Given the following list of presidents do a top ten word count in the smallest program possible:

INPUT FILE 

    Washington
    Washington
    Adams
    Jefferson
    Jefferson
    Madison
    Madison
    Monroe
    Monroe
    John Quincy Adams
    Jackson
    Jackson
    Van Buren
    Harrison 
    DIES
    Tyler
    Polk
    Taylor 
    DIES
    Fillmore
    Pierce
    Buchanan
    Lincoln
    Lincoln 
    DIES
    Johnson
    Grant
    Grant
    Hayes
    Garfield 
    DIES
    Arthur
    Cleveland
    Harrison
    Cleveland
    McKinley
    McKinley
    DIES
    Teddy Roosevelt
    Teddy Roosevelt
    Taft
    Wilson
    Wilson
    Harding
    Coolidge
    Hoover
    FDR
    FDR
    FDR
    FDR
    Dies
    Truman
    Truman
    Eisenhower
    Eisenhower
    Kennedy 
    DIES
    Johnson
    Johnson
    Nixon
    Nixon 
    ABDICATES
    Ford
    Carter
    Reagan
    Reagan
    Bush
    Clinton
    Clinton
    Bush
    Bush
    Obama

To start it off in bash 97 characters

cat input.txt | tr " " "\n" | tr -d "\t " | sed 's/^$//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10

Output:

      2 Nixon
      2 Reagan
      2 Roosevelt
      2 Truman
      2 Washington
      2 Wilson
      3 Bush
      3 Johnson
      4 FDR
      7 DIES

Break ties as you see fit! Happy fourth!

For those of you who care more information on presidents can be found here.

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