tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8268502011-04-21T21:19:50.963-04:00Presidential HaikuThe world's most trusted source for presidential haikuThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comBlogger1951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-76944736149659005322008-10-10T12:45:00.003-04:002008-10-10T12:47:25.813-04:00WE'VE MOVEDThe new and improved site is HERE.See you there!Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1121042956736105332005-07-10T20:46:00.000-04:002005-07-10T20:49:16.743-04:00George W. Bush"Resolve ... um ... Resolve"Never wavers from the scriptA thoughtless mantraThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1120421592297387292005-07-03T16:13:00.000-04:002005-07-03T16:13:12.353-04:00Abraham Lincoln
The rail splitter knew
That hard work ennobles us
And restores our soulsThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1115928611810943482005-05-12T16:09:00.000-04:002005-05-12T16:10:11.816-04:00John AdamsYou did not shake handsInstead you would chose to bowUppity bastardThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1103153662877747472004-12-15T18:33:00.000-05:002004-12-15T18:34:22.876-05:00George Washington
What kind of fool stands
in a boat on the river?
A real landlubberThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1100038508422483612004-11-09T17:14:00.000-05:002004-11-09T17:15:08.423-05:00George W. Bush
Did what dad couldn’t
He captured Saddam Hussein
And reelectionThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1098214058761273002004-10-19T15:27:00.000-04:002004-10-19T15:27:38.760-04:00William McKinley
Second time around
Campaigned from his own front porch
And won sitting downThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1097272204189265662004-10-08T17:48:00.000-04:002004-10-08T17:50:04.190-04:00Bill Clinton
Loves everybody
Except Kenneth Starr, that is
In his life storyThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1092695025152659702004-08-16T18:23:00.000-04:002004-08-16T18:23:45.153-04:00Andrew Jackson
White House open house
Please help yourself to some cheese
“Let the people rule” Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1090280693820278342004-07-19T19:44:00.000-04:002004-08-17T19:10:29.726-04:00Warren G. Harding
Conceived a daughter
On my Senate office desk
Please don't tell my wifeThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1087245105855904242004-06-14T16:31:00.000-04:002004-06-14T16:31:45.856-04:00Woodrow Wilson
Do I like Wilson
Because he had a vision?
Or just those glasses?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1085533483681085892004-05-25T21:04:00.000-04:002004-05-25T21:04:43.680-04:00Harry S Truman
Faked his eye exam
Signed up for combat duty
No time for chickensThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1084221817205477562004-05-10T16:42:00.000-04:002004-05-10T16:43:37.206-04:00Millard Fillmore
Forgotten Millard
You will rock the mutton chops
And precede PierceThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1082753265382108802004-04-23T16:47:00.000-04:002004-04-23T16:50:45.263-04:00Gerald Ford
Named Leslie Lynch King
You changed your name to Gerald
Then fell off a planeThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1078009590799339862004-02-28T18:06:00.000-05:002004-02-28T18:08:36.280-05:00George W. Bush
"Nuk-u-lar weapons"
Missing from dictionaries
Just like from Iraq
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1070331927859314482003-12-01T21:25:00.000-05:002003-12-01T21:26:04.873-05:00John F. Kennedy
Oswald, the patsy
The pro-Castro pigeons cry
"Coup, coup," and fly lowThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1068244660287730532003-11-07T17:37:00.000-05:002003-11-07T17:37:38.046-05:00Bill Clinton
Trust was hard to find
Our collective conscience burned
Sir -- Please go away!Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-106738069937307212003-10-28T17:38:00.000-05:002003-10-29T16:15:57.953-05:00George W. Bush
Has difficulty
Making speeches. Good advice?
Get Hooked on PhonicsThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1063499187056255002003-09-13T20:26:00.000-04:002003-09-13T20:26:27.083-04:00Jimmy Carter
Angered us when he
Spoke to our better angels
Now the Nobel prize
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1063324452397156722003-09-11T19:54:00.000-04:002003-09-13T20:42:50.406-04:00George W. Bush
Got the war he wanted
Peace is the trickiest part
U.N. gets last laughThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1062632524446732722003-09-03T19:42:00.000-04:002003-09-13T20:43:45.320-04:00James K. Polk
Dark horse candidate
Napoleon of the stump
Pride of TennesseeThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1061580828931868842003-08-22T15:33:00.000-04:002003-08-22T15:33:48.890-04:00George Washington
As good as his word
Freed his slaves in his Last Will
And so it was doneThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-1057260788622715852003-07-03T15:33:00.000-04:002003-07-03T15:33:08.676-04:00Abraham Lincoln
Manic depressive
Dark moods and brilliant vision
His curse, our blessingThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-943936712003-05-15T11:18:00.000-04:002003-05-15T11:18:31.406-04:00James K. Polk
Our Constitution
shields our minorities from
our majority
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-901390542003-03-04T18:09:00.000-05:002003-03-04T18:10:29.000-05:00Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln taught us well
Government belongs to us
It is you and me
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-888670462003-02-10T15:05:00.000-05:002003-02-10T15:05:26.446-05:00Richard Nixon
Our tragic Caesar?
