You can invite one former president to your party, who is it?

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  2. Garfield – Not only was he multilingual, he was also ambidextrous. It’s been told that he could write in Latin with one hand and Ancient Greek with the other, simultaneously.

  4. Theodore Roosevelt, no question. He was a big enthusiastic outdoorsman with a variety of skills and interests so we’re going to have great rapport and tell great stories, while ~~-never-~~ barely touching on politics.

  5. One of those Millard Fillmore-looking motherfuckers who used to drink turpentine. I’ll introduce them to white claw and we’ll go find an Irishman to disenfranchise.

  13. Jackson or JFK. I think they’d both be cool but also drop some unpopular truths. My view of a good party might be different from others, admittedly.

  15. People picking presidents from the far past. You guys are going to have nothing to talk about and nothing in common. 100 years is a long ass time.

    I would pick either Obama or Bill Clinton, probably leaning towards Obama. Not for any political reasons but because they seem like they’d be the most fun.

  16. Depends on the party.

    If we’re getting nuts we have to invite someone like Andrew Jackson or Kennedy or Teddy Roosevelt

    If we’re just chilling with bros then we gotta invite someone like Jefferson or perhaps Lincoln

  17. Either Obama or Bush would be cool. I’d like to meet Carter, but he isn’t really in a position to party right now.

    As for the rest, well to be honest I don’t particularly want to have a dead president in my apartment.

  18. George W. Beer and coke my kinda party. He’s also the type guy who let you know the truth about aliens and said “Keep this between us but…”

    Honorable mentions – Benjamin Franklin. Look up his history, the dude was a Party Animal. Best wing man in the OG founding fathers. Just doesn’t count because he wasn’t a President. P. S. He was a serial killer.

  19. Obama. He‘s cool. I‘d like to have a chat with him. And he would have to try all the cakes I bake for my birthday and tell me which one he likes best.

  20. Are they coming alone or bringing their families?

    Alone: Jefferson. I looooovvvveee Charlottesville and it would be fun to discuss it with him.

    Accompanied by family: Dubya, no question. I’ve met some of the Bush women at fundraisers and they’re hilarious!

  23. Technically, you can invite any living US President to your parties; it’s just unlikely they’ll RSVP.

  24. Grover Cleveland, I want to give him a piece of my mind for ruining the count of Presidents. Think Biden is number 46? WRONG! Grover Cleveland ruined the count. He is really the 45th dude to hold the office.

  25. [This oldie but goodie from The Onion](https://www.theonion.com/bush-regales-dinner-guests-with-impromptu-oratory-on-vi-1819567929) deserves to be reprinted to say why obviously President W Bush is the only correct answer:

    # Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil’s Minor Works

    >WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush delighted an intimate gathering of White House dinner guests Monday, regaling the coterie of dignitaries, artists, and friends with a spirited, off-the-cuff discussion of the Roman poet Virgil’s lesser-known works.
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    >”Ah, W. was in top form tonight,” Spanish foreign minister Josep Pique Camps said. “We were all held captive by his erudition and charm. First, a brief history of the opium trade, then a bit of Brahms on the piano, then a rousing discussion of Virgil. That boy is a wonder, isn’t he?”
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    >According to guests, the subject of Virgil arose serendipitously, when a servant opened a window in the Red Room, to which the group had retired for after-dinner drinks. Noticing the breeze, Bush raised his glass and delivered a toast to the changing of the seasons. He then apologized to “lovely Winter,” explaining that he “meant no slight against her.”
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    >”The first blush of Spring always reminds me of Virgil’s words,” Bush said. “In early spring-tide, when the icy drip / Melts from the mountains hoar, and Zephyr’s breath / Unbinds the crumbling clod, even then ’tis time / Press deep your plough behind the groaning ox / And teach the furrow-burnished share to shine.”
    >
    >”Book One of The Georgics, of course,” Bush added.
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    >Bush arranged the small, informal dinner in honor of Camps’ unexpected arrival in America.
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    >”It had been too long since I’d heard one of W.’s anecdotes, so I simply got on a plane,” Camps said. “I showed up at his doorstep with a watercolor by Ignat Bednarik, whom I know he adores, just to make sure he’d let me in.”
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    >Bush confessed that he has “long held a fascination with the classical world,” noting that his love of Roman history influenced his decision to enter politics.
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    >”Virgil was born in the year 70 B.C.—let’s see, that would be during the consulship of Gnaeus Pompeius The Great and Marcus Licinius Crassus, if I’m not mistaken,” Bush said. “It is said that while Virgil’s mother was with child, she dreamt she gave birth to a laurel branch, which, upon touching the ground, sprang up into a full-grown tree, its branches laden with ripe fruits and flowers. The next morning, she gave birth to Virgil. The legend goes that Virgil was born without crying, so mild was his countenance.”
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    >According to White House regulars, it is not uncommon for Bush to engage guests in discussions of whatever subject strikes his fancy, from the symphony playing in the background to the history of a style of jewelry a guest happens to be wearing.”
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    >I love to hear George hold court on this or that,” said Bush family friend and world-renowned physicist Norberta Münter. “I tell him he is such a spoiled brat, the way he demands our attention, but I must confess I can’t take my eyes off him when he does.”
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    >As the group sipped apple martinis and, in Bush’s words, “recovered” from the Chilean sea bass, the president continued.
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    >”Most primarily associate Publius Vergilius Maro with The Aeneid,” Bush told guests. “Yet so much pleasure is to be found in his lesser-known works—The Eclogues, completed in 37 B.C., and The Georgics, in 30 B.C., both of which praise the idyllic rural life.”
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    >”You have to remember I’m a bit of a farm boy myself,” chuckled Bush, referring to his 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford, TX.
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    >”The Bucolics are my personal favorite,” Bush said. “They were basically a thank-you to Asinius Pollio for preventing the seizure of Virgil’s land by the Triumvirate when they ordered the lands on the far banks of the river Po distributed to veterans of the victory at Philippi. They are so sublime, so inspirational. But why should I speak, when Virgil can do so himself? And far more eloquently, I might add.”
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    >Bush then recited a selection from The Bucolics in the original Latin, pausing occasionally to translate into French out of respect for his friend Amélie du Maurier, a young Parisian concert violinist in attendance. Earlier in the evening, a blushing du Maurier admitted to Bush that she did not know Latin. Bush eased the young woman’s embarrassment with a joke.
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    >”I wouldn’t be surprised if your father forbade you from learning Latin, out of sheer distaste for res publica,” said Bush, alluding to du Maurier’s ancestors’ place in the ousted French aristocracy.
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    >Despite urging from dinner guests to continue his Bucolics recitation, Bush declined.
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    >”I have already taken up far too much of your valuable time with my classical nattering,” Bush said. “I dearly wish I could give you back this hour during which you so graciously indulged my dilettantism, but, as Plautus said, ‘Factum est illud, fieri infectum non potest.’ Done is done, it cannot be made undone.”

    I will also tag u/jemmyjoe and hope this brings memories from days when paper prints of The Onion could be found at the back of Rainbow Records.

  27. Though I agree with Roosevelt because we have similar interests to talk about, at a party? Definitely Trump. Booze and porn star hookers.

  28. For a party? Dubya or Bubba, it’s a coin toss. (Unless their wives are tagging along, then Bubba loses his invite).

  30. Andrew Jackson without a doubt. He posted public parties quite a few times and once served a 1400 pound wheel of cheess at one. It waa apparently consumed in two hours

  34. I’m just going to base my answer for presidents I was around for. Also I hate every president while they are in office. I think George W. Bush would be the most fun.

  37. LBJ. He’s as Texas as anyone can Texas. I really want to ride in that car/boat thingy that he owned.

    Plus, I’m a huge advocate of native planting. I’d love to bend Lady Bird’s ear on that topic.

  40. I don’t agree with a lot of his policies and politics but I feel Barack Obama would be a stand-up guy to hang out with and chat.

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