Saddle up : George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion
To hine own self be true : Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
Constitution be damned : Grover Cleveland and the Pullman Strike
Breaking the bank : Andrew Jackson and the Second National Bank
Mr. Johnson goes to Washington : Andrew Johnson and his secretary of war
Guns and butter : Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War, and the Great Society
A general skirts war : Ulysses Grant and Cuba
Peace warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese peace plan
Mission from God : Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations
The China card : Richard Nixon and the People's Republic of China
The zero option : Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of smugglers : Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo Acts
The garden hose : Franklin Roosevelt and the Lend-Lease Act
Always do right : Harry Truman and the Berlin Airlift
Defeat is an orphan : John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs
The mushroom cloud : George W. Bush and the Iraq War.