Last year, we had fun asking you to quick code the personalities of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy and George HW Bush. We thought we’d keep the tradition going.

This year, in honor of President’s day, we are digging deeper. Lets see how well you do with quick coding from the little snippets about the following presidents:

George Washington was a great leader. He had enormous discipline and confidence. After leading the country to victory in the Revolutionary war, he didn’t stick around to take credit, but bid his troops goodbye and headed home to Mount Vernon.

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Abraham Lincoln entered [the presidency] as the victim of a grave delusion. Abraham Lincoln was a genial, quiet, essentially peaceful man, trained in the ways of the bar and the stump, he fully believed that there would be no civil war, — no serious effort to consummate Disunion.
–Horace Greeley in Recollections of a Busy Life

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Chester Authur, was flamboyant and liked to be the center of attention. He had strong and overly developed sense of entitlement, believing that he deserved to be successful and have the best. He was single-minded, and selfishly persuasive.

Calvin Coolidge, nicknamed “Silent Cal” for his quiet, steadfast and frugal nature,  cleaned up the rampant corruption of the Harding administration and provided a model of stability and respectability for the American people in an era of fast-paced modernization.

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Harry Truman was was supremely confident of his own judgment. He acted boldly, and decisively. Once he made a decision, he forgot about it and went on to something else. He was earnest, incorruptible, and blunt in speech.

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Richard Nixon described himself as an introvert in an extrovert’s job. A loner, Nixon relied greatly on his own intelligence. Glad-handing and pressing the flesh did not come naturally or congenially to him. When closely observed, he always seemed somehow ill at ease.

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George W Bush will be remembered for what he’s like: a fast-moving, upbeat Texan. He dished out nicknames to world leaders, and even gave the German chancellor an impromptu, perhaps unwelcome, neck rub. He stayed optimistic in even the most dire circumstances, but teared up in public. He has little use for looking within himself.

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Have fun, and happy President’s Day. CC