July 11th, 2008
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The Bryant Park Project, July 7, 2008 · Running for president is already a crapshoot, but it turns out that many U.S. leaders have also been pretty serious gambling men. Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Warren Harding, and Lyndon Johnson all played poker. When he was in the Navy, Richard Nixon won enough at the game to finance his first congressional race.
It turns out that both John McCain and Barack Obama are gambling men, and their different gaming styles, says Time magazine’s Michael Scherer, might illuminate some differences in their governing styles.
Scherer says that throughout his adult life, John McCain has been a showman. “He loves being the king of the room.” McCain, says Scherer, has always been drawn to dice and “by his own accounts had some rather extreme nights on the French shoreline there playing dice.”
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