"Georgie" Washington?
The U.S. press is increasingly referring to President Biden as "President Joe Biden (Italics mine). While this nicknaming of the President has precedent, and Mr. Biden has referred to himself as "Joe," there is something slightly seedy, and rather more than undignified about this shortening of President Joseph Biden's name.
However this argument turns out, it set me to wondering what nicknames might be given to Presidents of the past, and how that could change the way we look at them. Here are some examples:
- Presidents Georgie Washington, Bush, and Bush
- Presidents Jack Adams, Jack Q. Adams, and Jack Tyler
- Jim Madison, and Jim Monroe, Jim Buchanan
- Andy Jackson and Andy Johnson
- Bill Hank Harrison
- Milly Fillmore
- Jimmy Polk
- Uly Grant
- Ruth Hayes
- Jim Garfield
- Chet Arthur
- Ben Harrison
- Grove Cleveland
- Woody Wilson
- Warren Gamey Harding
- Herbie Hoover
- Frank Roosevelt
- Lyn Johnson
- Rich Nixon
- Barry Obama
- Donny Trump
If this list is long, it is because we have had many Presidents (whew).
