Author Topic: The Greatest Amercian President (Read 288 times)

midnight Target · « **Reply #15 on:** December 01, 2002, 02:56:29 PM »

TR was the first (only?) standing President to earn a Nobel Peace Prize. He implemented the National Park system, he was instrumental in breaking up the large trusts including the Railroad Barons who threatened to run the country from their Newport estates. He also shepharded the country into the Industrial age and helped establish the US as a world power.

On a personal note he was the leading authority in the world on a particular bird species (I forget which one), he was an avid outdoorsman and fitness freak. And finally his son was the commanding officer on the beach at Utah Beach on D-Day (Brigadier Gen. Teddy Roosevelt Jr.)

Curval · « **Reply #16 on:** December 01, 2002, 06:21:55 PM »

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Originally posted by MrBill
William Henry Harrison ... Less time, less mistakes.

hehe..yup..I was gonna say Ford.

hardcase · « **Reply #17 on:** December 01, 2002, 08:48:50 PM »

If how you got to the presidency is based on where you started. How about being poor in an arkansas town, going to public schools in one of the worse states for educational stats. Getting a Rhodes Scholarship, running a state in your 30s and being the president during one of the most spectacular economies, leaving office with a 1.6 trillion dollar surplus.

Took george about 18 months to squander and give it away.

HC

lazs2 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 02, 2002, 08:42:31 AM »

well... I don't think so hardcase... I mean.. Lincoln was born in a log cabin and Hitler was a private in the army. Clinton flunked out of the rhodes program.
lazs

Eagler · « **Reply #19 on:** December 02, 2002, 08:47:51 AM »

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Originally posted by hardcase
If how you got to the presidency is based on where you started. How about being poor in an arkansas town, going to public schools in one of the worse states for educational stats. Getting a Rhodes Scholarship, running a state in your 30s and being the president during one of the most spectacular economies, leaving office with a 1.6 trillion dollar surplus.

Took george about 18 months to squander and give it away.

HC

LOL

you forgot - likes head from fat chicks his daughters age in the oral office while selling nuclear secrets to the red chinese for dem $$$

midnight Target · « **Reply #20 on:** December 02, 2002, 10:16:00 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
well... I don't think so hardcase... I mean.. Lincoln was born in a log cabin and Hitler was a private in the army. Clinton flunked out of the rhodes program.
lazs

You making stuff up again Lazs?

"Clinton and Oxford

Former President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, was a Rhodes Scholar at University College from 1968 to 1970, where he studied for a BPhil in Politics. He came to Oxford from Georgetown University.
He began studying PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) but soon switched to a postgraduate course in Politics. His tutors reported that they were pleased with his progress, adding that he was an intelligent and hard-working student. In August 1970 he won a place at Yale Law School and decided to continue his studies there, rather than return to Oxford."

That is from a University of Oxford press release...