Beware a Saturday night
Or Richard the Third?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-874830952003-01-15T12:09:00.000-05:002003-01-20T19:09:21.000-05:00Zachary Taylor
Rests in Louisville
Dig him up, see how he died
Could it be poison?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-828078992002-10-10T16:43:00.000-04:002002-10-10T16:43:57.863-04:00George H.W. Bush
Liberate Kuwait
But finish the job at hand?
Not gonna do itThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-821163432002-09-25T18:46:00.000-04:002002-09-25T18:46:33.876-04:00John Adams
Obsessed with old Tom
Even to his dying breath
"Jefferson still lives"Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-818868362002-09-20T16:33:00.000-04:002002-09-20T16:33:42.386-04:00George W. Bush
There is much danger
Iraq must heed this call ... What?
It will? (What now, Dick?)Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-814725952002-09-11T16:43:00.000-04:002003-01-20T19:09:47.000-05:00Abraham Lincoln
Grief, but not despair
They will not have died in vain
We must not fail themThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-812003742002-09-05T15:19:00.000-04:002002-09-05T15:19:51.913-04:00Jimmy Carter
Grade school, late-night vote
Woke up and asked Mom who'd won
"Jimmy Carter" -- Glad
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-802894492002-08-15T16:16:00.000-04:002002-08-15T16:17:44.000-04:00Millard Fillmore
A ducky first name
A footnote in history
A punchline for usThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-797017732002-08-01T16:06:00.000-04:002002-08-01T16:06:46.000-04:00George Washington
Could not tell a lie
City of crooks bears his name
Have we let him down?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-792669012002-07-22T15:03:00.000-04:002002-07-22T15:08:16.000-04:00Chester A. Arthur
Political hack
But the office makes the man
Found sense of dutyThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-790779042002-07-17T16:38:00.000-04:002002-08-01T16:19:07.000-04:00Rutherford B. Hayes
Stole the election
From poor Samuel Tilden
Florida footnoteThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-785731362002-07-04T23:56:00.000-04:002002-08-15T16:06:49.000-04:00Abraham Lincoln
More awkward than most
He wasn't much for parties
But boy could he talkThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-784810152002-07-02T18:15:00.000-04:002002-07-02T18:15:52.833-04:00George W. Bush
We cannot be blamed
We cannot know where they'll strike
So let's hit them first!Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-782780752002-06-27T14:13:00.000-04:002002-06-28T13:35:01.000-04:00Ronald Reagan
Russians love Satan
Ketchup is a vegetable
Trees are poisonousThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-778951242002-06-18T12:56:00.000-04:002002-08-15T16:06:32.000-04:00Ulysses S. Grant
Strong on civil rights
Because he won it in war
His better angelThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-776123832002-06-11T11:37:00.000-04:002002-06-11T11:45:43.000-04:00Herbert Hoover
Archie Bunker’s man
Everybody pulled his weight
Old LaSalle ran greatThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-774221662002-06-06T12:06:00.000-04:002002-06-06T12:06:31.003-04:00Jimmy Carter
Putin mediates
India and Pakistan
Learned it from CarterThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-773792472002-06-05T12:21:00.000-04:002002-06-05T12:21:46.650-04:00Ronald Reagan
"There you go again!"
He replied in the debates
So, he laughed and wonThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-769344922002-05-24T15:30:00.000-04:002002-08-15T16:07:05.000-04:00George W. Bush
I really don’t care
What former presidents think
Isn’t that right, Dad?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-768869492002-05-23T12:22:00.000-04:002002-05-23T12:22:44.090-04:00John Quincy Adams
I sure did not care
What other presidents thought
Might have listened, though
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-763527702002-05-09T14:59:00.000-04:002002-08-15T16:07:23.000-04:00Lyndon B. Johnson
New book cuts deeply
A brutish lout who did good
and then failed bigtimeThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-761325042002-05-03T17:09:00.000-04:002002-05-03T17:09:12.136-04:00Bill Clinton
His own TV show?
Acts better than Travolta
Ought to be a hit
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-758171692002-04-25T14:41:00.000-04:002002-04-25T14:42:50.000-04:00George W. Bush
Bush posed on Earth Day
Ignoring critic Al Gore
He dreamt of black gold
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-753673502002-04-13T16:50:00.000-04:002002-04-13T16:50:15.960-04:00Thomas Jefferson
Nice looking movie
And Paris was lots of fun
But Nick Nolte? Ouch!
