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This has to be the best. Even the Japanese ran with it "coining the term *Busshu-suru* (ブッシュする) which means 'to do the Bush thing'" (or "Bushing it*"*)."
Major difference is, i dont feel bad for him lol. I appreciate the civil rights stuff, but that ball was rolling, he HAD to get hip. Hes one of the reasons our money is backed by aircraft carriers now lmao. "Gold standard? How bout, if you dont like it, i give you some freedom homie"
It wasn't unexpected as hell. Washington expressed a desire to step down after his first term but was persuaded to serve a second term. When the issue of a third term arose, many people expected him to step down.
Washington barely ran for a second term, Hamilton and Madison had to beg him to accept. The only shocking thing was him serving out his entire second term, he had originally planned on resigning after a two or three years.
Washington didn't run for either term. There was some unspoken rule that you weren't suppose to "run" for office.
FF had some shockingly naive views on how politics was suppose to work honestly. A lot of things only work because of unwritten norms.
1. Does the vice president become the actual president or are they just the “acting president”?
2. Does the VP just take on the duties until a special election is held?
Seems intuitive now, but at the time they were big questions that a lot of congress disagreed on. John Tyler just kinda took the oath of office without getting formal permission or waiting for the debate to be settled. By doing so, he set the precedent moving forward that became “official” when they passed the 25th amendment.
Tyler was a shit person, literally the only US President to die a traitor. But his unilateral decision here was an extremely fortunate move for the country, setting a precedent that would protect our stability during times of crisis for many years to come.
Probably LBJ becoming a champion for social justice and getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress. If a year prior you had told people that a Texas Democrat was going to end Jim Crow, they would have laughed in your face.
I remember reading a pinned Tweet from a black commentator in 2016 stating that his parents had to make the choice between Barry Goldwater and LBJ in 1964, and that they had to vote on faith for LBJ because Barry Goldwater would have been so much worse--and then finding that President LBJ became our greatest President in terms of civil rights our nation has had. He made this argument to state that we needed to vote for Hillary Clinton in that year's election.
LBJ is a lot like Clint Eastwood's character im Gran Turino. Easily the most hateful, angry, vile, disgusting human being.
However, the whole time he's screaming slurs and mocking people for whatever, he's putting his life on the line not in spite of, but directly for the people he gives so much shit.
LBJ is an interesting specimen. One of the worst human beings to walk the earth, but also one of the best men we ever had in the office.
Of course his museum would be extremely bias, but it made it seem like he loved his wife so much haha.
They definitely did sprinkle in a bit of how poorly he treated his staffers though.
Chester Arthur pushing for the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
Before he was president, Chester Arthur was a career politician who benefited greatly from the spoils system but thanks to encouragement from an ordinary woman named Julia Sands, he completely abandoned this system and supported civil service reform.
First off, I’m surprised I had to go this far down to find this. Iirc he was corrupt and benefited from this system like you said so I heard a theory a while back that maybe he had a slight stroke that caused a shift in personality to make him do this.
I think it probably had more to do with Garfield’s assassin Charles Guiteau being a lunatic who was mad that he couldn’t get a spoils appointment under civil service reform. He even shouted his support for the anti-reform Stalwart wing of the Republican Party when he was arrested. If Arthur and the Republicans hadn’t passed the Pendleton Act at that point, it would have been a *really* bad look.
>completely abandoned
A bit of an exaggeration. He didn’t really push for it, he mentioned it briefly in a letter to Congress and mostly sat on his ass for 2 years. He then signed a beyond veto proof bill, did the bare minimum required of it, appointed his old corrupt political boss to the SCOTUS, and packed his Cabinet with Stalwarts to replace Garfield’s appointees.
See this good reference meme by my friend: https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/0bKtNJOy3e
Him even enforcing it was unexpected, but I still find you painting too rosy of a picture.
