Can You Name These US Presidents from Just Their Initials?

He's Barack Hussein Obama, America's first president with African-American roots. He served two terms before handing the reins off to Donald Trump.

Journalist Molly Ivins just called him "Shrub." He was George Walker Bush, master of the memorable misstatement.

No other president has such famous initials. John Fitzgerald Kennedy might actually be better known by his intials than his real name.

He was "Bill" to most people, but he was also called "William Jefferson Clinton" a lot, too, in the manner that your mother uses when she knows you've done something wrong and she's sure you're lying about it.

He was Harry S. Truman. And you know what that "S" stood for? Absolutely nothin'.

James Earl Carter is, of course, Jimmy Carter. He grew up in fabulously wealthy peanut farming family and then became known for his humanitarian works.

In 2016, Donald John Trump squeaked out a win over Hillary Clinton to become Tweeter-in-Chief. Since then, he has tweeted. A lot.

He was never "H.W." until his son got into office, and then everyone had to find a way to distinguish between the two. He's George Herbert Walker Bush.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the man of the Eighties. He's remembered for his anti-Communist rhetoric and his trickle-down economics.

Like his predecessor, JFK, LBJ (Lyndon Baines Johnson) was often known by his initials. Crass and pragmatic, he was a major ally with Civil Rights-era groups in the Sixties.

It's a stout American name if I've ever heard one: Dwight David Eisenhower. And he led Allied forces in some of their greated European battles in WWII.

Richard Milhous Nixon was the only American president forced to resign from office. Thus, he forever blackened the already-questionable name "Milhous."

His intials -- like his time in office, are iconic. FDR was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and he steered American through the rocky hazards of the Great Depression and WWII.

He was Gerald Rudolph Ford. And in a manner that reeked of political slime, he immediately pardoned Richard Nixon of all wrongdoing he "might" have committed while in office.

Theodore Roosevelt was a man so powerful that he didn't need a middle name. And if you called him "Teddy" in person, he might never speak to you again.

Abraham Lincoln kept the Union from falling apart. And for his epic efforts, he was assassinated just before the Civil War's end.

Herbert Clark Hoover was the unlucky man in charge when the full force of the Great Depression struck. Camps of impoverished people were called "Hoovervilles."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson campaigned partly on promises of keeping America out of the quagmire of WWI. Then, almost immediately after the election, he decided to send troops into the fray.

William McKinley didn't have a middle name. He didn't have much time in office, either -- he was shot and killed six months into his second term.

Warren Gamaliel Harding was a very popular president, for a while, anyway. But huge scandals and news of adultery later emerged, and people started wondering why they ever voted for a guy named "Gamaliel" to begin with.

George Washington. If you missed this one, your flight back to Moscow is waiting.

John Calvin Coolidge's nickname was "Cool Hand Luke," and we totally made that up. Coolidge is mostly known for pretty much doing nothing of importance.

He was the second president of the U.S. -- John Adams. And he was the political equivalent of a heat-seeking missile, constantly seeking out conflicts with his peers.

William Howard Taft was a U.S president, and we bet you can't name a single thing he accomplished while in office. But the guy had a tremendous handlebar mustache.

Thomas Jefferson was a renaissance man turned politician, an icon of the Revolution, a master of the written language, and an intellectual giant with few peers in the history of the world. He also made babies with his slaves.

Andrew Jackson once killed a man in a duel. He took his combative nature right into office, too, where he was a popular president.

Whe he was a young man, Hiram Ulysses Grant applied to West Point … and the Representative who offered a letter of recommendation wrote down his name incorrectly: Ulysses S. Grant. Due to military rules, the young Grant wasn't able to change the record, so he simply adopted the name as his own going forward.

James Madison was the fourth president of the U.S. He was a primary force behind the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

John Tyler is one of the most forgettable presidents in American history. He led the country to, uh, what were we talking about?

Zachary Taylor was the twelfth president of the U.S. He died just 16 months into his term from a terrible illness and wound up as an obscurity.