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1 posted on 07/25/2024 7:31:23 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

How about James Madison?


2 posted on 07/25/2024 7:34:19 AM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

What is he gay now or non-binary, maybe had a thing for furries?


3 posted on 07/25/2024 7:37:32 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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Franklin’s AUTOBIOGRAPHY is available for free on Hoopla through your local library (if they subscribe). It is a life-changing read. Factoids I recall:

1. He and his son arranged the wagons for the campaign between Bedford PA and Fort Ligonier to expel the French from Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh.
2. He learned this as a young man (from a book!) to preface opinions or convictions by saying “from my point of view,” or “as I understand” in discussions with otherws.
3. How he “franchised” print shops in the colonies by training a young printer and examining his character, then setting that printer up in business and sharing profits with him, and “I never had anything but an agreeable result with the several young men, as our business relationship was based on a very plain and detailed written contract understood and agreeable by both sides.”


7 posted on 07/25/2024 11:20:43 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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