Have you noticed? Barack Obama is left-handed. George W. Bush was not.
What is interesting is that there was only one left-handed president prior to the 20th century--James A. Garfield, our 20th president (at least according to the sources I have used).
But in our century, there was Herbert Hoover (31), Harry S. Truman (33), Gerald Ford (38), Ronald Reagan (40), George H. W. Bush (41), Bill Clinton (42) and now Barack Obama (44).
Does the fact that W's father was left-handed and W was right-handed mean anything? Or what are we to make of the fact that one of the twin Bryan brothers--one of the greatest men's tennis doubles team in history--is left-handed and the other right-handed?
The only thing I can make out of this is that presidents are more left-handed than they used to be. Perhaps his parents made the father of our country, George, (a natural lefty) use and write with his right hand, because there was opprobrium to being left-handed then?
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