Great Presidential Wit : A Collection of Humorous Anecdotes and Quotations

by Bob Dole

• ISBN13: 9780743203920
• ISBN10: 0743203925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-20
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

Famous for his deadpan humor, New York Times bestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief.

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Author Biography

Senator Bob Dole was the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. He was also the 1976 Republican nominee for vice president and the 1996 Republican nominee for president. He is currently serving as the chairman of the World War II Memorial campaign and as chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia. Wounded in World War II, Senator Dole was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. He is married to Elizabeth Hanford Dole and lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Backbones and Funny Bones	11	(18)
A Class by Themselves
Abraham Lincoln	29	(13)
Ronald Reagan	42	(6)
Franklin D. Roosevelt	48	(7)
Theodore Roosevelt	55	(10)
Yankee Wits
Calvin Coolidge	65	(12)
John F. Kennedy	77	(8)
Plain Speaker, Tall Tales, and a Poker Face
Harry Truman	85	(4)
Lyndon B. Johnson	89	(12)
Herbert Hoover	101	(10)
Classroom Humorists
Woodrow Wilson	111	(10)
James Garfield	121	(8)
Funnier Than the Average President
George Bush	129	(2)
William Howard Taft	131	(5)
John Adams	136	(6)
George Washington	142	(8)
Thomas Jefferson	150	(3)
Bill Clinton	153	(6)
And You Always Thought They Were Dull
Dwight Eisenhower	159	(6)
Gerald Ford	165	(4)
Rutherford B. Hayes	169	(2)
William McKinley	171	(5)
Jimmy Carter	176	(3)
Stick-in-The-Mud
Ulysses Grant	179	(3)
James Monroe	182	(4)
Richard Nixon	186	(3)
John Tyler	189	(2)
Andrew Jackson	191	(3)
Chester Arthur	194	(1)
John Quincy Adams	195	(7)
Andrew Johnson	202	(1)
James Madison	202	(2)
Grover Cleveland	204	(2)
James K. Polk	206	(3)
The Joke's on Them
Zachary Taylor	209	(2)
Warren G. Harding	211	(3)
Martin Van Buren	214	(3)
James Buchanan	217	(5)
William Henry Harrison	222	(1)
Franklin Pierce	223	(2)
Benjamin Harrison	225	(4)
Millard Fillmore	229	(4)
Waiting in the Wings
George W. Bush	233	(4)
Al Gore	237