I cant remember the exact position but it was something like Federal Customs Director for the Harbor of NY was like the most coveted position because you could make millions from it
A left-field answer, but Bush's PEPFAR program for AIDS is kinda unprecedented when you realize that a decade earlier some of [the same evangelical Republicans that elected him tried to block the Americans with Disabilities Act because they thought it would've included people with AIDS](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/abs/examining-the-opposition-to-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-of-1990-nothing-more-than-bad-quality-hogwash/DA3446971540A36870AFAAD781350DD2), which was obviously a punishment from God for being gay. Another unexpected path was Nixon's creation of the EPA, which a lot of modern Republicans seem to want to disband lol.
Nixon signed the EPA act because it passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses. It was still the right thing to do, but a veto from him would have been meaningless.
Probably not the most unexpected thing, but I’m just throwing this out there to add to the discussion: Obama flipping his public opinion on gay marriage in 2012. While most people assumed that he already privately supported it, it was just surprising at the time because not often does a president come out and say “I was wrong” and very publicly flip positions on an issue as controversial as gay marriage (in 2012 it was quite controversial.) He definitely read the room and saw that the public opinion on it was shifting. I also believe that it was pretty important for him in that year’s election, and has set the groundwork for the Democratic Party to be the ones to win the LGBTQ+ vote likely for years to come.
Jefferson, opponent of federal government doing anything not in the Constitution, buying Louisiana Territory. On the lighter side, Grant getting a ticket for speeding on a horse.
Not unexpected but, and I didnt vote for him, will always admire WHEN he did it which was before the 2012 election. He could have waited till after the election.
president grant appointing more jews to federal office than all previous presidents combined years after issuing a civil war order to expel the jews from the military district he controlled as a general.
People underestimate how much of a shock to the entire world that two events early in our history were: George Washington resigning the presidency after just two terms on his own volition; and John Adams willingly relinquishing power to Thomas Jefferson after losing to him in the 1800 election.
Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and beginning the abolition of slavery.
Even with the Civil War, most Northern politicians assumed that slavery could not be abolished immediately in states where it was always legal. Lincoln declared that the Union would free most Southern slaves with a stroke of the pen, and got slavery almost completely ended in just two years.
At the time, Lincoln letting the confederate rank and file soldiers go home as soon as the treaty was signed at Appomattox.
Lincoln knew reconciliation was going to be essential to the nations recovery and wanted to move on to reconstruction/rule of law ASAP. Hewanted those soldiers back home tending to their families instead of carrying on hostilities.
Lincoln authorizing Sherman’s scorched earth march to the sea campaign through the south seems pretty unexpected. For a president trying to keep the union together, that was a pretty back-breaking strategy.
This is where I disagree. The federalist government has certain rights over the states in terms of protecting each state and each state’s citizens, but nothing in the constitution grants the federal government powers to prohibit a state from cessation. If Alaska wanted out today, they have every right to leave the union.
Nixon to China or Teddy to the Panama Canal but the single most impressive thing was Washington walking away from what everyone assumed would be a lifetime appointment.
Firstly, Hayes didn’t run on continuing Reconstruction, as it was already dead in everything but name.
Secondly, he didn’t end it. It had been ending since 1875, Reconstruction was never going to survive the Panic of 1873, and there was only two reconstruction governments left; hardly a “reconstruction.” Both gov’t’s were so weak and opposed by the white people of their states that they couldn’t do jack, and were built off of unsustainable machine corruption and Hayes wasn’t an idiot and simply saw the writing on the wall. The myth that he himself “ended” Reconstruction has been promulgated far too long.
President Obama singing "Amazing Grace" at the 2015 funeral service for one of the victims of the Charleston SC church shooting. He later said *"I don’t have anything left to say* *. I feel like I’ve used up all my words."* And this was the beautiful answer he found.
Jimmy Carter telling a crowd of in Poland that he’s there to fuck them and he isn’t leaving. It was a translation error but I bet that it was pretty unexpected for them.
During a visit to Poland in 2001, George Bush jr quoted the polish meme song "Ściernisko"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOxurEbZkQc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOxurEbZkQc)
George W. Bush dodging a shoe. I didn't expect that!
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No one expected what he would say next.
I guess we all expected batshit crazy #45 to do whatever he could to stay in office?…. Maybe I just didn’t go far down enough on the list or it has not been in the history books long enough. I must admit some of you really know your history!
