Which US president had the best nickname?

Some were earned by soldiers, some were insults that stuck, and one is just three letters.

1. 1
   Andrew Jackson

   'Old Hickory', from troops who decided their general was as hard to break as the wood.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Calvin Coolidge

   'Silent Cal', for a man who treated conversation as a resource to be conserved.
   835pts
3. 3
   Abraham Lincoln

   'Honest Abe', earned as a country lawyer long before it became campaign material.
   762pts
4. 4
   Rutherford B. Hayes

   'His Fraudulency', pinned on him by opponents after the disputed 1876 election.
   734pts
5. 5
   Dwight D. Eisenhower

   'Ike', short enough to fit on a button — 'I Like Ike' did the rest.
   734pts
6. 6
   Martin Van Buren

   'The Little Magician', for a political operator who was five foot six.
   571pts
7. 7
   Thomas Jefferson

   'The Sage of Monticello', the title he got once he stopped governing and started building.
   571pts
8. 8
   Ulysses S. Grant

   'Unconditional Surrender Grant', a pun on his initials and his terms at Fort Donelson.
   571pts
9. 9
   Zachary Taylor

   'Old Rough and Ready', a general who campaigned in a straw hat and no uniform.
   467pts
10. 10
    Theodore Roosevelt

    'Teddy' — a nickname he disliked that ended up on a stuffed bear in every nursery.
    467pts
11. 11
    Ronald Reagan

    'The Great Communicator', a nickname earned on television rather than a battlefield.
    467pts
12. 12
    James K. Polk

    'Young Hickory', the protégé who kept every promise he made in one term.
    343pts
13. 13
    William Henry Harrison

    'Old Tippecanoe', from the 1811 battle that gave America its first campaign jingle.
    343pts
14. 14
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    'FDR' — the first president known to the country by three letters.
    343pts
15. 15
    George Washington

    'The Father of His Country' — the only presidential nickname that reads like a job title.
    0pts
16. 16
    Grover Cleveland

    'The Veto President', for rejecting more bills than his twenty-one predecessors combined.
    0pts

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