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Presidential superlatives

By Jeff Merron
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Monday, July 26, 2004

Almost all U.S. Presidents have been avid sportsmen. It makes sense: Politics might be the only vocation more competitive than sports. Of all the 20th- and 21st-century presidents, only LBJ seemed disinterested in sports; some, like Ike and Gerald Ford, excelled at a very high level. So George W. Bush and John Kerry aren't the first politicos to try to win hearts and minds by courting the votes of sports fans and participants. Bush runs on a treadmill; Kerry seems game for just about any sport, ...

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