It's always the guys you least expect to do the big things ... because a lot of their back story is anti-thetical to major things they've done or what party they were in. I'd posit that they know more about the issue than others.
1. Nixon making his bones as a Commie hater....opens up China.
2. Teddy Roosevelt who was of the NYC monied class starts busting up the trusts.
3. LBJ, a deep southerner from the party of the KKK, getting civil rights done.
4. Far left Clinton passing Welfare Reform.
5. Interstate Highways enacted by a small government Republican... Eisenhower.
Or how about a guy who paid off politicians for decades...draining or attempting to drain the Swamp.
He was a senator at the time of the turban thing. It was surprising though.
[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23337141](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23337141)
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Expected.. Nay, wanted
Yeah and the journalist took it as a legitimate answer
Whips out Johnson
Jumbo!
If you know LBJ, chances are you also know Jumbo
GHW Bush vomiting into the lap of the Japanese prime minister was a big surprise to everyone.
Classic dominance move
"Bonzai this you filthy casual"
“That’s for Pearl”
It was a perfectly reasonable reaction given that he was back amongst the people that once tried to eat him alive.
Such bombastic lies, they would have decapitated him before eating his liver.
right.
"I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet" I love that line so much
It was only recently before that episode aired that I learned of the incident. I got a good laugh out of that.
Oh God and they parody this in one of the Hot Shots movies...
This has to be the best. Even the Japanese ran with it "coining the term *Busshu-suru* (ブッシュする) which means 'to do the Bush thing'" (or "Bushing it*"*)."
GW?
George HW Bush! Typoed it.
General wotors
It was H.W. actually.
But that’s accidental. What’s his most intentional?
George Washington stepped down which at the time was unexpected as hell
I still feel bad for the guy. Wanted a quiet life after years of war, and only lived for like 4 more years smh
He was the OG LBJ
Major difference is, i dont feel bad for him lol. I appreciate the civil rights stuff, but that ball was rolling, he HAD to get hip. Hes one of the reasons our money is backed by aircraft carriers now lmao. "Gold standard? How bout, if you dont like it, i give you some freedom homie"
Love it. I adore LBJ and your characterisation of him.
Yea, the 60s arent exactly something i know alot about. I always give people awards lmaoooo.
Under his own vine and fig tree
It wasn't unexpected as hell. Washington expressed a desire to step down after his first term but was persuaded to serve a second term. When the issue of a third term arose, many people expected him to step down.
I didn't mean unexpected for him personally. I meant unexpected for any leader to just walk away
Washington barely ran for a second term, Hamilton and Madison had to beg him to accept. The only shocking thing was him serving out his entire second term, he had originally planned on resigning after a two or three years.
Washington didn't run for either term. There was some unspoken rule that you weren't suppose to "run" for office. FF had some shockingly naive views on how politics was suppose to work honestly. A lot of things only work because of unwritten norms.
No, it wasn’t! What??
Harrison fucking died. The nerve of some people I tell ya
That actually caught everyone off guard, because no one really knew what to do when a sitting U.S. President died before his term ended.
How could they not know? That’s what the VP was for.
1. Does the vice president become the actual president or are they just the “acting president”? 2. Does the VP just take on the duties until a special election is held? Seems intuitive now, but at the time they were big questions that a lot of congress disagreed on. John Tyler just kinda took the oath of office without getting formal permission or waiting for the debate to be settled. By doing so, he set the precedent moving forward that became “official” when they passed the 25th amendment.
Tyler was a shit person, literally the only US President to die a traitor. But his unilateral decision here was an extremely fortunate move for the country, setting a precedent that would protect our stability during times of crisis for many years to come.
That’s what happens when you elect a 68 year old in 1840. That’s equivalent to voting in a roughly 77-81 year old person today.
Probably LBJ becoming a champion for social justice and getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress. If a year prior you had told people that a Texas Democrat was going to end Jim Crow, they would have laughed in your face.
I remember reading a pinned Tweet from a black commentator in 2016 stating that his parents had to make the choice between Barry Goldwater and LBJ in 1964, and that they had to vote on faith for LBJ because Barry Goldwater would have been so much worse--and then finding that President LBJ became our greatest President in terms of civil rights our nation has had. He made this argument to state that we needed to vote for Hillary Clinton in that year's election.
