This month’s theme: Presidents and Christmas
| 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James Polk 12. Zachary Taylor |
#1-12: Before I was president, I spent one Christmas night crossing the Delaware River in dreadful conditions. I was at Valley Forge, PA, for the next Christmas. |
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#13-24: I am credited with being the first President to have a Christmas tree inside the White House. My wife Caroline, an artist, helped decorate the tree, which was lit with candles. |
13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford Hayes 20. James Garfield 21. Chester A. Arthur 22. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland |
| 25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt 27. William Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin Roosevelt 33. Harry Truman 34. Dwight Eisenhower |
#25-34: My First Lady, Edith, issued invitations to 600 chlidren to a Christmas party where adults and nurses were not admitted except to attend to the most timid of children. Our guests feasted on creamed oysters among other things. |
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#35-44: My wife and I spent four of the six Christmases of my presidency at our ranch. On December 23 of my last year in the White House, I sent Christmas greetings to our troops in Southeast Asia, including my two sons-in-law. |
35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Richard Nixon 38. Gerald Ford 39. Jimmy Carter 40. Ronald Reagan 41. George H.W. Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama |
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Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2012-13.