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Sun Nov 13, 2022, 12:30 PM Nov 2022

Every Republican President Over The Last 100 Years Has Had A Recession

Tony 🌊Georgia Election Dec 6th🇺🇸
@TonyHussein4

Every Republican President over the last 100 Years has caused a recession!


Every Republican President keeps running the US economy into recessions. And then Democratic presidents come in and save the economy.

Every Republican President Over The Last 100 Years Has Had A Recession


The last 100 years has seen a total of 17 separate recessions. Of these 17 recessions, 5 of which took while a Democratic President was in the oval office. 1 Recession began while a Republican was in office (George W. Bush) and was inherited by a Democrat (Barack Obama).

The Depression of 1920–21: Woodrow Wilson
The Recession of 1937–38: Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Recession of 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Began in Feb. 1945, Truman took over in April of 1945)
The Recession of 1949: Harry S. Truman
The 1980 Recession: Jimmy Carter
The Great Recession: Barack Obama (inherited from George W. Bush)

12 of these recessions took place while a Republican held the White House.

The 1923–24 Recession: Warren G. Harding
The 1926–27 Recession: Calvin Coolidge
The Great Depression: Herbert Hoover
The Recession of 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Recession of 1958: Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Recession of 1960–1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Recession of 1969–1970: Richard Nixon
The Recession of 1973–75: Richard Nixon (Began in Nov. 1973, Ford took over in August of 1974)
The 1981–82 Recession: Ronald Reagan
Early 1990s recession in the United States: George H.W. Bush
Early 2000s Recession: George W. Bush
The Great Recession: George W. Bush (Began Dec. 2007, Obama took office Jan. 2009)


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Every Republican President Over The Last 100 Years Has Had A Recession (Original Post) In It to Win It Nov 2022 OP
DAYUM! OUTSTANDING data presentation! Thank you, In It to Win It! calimary Nov 2022 #1
Great find! K&R for visibility. crickets Nov 2022 #2

calimary

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1. DAYUM! OUTSTANDING data presentation! Thank you, In It to Win It!
Sun Nov 13, 2022, 12:41 PM
Nov 2022

Really lays it out. I’m keeping this post, for sure!

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