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U.S. Republican Party Who was your favori Republican President?
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Ronald Reagan
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Abraham lincoln
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Calvin Coolidge
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Donald Trump
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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James A. Garfield
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Chester A. Arthur
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Benjamin Harrison
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William McKinley
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William Howard Taft
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Warren G. Harding
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Herbert aspirateur, aspirateur, hoover
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Richard Nixon
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Gerald Ford
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George H. W. buisson, buisson, bush
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George W. buisson, buisson, bush
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When I ask people for their favorite president, I always request that they leave out history's greatest presidents (Abraham Lincon, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc.), because we ALL love them.
Given this choice, though, I have three, and NOT in any order: George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Abraham Lincoln.
I chose Coolidge simply because I was avoiding big names, and because one of my favorite historical anecdotes revolves around President Coolidge's notorious taciturnity.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell it.
... Oh, if you insist! Actually there are many versions of this, but I prefer the version that takes place at a baseball game. Coolidge sat in front of a pair of young politicians. One said to the other, "I bet you he'll say more than two words tonight." At the end of the game, Coolidge turned around and faced the young men before he looked at the one who had made the bet and said, "You lose."
True or not, the story does sum up his character rather nicely.
Eisenhower and Ford were also great guys.
Many other great men up there.
George Bush Sr. comes in at a close second. I liked Senior Bush because he referred to Ronald Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics." Before Bush Sr. became Reagan's vice president, he criticized Reagan's economic policies, which favored "reduced income and capital gains tax rates." Bush Sr. was a man ahead of his time in more ways than is appreciated or known. I admired the man! Still do!
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