I thought every President except Kennedy was a Mason
Nope, Reagan was not. The Bushes are LOUSEY with/in Secret “Sociaeties”.
First, George Washington’s freemasonry had little to do with Albert Pike’s Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
Few presidents were actually free-masons, unless you count the normative tradition of freemasons bestowing honorary membership on presidents. Presidents who were known freemasons include George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, LBJ, FDR, Warren Harding and Harry Truman.
Notice the historical gap? It occurs after the decline of traditional masonry (which has only 3 degrees) and before the rise of the Scottish rite, and its 33 degrees. (Pike’s 33rd degree is a black mass.)
The Scottish rite reached its Zenith in the mid-20th century with a masonic presidents (FDR, Truman, LBJ) appointing all masons to numerous powerful positions, from the formal (For decades, there was only one non-Mason on the Supreme Court) to the merely inspirational (every Apollo astronaut was a free mason).
By the late 20th century, freemasonry was in serious decline, although the lowering of drinking ages across the nation put masonic fraternities and sororities as the primary dispensers of alcohol to college students.
It might be fair to say more presidents had masonic connections: While not “Greek,” and not officially Masonic, the Bushes were members of fraternities with very strong Masonic ties. Both Obama’s and Romney’s denominations are very strongly tied to Masonry.