What Presidents do you feel a stylistic affinity towards? (user search)
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Meursault
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« on: May 18, 2014, 08:51:49 PM »

This is a vague question and broad, so let me narrow its scope a little: I do not mean whose governing style you prefer (say, Clintonian backslapping or the "Johnson Treatment"); still less whose ideology you agree with. It is a purely aesthetic question: what Presidents do you appreciate in an artistic sense?

For myself, the answer is probably one of Wilson, Harding, or Franklin Roosevelt. I strongly prefer the three-piece-suit-long-tie-frock-coat-top-hat uniform of the interwar period to anything before or after; and my broader artistic sensibilities are more modernist than post-modern, more industrial than telelectronic. And these three seemed to project that better than anyone else.

I like contemporary dressed-down Southern gladhandling the least, so Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Bush fils are all far down my list.
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