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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential {{w|middle names}} after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. | + | {{incomplete|Created by RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON, WITHOUT THE E. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | A list of what Randall perceives will be the prettiest presidential {{w|middle names}} after the inauguration on January 20, 2021. {{w|Joe Biden|Joe Robinette Biden}} (46th president-elect) will take the second slot bumping previous second-place holder {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}}, the 32nd president, back to third. {{w|Warren G. Harding|Warren Gamaliel Harding}}, the 29th president, remains in first. Robinette is Biden's [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/08/joe_bidens_middle_name_is_robi.html grandmother's maiden name]. | ||
− | Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|John Adams}}, lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names | + | The title text announces that {{w|Rutherford B. Hayes|Rutherford Birchard Hayes}}, the 19th president, remains at or near the bottom. |
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+ | Overall, the ranking would not include every president, as many early presidents, such as {{w|George Washington}} and {{w|John Adams}}, lacked middle names. Some presidents were also more commonly known by their middle names as opposed to their first names; examples include Hiram {{w|Ulysses Grant}}, Stephen {{w|Grover Cleveland}}, and Thomas {{w|Woodrow Wilson}}. It is unclear how Randall’s list would deal with these cases. | ||
− | The | + | The humour is based around the misuse of an abstract descriptive subjective variable (prettiness) as an ordinal discrete variable scale. |
− | + | ==List of Presidents with middle names== | |
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{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+ (Ordered by middle name) | |+ (Ordered by middle name) | ||
− | + | | James ABRAM Garfield | |
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− | + | | Chester ALAN Arthur | |
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− | |Chester ALAN Arthur | ||
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|Lyndon BAINES Johnson | |Lyndon BAINES Johnson | ||
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|Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes | |Rutherford BIRCHARD Hayes | ||
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|John CALVIN Coolidge | |John CALVIN Coolidge | ||
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|Herbert CLARK Hoover | |Herbert CLARK Hoover | ||
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|Dwight DAVID Eisenhower | |Dwight DAVID Eisenhower | ||
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|Franklin DELANO Roosevelt | |Franklin DELANO Roosevelt | ||
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− | |James | + | |James EARL Carter |
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− | |John | + | |John FITZGERALD Kennedy |
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|Warren GAMALIEL Harding | |Warren GAMALIEL Harding | ||
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|Stephen GROVER Cleveland | |Stephen GROVER Cleveland | ||
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|William HENRY Harrison | |William HENRY Harrison | ||
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|George HERBERT WALKER Bush | |George HERBERT WALKER Bush | ||
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|William HOWARD Taft | |William HOWARD Taft | ||
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|Barack HUSSEIN Obama | |Barack HUSSEIN Obama | ||
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|William JEFFERSON Clinton | |William JEFFERSON Clinton | ||
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|Donald JOHN Trump | |Donald JOHN Trump | ||
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|James KNOX Polk | |James KNOX Polk | ||
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|Richard MILHOUS Nixon | |Richard MILHOUS Nixon | ||
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|John QUINCY Adams | |John QUINCY Adams | ||
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|Gerald RUDOLPH Ford | |Gerald RUDOLPH Ford | ||
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− | | | + | |Harrison S Truman |
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− | |Hiram ULYSSES Grant | + | |Hiram ULYSSES Grant |
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|George WALKER Bush | |George WALKER Bush | ||
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|Ronald WILSON Reagan | |Ronald WILSON Reagan | ||
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|Thomas WOODROW Wilson | |Thomas WOODROW Wilson | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== |