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Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
Impossible to pick just three of course, but here goes:
Barbara Olson - I really wish she could be here to see the Trump revolution
JFK - the Communists knew who stood in their way
Airey Neave - ditto with the IRA - a giant of a man in so many ways; the architect of Margaret Thatcher’s first election victory and a key advisor who had he lived would have had a crucial influence upon her premiership (not least, not surrendering to the IRA - just as a PoW, he defied the Nazis).
He stole the election in the Republican Primary. Seward should have been president, and probably the Civil War would have never happened.
Lincoln inserted himself into national politics, and got more people killed than any other President in history.
Andrew Breitbart.
Princess Diana.
Lee Harvey Oswald (so we could have known the truth).
+1 Seth Rich.
And God Bless your Father. And all of our loved ones who have crossed over.
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Good choice.
JFK, so we could have avoided guns & butter LBJ & the 1965 Immigration Act which will collapse our nation in the near future.
General George Patton.
General Custer for the hell of it.
Walt Disney
I think of Barbara Olson often and the devastating day she was taken from all of us. Very sad.
Another person I would choose is John Bonham. Enough said..
The third one is the one that haunts me most. I would choose HELEN THOMAS. I would love to see the look on that ogre’s face as D.C. has its Day of Reckoning. Just to see her gnash and wail
And his son Brandon. I think he was just starting to come into his own stardom.
Roy Orbison
Barbara Stanwyck
Aristotle
It is interesting you listed Lincoln and Jefferson, because politically they were polar opposites: Lincoln was all for a large and dominant federal government, with the states subordinate; and Jefferson was for a small and limited federal government, with the federal government subordinate to the states.
The three people I wish were here at this moment are Churchill, Harry Truman, and Will Rogers...all for the same reason (to speak the unvarnished truth).
I understand your sentiments, but breaking up over the issue of slavery would not have gone well. The south turned a legit issue... States rights .. into something ugly... the right to have slaves. We all have regrets in our life. the south most certainly regrets this stain on its history.
- Abraham Lincoln - POTUS
- Jackie Robinson - Major League Baseball Player - 1st African-American Major League Ballplayer
- John Ford - Producer/Director - Hollywood/Ireland - four (4) time Academy Award Winner (The Only One)
I bet 99% of the American people have no idea who Ernie Kovacs was. I thought he was a comedic genius. And his wife, Edie Adams, was class personified.
Three gems.
Croce
Morrison
Hendrix
Carl Sagan.
Anne Frank
Mahatma Gandhi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mine are Reagan and Thatcher.
I agree with you re JFK. Democrat or not, his assassination turned this country in a dark direction from which it never fully recovered.
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