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Presidential Relations: You think Bush-Clinton is a dynasty?

Posted on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 7:10pm by Raul Campillo

Ok, so a lot of people used the "do we want Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton?" argument in the primaries, as if there was some dynasty thing going on.  Well, I think, looking to the Bush family alone, the concept of Bush-Clinton being a dynasty is a joke.

Current President George W. Bush is related to other presidents as well as Pierce, who he is also related to on his father's side via Daniel Brewer. He is also a cousin of Fillmore (via Millards), Lincoln (via Gilmans), Grant (via Lathrops). Hayes (via Smiths, Footes, Parmelees, and Huckinses), Garfield (via Wheelers, Carpenters, Cookes, Warrens, Holbrooks, and Arnolds), Cleveland (via Smiths and Stanleys), Theodore Roosevelt (via Schuylers), Taft (via Holbrooks, Thayers, Haywards, Cookes, Footes, Ravenses, Waterses, and Shermans), Coolidge (via Phillipses, Hortons, Garnseys, Pulsiphers, Ravenses, Richardsons, Moores, Bulkeleys, and Morses), Hoover (via Brookses, Reades, Wheelers, Richardsons, and Shermans), Franklin Roosevelt (via Beekmans, Hutchinsons, Popes, Jenneys, Richardses, Palgraves, Lathrops, and Howlands), Nixon (via Lippincotts, Footes, Traverses, Morses, and Howlands), and Ford (via Vanderburghs, Wheelers, Marvins, Gilmans, and Howlands).

Ewww...Nixon.

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Presidential Tag Cloud

Posted on Sun, 11/05/2006 - 4:23pm by Rob Winikates

So I was doing my browse the internet-procrastination technique (original, huh?) and I came across something kinda cool.  It is a time line of the keywords in major presidential speeches.  Terms used more frequently in the particular speech are represented as larger words, and if the term is newer, the text is a brighter color.  Check it out here: http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/.  One interesting thing that I found was that President Bush didn't use the term terrorist as a major term until the State of the Union 2003, right before our invasion.  Yeah it was present in most of his speeches, as well as some of the Bill Clinton ones, but the prominence it has is a dramatic departure from the previous speeches.  Post other interesting patterns you may find in the comments.

 

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