Poker and President

What do poker and presidents have in common? Presidents Roosevelt (both), Harding, Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon were all fans of the game. Now I have just heard that Obama is a poker player, law makers and lobbyists, that would on a regular basis play low stakes poker, smoke cigars and drink beer…

Followings are some historical poker tidbits about some of the presidents mentioned above:

Warren Harding

Warren Harding (the 29th US President) loved the game so much that he had a poker game twice a week and his cabinet was called “the poker cabinet”
I do not know whether Harding had any poker skills, but I have suspicions that he was not that good.

Harry Truman

Harry Truman (33rd US President) was also a president who liked the game of poker. According to several people who played with him, he was not that a good poker player.

Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower (34th US president) was supposedly a careful poker player because he was good at math and knew the percentages.
After graduation from West Point in 1915, he won enough money from his poker games to buy his first uniform and then he used his poker winnings to buy gifts for his wife Mamie.
He even managed for a while to find time to play poker twice a week with his friends.

Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon (37th US president) funded his first congressional campaign with money that he won from poker. When he was in the Navy in World War II he supposedly won $6000 in two months.

So I wonder where he first got the name “Tricky Dick”