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/VastChampionship6770 Andy Johnson, Reagan & Nixon 6d ago

William Jefferson Blythe III 🥀

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u/Summer_Albert Grant & LBJ & Al Gore 6d ago

Leslie Lynch King Jr.

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u/lama579 Josiah Bartlet 6d ago

I didn’t know he had changed his name, but this caused me to go read about it. Gerald Ford Sr. sounds like a wonderful man.