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To: Borges
Hamilton below Jefferson and FDR? Do the historians know what the hell they are talking about when they say "influence"? Our life today is what Hamilton decided it ought to be. Period. It does not get any more influential.
147 posted on 11/22/2006 9:12:49 AM PST by raj bhatia
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To: raj bhatia
I think any other list would have put Hamilton much further down the list. I admire Hamilton as much as anybody(last time in NY about the only thing I went out of my way to visit was Trinity Church), but he was not more influential than FDR or Jefferson imo.

The thing I love about this list is they rank some of the people I most admire as more influential than I would have if I had been asked to make my own list (Hamilton, John Marshall, Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth).

321 posted on 11/24/2006 10:03:04 PM PST by crasher
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