Presidential Weekly Address Assessment XII XXI MMXI a.a, A.b, A.c, B, C, D
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Andrew Johnson (D)April 15, 1865 - March 4, 1869
17th President
From Tennessee
“The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy,
virtue and intelligence of its citizens.”
Ulysses S. Grant (R)March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877
18th President
From Ohio
“Whatever there is of greatness in the United States, or indeed in any other country, is due to labor. The laborer is the author of all great-
ness and wealth.”
Rutherford Hayes (R)March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
19th President
From Ohio
“The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves
his party best who serves his country best.”
James A. Garfield (R)March 4, 1881 – Sept 19, 1881
20th President
From Tennessee
“The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.
If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and
corruption.”
Chester Arthur (R)Sept 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885
21st President
From New York
“The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the
increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of
Congress.”
Grover Cleveland (D)March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889
March 4, 1893 – March 4, 189722nd & 24th President
From New York
“It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when
the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.”
Benjamin Harrison (R)March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893
23rd President
From Indiana
“They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who
produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a
margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow.“
William McKinley (R)March 4, 1897 – Sept 14, 1901
25th President
From Ohio
“The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity’s sake.”
Theodore Roosevelt (R)
Sept 14, 1901 – March 4, 190926th President
From New York
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in
unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
William Howard Taft (R)
March 4, 1909 – March 4, 191327th President
From Ohio
“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be
taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.”
Woodrow Wilson (D)March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
28th President
From Virginia
“It is easy for me as president to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer’s boy or the son of some poor widow – who will have to do the
fighting and the dying.”
Warren Harding (R)March 4, 1919 – August 2, 1923
29th President
From Ohio
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration; …
not surgery but serenity.”
Calvin Coolidge (R)August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929
30th President
From Vermont
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world
is full of educated derelicts.”
Herbert Hoover (R)March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933
31st President
From Iowa
“Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers
and consumers themselves.”
Franklin D Roosevelt (D)
March 4, 1933 – April 12, 194532nd President
From New York
“This country needs, and unless I mistake its temper, demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is
common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
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Andrew Johnson (D)Ulysses S. Grant (R)Rutherford Hayes (R)James A. Garfield (R)Chester Arthur (R)
Grover Cleveland (D)Benjamin Harrison (R)William McKinley (R)Theodore Roosevelt (R)
William Howard Taft (R)
Woodrow Wilson (D)Warren Harding (R)Calvin Coolidge (R)Herbert Hoover (R)Franklin D Roosevelt (D)
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Harry S. Truman (D)April 12, 1945 – Jan. 20, 1953
33rd President
From Missouri
“Within a few months, I discovered that being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
Jan. 20, 1953 – Jan. 20, 196134th President
From Texas/Kansas
“What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight - it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
John F. Kennedy (D)Jan. 20, 1961 – Nov. 22, 1963
35th President
From Massachusetts
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (D)Nov. 22, 1963 – Jan. 20, 1969
36th President
From Texas
“The essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and
dignity and decency and innate integrity of life for every individual. I don’t like to say this and wish I didn’t have to add these words to make it clear but I will regardless of color,
creed, ancestry, sex or age.”
Richard Nixon (R)Jan 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
37th President
From California
“We cannot learn from one another until we stop
shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough
so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.”
Gerald Ford (R)August 4, 1974 – Jan. 20, 1977
38th President
From Michigan
“If compassion and mercy are not compatible with
politics then something is the matter with politics.”
James Earl Carter, Jr. (D)
Jan. 20, 1977 – Jan. 20, 198139th President
From Georgia
“The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to
destroy the social and the politi-cal fabric of America.”
Ronald Reagan (R)Jan. 20, 1981 – Jan. 20, 1989
40th President
From California
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for
them to do the same.”
George H.W. Bush (R)Jan. 20, 1989 – Jan. 20, 1993
41st President
From Texas
“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face.
The solution to each starts with education.”
William J. Clinton (D)Jan. 20, 1993 – Jan. 20, 2001
42nd President
From Arkansas
“Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache,
love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life
I’ve been interested in other people’s stories.”
George W. Bush (R)Jan. 20, 2001 – Jan. 20, 2009
43rd President
From Texas
“America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are
bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach
us what it means to be citizens.“
Barack Obama (D)Jan. 20, 2009 – Jan. 20, 2017
44th President
From Hawaii/Illinois
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that
we seek.”
Donald J. Trump (R)Jan.20, 2017 - Present
45th President
From New York
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
Donald J. Trump (R) Joe Biden (D)
Joe Jorgensen (L) Howie Hawkins (G)
Harry S. Truman (D)
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
John F. Kennedy (D) Lyndon B. Johnson (D)Richard Nixon (R)
Gerald Ford (R)James Earl Carter, Jr. (D)
Ronald Reagan (R)George H.W. Bush (R)William J. Clinton (D)
George W. Bush (R)Barack Obama (D)Donald J. Trump (R)