Presidential Poker

I Am Not a Crook..A Poker Player, But Not a Crook
Richard Nixon

While raised as a Quaker, Mr. Nixon quickly dropped any religious objections to games of chance when he entered the Navy and fought in World War II. In the grand scheme of things, especially when facing a very real possibility that all those pesky questions about the afterlife will soon be...

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Presidential Poker - George W. Bush
Presidential Poker - George W. Bush

There have been few presidents as controversial as the one currently sitting in the oval office. George W. Bush, son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush, was governor of the state of Texas so perhaps it is appropriate that he is also a poker player, considering the popularity of the...

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Presidential Poker - Dwight Eisenhower

A man can't become a President of the United States unless he is, at least on occasion, willing to gamble. While it may be a strange thought that military leaders, too, should be willing to gamble, it is sometimes required to turn a bad situation into a victory. Dwight David Eisenhower started...

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Presidential Poker - Warren G Harding

"Just as there are successful poker players to hold up as examples, there are poker players who have a more colorful track record, both away from and at the poker tables, the same is true for American Presidents. Many of the presidents discussed in this series of articles are held in very high...

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Presidential Poker - Richard Nixon

I am not a crook. These five words have come to characterize the presidency of Richard Milhouse Nixon, a man once admired and then reviled during his presidency after the scandal famously known as Watergate broke. Despite the scandal, despite the negative press, there were plenty of positive...

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