Favorite Photos of the Post-WWII Presidents

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed.

This is a compilation of some of our favorite pictures of the post-WWII presidents, Including HST, since he was President both during and after World War II. . .

Harry S. Truman:

on piano with Lauren Bacall

Harry at a hootenanny?

Dwight D. Eisenhower:

Ike cooks

Ike Lasso'd as part of the Inaugural festivities

John F. Kennedy:

Camelot

Jack

Jack attempts to stifle Lyndon

Lyndon B. Johnson:

Giving the Johnson treatment to his pal Abe Fortas

 Johnson, enjoyed spooking visitors at his Johnson City, Texas ranch by driving them downhill in his Amphicar, into his property's lake, shouting that the brakes wouldn't work.

Dick Nixon cornered by multiple LBJs

Richard M. Nixon:

Dick and Mao and history

Clowning for the press

The famous kitchen debate with Nikita Kruschev

Gerald R. Ford:

Watching election returns with his pal Joe Garagiola. He was stomped by Jimmy Carter. 

The President meets up with Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar

Near the end of his life, a sweet moment with President Clinton 

James E. Carter:

On a campaign stop at his notorious brother Billy's gas station

Five Presidents

Jimmy plays harmonica for his pal Willie Nelson

Ronald W. Reagan:

George Bush:

William J. Clinton:

George W. Bush:

Barack H. Obama:

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Front-runners Clinton and McCain losing ground fast/All This Is That's dark horses are mired in the back of the pack

click to enlarge the front runners, climbers,
fallers, & dark horses.

A Newsweek magazine poll released on Saturday shows Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani (more or less tied with John McCain in a January poll) with a 25-point lead over Arizona Senator McCain. Republicans--59 percent--said they backed the former NYC mayor and 34 percent chose McCain. That doesn't leave much for Mitt Romney, who I still feel is a viable dark horse, and who has yet to really emerge from the pack. The magazine notes that ""Most registered Republicans are not familiar with Giuliani's positions on key social issues," mentioning specifically his support for abortion rights and gun control.

Another (Newsweek) poll of registered Democrats shows Sen. Barack Obama chiseling away at fellow Senator Hillary Clinton's lead. In the latest poll, it's 52% Clinton vs. 38% Obama. Again, not much room in there for the dark horse, John Edwards. Or the rest of the vast pack, including Bill Richardson, et al.




Click to enlarge - The real dark horse? Al, if
you do run, bring back the beard. It makes you
look more avuncular, and it's been 91 years
since the last bearded man (Charles Evan
Hughes) ran for President.

Perhaps the real dark horse on the Dem side is the 800 pound gorilla and Oscar winner, Al Gore. He's being coy about a run, but he keeps showing up in all the right places. Is he just laying low, waiting for Obama and Clinton to cut each other to ribbons and/or self-destruct? We may not know for a few months.
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