Posted on 11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM PST by Borges
1 Abraham Lincoln 2 George Washington 3 Thomas Jefferson 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 Alexander Hamilton 6 Benjamin Franklin 7 John Marshall 8 Martin Luther King Jr. 9 Thomas Edison 10 Woodrow Wilson 11 John D. Rockefeller 12 Ulysses Grant 13 James Madison 14 Henry Ford 15 Theodore Roosevelt 16 Mark Twain 17 Ronald Reagan 18 Andrew Jackson 19 Thomas Paine 20 Andrew Carnegie 21 Harry Truman 22 Walt Whitman 23 Wright Brothers 24 Alexander Graham Bell 25 John Adams 26 Walt Disney 27 Eli Whitney 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower 29 Earl Warren 30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 31 Henry Clay 32 Albert Einstein 33 Ralph Waldo Emerson 34 Jonas Salk 35 Jackie Robinson 36 William Jennings Bryan 37 J.P. Morgan 38 Susan B. Anthony 39 Rachel Carson 40 John Dewey 41 Harriet Beecher Stowe 42 Eleanor Roosevelt 43 W.E.B. DuBois 44 Lyndon Baines Johnson 45 Samuel F.B. Morse 46 William Lloyd Garrison 47 Frederick Douglass 48 Robert Oppenheimer 49 Frederick Law Olmsted 50 James K. Polk 51 Margaret Sanger 52 Joseph Smith 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 54 Bill Gates 55 John Quincy Adams 56 Horace Mann 57 Robert E. Lee 58 John C. Calhoun 59 Louis Sullivan 60 William Faulkner 61 Samuel Gompers 62 William James 63 George Marshall 64 Jane Addams 65 Henry David Thoreau 66 Elvis Presley 67 P.T. Barnum 68 James D. Watson 69 James Gordon Bennett 70 Lewis and Clark 71 Noah Webster 72 Sam Walton 73 Cyrus McCormick 74 Brigham Young 75 George Herman "Babe" Ruth 76 Frank Lloyd Wright 77 Betty Friedan 78 John Brown 79 Louis Armstrong 80 William Randolph Hearst 81 Margaret Mead 82 George Gallup 83 James Fenimore Cooper 84 Thurgood Marshall 85 Ernest Hemingway 86 Mary Baker Eddy 87 Benjamin Spock 88 Enrico Fermi 89 Walter Lippmann 90 Jonathan Edwards 91 Lyman Beecher 92 John Steinbeck 93 Nat Turner 94 George Eastman 95 Sam Goldwyn 96 Ralph Nader 97 Stephen Foster 98 Booker T. Washington 99 Richard Nixon 100 Herman Melville
In the summer of 1919, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower participated in an Army expedition that was to make a lasting impression on the young officer, and was to have an even greater significance for the United States when he later became the 34th President.
The first Transcontinental Motor Convoy of 1919, as the expedition was known, consisted of eighty-one motorized Army vehicles which crossed the US from east to west. The convoy set a world record pace for the time, traveling a total continuous distance of 3,251 miles, from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, in 62 days, only five days behind schedule. Average speed was 6 mph and average progress per day was a little over 58 miles. At every stop townspeople turned out to greet the soldiers, many of whom had recently returned from World War I, and to see the latest military equipment and listen to patriotic speeches.
The major objectives of the expedition were to test various military vehicles, many developed too late for use in World War I, and to determine by actual experience the feasibility of moving an army across the continent. A sense of realism was added by operating the convoy under wartime conditions. In the words of the Expeditionary Adjutant Officer it was assumed..."that railroad facilities, bridges, tunnels, etc. had been damaged or destroyed by agents of an Asiatic enemy. The expedition was assumed to be marching through enemy country and therefore had to be self-sustaining throughout"....
Colonel Eisenhower and Major Sereno Brett, joined the convoy the first night out of Washington in Frederick, Maryland as Tank Corps observers. There were 24 expeditionary officers, thirteen other War Department staff observation officers, and 258 enlisted men with the convoy. It was to proceed to San Francisco via the Lincoln Highway (now U.S. 30), a series of roads that "varied from average to non-existent." Ike wrote that the trip was a genuine adventure. "We were not sure it could be accomplished at all. Nothing of the sort had ever been attempted."
Yeah many people do not understand that Robinson broke the baseball color barrier WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE STATE. He did not have the government ordering people to accept him. He had to earn it.
Entry #70 is "Lewis and Clark. That's two people.
And the "Wright Brothers" aren't?
These top 100 lists always becoming pissing contests and take the fun right out of it.
Why in the heck was Woodrow Wilson on the list?
Reagan is #17
Clinton is not on the list.
What? No Jerry Garcia?
White House Lewinskis and teapots...but he did patronize our fishermen thank goodness
Yeah, I would think if you want a consumer advocate someone who really impacted US consumers like say Upton Sinclar or someone of that era might be more apt?
Katie Couric didn't make the list?????
Gee, I and many other Americans never make a move without the benefit of her influence and wisdom!
Katie Couric didn't make the list?????
Gee, I and many other Americans never make a move without the benefit of her influence and wisdom!
Looks like the 18-minute-noodling-guitar-solo lobby missed the boat on this one.
That said, I'd put him at about 70 on the list, give or take.
Where's Pat Paulsen?
No one ever checks with me on these things. Good use of the word noodling!
Alas, "exemplary" ain't synonymous with "influential."
Red Badger reposted it with formatting, here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742641/posts?page=14#14
Tesla should be on there, as long as other non-native-born Americans are on there.
I pride myself on my technical vocabulary.
and of course, it's undoubtedly true. What--from the Enquirer??
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