Herbert Hoover, a man unjustly slandered for his government service, was a professional mining engineer, and as such, attempted to apply business principles to government operations. Fully agree - it was the fact that he was already a multi-millionaire from his business and investments that he could undertake the Europe Relief in WW1. He was so successful at that that he was arguably the most respected American in the late 1910s thru the early 1920s. IIRC the Democrats and FDR himself labored to convince him to be the 1920 Democrat President Candidate as successor to Wilson.
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In modern time, say 1900 to present, what presidents were businessmen?"
How many of them have been false gods?
Donald Trump kicks over the money changer tables in the temple in Jerusalem.http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3322350/posts
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CNN ANDERSON COOPER GRILLS DONALD TRUMP ON HIS FAITH - JULY 22, 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFH1ghoMmg0
After 46 seconds, Donald Trump said the following in answer to the question about repentance.
https://youtu.be/IFH1ghoMmg0?t=46s
"Well, I, I like to work where I don't really have to ask for...I like to do the right thing where I don't have to actually ask for forgiveness, does that make sense to you, you know, where you don't make such bad things, that you don't have to ask for forgiveness, I mean, I try and lead a life where I don't have to ask G[-]d for forgiveness..."
After 1 minute, 20 seconds,...
https://youtu.be/IFH1ghoMmg0?t=1m20s
"Well, I try not to make mistakes, where I have to ask for forgiveness, for one thing. So when I'm asked a question like that, it's like, you know, I don't like to make a lot of mistakes
After 1 minute, 52 seconds,...
https://youtu.be/IFH1ghoMmg0?t=1m52s
"Why do I have to ask for forgiveness, if you're not making mistakes, I work hard, I'm an honorable person, I have thousands of people that work for me, I've employed tens of thousands of people over the years..."