Presidents and their words

I thought this was a very thought provoking activity. I found it very interesting how as the history of our nation unfolded Presidents used different words more often than others. The most used words in the most recent word cloud, President Obama's, weren't that surprising - nation, America, and people. All three of these words go hand-in-hand with Obama's idea of "change WE can all believe in". Depending on what the president stands for and what the country is going through at the time the words can change quite a bit. For example, Franklin D. Roosevelt's two most used words were peace and learn. This makes sense since it was during World War II and Roosevelt was hoping for it to end as soon as possible. I also was very intrigued at the fact that in 1845 James Know Polk used the word government an astounding 50 times. If you compare the 50 uses of the word government with the entire Franklin D. Roosevelt speech that I was previously talking about, those 50 uses of government would make up nearly 10 percent of the total FDR 1945 inaugural address. That was just one of the many interesting things I noticed when looking at all of these word clouds.