Friday, January 13, 2012

20 of our favorite Presdential images: JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Link, Obama, Reagan, Truman, Ike, Taft, Ford, Clinton

By Jack Brummet, Mona Goldwater, and Pablo Fanque, ATIT Editors

As you know, if you've been reading ATIT for long, one focus on this blog is the U.S. Presidency.  We've published hundreds of articles and photographs of the Presidents over the last seven+ years.  Here are 20 of our favorite images.

Dick Nixon, who would become President some years after this
photo, is lighter than air

President Lyndon Johnson plays with his cattle

President Ronald Reagan studies his crib notes before a speech

16 year old Bill Clinton meets JFK on a field trip to Washington, D.C.

President Dwight Eisenhower is lassoed at his inauguration

President Ronald Reagan goofs for the cameras


President Bill and Hillary Clinton sometime before
he took office

President Gerald Ford meets Billy Preston, George Harrison, and Ravi Shankar

President Bill Clinton greets former President Gerald Ford at a dinner
celebrating Ford.  What a sweet picture.
President Jack Kennedy tried to restrain soon to be President Lyndon Johnson

President Lyndon Johnson gives his friend Abe Fortas (Associate Supreme
Court Justice) The Johnson Treatment

In an oddly-mirrored room, President Johnson gives his successor, President Dick
Nixon, the Johnson Treatment

President Abe Lincoln pre-beard

Soon to be President Obama, happy on the campaign trail.  We wish we could see
this look on his face again.

President Dick Nixon meets some actors in space garb.  Jack can't
track this down, but seems to remember it was taken at Disneyland
Paul Krassner's realist gave a twisted spin to this photograph of President Reagan at a meet
and greet.  This is Pablo's favorite Presidential photo, because Pablo is one sick biscuit.
President Howard Taft in all his voluminous glory

A bandaged President Jack Kennedy ekes out the last bit of a cigar

One of Jack's favorites - President Harry Truman serenades Lauren Bacall. After Truman's wife
Bess saw this picture, she hit the roof and forbade him any more shenanigans like this.  This is Mona's favorite, and she says she understands why Bess was angry.  Look at those pins on Bacall!

Maybe the most famous of the all - Blitzed out on goofballs, Elvis meets President Dick Nixon at the White House and asks for an honorary drug agent badge
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