Posted on 11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM PST by Borges
He's #66.........
Lyndon Johnson #44? That's funny. Harry Truman #21, that's laugh out loud funny. Nate Truner #93, that's roll around on the floor funny. Since I don't see Edwin Armstrong or Philo Farnsworth on the list, it's hard to take it seriously.
Agree with both observations.
Because it didn't include swine.
Who was James Gordon Bennett (#69)?
Old Marge Sanger, the euthanasia and eugenics advocate, not to mention abortion..............and a Nazi sympathizer to boot......
OOPPS, my bad.
> I agree with Elvis because of his influence on music for the last 50 years. <
Maybe he should be somewhere on the list, due perhaps more to his contribution to the breakdown of social norms than his influence on popular music.
And when it comes to music alone, Elvis should be lower on the list than Louis Armstrong, who influenced American popular music more than anybody else during the 20th century.
Like her or not, she was definitely influential.
Probably the Monroe Doctrine ... Adams is still thought of as one of the most important American diplomats of all time...
James Gordon Bennett (Sr.) (1 September 1795 – 1 June 1872), was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the History of American newspapers.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 in New York City – May 14, 1918 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
Music is not the life of society, no more than the cartoons are. Include Scott Adams with his "Dilbert" there, then. Life of society is how people relate to one another and to their groups in socially important situations [i.e. the "gesundheit"/"bless you" does not count, and neither does Elvis' output]. Ditto for Hefner [fails the situational social importance test].
I heard recently a little more about Eisenhower....that lowered him on MY list......supposedly he found Roosevelt's daughter VERY nice....and she put a good word in for him to Daddy.....and his career went up from there.....
Booker T. is not politically correct. Loved his organ fills on "Green Onions" though.
I thought the same.
The three biggest land gains in U.S. history were made under Grant (Alaska, aka "Seward's Folly"), Jefferson (The Louisiana Purchase), and Polk (Texas, California, "New Mexico").
Yet Polk is number 50 (compare to Grant at 12 and TJ at 3). Sigh.
And "Operation Wetback" in 1954. That was before all this PC nonsense.
I see they followed PC rules coming up with that list.
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