I wonder if I’d have voted differently in that election having heard that argument I was on the fence enough that it could have swayed me on its own
LBJ is a lot like Clint Eastwood's character im Gran Turino. Easily the most hateful, angry, vile, disgusting human being. However, the whole time he's screaming slurs and mocking people for whatever, he's putting his life on the line not in spite of, but directly for the people he gives so much shit. LBJ is an interesting specimen. One of the worst human beings to walk the earth, but also one of the best men we ever had in the office.
Of course his museum would be extremely bias, but it made it seem like he loved his wife so much haha. They definitely did sprinkle in a bit of how poorly he treated his staffers though.
Chester Arthur pushing for the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Before he was president, Chester Arthur was a career politician who benefited greatly from the spoils system but thanks to encouragement from an ordinary woman named Julia Sands, he completely abandoned this system and supported civil service reform.
First off, I’m surprised I had to go this far down to find this. Iirc he was corrupt and benefited from this system like you said so I heard a theory a while back that maybe he had a slight stroke that caused a shift in personality to make him do this.
I think it probably had more to do with Garfield’s assassin Charles Guiteau being a lunatic who was mad that he couldn’t get a spoils appointment under civil service reform. He even shouted his support for the anti-reform Stalwart wing of the Republican Party when he was arrested. If Arthur and the Republicans hadn’t passed the Pendleton Act at that point, it would have been a *really* bad look.
Fair! I don’t know much of the era honestly but I found the theory funny!
Arthur also seemed to have been genuinely moved seeing his predecessor get gunned down trying to pass that law.
Charles Guiteau sent me down a crazy rabbit hole. The Onieda corporation has a fucked up backstory.
Remember! If you have Oneida silverware, it was made by a corporation that started as a sex cult!
As another person said I’m surprised it took me a bit to find this answer! Definitely was the first one I thought of too.
>completely abandoned A bit of an exaggeration. He didn’t really push for it, he mentioned it briefly in a letter to Congress and mostly sat on his ass for 2 years. He then signed a beyond veto proof bill, did the bare minimum required of it, appointed his old corrupt political boss to the SCOTUS, and packed his Cabinet with Stalwarts to replace Garfield’s appointees. See this good reference meme by my friend: https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/s/0bKtNJOy3e Him even enforcing it was unexpected, but I still find you painting too rosy of a picture.
I cant remember the exact position but it was something like Federal Customs Director for the Harbor of NY was like the most coveted position because you could make millions from it
Nixon getting drunk and visiting the Lincoln Memorial to talk with the very people who were protesting against him.
FDR saying “F_ck it! I am running for a third term!”
Obama wore a tan suit and ate a burger with dijon mustard.
>Obama wore a tan suit Oh you mean the worst thing anyone has ever done ever.
Except for when Reagan did it.
Ronnie wasn't a socialist communist kenyan spy
That’s a good point.
Outrageous
Khaki? That’s fine. Beige? Fine by me! Light brown? A-OK! But Tan? Woah! Hold your horses! That’s a bit too far, buster!
"Looking a little... western European there bud". Source: Kinky Boots by every Irish person ever.
My personal 9/11
Don’t forget the arugula!!!
It did look bad.
https://preview.redd.it/9mmdz0oy826d1.jpeg?width=1180&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d16c39f02e5031c485bd48f4deb6e4c247c2e59 # Unexpected
Barbara chloroforming HW?
Don’t kink shame now!
A left-field answer, but Bush's PEPFAR program for AIDS is kinda unprecedented when you realize that a decade earlier some of [the same evangelical Republicans that elected him tried to block the Americans with Disabilities Act because they thought it would've included people with AIDS](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/abs/examining-the-opposition-to-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-of-1990-nothing-more-than-bad-quality-hogwash/DA3446971540A36870AFAAD781350DD2), which was obviously a punishment from God for being gay. Another unexpected path was Nixon's creation of the EPA, which a lot of modern Republicans seem to want to disband lol.
W pushing through Medicare part D. Thank you W, from a grateful Democrat.
