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To: SeekAndFind

Great:

Reagan
Coolidge
Harding

Good:
Eisenhower
Kennedy

The rest of the Presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries were disasters.


6 posted on 09/22/2010 7:10:49 AM PDT by November 2010
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To: November 2010

You don’t like Teddy Roosevelt (1901-1909) I gather...

If he was a disaster, why is his face up there on Mt. Rushmore?


9 posted on 09/22/2010 7:26:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: November 2010

Not sure Harding was great, but he did get the 20s going. Coolidge was definitely great, and is underappreciated. I didn’t know how well he had done because nothing he did is taught, even in college US History classes. They provide a few quotes and sum him up as “Silent Cal” without explaining how his pro-business policies created the boom, and Hoover’s policies helped kill it. I learned about Coolidge in greater detail when researching the history of the 20s and the Great Depression that followed. He was a supply sider and free market, limited government advocate long before Reagan made it a movement.


16 posted on 09/22/2010 10:02:12 AM PDT by Defiant (Liberals care more about the Koran than they did about Terri Schiavo.)
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