Presidents Popularly Known By Middle Names or Nicknames
- Hiram Ulysses Grant went by Ulysses
- Stephen Grover Cleveland went by Grover
- John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. went by Calvin
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson went by Woodrow
- James Earl Carter, Jr. went by Jimmy
- William Jefferson Clinton went by Bill
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Famous quotes containing the words presidents, popularly, middle and/or names:
“Our presidents have been getting to be synthetic monsters, the work of a hundred ghost- writers and press agents so that it is getting harder and harder to discover the line between the man and the institution.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we call Fate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In a time of confusion and rapid change like the present, when terms are continually turning inside out and the names of things hardly keep their meaning from day to day, it’s not possible to write two honest paragraphs without stopping to take crossbearings on every one of the abstractions that were so well ranged in ornate marble niches in the minds of our fathers.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)