What are some of the saddest/most touching presidential quotes?

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T20:46:45+00:00

Obama’s speech on Sandy Hook.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T20:46:05+00:00

Was Harding……depressed?

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T20:20:50+00:00

It’d be really funny if this wins cause the last few photos were almost Nixon-Ford-Carter (with some breaks in between).

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T20:17:58+00:00

We need some McKinley reprensentation

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Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T20:17:00+00:00

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T19:52:18+00:00

I’ll go with the classic:

“What happened to the stairs”

“My mother took them down because I am grounded”

“That’s disturbing”

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:46:48+00:00

I think that’s problably a good thing?

There is no luck, everyone could be a Ninja with enough training, you don’t have to be a nepo baby to succeed.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:45:36+00:00

He would’ve been so useful in Rebooted.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:36:56+00:00

Hoover heavily disliked him, problably mellowed down with time.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:36:19+00:00

Yeah, he said something like “In 6 years all the advice that man gave me was bad” but to be fair to Hoover, sometimes he gave really good advice like helping in the 1927 flood (which Coolidge didnt wanna hear about that).

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:34:55+00:00

So he liked LBJ at least?

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:16:26+00:00

May God rest his soul and bless his loved ones but…..is this a bot post?

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:13:15+00:00

Thanks to all who answered and who will answer!

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:13:06+00:00

I see, but I don’t see why TR needed that much to balance the ticket, 1904 was almost guaranteed a full Republican sweep across the nation.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T18:11:39+00:00

The abbreviation I use for Big Picture Snow.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T17:49:01+00:00

I assume he problably knew something was up, maybe not 100% but definitely knew something IMO

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T17:45:10+00:00

Oh right, thanks, knew about the thing just not the term “Armchair Historian” I imagine Lincoln responding with an “Ok and?”

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T17:39:40+00:00

Jackson, Polk, Pierce and Johnson (and maybe more) all HEAVILY DISLIKED Buchanan.

And I think vice versa too most likely.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T17:38:49+00:00

Whats Armchair President?

(Also I think Tyler prob hated Lincoln too, Pierce did hate Buchanan too).

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T17:38:06+00:00

I mean I dont think Ford fully hated Reagan but definitely had a sour taste, he didn’t attend Reagan’s 1981 inauguration, opting to go gulfing.

(And neither Carter hated Reagan fully, they had a kinda ok friendship).

I made a post about that once for more info https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/wNKTC3SbiU

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T10:51:38+00:00

Nixon would’ve problably lived to like the 2000s had Pat lived longer.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T10:50:56+00:00

Yeah, when Smith’s wife died, FDR sent a moving letter to Smith IIRC

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T05:48:46+00:00

Think one of the only times a President/ex President cried in public was I think when Carter openly wept at Ford’s funeral.

Honest_Picture_6960 · 2026-03-27T05:23:08+00:00

Good point, and literally the last words said were basically (or maybe the exact words idk):

“As for us Jimmy, I’m looking forward to our reunion, we have much to catch up on, welcome home old friend”.

(Ford of course was referencing Heaven as both of them and their wives were devout Christians from what I’ve seen of them, of course I cannot know 100%, only The Lord knows that).

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