- The theme for 2013-4 in all divisions is scandals.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is vice-presidents. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #1-24 may involve U. S. Leaders Group 1: Tecumseh, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Barton, and Sitting Bull
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2013-14.
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| 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: When I retired from the presidency, my Secretary of State succeeded me. I was deep in debt when I left the White House, but Congress turned a deaf ear to my pleas for reimbursement for my various missions to Europe or even for my army service under General Washington. |
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#13-24: I considered myself a “preventative president.” Instead of pushing new policies, I tried to improve and protect the ones that were already in place. In my political appointments, I used as my guide the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act that was passed under my Republican predecessor. Although I vetoed hundreds of pension requests, I supported the ones that were already in place during my two terms as president. |
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 |
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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: During my two terms, I went from being the president “who kept us out of war” to the president who “made the world safe for democracy” to an invalid in the White House. |
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#35-44: A few years after my discharge from the Navy, I started a career in the U.S. House of Representatives that lasted 24 years and ended when I became vice president. |
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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