Monday OT: Which president are you?

Clonefan32

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William McKinley:

William McKinley was born to an Ohio family of modest means. He was almost universally liked as a person, even by his political opponents. He was an agreeable man who always enjoyed a good story. He was free of emotional and psychological issues. He straddled the middle ground between expressiveness and reserve, between rashness and intellectualism. He was moderate in many ways but could seem to lack the aggressive instinct that marks true greatness. When McKinley was shot by his assassin, he pleaded for leniency from the enraged crowd, possibly preventing a vigilante incident.
 
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I got McKinley too. Doesn't sound like a real compliment. But I least matched Nixon, so I've got that going for me.
 

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Rutherford B. Hayes was raised in Ohio in a middle-class, small town family. He was a diligent student, learning Latin and Greek. He was a very outgoing and agreeable man. He enjoyed social gatherings and was at ease among many types of people. When traveling, he was the type to strike up a conversation with strangers on the train. He was also very well-adjusted, never admitting to or seeming to suffer from bouts of depression or mental illness. Hayes enjoyed his fun in a clean, traditional manner -- he was a notorious teetotaler.

Similar to: Harry Truman
Similar to: Dwight Eisenhower
Least similar to: Richard Nixon

I'll take it!
 

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Thought I'd post the descriptions. I suspect it is my dislike of large crowds, adherence to rules, and light alcohol consumption that made these selections appear.

Barack Obama
was born to a middle-class mother in Hawaii, but grew up without knowing his father. He moved a couple of times as a child. He is known as having introspective traits and has written multiple books on his own life and the American political system. Socially he is adept but not extremely outgoing. He is also very deliberate and slow to express anger or discomfort, and known for trying to seek consensus in his interactions. In fact, one criticism has been that he is overly trusting of others' intentions. Compared to his previous Democratic predecessor, Obama seems to have avoided personal or ethical lapses in his judgment.
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Jimmy Carter
was born to a Georgia family of modest means. He was very intelligent, conscientious, and reserved. He largely avoided scandal, but sometimes stuck to narrow ethical principles at the expense of the larger picture. He also, after the initial luster of being "not Richard Nixon" wore off, struggled mightily to build rapport and affection among his underlings and the American public alike. On the world stage he was pummeled for the hostage issue in Iran and was accused of naivete in several areas. Carter drank rarely, if ever, while he was President.
Dwight Eisenhower spent most of his childhood in Kansas, living in comfortable but modest circumstances. Having spent most of his life in the military, he was regimented, organized, and hard-working. He possessed great capacity for strategic thought when it came to matters of the military and world politics. He was fairly outgoing and got along with most people. Yet he wasn't blind to the faults of others. He was well-adjusted mentally, to the point that some people found him boring. Independent of his time as President, his leadership in World War II makes him one of the great heroes of the United States and western Europe.
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Andrew Jackson
was born into a dirt-poor family on the fringe of North Carolina. Throughout his life he had a gritty, worldly personality and a famously irascible temper. He cared little for getting along with most people and was involved in multiple duels as a young man. He was fairly outgoing and could hold his own at social gatherings. He promoted personal favorites to high positions in government and ignored his Cabinet in favor of advice from friends. Yet he was ever-suspicious of America's "elites", and was paranoid when it came to his political enemies. He ignored rules and regulations entirely when it served his purposes.
 

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My synopses ... I don't match the poverty/dirt poor traits in 2 of these 3, I chose middle class upbringing.

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James A. Garfield was raised in poverty in rural Ohio after his father died. Yet he overcame this upbringing to become a remarkably lettered man. He was able to write in Latin with one hand and ancient Greek with the other, both at the same time. He was quiet and modest, yet very agreeable. He was the type of man to hug friends when he ran into them, or to touch people's shoulders as he talked. He also had a bit of a neurotic streak, suffering periods of depression. He also saw foreboding visions in his dreams. Strangely, given these traits, he actually was assassinated.

Also similar:
Thomas Jefferson was born into a family of comfortable means in Virginia. He maintained an intense interest in political philosophy throughout his life, and founded the University of Virginia in addition to writing the Declaration of Independence and serving as President. On the one hand, Jefferson kept extremely organized records of his life and daily schedule. On the other hand, he had a taste for luxury that stretched well beyond his considerable financial resources. Jefferson was not loud or outgoing, but he possessed personal charm and was comfortable mingling with others. He had many friends and kept copious correspondence.
Abraham Lincoln was born to a very poor family in Kentucky, moving frequently as a youth until he settled in Illinois. He naturally kept to himself, yet when in the company of others he was quite engaging. His supply of jokes and anecdotes was almost endless. He was also well-read and quite intelligent. He applied himself diligently to his work, often well into the evening. He also possessed a dark emotional current that would probably be diagnosed as clinical depression in our time. He never enriched himself personally from his political position, but could err on the side of making excuses for his subordinates.
 

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