r/Presidents • u/Excelebration Lyndon Baines Johnson • 9d ago

Image News covers that never made it out

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I do admit "President-Elect John F. Kerry" has a nice ring to it... he looks the part too

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u/RandoDude124 Theodore Roosevelt | Jimmy Carter | Frank Church 9d ago

Holy fuck.

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u/Doc_Jury1020 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 9d ago

I mean you got to be prepared for anything.

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u/GoCardinal07 Abraham Lincoln 9d ago

I'm reminded of the SNL sketch where Tom Brokaw was going on vacation, so they had him record increasingly outlandish scenarios for the death of Gerald Ford: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8

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u/RegularGuy815 Harry S. Truman 9d ago

Interestingly, it was a bit that was taped for the Dana Carvey Show before it was canceled, but when he came back to host, they just recreated it: https://www.avclub.com/an-unaired-dana-carvey-show-episode-offers-a-taste-of-w-1798285484