Other Shirtless Presidents (SLIDESHOW)

Though Monday's shirtless Obama pictures created quite a stir, the President-elect wasn't the first world leader to be snapped half-naked. Here's a look back at other presidents who dared to go bare.

**See a slideshow of the Obamas in Hawaii**

**See other presidents on vacation**

(Photos from AP and Getty)

PHOTOS:

• • • • • • • • • • • • Bill Clinton in Hawaii, 1993

Comments

[Quotidien]

10:47 AM on 12/29/2008

I honestly feel like I'm about to vomit.

[johnnygoodwud]

03:34 PM on 12/27/2008

watching reagan and nancy, it jogged my memory of the time i walked in on my 92 yr. old great aunt, at her assisted living apt. just as she walked out of the bathroom after a shower. need i say more, my poor brain is scared for life.

[jean22]

03:21 PM on 12/27/2008

Wow, apparently I missed these shirtless prez pics back in the day or maybe I saw them but they didn't leave enuf of an impression to be memorable. I guess that level of intrusiveness just goes with the territory...unfortunately for them, most unfortunately for the Reagans.

[PoliticalRockChick]

10:41 AM on 12/27/2008

I do not want to see any Presidents naked. Of course Obama is an exception my friend says.

[zakgreene]

07:31 PM on 12/26/2008

HOT.

And I am of course talking about Reagan.

[truthglow]

02:34 AM on 12/27/2008

That OLD man???

[aaronr2000]

11:32 AM on 12/26/2008

I found the Reagan pics to be especially intriguing because given the way Republicans talk him up I just knew he looked like a Greek god or something, like oh I don't know maybe Hercules son of Zeus.

[jean22]

03:44 PM on 12/27/2008

lol, I've learned a while ago to believe the opposite of most of what the republicans push. The harder they push it the more likely it is to be untrue.

In the case of Reagan, they work long and hard drilling or attempting to drill into the minds of the American public that this man, a man battling alzheimers DURING his presidency (not just a man of average or below average intelligence) but a man with ALZHEIMERs DURING his presidency was the best president this century or country has seen.

It would be comical if so many folks didn't fall for the hype.

[TruthNreconciliation]

03:42 PM on 01/20/2009

Even if Reagan had been in full possession of his faculties, Baker and Cheney were running the show anyway...

[Tugar]

09:24 AM on 12/26/2008

If anyone is in need of a little Christmas laughter, just read these blogs posted by you guys about our "Fellow Presidents" beachwear. (Smile) !!!

You Guys are the absolute funniest. HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL.

Tugar

[Jaradan]

01:30 AM on 12/26/2008

Correction: Gerald Ford actually looks decent from the neck down. Shocker. Is JFK there? I didn't see him...

[Jaradan]

01:29 AM on 12/26/2008

TMI!!!!! All of em look bad except Obama. I like my presidents in tailored suits, thank you. Nancy Reagan has pancake boobs (maybe Putin can loan her some of his). And Hillary has pancake booty. Maybe she can borrow some of Reagan/Bill's gut.

[PippiLongstocking]

08:36 AM on 12/26/2008

LOL

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

10:20 PM on 12/27/2008

Your gonna get old someday. Be sure to stay out of our sight and never have any fun at the beach.

[NobodyPacific]

04:31 PM on 12/25/2008

Are those chest tube scars on Reagan?

[TruthNreconciliation]

03:47 PM on 01/20/2009

Presumably, since he had surgery after the March 1981 assassination attempt (which came remarkably close to succeeding, thanks to some useless secret service work!) God I sure hope those days are gone for good.

[NoSillyName]

04:22 PM on 12/25/2008

Nancy has always looked anorexic.

[DrDemon]

12:36 PM on 12/25/2008

That "Reagan in Honolulu" photo is just:

------ > ToooOOO S*E*X*Y !

[Bulbul]

07:34 AM on 12/25/2008

I voted for Bill Clinton twice , but the President should not be pictured shirtless , too pale... .
Hillary looks so much better ! Never for Bush, but where is his picture ?

[karinova]

05:01 AM on 12/25/2008

Holy crap, Gerald Ford??
I'm not saying he's a heartthrob or anything, but he looked pretty good for his age!
At a time when men were TOTALLY allowed to let themselves go.

Also, I find it totally endearing that he's wearing the same bathing suit from the summer before.

[PippiLongstocking]

01:38 PM on 12/25/2008

Exactly.

[TakLoufer]

06:22 PM on 12/25/2008

More likely Ford's trunks are from the same set of photos taken that day. He was one of the few genuine hunkola Presidents, college football hero and all that.

[karinova]

02:18 AM on 12/26/2008

The first Ford pic is 1974, the second is 1975.

[Concerned Outsider]

12:45 AM on 12/25/2008

Putin vs. Obama.. who would win in a fist fight. Go vote honestly:
http://concernedoutsider.com/2008/12/25/obama-vs-putin/

[Tyrione]

05:18 AM on 12/25/2008

A 3rd or great degreed blackbelt in Judo, a trained former KGB agent of high rank with a litany of weapon skills including hand to hand, versus a basketball playing lawyer, now our President Elect.

I don't care how skilled with a basketball Obama is, Putin knows dozens of ways to kill a man in a single blow.

Putin, in one punch would bring Obama down. The real question is, what sort of punches would he be allowed to deliver to make it even closer to the notion of a fair fight.

[kareemachan]

09:29 AM on 12/25/2008

So what's your point? Comparing leaders to WWA (or whatever the hell the initials are) Raw smackdown cr.ap? Get a life, dude.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

09:21 AM on 12/25/2008

LOL That's a 100% vote of confidence on the KGB kiIIer. Not surprising. He'd take down O in a split second.