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President Barack Obama opted not to try on the Naval Academy football helmet presented to him during a ceremony at the White House on Friday, April 12. "Here's the general rule: You don't put stuff on your head when you're president," he said to laughter. "So, that's politics 101. You never look good when you are wearing something on your head." Take a look back at presidents who have broken the rule. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Apparently the rule is different during political campaigns. A supporter offered Obama this hat at a rally in Austin, Texas, in 2007. Ben Sklar/Getty Images
President George W. Bush dresses for the location as he drives his pickup at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2002. Eric Draper/White House/Getty Images
Golf has its traditional headwear, donned by President Bill Clinton at the Penn National Golf Club in Pennsylvania in 1997. JAMAL A. WILSON/AFP/Getty Images
President George Bush tries on a hat given to him by the 74th American Legion at a convention in 1992. J.DAVID AKE/AFP/Getty Images
President-elect Ronald Reagan is just a regular rancher at his spread in California shortly before his inauguration in 1981. Express/Express/Getty Images
President Jimmy Carter works on a Habitat for Humanity home in LaGrange, Georgia, in 2003. Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images
President Harry S. Truman boards the presidential yacht USS Williamsburg, formerly a Navy gunboat, bound for Florida on vacation in 1950. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
President Franklin D. Roosevelt outside his home in Hyde Park, New York, in 1935. FPG/Getty Images
Fedora was the style for Herbert Hoover in the early '20s before becoming president. At the time he was secretary of commerce in President Warren G. Harding's Cabinet. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
President Warren G. Harding, left, sports a straw boater, while Vice President Calvin Coolidge chooses a fedora, in 1922. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In 1920 in New York, the occasion calls for a top hat for President Woodrow Wilson. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
President Theodore Roosevelt is dressed for the hunt on a tour in Central Africa in 1909. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The top hat and President Abraham Lincoln are forever linked. He's pictured with Allan Pinkerton, left, and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand at Antietam in Maryland. Library of Congress
