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Presidents Say the Darndest Things

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Introduction:
"American presidents have uttered some statements which are silly, clever, witty, or downright stupid. See how many of them you know."


1. Which President, in response to an accusation that he was two-faced, replied, "If I was two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
    James Polk
    Richard Nixon
    Abraham Lincoln
    Calvin Coolidge


2. Finish the statement by Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President: "A ____ is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."
    conservative
    Communist
    Republican
    racist


3. Which President said in an interview, "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."?
    Bill Clinton
    Jimmy Carter
    John F. Kennedy
    Ronald Reagan


4. Which President, in what may in retrospect be one of the most ironic statements ever made, reflected, "You know, I always wondered about taping equipment, but I’m damn glad we have it, aren’t you?"
    Answer: (One or Two Words- both names, or just last)


5. Finish the statement by William Howard Taft: "Politics, when I am in it, makes me ____."
    happy
    tired
    sick
    a better man


6. "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." Which eloquent President uttered this lovely sentiment?
    Herbert Hoover
    Lyndon Johnson
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Andrew Jackson


7. Which President made the astute observation, "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results"?
    George W. Bush
    Rutherford Hayes
    Jimmy Carter
    Calvin Coolidge


8. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting" was the instruction of which President?
    George H. W. Bush
    Ronald Reagan
    Gerald Ford
    Woodrow Wilson


9. Complete the statement by Gerald Ford: "I watch a lot of baseball ____."
    on television
    on the radio
    in the winter
    on the toilet


10. Which tone-deaf chief executive once told a reporter, "I only know two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’ and the other isn’t"?
    Ulysses Grant
    Calvin Coolidge
    Thomas Jefferson
    James Buchanan


11. Which President uttered the prophetic words: "My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies . . . but my damn friends, they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights."
    Warren Harding
    Chester Arthur
    James Garfield
    Bill Clinton


12. To whom was Abraham Lincoln referring when he made the tongue-in-cheek statement: "If ____ is not using the army, I should like to borrow it for a while"?
    General Grant
    General McClellan
    General Sherman
    General Burnside


13. "He advocated with skill, intelligence and good breeding the outworn doctrines which are responsible for four-fifths of the political troubles of the United States." The speaker was Teddy Roosevelt. About which President was he speaking?
    Woodrow Wilson
    Warren Harding
    Calvin Coolidge
    Franklin Roosevelt


14. Which President made the honest and modest observation, "I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens"?
    Richard Nixon
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Jimmy Carter
    Lyndon Johnson


15. This President, when rebuffed after trying to seduce historian Dr. Margaret Louise Coit, was asked, “Do you do this to all the women you meet?” To which he replied, "“My god, no- I don’t have the strength”.
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Bill Clinton
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon Johnson


16. Which President made the observation, "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway"?
    Calvin Coolidge
    Harry Truman
    Andrew Johnson
    Lyndon Johnson


17. "Tell him to go to hell". This statement was made by Zachary Taylor in 1847; who is the "him" referred to?
    Martin Van Buren
    James Polk
    General Winfield Scott
    General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna


18. Which President made the brilliant observation, "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program"?
    Richard Nixon
    George H. W. Bush
    George W. Bush
    Ronald Reagan


19. Which President made the clever statement, "About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends"?
    Franklin Roosevelt
    Herbert Hoover
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Grover Cleveland


20. Which President recalled, "As to the Presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it"?
    Martin Van Buren
    Bill Clinton
    Thomas Jefferson
    Woodrow Wilson


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