1789 Starting off : George Washington -- 1792: Washington again -- 1796 Federalist succession: John Adams -- 1800 Republican takeover: Jefferson's revolution -- 1804: Jefferson's landslide -- 1808: Madison and the dambargo -- 1812: Madison's wartime re-election -- 1816 Monroe: Another Virginia victory -- 1820: Monroe's quiet re-election -- 1824: John Quincy Adams and the "corrupt bargain" -- 1828: Jackson vs. Adams -- 1832: Jackson, Clay, and the bank war -- 1836: Van Buren's victory over three Whigs -- 1840: Tippecanoe and Tyler too -- 1844: Polk and manifest destiny -- 1848: Old Zach and the Michigander -- 1852: Frank Pierce and Old Fuss and Feathers -- 1856: Buchanan and bleeding Kansas -- 1860: Lincoln and the sectional crisis -- 1864: Lincoln and the war crisis -- 1868: Grant and reconstruction -- 1872: Grand and the liberal Republicans -- 1876: The Hayes-Tilden disputed election -- 1880: The triumph of "Boatman Jim" Garfield -- 1884: The Cleveland-Blain contest -- 1888: Harrison, Cleveland, and the tariff -- 1892: Cleveland's return to power -- 1896: McKinley, Bryan, and free silver -- 1900: The McKinley-Roosevelt triumph -- 1904: T.R.'s smashing victory -- 1908: Taft's big victory over Bryan -- 1912 The high tide of progressivism: Wilson, Roosevelt, and Taft -- 1916: Wilson and the Great War -- 1920: Harding, Nostrums, and Normalcy -- 1924: Keeping cool with Coolidge -- 1928: Hoover, Smith, and the Catholic issue -- 1932: Roosevelt, Hoover, and the Great Depression -- 1936: Roosevelt and the New Deal -- 1940: Roosevelt, Wilkie, and the war in Europe -- 1944: Roosevelt's wartime mandate -- 1948: The great Truman surprise -- 1952: The Eisenhower landslide -- 1956: Another Eisenhower landslide -- 1960: Kennedy and the new frontier -- 1964: Lyndon Johnson and the great society -- 1968: Nixon, Humphrey, and the Vietnam War -- 1972: Another Nixon triumph -- 1976 The triumph of an outsider: Jimmy Carter -- 1980: The Reagan victory -- 1984: Another Reagan sweep -- 1988 Trivial pursuit: Bush vs. Dukakis -- 1992: Clinton and the call for change.
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