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Presidents love the movies, just like the rest of us.
The first president to screen a movie at the White House was Woodrow Wilson in 1915. A few presidents later, Franklin D. Roosevelt had a home movie theater built at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
More recently, in a sketch video that aired at the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Barack Obama pondered what he would do after he was no longer commander-in-chief and yes, it included going to the movies with an unlikely friend, former Speaker John Boehner.
And in July, during his 2016 DNC speech, Bill Clinton — Georgetown and Yale graduate, Rhodes scholar — recounted how he took two days off from running the country to watch all the Police Academy movies. Thankfully, Clinton didn't rank the adventures of Mahoney, Hightower et al. among his favorite films.
Read on to find out which film gets Clinton's vote (incidentally, it's a favorite of several former commanders-in-chief).
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