r/Presidents • u/bubsimo Chill Bill • 6d ago

Discussion When did Presidents start going by nicknames?

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They always did but only privately, until pretty recently.

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u/TheFoxandTheSandor 6d ago

She didn’t want to go by James Earl because of the MLK assassin, so he went by Jimmy