what presidents have been boy scouts
The Presidents of the United States and Scouting. John F. Kennedy was the first U.S. PresÂ­iÂ­dent to be a Boy Scout, reachÂ­ing the levÂ­el of Star Scout. GerÂ­ald Ford was the only PresÂ­iÂ­dent to reach the levÂ­el of Eagle Scout. Both George W. Bush and Bill ClinÂ­ton were Cub Scouts.
William Howard Taft was the first Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America in 1911. John F. Kennedy was the first president who had been a Scout as a youth. He was a â¦member of Troop 2 in Bronxville, New York from 1929 to 1931, attaining the rank of Star Scout.
Robert M. Gates, the president of the Boy Scouts of America and former secretary of defense, called on Thursday to end the Scoutsâ ban on gay adult leaders, warning the groupâs executives that âwe must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it to be.â.