# Is the US unique in its high ratio of familial relationships in White House incumbent

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 23, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-us-unique-in-its-high-ratio-of-familial-relationships-in-white-house-incumbent/144543 "2002-12-23T14:35:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-us-unique-in-its-high-ratio-of-familial-relationships-in-white-house-incumbent/144543/21 "2002-12-24T01:07:50Z")

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to nitpick…

in the op, the term ‘relationship’ was used. by general usage, a relationship cannot consist of only, ergo, there were 3 ‘real’ familial relationships. if you want to carry it out as far as the 5th cousins or more, you can, but it starts to border on the ridiculous…after all i think that prince of wales charles by name is a descendant of vlad tepes (dracula) if you want to use enough links.

also, yes the u.s. is unique in it’s number of familial relationships in the white house… the u.s. is the only country in the world with the white house!(i crack me up!)

also…it wasn’t a bridge that kept teddy out of the white house…it was the lack of one! (i’m cooking!)

(sorry, too much egg nog)

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-us-unique-in-its-high-ratio-of-familial-relationships-in-white-house-incumbent/144543/22 "2002-12-24T01:23:58Z")

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The bridge was there, but Teddy missed.

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**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-us-unique-in-its-high-ratio-of-familial-relationships-in-white-house-incumbent/144543/23 "2002-12-24T03:44:16Z")

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The more distant the relationship between Presidents you want to examine, the further back in time you must cut off the ancestor list.

If you accept great grand children, one must wait till all a particular President’s great grand children are dead.

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