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-114650722002-04-04T16:20:00.000-05:002002-04-04T16:20:14.430-05:00James Buchanan
Our system applies
The judgment of the people
To cure all evilsThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-112616812002-03-29T18:23:00.000-05:002002-03-29T18:23:07.310-05:00George W. Bush
His conscience made him
Sign campaign finance reform
Into binding law
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-111065062002-03-25T14:09:00.000-05:002002-03-25T14:09:57.553-05:00Martin Van Buren
Wore out the carpet
In front of his looking glass
But not so handsome
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-109440832002-03-20T16:32:00.000-05:002002-03-25T14:12:34.000-05:00Andrew Johnson
No book learnin' here
You want a fight? You'll get one
First to be impeached
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-108771262002-03-18T19:34:00.000-05:002002-03-25T14:10:44.000-05:00Martin Van Buren
Handpicked by Jackson
Sought to increase slavery
No public support
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-103547622002-03-04T00:25:00.000-05:002002-03-04T00:25:51.493-05:00Abraham Lincoln
First Lincoln bedroom
A hit with Abe and Mary
It brought them four sons
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-98882252002-02-19T11:25:00.000-05:002002-02-19T11:25:15.963-05:00George Washington
Thirty three counties
Seven peaks, nine colleges
The most famous name
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-96456182002-02-12T11:17:00.000-05:002002-02-12T11:17:28.916-05:00Abraham Lincoln
Broadest sympathy
Tender of heart, strong of nerve
And boundless patience
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-96095742002-02-11T11:15:00.000-05:002002-02-11T11:15:25.353-05:00George W. Bush
Church every Sunday
Good husband and super dad
Kenny Boy's best friendThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-95234622002-02-08T14:18:00.000-05:002002-02-08T14:19:10.000-05:00Bill Clinton
Pardon us, sir, but
You loiter in the limelight
Your show is overThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-92845802002-02-01T18:02:00.000-05:002002-02-01T18:02:13.746-05:00John Tyler
Aren't we productive!
I served long before Lincoln
My grandson still lives
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-90090282002-01-24T13:35:00.000-05:002002-01-24T13:35:36.690-05:00George Washington
Far too few of us
Have the virture to withstand
The highest bidderThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-89120532002-01-21T17:59:00.000-05:002002-01-21T17:59:17.893-05:00George H. W. Bush
Told the Marsh Arabs
"Fight Saddam Hussein - we'll help"
Then abandoned them
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-88280852002-01-18T18:21:00.000-05:002002-01-18T18:21:07.650-05:00Thomas Jefferson
Inspiring words
But poor example in life
Let's get over itThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-87150582002-01-15T11:08:00.000-05:002002-01-16T14:31:23.000-05:00George W. Bush
Deer in the headlights
Ate wrong food and then passed out
Pretzel bin LadenThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-86594912002-01-13T17:09:00.000-05:002002-01-13T17:09:57.696-05:00Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mama's little boy
Wanted to be Teddy's son
In the end he was
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-85697652002-01-10T12:04:00.000-05:002002-01-10T12:04:07.856-05:00Harry S Truman
Wore thick eyeglasses.
Memorized the eye-chart test
Served in World War I
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-81498722001-12-23T17:06:00.000-05:002001-12-23T17:06:18.450-05:00Woodrow Wilson
Joined military
With business to win a war
Founded "the complex"
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-80939402001-12-21T01:41:00.000-05:002001-12-21T01:41:46.620-05:00George Washington
Valley Forge in snow
The General deep in prayer
A timeless image
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-80020852001-12-17T19:58:00.000-05:002001-12-17T19:58:37.440-05:00Warren G. Harding
We want to get more
business in our government
and not vice versa
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-74754962001-11-28T13:45:00.000-05:002001-11-28T13:45:03.200-05:00William Howard Taft
What could he have thought,
That poor water buffalo
Who bore Taft's burden?Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-73785732001-11-24T23:05:00.000-05:002001-11-24T23:05:08.940-05:00Calvin Coolidge
Our basic purpose
Is to create wealth within
Our economy
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-72683642001-11-20T11:33:00.000-05:002001-11-20T11:33:09.513-05:00Franklin D. Roosevelt
Economic laws
Must never be mistaken
For laws of nature
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-71338792001-11-14T22:45:00.000-05:002001-11-14T22:45:00.833-05:00Lyndon B. Johnson
"We can't win this thing,"
He told Truman on the phone
"I'm sick with worry''
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-70428072001-11-11T17:34:00.000-05:002001-11-11T17:34:51.400-05:00Martin Van Buren
No apologies
First full-time politician
Founded "the machine"
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-69465332001-11-07T14:55:00.000-05:002001-11-07T14:55:50.356-05:00Harry S. Truman
Don't be so gloomy
The Cold War was not your fault
Get over yourself
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-68498622001-11-04T00:45:00.000-05:002001-11-04T00:45:50.373-05:00Benjamin Harrison
Alas just four years
Cheese in the Cleveland sandwich
Built a mighty barn
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-67908312001-11-01T14:20:00.000-05:002001-11-01T14:20:28.000-05:00George W. Bush
He cut our taxes
Now we need the money back
We're fighting a war
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-67334502001-10-30T12:58:00.000-05:002001-10-30T12:58:22.626-05:00James Madison
Shortest and smallest
Wore nothing else but black suits
Very seriousThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-64399082001-10-18T15:36:00.000-04:002001-10-18T15:36:16.740-04:00George W. Bush
Citizens unite!
