Regardless, let's get John McLame's favorite President OUT OF THE RUNNING.
# 7 Andrew Jackson . “Old Hickory”.
In my lifetime, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush
I post Ronald Reagan
1. Ronaldous Maximus (manly film-actor, cold war winner)
2. T. Roosevelt
3. A. Jackson
Indeed. Jackson was a butt kicker. You have to laud a president who nearly clubs his would-be assassin to death and has to be pulled from him by his aides :-)
Sorry. Washington was THE man.
Andrew Jackson #1 then Ronald Reagan who I think was able to bed quite a few starlets....back in the day
LEAST MANLY -— definitely 0bama
with Jimmy Carter in second place
Gotta be George Washington. The man was in danger more times than any other President.
The category is for “manliest” President, not the President with the best policies.
Teddy Roosevelt led troops into battle. He hunted. He boxed when he was younger and later, as President, had mattresses put into the White House basement and had some Japanese instructors train Jujitsu with him. Pretty masculine guy.
Teddy Roosevelt -- spoke softly and carried a big stick 462 (50.2%)
John F. Kennedy -- liked to stick it to the ladies 109 (11.8%)
George Washington -- probably invented the stick 163 (17.7%)
Another president -- tell us why in the comment section 36 (3.9%)
Perhaps you all know something I don’t, but other than Washington and Lincoln, my next choice would be Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Roosevelt of Andrew Jackson.
Ronald Reagan! PERIOD.
Washington took the biggest risk out of those listed.
I have a deep dislike for Jackson. He started the trend of the US abandoning treaties (with Native Americans).
George Washington - the rest are fancyboys by comparison.
With regards to simply being ‘manly’, it’s hard to top Teddy.
Checking Teddy Roosevelt’s resume is like reading a How-To guide on butt-kicking manliness. He was a cattle rancher, a deputy sheriff, an explorer, a police commissioner, the assistant Secretary of the Navy, the governor of New York, and a war hero. In 1898, Roosevelt formed the first U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as the Rough Riders. Most people already know of the Rough Riders and their historic charge up San Juan Hill, but few know that, since their horses had to be left behind, the Riders made this charge entirely on foot.
Also, Roosevelt did NOT lose his obsession with violence when he became president. He strolled through the White House with a pistol on his person at all times, though, with his black belt in jujitsu and his history as a champion boxer, it wasn’t like he really needed it.
It wasn’t just his war record or the fact that he knew several different ways to kill you that made Roosevelt manly. It wasn’t even the fact that he kept a bear and a lion at the White House as pets, (though that certainly helps). Consider this: Roosevelt received letters from army cavalrymen complaining about having to ride 25 miles a day for training and, in response, Teddy rode horseback for 100 miles, from sunrise to sunset, at 51 years old, effectively rescinding anyone’s right to complain about anything, ever again.
Did I mention he had asthma growing up?
While campaigning for a third term, Roosevelt was shot by a madman and, instead of treating the wound, delivered his campaign speech with the bleeding, undressed bullet hole in his chest.
This quote actually comes from fellow politician Woodrow Wilson at the time of Roosevelt’s death: “Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight.”
Like I said: hard to top that.
Andrew Jackson was also the first Democrat president. Coincidence? I think not.
