Great Presidential Wit (...I Wish I Was in

Famous for his deadpan humor,New York Timesbestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief.Great Presidential Witcollects the former senator's favorite funny stories and remarks by and about American presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush. Senator Dole tackles the assignment of ranking the presidents from the funniest (Abraham Lincoln) to the least funny (Millard Fillmore), and everyone in between. With chapters cleverly organized according to the senator's own opinions -- from "A Class by Themselves" (Lincoln, Reagan, the Roosevelts) and "Yankee Wits" (Coolidge, Kennedy) to "The Joke's on Them" (Taylor, Harding, Van Buren, Buchanan, the Harrisons, Pierce, Fillmore) --Great Presidential Witis the perfect antidote to the long political season and a patriotic reminder that our leaders are human and often witty and amusing.

Senator Bob Dole was the longest-serving Republican leader in Senate history. In 1976, he was the Republican nominee for vice president, and then in 1996, he was Republican nominee for president. He is currently serving as the chairman of the World War II Memorial campaign and as chairman of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia. Wounded in World War II, Senator Dole was awarded two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. He is married to Elizabeth Hanford Dole and lives in Washington, D.C.

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Introduction: Backbones and Funny Bones

A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt

YANKEE WITS

Calvin Coolidge
John F. Kennedy

PLAIN SPEAKER, TALL TALES, AND A POKER FACE

Harry Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson
Herbert Hoover

CLASSROOM HUMORISTS

Woodrow Wilson
James Garfield

FUNNIER THAN THE AVERAGE PRESIDENT

George Bush
William Howard Taft
John Adams
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Bill Clinton

AND YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE DULL

Dwight Eisenhower
Gerald Ford
Rutherford B. Hayes
William McKinley
Jimmy Carter

STICK-IN-THE-MUD

Ulysses Grant
James Monroe
Richard Nixon
John Tyler
Andrew Jackson
Chester Arthur
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Johnson
James Madison
Grover Cleveland
James K. Polk

THE JOKE'S ON THEM

Zachary Taylor
Warren G. Harding
Martin Van Buren
James Buchanan
William Henry Harrison
Franklin Pierce
Benjamin Harrison
Millard Fillmore

WAITING IN THE WINGS

George W. Bush
Al Gore

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Great Presidential Wit (...I Wish I Was in the Book) A Collection of Humorous Anecdotes and Quotations

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