The enemy is at hand
Terror must not win
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-57652982001-09-18T15:50:00.000-04:002001-09-18T15:50:58.616-04:00Andrew Jackson
Mad dogs and bullies
Do not listen to reason
Finish what you startThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-57424002001-09-17T15:01:00.000-04:002001-09-17T15:01:01.153-04:00Theodore Roosevelt
Speak courteously
Deal fairly with everyone
Be armed and readyThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-56919722001-09-14T17:26:00.000-04:002001-09-18T15:51:23.000-04:00Courage
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.''
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-56682712001-09-13T16:01:00.000-04:002001-09-13T16:01:00.450-04:00Franklin Roosevelt
Amid great crisis
Gave us strength to face our fear
The real enemyThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-56462362001-09-12T16:03:00.000-04:002001-09-12T16:03:46.576-04:00Woodrow Wilson
America is
The one idealist nation
In the world we know
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-55006152001-09-05T15:06:00.000-04:002001-09-11T13:46:05.000-04:00Richard Nixon
After long exile
Died a statesman, but then
Got Oliver Stoned
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-52800962001-08-24T17:40:00.000-04:002001-08-24T17:40:15.710-04:00George W. Bush
Yellow Rose justice
It blooms in Terre Haute, too
Death does not smell sweet
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-52390692001-08-22T17:20:00.000-04:002001-08-22T17:20:34.710-04:00George Washington
Wore a powdered wig
That winter in Valley Forge
It kept his head warm
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-49882342001-08-08T22:51:00.000-04:002001-08-08T22:51:17.206-04:00William Henry Harrison
Only sixty days
His inauguration speech
was almost as long
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-48559762001-08-01T14:39:00.000-04:002001-08-01T14:39:44.406-04:00John Tyler
Took a seat in the
Confederate Congress and
soon died a traitor
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-47428752001-07-26T11:27:00.000-04:002001-07-26T11:27:11.686-04:00Abraham Lincoln
Malice toward none
To bind up the nation's wounds
Just and lasting peace
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-46217852001-07-19T12:57:00.000-04:002001-07-19T12:57:22.113-04:00John Quincy Adams
His clothes stolen while
swimming in the Potomac
Signaled a rough termThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-45031292001-07-12T11:27:00.000-04:002001-07-12T11:27:20.690-04:00James Madison
We apply power
by government, but hold it
in our hands, he saidThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-43953702001-07-05T15:49:00.000-04:002001-07-05T15:49:46.720-04:00Richard Nixon
One of the smartest
But what a cynic he was
Wasted potentialThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-43461652001-07-02T15:26:00.000-04:002001-07-02T15:26:31.386-04:00George W. Bush
Traveled to Europe
"We need Star Wars,'' he told them
Nein! Nei! Non! they said
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-41915102001-06-22T11:11:00.000-04:002001-06-22T11:11:30.280-04:00John Adams
Long misunderstood
but brilliant, writes McCullough
Greater than we knowThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-40670942001-06-14T11:34:00.000-04:002001-06-14T11:34:46.466-04:00Thomas Jefferson
To Lewis and Clark:
Manifest destiny, boys
Don't forget to writeThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-40340962001-06-12T11:13:00.000-04:002001-06-12T11:13:12.206-04:00Herbert Hoover
"Who else but Hoover?"
Best-qualified for the job
Failed, but since redeemed
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-39388872001-06-05T16:20:00.000-04:002001-06-05T16:20:15.140-04:00Chester A. Arthur
Political hack
Pushed civil service reforms
Found sense of duty
Thomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-38718182001-05-31T10:27:00.000-04:002001-05-31T10:27:25.806-04:00William H. Taft
Fat man stuck in tub
Same man stuck as president
Loved the Supreme CourtThomas Nordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05495106438540173578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826850.post-37454672001-05-22T11:32:00.000-04:002001-05-22T11:32:13.966-04:00Gerald R. Ford
Pardoned Nixon and
Put his career on the line
Would rather do right
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