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Presidential anecdotes reveal lazy boldface presidents in humor
Texas historian Paul F Boller's study of all 39 U.S. presidents, to be published by Oxford, flags Calvin Coolidge as the laziest yet witty, Lincoln as a self deprecating wit, LBJ blunt and earthy, Ford as athletic and affable, Reagan witty under pressure, with brief notes on Washington through Grant and others.
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Paul F. Boller
Texas Christian University
Oxford University Press
Coolidge
Lincoln
Woody Allen
Boller
James K. Polk
Chester Alan Arthur
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore
Oxford University
Percy Kilbride
Pa Kettle
Marx Brothers
Calvin
Telinois
Stephen A. Douglas
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Texas
Kennedy
Bill Moyers
Grace
White House
LBJ
Bill
Moyers
Gerald R. Ford
Teddy Roosevelt
Chevy Chase
Ford
Jack
Reagan
Washington
George Washington University Hospital
W.C. Fields
Philadelphia
George Washington
John Quincy Adams
Potomac River
Harry Truman
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant