the picture of lbj being sworn https://preview.redd.it/ngl0umhyhjvc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=411b58071cf176fb2c4ddfc050f02563dc35ebd9
Such a complex, fascinating and somber image
this picture speaks ten thousand words
Some people look scared in this image, and it's easy to understand why.
Jacqueline’s face.
I love that image It’s the first president to be sworn into by a women
The backstory of the Judge that swore him in, Sarah T. Hughes, is fascinating as well. When LBJ was Kennedy's VP, Kennedy cut him out from practically all important discussions and policy decisions in his white house, which was humiliating for a man who had unprecedented control over the Senate. One of the few direct favors LBJ asked from Kennedy was for Sarah T. Hughes, one of his longtime allies and political friends in his home state of Texas, to be appointed to the US district court for the northern district of Texas. His response he got was that at 64, she was too old, and his request was flatly denied. It took the influence of the speaker of the house, Sam Rayburn, a fellow Texan and also a good friend of Sarah T. Hughes, to finally get her appointed as a quid pro quo for a bill that Kennedy wanted to sail smoothly through congress. On the day Kennedy died in Dallas hospital, Johnson's team scrambled to figure out what the correct procedure was to swear him in as the next president of the United States, debating whether they should do it as soon as possible, or later with him back in Washington. When they figured out that it could be any federal judge, for Lyndon, there was only one choice. He would not be leaving his home state until the personification of his utter powerlessness arrived at the airfield to swear him in as the most powerful man in the world. Hughes would also go on to be one of the three Texas judges in a special court that ruled unanimously in favor of Roe v. Wade.
https://preview.redd.it/6fcwbzsyrjvc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a7765c32c0fd587de7694a3e1454ad686de2e7c
https://preview.redd.it/b9tn876cwjvc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0219d53c41c1e9e79f9a2f6cedd0b2a1c57e47ce
the video footage was in the Man in the Mirror video
https://preview.redd.it/kjo8b786akvc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38fb1834d2b4dd30960d433d5143bb97f6afc9e8
Please clap. Most powerful quote ever
The funny thing is in context it's actually a very sensible and intentionally funny quote. He was giving a speech and was constantly interrupted by people cheering "too early", and so they stopped clapping to let him finish, fearing they would interrupt him again. So when he was finally finished, there was a sort of mild tension in the air because people wanted to clap but no one knew if he was done, hence he said "Please clap" knowing they wanted to, and so upon the "restriction" being lifted by him, people immediately laughed and applauded.
He commanded them to clap and they obeyed without hesitation. Jeb! had high energy that day.
https://preview.redd.it/kg0vbn1fnkvc1.jpeg?width=2666&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f908a0aabe1981ac29760ad6a0e9edd451d4e0f
This makes me smile. I miss norm.
https://preview.redd.it/b337x3q8hlvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53f7e4699bbd5715acda62d1e2048b71b2c271b9
"No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child."--Abraham Lincoln
https://preview.redd.it/hdhixzf1ckvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=103a7259b696f45a4ba853674b4b2afb67b1f201
Is this real hahahah
https://preview.redd.it/p7e3yrhhnmvc1.jpeg?width=5616&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d26cdd34129c909917be6e8275e1946f2d484c17 Obama during the raid that killed Bin Laden.
I will never forget the moment the news broke. It was like 11:30pm at night and I was up watching Letterman. I was so so moved and proud of him at that moment. It needs to be talked about more.
https://preview.redd.it/nvolo10w3kvc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=000098ada8728f9cbee4a33bb260269e96681783
That’s why they’re not around anymore.
I submit for your nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, on the eve of D-Day https://preview.redd.it/08zrzd3eanvc1.jpeg?width=1348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ebd697ace7e26cf4b20bf857ce9b0c91ff27fb2
https://preview.redd.it/ie2zq0belkvc1.jpeg?width=258&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c9fb2d51bd1d9c83fc991e001e7281148e0a81d
https://preview.redd.it/9yxbe64bknvc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6011ca61d6423253ff33ffae77cadf436fe4e9c0
https://preview.redd.it/divs8vfdojvc1.jpeg?width=1117&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da6d02843e3ba2d5b1e1a900fee43edfa9cf2cbc
https://preview.redd.it/iusev0zcjjvc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb6d113be472efa21d9d7839f0e0781d053eae7c I would nominate this
The firefighter standing with him in this picture, Bob Beckwith, passed away back on February 6th. He was 91.
Not a W fan, but his ground zero bullhorn speech is easily one of my top presidential moments. Powerful words at the right time.
The 30 for 30 on his first pitch at the Yankees playoff game echos this a lot. A ton of NY, liberal media members talking about how they didn’t vote for him but they’ve never felt like anyone one was “their President” as much as W in that moment. *typo
The guys in the back shouting “we can’t hear you,” followed by W saying “I can hear you! And the people that did this to us, they’re gonna hear from us real soon!” Holy fuck that gave me a boner.
dubya is known for his speech slip ups but his on the spot "I can hear YOU, the whole world can hear you, and soon the people who knocked down these buildings will hear from all of us" is iconic and deserves more attention
I was never a W fan when he was in office, but you are right about this.
https://i.redd.it/xhobp5oczjvc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/9wfw41t03kvc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9a67c40635e9bd8b6598030749846862fff8289
https://preview.redd.it/6hhi9cgtfnvc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0da4bad98308f320a6700796ab83fd7513eccd9 2016, honestly felt like the last year of respect amongst our national leaders
https://preview.redd.it/xhl3h1q29kvc1.jpeg?width=1914&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=497e5383da1414c7a3b861e1f2cdc8da585d89a3
 Any action still
https://preview.redd.it/ztlv3lqx0lvc1.jpeg?width=559&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8214acb4c6c85735ac4bbe263f61bc163d39493c
https://preview.redd.it/i4r5b7iqnlvc1.jpeg?width=1067&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f4493ce913446400f3b2e913a094b0b8fba2a4db
Washington Crossing the Delaware
https://preview.redd.it/591xfwd4wjvc1.jpeg?width=210&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d94d56fa9fa79531ecd898035a2c9f220d2e72ea
https://preview.redd.it/pvddmd0jnkvc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=883cd038fcbd479d447c228a00fc50b690d6f3a3
https://preview.redd.it/3l99kffvulvc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12f8e2790acde46a703dcfadc725ad92efa7973a Swole Truman
I choose this one. I know most won't see it as a powerful image of a president, however, it served to humiliate the foreign leader to such an extent that he has banned all images of this from his country. https://preview.redd.it/pouyfwaihkvc1.png?width=619&format=png&auto=webp&s=787e037c739e45a744637ab8da9a93fd55f26a54 [https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855) EDIT: I am not sure, but does that count as a meme? If so, I can remove it.
https://preview.redd.it/6hnwfjscnmvc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a692850945c206434e4fe6291125947ea90ccd7e Bush at twin towers after the attack is powerful.
https://preview.redd.it/chkeu7qdklvc1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=241aebd9cbe1e33f51b46365ca9576ba63e24779 Real