The following presidents all have something in common; Chester A. Arthur, James Buchanan, George W. Bush, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, William H. Taft, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson. No other presidents belong on this list. What is it they have in common?
None of them have been in my kitchen.
All the others have.
Each took the oath of office twice?
Does the order in which they’re listed matter?
Not William Henry Harrison.
There are many presidents not on that list that took the oath twice. The list is exclusive according to the OP.
Probably not, it’s alphabetical by last name.
They’re all presidents whose names appear in the OP of this thread. None of the other presidents are in this group.
Sheesh…that was easy…
Hal wins! (Bryan may have won also but I’ll need a cite.) But I had a different answer in mind so the rest of you can keep guessing for my original answer.
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Great question Nemo I don’t see any pattern You have 2 term presidents; a 30 day president; VPs who succeeded because of assassinations & natural causes; Republicans, Democrats & Whigs; one pair of related Presidents, but not the other two; they’re not all left-handers; some ran for re-election & won; some never ran for re-election. Since Bush is still President [God help us all] it can’t be about who succeeded them.
Wm Henry Harrison should be the key since he only served 30 days, But I don’t see it.
Other three. The Adamses, Roosevelts, Harrisons, and Bushes.
Hmmm. I don’t see any commonalities between them other than the obvious: each has lived in the White House, each served after George Washington, etc. But you say no other Presidents belong on the list. Lessee. Could it be that each was born in a state on the outermost edge of the U.S. (adjoining an ocean, a Great Lake, Canada or Mexico)? No… Jackson and Johnson were both born in Tennessee, weren’t they?
Here’s a hint: If John McCain is elected, he’d be added to this list. Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama would not.
This is the list of presidents who were older than their predecessor.
Yeah I think you got it Freddy.
Bastard. 
Freddy does indeed have it.
The surprising (to me, anyway) omission from the list was Eisenhower. I always think of him as an old guy, but he was six years younger than Truman. He was only two years older, when he took office, than Truman was when he took office.
I should have said twice for a single term, once publically and once privately (Arthur, Reagan, and Wilson all did). I still was wrong, though.
More presidential trivia…
Three presidents died on the 4th of july…who?
and the last two Vice presidents ELECTED to the presidency were?
These are the kinds of questions that could go in our U.S. History trivia thread!
- Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and… I forget.
- Martin Van Buren and George H.W. Bush, if you mean directly from the Vice Presidency.