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To: Tax-chick

I like Churchill but I think Benjamin Franklin would be my choice


22 posted on 01/03/2018 9:19:08 AM PST by JMS
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To: JMS

I admire Churchill very much, but as a lunch companion, he was a self-involved performer. “Now, Randolph, don’t interrupt Papa when he’s interrupting Mr. Eden!”

Aaron Burr, however, was cagey and mysteriously charming, they say, so I’m curious. (I’d have a chaperone, though ;-).


28 posted on 01/03/2018 9:21:29 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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To: JMS

Benjamin Franklin and I think he would give me no spin. He was in such pain from bad kidneys (stones) that he was carried down the cobbled streets of Philadelphia on a pallet, by men. He could not endure the vibrations of being in a horse n carriage.

During The Constitutional Convention. (Internet says it was bladder stones)


58 posted on 01/03/2018 9:37:34 AM PST by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action)
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