# How would you feel about Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan on US currency? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373 "2008-09-06T19:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/1 "2008-09-06T19:18:04Z")
I despise Ronald Reagan, but I’d accept putting Ronald Reagan on a denomination of US paper money if Bill Clinton would also be on a denomination. So, a ten dollar bill with Ronald Reagan? A 20 dollar bill with Bill Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/2 "2008-09-06T19:23:10Z")
Well, I don’t really want either on money, but I really don’t think we should put anyone who isn’t already dead, which rules out Bill Clinton. I would understand if Regan got on the money. He is deeply loved by many conservatives. Has any living President(or high official) been on American paper money or coins while still alive? ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_Stimulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Digital\_Stimulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_Stimulus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/3 "2008-09-06T19:23:36Z")
IMHO, not enough time has passed for either to warrant being on currency. Again, IMHO: let history decide if the honor is deserved…50 years minimum after death date. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/4 "2008-09-06T19:48:43Z")
> [@Digital\_Stimulus](#): > > IMHO, not enough time has passed for either to warrant being on currency. > > Again, IMHO: let history decide if the honor is deserved…50 years minimum after death date. That’s pretty much my attitude. As for Reagan being on the currency, that would be an incentive for me to avoid using cash. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/5 "2008-09-06T19:56:40Z")
Yeah, 50 years after death would be good. Also, let’s get rid of Jackson. What’s he doing on the 20 anyway? ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/6 "2008-09-06T19:59:28Z")
Us Libruls got FDR and JFK on coins, so they can have their Reagan. Although I wouldn’t mind if we didn’t have Presidents’ faces on coins. I’m uncomfortable with hero worship. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/7 "2008-09-06T20:06:45Z")
In both cases I wouldn’t want to touch the money. And even Reagan said, though granted this was years ago, that not enough time had passed for such a thing to be considered. His term ended almost 20 years ago and I still think that’s true; Clinton’s ended less than eight years ago. > [@WF Tomba](#): > > Although I wouldn’t mind if we didn’t have Presidents’ faces on coins. I’m uncomfortable with hero worship. Agreed. As the years go on I get more and more annoyed that every public structure gets named after one dead politician or another. I don’t know if it’s always been that way or if it’s increasing, but I don’t like it at all. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/8 "2008-09-06T20:10:56Z")
> [@](#): > > How would you feel about Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan on US currency? Pretty much as I feel about Millard Fillmore and James K. Polk on U.S. Currency. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/9 "2008-09-06T20:19:29Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Yeah, 50 years after death would be good. Also, let’s get rid of Jackson. What’s he doing on the 20 anyway? Just don’t get rid of Hamilton. He’s my secret crush… When I want to have celebrity fantasies, I pull a $10 out of my wallet… ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/10 "2008-09-06T20:26:21Z")
It is much too soon for both. I am not sure why Clinton would ever go on the currency. At least with Reagan the argument could be made that he ended the Cold War. (I realize this is open to much debate, but at least the argument could be made.) I don’t think any living President should be on are bills. Besides it ruins the phrase “Dead Presidents.” All the same, lets wait at least a few more decades before we do anything rash. I would love to see Theodore Roosevelt replace Andrew Jackson. This is a long oversight of one of our greatest Presidents and one that should not be honored on a bill still being there. **I do note that despite my objection in 1929 the following was done:** The $500 bill featured a portrait of William McKinley The $1,000 bill featured a portrait of Grover Cleveland The $5,000 bill featured a portrait of James Madison The $10,000 bill featured a portrait of Salmon P. Chase The $100,000 bill featured a portrait of Woodrow Wilson It was way to soon for Wilson in 1929, but he led the US through the Great War at least. \*\*The Lower Denoms: \*\* $1 George Washington $2 Thomas Jefferson $5 Abraham Lincoln $10 Alexander Hamilton $20 Andrew Jackson $50 Ulysses S. Grant $100 Benjamin Franklin ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/11 "2008-09-06T20:49:50Z")
Reagan already has an airport, which should be sufficient. As for Clinton, nix on the U.S. currency (even 50 years posthumous), but maybe a stamp would be fine. In France, that is; they loved him, didn’t they? Then Clinton will be forever associated with [French letters](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoms#Etymology_and_other_terms). [d&r] ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/12 "2008-09-06T20:52:13Z")
A Clinton 20 would be absolutely perfect for shoving down a stripper’s G-string or paying a whore for a handjob. ETA: the Reagan 10? Coke straw. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/13 "2008-09-06T20:56:06Z")
Ha! Those would be really cheap tips/handjobs, though, factoring 50+ years’ worth of inflation. Those girls would have to be real skanks, trailer trash… Oh, I get it. Perfecto-mundo! ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/14 "2008-09-06T20:59:44Z")
It’s too soon. And I’m not sure Clinton warrants it, anyway. But we need to take time to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/15 "2008-09-06T21:17:21Z")
Too soon–let them be dead presidents for a while. Also, not eager to see any existing president removed from his bill–although I suppose I’m not that attached to Jackson (or Hamilton). After that, well, Reagan’s a maybe, and Clinton’s “a what in the world did he do to deserve it” choice. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/16 "2008-09-06T21:17:27Z")
Reagan yes, Clinton no way in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/17 "2008-09-06T21:23:15Z")
Reagan already has a major airport named after him as does George Bush 1. They sell Clinton currency at the gas station I most often go t… It is for “Sex Dollars” and looks pretty genuine. Reagan would kill Clinton in such a contest. ---
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/18 "2008-09-06T21:50:57Z")
> [@TV\_time](#): > > Pretty much as I feel about Millard Fillmore and James K. Polk on U.S. Currency. Hey, hey, hey… are you implying that Polk is in the same league as Fillmore, i.e., a forgettable and largely unremarkable presidency? Polk is a distant cousin of mine, so I may have a bias here…but I’d like to point out that JKP has been ranked as high as the 8th most effective US President ever, whereas Fillmore’s highest ranking is 24th (and most polls place him in the mid-30s). > **[Historical rankings of presidents of the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_United_States_Presidents)** > > In political studies, since the mid 20th-century, surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists, or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures, and faults. Among such scholarly rankings, Abraham Lincoln is most often ranked as the best, while his predeces A 1... Notably, Polk increased the territorial size of the US by 810,000 square miles (although from a Native American or Mexican perspective, not all that land was acquired in the most ethical fashion). Anyway, feel free to dis Fillmore, but stop the hatin’ on the Polkster. As for Reagan and Clinton, I don’t think either of them really deserve to be on currency, but, on the other hand, I wouldn’t really care much if they did. I’m not a big fan of Hamilton or Jackson, but I can handle a $10 or $20 bill without feeling any resentment. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/19 "2008-09-06T22:18:42Z")
Indifferent. Put George W. Bush, Allah, or Rainbow Brite on all denominations for all I care. As long as it’s accepted as legal tender, that’s all I really care about. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373/20 "2008-09-06T22:20:44Z")
Why not swap Jefferson with Jackson? What is Thomas fucking Jefferson doing on a novelty bill? Put him on the 20, and relegate Jackson to the $2! Or let’s put some women on our currency-(dollar coins don’t count, people.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-feel-about-bill-clinton-or-ronald-reagan-on-us-currency/462373.md?page=2)