- The theme for 2014-15 in all divisions is Slogans.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Domestic Affairs. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #25-44 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 4: Cesar Chavez, John Foster Dulles, Sandra Day O’Connor, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry Kissinger
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2014-15.
| 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 While I was 17 and recovering from an operation and thinking of school, I rejoiced with the entire nation as news came from New Orleans that American forces lost only seven soldiers while British casualties totaled two thousand. Thirteen years later, a month and three days after my 30th birthday, I was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
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| 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./24. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison |
#13-24 At age 14, I enrolled at the Methodist Norwalk Seminary. I did so well that, the next year, I transferred to a prep school in Middletown, Connecticut, where I studied Latin and Greek. Then I returned to my native state and entered Kenyon College. I graduated with highest honors as the valedictorian. Then I moved east to attend Harvard Law School. |
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| 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 ritics claimed that my slogan “Return to Normalcy” was grammatically incorrect because “normalcy” should have been “normality.” But someone found that “normalcy” had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. I did popularize another word that we used in the Midwest. “Bloviating” meant speaking for as long as the occasion warranted and saying nothing. |
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| 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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I signed the Helsinki Accords as part of the movement called “detente” toward the Soviet Union that my predecessor had started. His Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, continued in that post in my administration.