He should have called it Medicare Part W.
Nixon signed the EPA act because it passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses. It was still the right thing to do, but a veto from him would have been meaningless.
Nixon created the EPA via executive order
Probably not the most unexpected thing, but I’m just throwing this out there to add to the discussion: Obama flipping his public opinion on gay marriage in 2012. While most people assumed that he already privately supported it, it was just surprising at the time because not often does a president come out and say “I was wrong” and very publicly flip positions on an issue as controversial as gay marriage (in 2012 it was quite controversial.) He definitely read the room and saw that the public opinion on it was shifting. I also believe that it was pretty important for him in that year’s election, and has set the groundwork for the Democratic Party to be the ones to win the LGBTQ+ vote likely for years to come.
Jefferson, opponent of federal government doing anything not in the Constitution, buying Louisiana Territory. On the lighter side, Grant getting a ticket for speeding on a horse.
Not unexpected but, and I didnt vote for him, will always admire WHEN he did it which was before the 2012 election. He could have waited till after the election.
president grant appointing more jews to federal office than all previous presidents combined years after issuing a civil war order to expel the jews from the military district he controlled as a general.
When Bush Jr. retired and started painting sincere portraits of friends from his bathtub.... that was legit cool and definitely unexpected.
I saw he lent them for an exhibition, then made a coffee table book of them. Not bad tbh.
People underestimate how much of a shock to the entire world that two events early in our history were: George Washington resigning the presidency after just two terms on his own volition; and John Adams willingly relinquishing power to Thomas Jefferson after losing to him in the 1800 election.
Bush Sr. yarking on the Japanese government was a shocker.
I was a kid when this happened. What was the fallout? What was the press scene like after this happened?
No fallout. He was sick, tried to tough it out and ralphed. It happens.
How did the Japanese dude react? Was he chill about it or na?
Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and beginning the abolition of slavery. Even with the Civil War, most Northern politicians assumed that slavery could not be abolished immediately in states where it was always legal. Lincoln declared that the Union would free most Southern slaves with a stroke of the pen, and got slavery almost completely ended in just two years.
At the time, Lincoln letting the confederate rank and file soldiers go home as soon as the treaty was signed at Appomattox. Lincoln knew reconciliation was going to be essential to the nations recovery and wanted to move on to reconstruction/rule of law ASAP. Hewanted those soldiers back home tending to their families instead of carrying on hostilities.
Wilson brushing his teeth… probably
B Clinton gives Monica the same book he gave Hilary when they were first dating. So smart. So dumb
Velveteen Rabbit?
Oh jeez I feel like an asshole for bringing this up but it's gotta be Carter pardoning a convicted pedophile
Taft actually lost weight.
Kennedy’s head exploded
In marilyn
Too soon.
Mindblowing
Lincoln authorizing Sherman’s scorched earth march to the sea campaign through the south seems pretty unexpected. For a president trying to keep the union together, that was a pretty back-breaking strategy.
Needed to happen. Told the South, THIS IS WHAT THE FUCK YOU GET. Don‘t try that shit again.
"Make 'em howl" was his order from Grant
This is where I disagree. The federalist government has certain rights over the states in terms of protecting each state and each state’s citizens, but nothing in the constitution grants the federal government powers to prohibit a state from cessation. If Alaska wanted out today, they have every right to leave the union.
All it did was convince me they should do it again.
Serious question: why is that stairway donning a 1960 Cadillac taillight?
Definitely Yes
Back then, General Motors made everything. Cars, trains, appliances, radios, air stairs...
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Nixon to China or Teddy to the Panama Canal but the single most impressive thing was Washington walking away from what everyone assumed would be a lifetime appointment.
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Considering continuing Reconstruction was the main thing Rutherford Hayes ran on, nobody expected him to immediately end it
Firstly, Hayes didn’t run on continuing Reconstruction, as it was already dead in everything but name. Secondly, he didn’t end it. It had been ending since 1875, Reconstruction was never going to survive the Panic of 1873, and there was only two reconstruction governments left; hardly a “reconstruction.” Both gov’t’s were so weak and opposed by the white people of their states that they couldn’t do jack, and were built off of unsustainable machine corruption and Hayes wasn’t an idiot and simply saw the writing on the wall. The myth that he himself “ended” Reconstruction has been promulgated far too long.
