"Best moments in office" of every president in the last 100 years

T.R.: The Environment
Taft: creating Dept of Labor
Wilson: creating Federal Reserve/ stewardship of WWI
Harding: Naval Disarmament Talks
Coolidge: Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928 (renouncing War)
Hoover: Emergency Relief and Construction Act (first federal aid to unemployed) and RFC.
FDR: New Deal, Social Security, leadership during WWII
HST: Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Desegregating armed services
Ike: ending Korean War, warning against "military-industrial complex"
JFK: Leadership during the Cuban Missle Crisis
LBJ: Civil Rights Legislation, Medicare
Nixon: Detente with China and Soviet Union
Ford: Helsinki Accords
Carter: Camp David Peace Accords/ Human Rights
Reagan: Rallying nation after Challenger Explosion
Bush I: presiding over the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Clinton: Peace Initiatives in N. Ireland and Expanding US economy
Bush II: Catching a 7.5 lb. perch in "MY lake".

Thanks for the post

This just got turned into a word doc, formatted up, and now has a place of honor on the outside of my cube wall.

Just another little thing to piss off the 'backWash' down the hall. :evilgrin:

Thanks for the compilation!

all that fancy schmancy policy stuff can't compare to the simple joys of life. ranchin', fishin' - these are the things that matter. so leave all the high falutin' intellectual junk to the rich harvard/yale types on the upper west side.

Really, I would have thought it would have been the unbelievably staged photo opportuntiy of him standing above the ruins of the WTC two days after 9/11. :wow:

about fishing.

One of the more interesting men to ever become president.

Great post.

Reagan: Rallying nation after Challenger Explosion

The nation rallies after every similar event. Needed no help from Raygun.

Bush I: presiding over the fall of the Berlin Wall.

He didn't make it fall - and contrary to FREEPER my, neither did Reagan. Gorbachev's team was once asked whether Reagan hastened the fall of the Berlin Wall - and they responded (paraphrasing) 'maybe by an hour or so...'

Bush II: Catching a 7.5 lb. perch in "MY lake".

Mmmm hmmm.

:grr:

the *prezidunce'l seal.

arr arr!

dp