Which Presidents Wore Hats>?

[RBH]

Lets see how it goes.
If its back to JFK did wear a fedora it will be closed again.

 

[HatsEnough]

It seems kind of silly to me to blame a single man for the death of the hat.

Especially since hat companies were already starting to get bought out and get closed up before he became president.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

If you read The American Hatter or the Hat Life from 1936 you will find out that the Hat trade was battling hatless heads a long time ago. Sad but true hatless Jack did not kill the fedora in daily wear is was a trend that had be going on for years decades even.

 

[FedoraFan112390]

An FDR-esque photo of President Lyndon Johnson holding his hat, campaigning in 1964:

Truman wearing one of his many hats:

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Does anyone have pictures of a (younger) President Reagan in a fedora? He was of the generation that would've worn hats, at least in their youth.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Richard M. Nixon, circa 1937

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Richard M. Nixon, circa 1937

And they said Nixon didn't have style!

 

[monbla256]

Richard M. Nixon, circa 1937

Are you sure this is 1937? He didn't get to the House till 1946 and then the Senate in 1950

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

You could be right but I remember seeing another pic of him similarly attired from the late '30s.

 

[monbla256]

You could be right but I remember seeing another pic of him similarly attired from the late '30s.

Must have been when he graduated from law school in '37. It would be interesting to see Tricky Dick in his twenties

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Is it possible that that's during the Alger Hiss case (the first photo)? I remember even in the flashback to the Hiss case in the movie Nixon, he is shown wearing a fedora.

 

[monbla256]

Is it possible that that's during the Alger Hiss case (the first photo)? I remember even in the flashback to the Hiss case in the movie Nixon, he is shown wearing a fedora.

That would make more sense as the suits look as they wore back in '48 when Nixon was on the HUAC for the Hiss trial. Either way, it's a nice loking Panama

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Whatever Hiss may have been, he did have good taste in hats:

 

[FedoraFan112390]

Nixon circa 1948, all from the HUAC era:

The young man wearing glasses and testifying in front of Congress is a young Ronald Reagan, in a very rare shot of him wearing glasses. For those who don't know, Reagan was literally almost blind. He could not even see a square in front of him. Hs vision was so impaired that when getting glasses, he was astonished to discover that butterflies and leaves on trees existed. However, by the end of the 1940s, he was wearing experimental contacts, given to him by Hollywood producers--But still wore glasses when not in movies because the early contacts were uncomfortable. But for the rest of his life he wore contacts. As President when giving a speech, he would wear one contact in and the other out--So that he could see the speech, and also his audience.

Nixon in Spokane, 1954

Vice President Nixon, and President Eisenhower, at Waldorf Towers, 1954

Sometime between 1954 and 1960:

During the 1960 Campaign:

If Nixon had been elected President in 1960, Hatters would probably not have to have begged him to wear or be seen with a hat.

 

[monbla256]

Richard M. Nixon, circa 1937

This is a photo of Prescott Bush (hand on Nixon's Panama) with Nixon in one of the rooms of the Senate in the late 50s.

 

[FedoraFan112390]

I kind of wish at least one of the Candidates or the President himself was a hat wearer.

 

[monbla256]

I kind of wish at least one of the Candidates or the President himself was a hat wearer.

'Fraid that won't happen. Hat wearing (at least the styles liked here) is NOT the common social norm these days and political cantidates DON'T do ANYTHING outside the social norm

 

[FedoraFan112390]

LBJ, pictured rarely in a fedora rather than his trademark Stetson, at the opening of his Presidential Library, 1971

 

[scotrace]

Richard M. Nixon, circa 1937

The 1937 date is impossible.

 

[gtdean48]

LBJ, pictured rarely in a fedora rather than his trademark Stetson, at the opening of his Presidential Library, 1971
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Heard that LBJ wore mostly Resistols since they were made in Texas.