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To: sten

“America has never been a ‘beard’ country”

Umm, yes, yes it has.

Look at the mugs of most Confederate generals, save Lee. Longstreet, Jackson, Hill. It wasn’t until women could vote that you had presidents without beards.


13 posted on 08/26/2013 2:16:25 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: JCBreckenridge

of the 44 US presidents over the passed 237 years, only 5 had beards and 4 others had mustaches.


15 posted on 08/26/2013 3:58:31 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Look At Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William H. Taft, and I could name a few more. All of those had beards. The second half of the 19th century in America was a time where having a beard was the fashionable thing for an American grown man to have.


16 posted on 08/26/2013 4:14:37 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: JCBreckenridge
"It wasn’t until women could vote that you had presidents without beards."

Ummm, the beard discussion is stupid, on both sides, but that's a particularly ignorant remark.

I'm pretty sure Washington, Adams, Jefferson, et al. were presidents....and in fact, until Lincoln, ALL US presidents were clean shaven.


27 posted on 08/26/2013 8:43:12 AM PDT by AnalogReigns (because the real world is not digital...)
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