Whose Portraits the Presidents keep on their walls

Franklin Roosevelt:
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Licoln, Woodrow Wilson

Harry Truman:
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson

Dwight Eisenhower:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Licoln, Theodore Roosevelt

John Kennedy:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson

Lyndon Johnson:
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan (?!?), Franklin Roosevelt

Richard Nixon:
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower

Gerald Ford:
Abraham Lincoln (twice), Harry Truman (thrice), Dwight Eisenhower

Jimmy Carter
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman

Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Licoln, William Howard Taft (?!?), Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower

George Herbert Walker Bush:
Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower

Bill Clinton:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt

George W. Bush:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower

It makes sense for Johnson to have up FDR and it makes sense for Reagan to have up Coolidge. Other Democrats sly away a bit from the “Big Government” Roosevelt, and I don’t think other Republicans are as ideologically tuned to Coolidge. But… Taft? But… historian’s pick for the worst president… Buchanan?

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