Presidents 33-44
Harry S. Truman
33rd President 1945-1953 Democrat, Wife was Bess. He took office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had no Vice-President. He was President at the end of WW2 and made the decision to drop atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.
Dwight D Eisenhower
34th President from 1953 -1961. Republican He was previously a 5 Star General in the Army in WW2 and considered to be a war hero. Born in Texas. Wife was Mamie. VP was Richard Nixon. The Cold War with USSR began to pick up pace during his presidency.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th President. Democrat. 1961- 1963 Many called his election to office "Camelot". Wise wife was Jacqueline Bouvier and the had two children. His VP was Lyndon B. Johnson. During his Presidency the Cold War escalated and the Bay of Pigs occurred. Sadly, President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Many Americans felt this was one of the saddest days in our modern times.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
36th President. Democrat. 1963-1969. Sworn into office on a plane after Kennedy's assassination and also elected for another term in 1964. He was from Texas and was married to Lady Bird Johnson who is famous for planting wild flowers along Texas highways. The blue bonnets are stunning in April. His VP was Hubert Humphrey. Johnson was heavily involved in the Vietnam war.
Richard Milhouse Nixon
37th President 1969-1974 Republican. Born in California. Wife was Pat. Vice-Presidents were Spiro Agnew and later Gerald Ford. He inherited the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, but was finally able to pull American troops and our allies out of the region in 1973. Later Nixon was involved in the Watergate scandal and chose to resign his office in 1974 before he could be impeached.
Gerald R. Ford
38th President. 1974-1976. Vice-President was Nelson Rockefeller. Republican. Wife was Betty Ford who became famous for her drug and alcohol treatment center in California.
Jimmy Carter
39th President 1976-1980 Democrat. From Georgia and former peanut farmer. Wife is Rosiland Carter and both are still alive today. Carter faced several crisis during office including the Iran Hostage Situation, the 1979 Oil Crisis and the Three Mile Island nuclear crisis. VP was Walter Mondale who also ran against Ronald Reagan in 1979
Ronald Reagan
40th President. Served from 1980-1988 VP was George Herbert Walker Bush. Republican Famous for his "fatherly statesman presence". He accelerated the arms race between the and US and the USSR during his presidency. This eventually ended the cold war you bankrupting the Soviets.
George H. W. Bush
41st President and a Republican. 1988-1993. VP was Dan Quayle. Wife is Barbara. Sons are George W. Bush and John Ellis Bush (aka Jeb Bush)
William Jefferson Clinton
42nd President 1993 - 2001 Democrat. Former Governor of Arkansas. VP was Al Gore. Wife is Hillary Rohdam Clinton.
George W. Bush
43rd President. Republican. 2001-2009 VP Dick Cheney. Wife Laura Bush
Barak Hussein Obama
44th President. Democrat. 2009-present. Wife is Michelle. VP is Joseph Biden
