| # | President | Nicknames
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| 43 | George W. Bush | W, often pronounced "Dubya" in Texas style, also: GW, GWB
43, or Bush 43
Bush the Younger
Baby Bush
Shrub (used by Molly Ivins as the title of a book)
Uncurious George [1]
Incurious George [2]
The Smirking Chimp (used in the name of a well-known anti-Bush web site) [3]
The Great Divider [4]
Dumbya, and Dubbia the Incoherent, (both play on his normal nickname)[5]
King George III (the third U.S. president named George, after his father and George Washington, with strong allusion to the monarch the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against during the American Revolution)
Liberator of Baghdad
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| 42 | Bill Clinton | Slick Willie
Bubba
Big Dog
Commander-in-Briefs
Comeback Kid
(As with Jimmy Carter, President Clinton is better known by his nickname "Bill" than by his legal name, William Jefferson Clinton.)
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| 41 | George H. W. Bush | 41, or Bush 41
Bush the Elder
Poppy
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| 40 | Ronald Reagan | The Gipper - after his role as George "The Gipper" Gipp in the film Knute Rockne, All American
The Great Communicator
Ronnie Raygun - after his proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, derided as "Star Wars"
Teflon President - because supposedly nothing "stuck" on him
Dutch Reagan
Rawhide (his Secret Service codename)
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| 39 | Jimmy Carter | Peanut Farmer
Jimmy Peanut
(As Carter's legal first name is "James", "Jimmy" is actually a nickname; Carter successfully sued to be placed upon the ballot as "Jimmy" in several states.)
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| 38 | Gerald Ford | Jerry
Mr. Nice Guy
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| 37 | Richard Nixon | Tricky Dick
The Trickster
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| 36 | Lyndon B. Johnson | LBJ
Landslide Lyndon - ironic, for a controversial 87-vote victory in a Senate primary
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| 35 | John F. Kennedy | JFK
King of Camelot - after the King Arthur legend, specifically after the 1960 musical Camelot
Jack
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| 34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Ike
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| 33 | Harry S. Truman | Give 'Em Hell Harry
Haberdasher Harry
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| 32 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | FDR
That Man in the White House
Roosevelt II
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| 31 | Herbert Hoover | Hermit Author of Palo Alto
Great Humanitarian
Great Engineer
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| 30 | Calvin Coolidge | Silent Cal
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| 29 | Warren G. Harding | President Hardly
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| 28 | Woodrow Wilson | Schoolmaster in Politics
Coiner of Weasel Words
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| 27 | William Howard Taft | Big Bill
|
| 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | Teddy
TR
Trustbuster
Rough Rider
Roosevelt I
the Cyclone Assemblyman
the Hero of San Juan Hill
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| 25 | William McKinley | Idol of Ohio
Stocking-footed Orator
|
| 23 | Benjamin Harrison | White House Iceberg
Kid Gloves Harrison
|
| 22/24 | Grover Cleveland | Hangman of Buffalo
Veto President
Uncle Jumbo
|
| 21 | Chester A. Arthur | Gentleman Boss
Elegant Arthur
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| 20 | James A. Garfield | Preacher President
Boatman Jim
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| 19 | Rutherford B. Hayes | Old Eight to Seven
Rutherfraud
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| 18 | Ulysses S. Grant | U.S. Grant
Unconditional Surrender Grant
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| 17 | Andrew Johnson | Father of the Homestead Act
Tennessee Tailor
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| 16 | Abraham Lincoln | Honest Abe
the Rail-Splitter
Great Emancipator
|
| 15 | James Buchanan | Ten-cent Jimmy
Old Public Functionary
Old Buck
|
| 14 | Franklin Pierce | Young Hickory of the Granite Hills
Handsome Frank
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| 13 | Millard Fillmore | His Accidency
Wool-Carder President
|
| 12 | Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready
Old Zach
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| 11 | James K. Polk | Young Hickory
Napoleon of the Stump
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| 10 | John Tyler | His Accidency
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| 9 | William Henry Harrison | Tippecanoe
Granny Harrison
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| 8 | Martin Van Buren | Machiavellian Belshazzar
Old Kinderhook (possible origin of "OK")
Red Fox of Kinderhook
Little Magician
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| 7 | Andrew Jackson | Old Hickory
Hero of New Orleans
King Andy
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| 6 | John Quincy Adams | Old Man Eloquent
King John the Second
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| 5 | James Monroe | Last of the Cocked Hats
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| 4 | James Madison | Father of the Constitution
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| 3 | Thomas Jefferson | Father of the Declaration of Independence
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| 2 | John Adams | His Rotundity
Atlas of Independence
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| 1 | George Washington | Father of His Country
Sword of the Revolution
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