Definition of Presidency

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Presidency

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.

The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.

One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.

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Presidency Quotations

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
Harry S. Truman

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Richard M. Nixon

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Richard M. Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
Richard M. Nixon

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Richard M. Nixon

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