Presidential Report Cards

These are actual excerpts from various presidents’ grade school report cards. Match the excerpt with the president.

A. “He will surely one day be a great professor, or who knows, he may become even President of the United States.”

B. He is casual and disorderly in almost all of his organization projects. [He] studies at the last minute, keeps appointments late, has little sense of material values, and can seldom locate his possessions.

C. A very solemn child who rarely ever smiled and laughed.

D. When you grow up, you’re either going to be a governor or get in a lot of trouble

E. An upstanding lad with great self-confidence. It appears, however, that he may be somewhat eccentric.

F-John Tyler; G-Franklin Pierce; H-Benjamin Harrison

Alan Arthur; D-James Buchanan; E-William McKinley;

A-Calvin Coolidge; B-Martin Van Buren; C-Chester

Kennedy; C-Richard Nixon; D-Bill Clinton; E-George H.W. Bush

A-Theodore Roosevelt; B-John F.