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Gallery: Presidents and their not so presidential apps

Summary: From Washington to Obama, David Gewirtz honors some of our favorite U.S. Presidents with some moderately inappropriate iPhone and Android apps.

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James Madison can rightly be considered the father of the United States Constitution, perhaps the most important document ever written, and the man who gave Ron Paul a reason to live. He wrote the Federalist Papers, and, as our fourth president, had the sad role of serving as president when the White House was torched by the British in 1814. This is why, every August 24th, we here at ZDNET look at our own resident British blogger, Zack Whittaker, raise our right arm, and yell "Darn you, British!" Okay, actually, we don't. We quite like Zack. But we're still not going to let him near the White House. Just sayin'.

Now, I could send you many of the burning things apps scattered all through the various app stores, but Madison's important role as father of the Constitution can lead us to only one app, the U.S. Constitution for Android.

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  • RE: Gallery: Presidents and their not so presidential apps

    Did a fine job of avoiding some of the more controversial flamebait with the Bush and Obama recommendations. But I can pretty much guarantee, some people will flame away anyways -_-.
    CobraA1
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  • RE: Gallery: Presidents and their not so presidential apps

    Did you seriously compare John Quincy Adams with George W Bush. one major difference I have to point out, John Quincy Adams speaks several languages while George Dubbya can barely speak English.
    Poz83
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    • RE: Gallery: Presidents and their not so presidential apps

      @SamPoz
      Like George W. Bush (born July 6), J.Q. Adams was a Cancer (born July 11).

      Probably UNlike George W. Bush, J.Q. was forced by his parents to grow up fast. He was an eye witness to the battle of Lexington at the age of 8 and was a foreign ambassador for the youthful United States while in his youthful 20s.
      sissy sue
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  • Cute, now get back to work.

    By the way, I rather like Zack Whittaker's blogs. He most likely knows more about the Constitution than most of us Yanks! (If he ever comes ashore, he deserves a royal tour of the White House)!
    recurvebowyer
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  • When I think Kennedy, I think NASA

    While the Cuban Missile Crisis was important in his tenure, when I think of the lasting contributions Kennedy made, I always think of his "We shall go to the Moon" speech which launched the US Space program. Rather than Cuban cooking, I'd offer the NASA App. (Rocket Science? Yes, there's an app for that.)

    http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/iphone/index.html
    JJMach
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