Edie Adams as Daisy Mae
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.
Mozart.
Roger that, fidelis
JFK. Might have delayed or not had a lot of crap LBJ led the way on and endorsed.
T. Roosevelt. Had he been elected in 1920 things might have been different in a better way. He may have brought us Wilson though.
Nikola Tesla. If he was not insane and given enough time he may have created a path to a much better world in terms of physics and energy than we know now.
Others considered:
Patton if he had been given a crack at the communists
Truman would have been entertaining if nothing else.
Will Rogers just a great man. Not only funny but truthful and insightful.
Andrew Jackson to finish off federal and fractional banking even though he did my ancestors no good.
Churchill
Beethoven
Reagan had no more chances at leadership
Czar Nicholas II might have put down the revolution and he may have eventually seen the light.
My Dad of course just to spend some of my retirement with him instead of the hurried snippets of time I had while I was working. We’d have had a ball! He was the best friend I ever had and a man I could respect. But I’m glad he is not here to see the dam mess we have made of what he and other men fought so hard for.
Edie Adams as Daisy Mae
“Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States. Died at 65 years of age. He was a Southerner, ho abhorred slavery and didn’t want to see it spread. He died in his second year in office. Without Fillmore and then Buchanan as Presidents following him, the Union might have survived.”
Interesting your comments on Taylor being a Southerner who did not want to see slavery being spread. I recall some years back, there was the theory that Taylor may have been deliberately poisoned and that he (and not Lincoln) may have been the first US President to be assassinated. And his views on slavery may have given some credence to that idea as there were likely those interests who would not have liked Taylor’s ideas on slavery.
But that theory of him being deliberately poisoned was put to rest when authorities exhumed his remains and found, with the assistance of modern coroner procedures and science, no evidence that Taylor was poisoned.
If you love LIncoln so be it. I choose to despise him.
Or Henry V. Just think what would happen if he had been the king of England and France (and Henry VI hadn’t been mentally damaged).
Edward, the Black Prince. If he had become king, my ancestor, his brother Thomas, might not have been murdered by Richard II.
Glenn Miller
I think you’re right about Patton. In fact the hunting trip that ultimately led to his death was proposed by his pal General Hobart Gay, who was trying to cheer Patton out of his end of the war gloom.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Seemed like a good guy, as opposed to the rest of the family, there are some rumors that somebody in the Democratic Party *cough* Clinton *cough* saw him as a threat.
Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wis.) died in 1957 at 49 apparently of medical problems related to alcohol consumption. Had he sought and successfully completed treatment for his alcoholism, he might have ridden Sputnik to re-election to the Senate in 1958 and gone on to pester the Deep Staters in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
That 1965 immigration act was a John Kennedy idea carried forward by his little brother Ted. So we might not have escaped the disaster even if JFK had lived.
You’re the rare freeper who knows that.
Rosalind Franklin
Ann Frank
Jeanne d’Arc
King Richard I
Vlad the Impaler
Charles Martel
Teddy Roosevelt himself was a progressive. As President he advocated for an Income Tax Amendment. The National Monetary Commission study that led to the Fed began during his administration. His great fame was as a trust buster. People oddly think that Wilson was the first progressive President.
Teddy was so much of a progressive that in the 1912 Election he ran for President on the Progressive Party ticket, the real name of the Bull Moose Party.
Ronald Reagan and John Lennon.
You do know that Teddy ran in 1912 on the Progressive Party ticket? And that a boatload of the socialists who manned FDR’s New Deal had begun their political lives as progressive Republicans in the Teddy Roosevelt years?
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