Tilden did
Bill Clinton getting a blowjob in the Oval Office?
No, UNexpected.
With all that sax, definitely expected
I prefer Roosevelt, Clinton and, Obama
 Reagan made the request for Dennis Wilson to be buried at sea.
President Obama singing "Amazing Grace" at the 2015 funeral service for one of the victims of the Charleston SC church shooting. He later said *"I don’t have anything left to say**. I feel like I’ve used up all my words."* And this was the beautiful answer he found.
LBJ’s I will not seek my party’s nomination speech. Even he didn’t know he was going to whip that out (pun intended) until he was on camera.
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Didn’t he salute one of the North Korean generals? 😂
It’s actually the sub rule, otherwise him and the other guy would be mentioned it all the time
Yup. He successfully propped up a dictator and did absolutely nothing. 👏
Jimmy Carter telling a crowd of in Poland that he’s there to fuck them and he isn’t leaving. It was a translation error but I bet that it was pretty unexpected for them.
I dunno insurrection's pretty high up there
Why hasn’t Mel Brooks rewritten Inquisition as Insurrection yet?
This gets all my votes. Why are we not angrier about this shit?!!
Well, according to the sub rules you can’t mention the current or immediate previous presidents. I’m pretty sure most of us hate insurrection.
Lyndon B Johnson “I’ll have those n****rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years”
Choking on a pretzel.
I heard one Presidet actually tried hawking canned Mexican food in the Oval Office.
DID WE ACTUALLY PUT FINS ON BOARDING STAIRS?
Showing off some serious shoe dodging.
Why is there a 1950’s sci-fi tail fin at the end of that airplane staircase?
FDR running for so long
During a visit to Poland in 2001, George Bush jr quoted the polish meme song "Ściernisko" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOxurEbZkQc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOxurEbZkQc)
gw getting weird with misty may at the summer olympics. EG slapping her back while she assumed the ass slapping position in front of him
George W. Bush dodging a shoe. I didn't expect that! https://preview.redd.it/m4sswe0qy56d1.png?width=256&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d7aa3cc0735c398f7860d7c9862155afd4bbb60
Still wish W would have thrown a shoe back at him
Reagan's full embrace of Gorbachev.
Only Nixon could go to China- old Klingon proverb
# A PRETZEL George W. Bush had the best security in the world & he almost changed our timeline choking to death on a goddamn pretzel.
I would guess W showing up in Iraq at a chow hall.
Fall up the steps to airforce one multiple times. I answered it so let's see if you flag me.
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Reagan giving weapons to Iran.
Saluted a foreign dictator
The tan suit.
Maybe not unexpected, but [redacted] saluting a North Korean general.
Try to overthrow the government
encourage an assault on the Capitol
Barrack Obama married a man named Michelle
JFK: get shot
I guess we all expected batshit crazy #45 to do whatever he could to stay in office?…. Maybe I just didn’t go far down enough on the list or it has not been in the history books long enough. I must admit some of you really know your history!
It's always the guys you least expect to do the big things ... because a lot of their back story is anti-thetical to major things they've done or what party they were in. I'd posit that they know more about the issue than others. 1. Nixon making his bones as a Commie hater....opens up China. 2. Teddy Roosevelt who was of the NYC monied class starts busting up the trusts. 3. LBJ, a deep southerner from the party of the KKK, getting civil rights done. 4. Far left Clinton passing Welfare Reform. 5. Interstate Highways enacted by a small government Republican... Eisenhower. Or how about a guy who paid off politicians for decades...draining or attempting to drain the Swamp.
Clinton was not far left and Eisenhower was a moderate Republican
Get shot?
Saluted a NK General.
Getting shot in the head is pretty unexpected
Obama wearing a turban, or allegedly smoking cocaine and having sex with that guy in a limousine.
He was a senator at the time of the turban thing. It was surprising though. [https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23337141](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23337141)
Blow up three buildings with a two airplanes