To: DCPatriot
Just heard on the local FOX news channel
...Cheney is the 3rd VP to shoot somebody.
1) Aaron Burr, under Jefferson, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel
The single most tragic shooting in U.S. history. President Hamilton would have been a gold standard benchmark for the ages.
To: raj bhatia
Alexander Hamilton was this nation's greatest founding father. Period.
43 posted on
02/13/2006 2:30:24 PM PST by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: raj bhatia
Must confess I am not up-to-speed on Hamilton's politics.
Just learned about the duel in parochial school when I was a youngster...like everyone else back in the 50's
44 posted on
02/13/2006 2:31:37 PM PST by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: raj bhatia
Alexander Hamilton was ineligible to be US President as he was born in the West Indies. Same reason Kissinger, Albright couldn't be president.
To: raj bhatia
Just heard on the local FOX news channel
...Cheney is the 3rd VP to shoot somebody.
1) Aaron Burr, under Jefferson, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in that famous duel
2) Richard Johnson under somebody...shot a famous Indian Chief.
I heard that on Fox, too, so I looked it up. Richard M. Johnson was vice president under Martin Van Buren (1837-1841), and during his political career he was renowned as the man who shot Indian leader Tecumsah during a battle in the War of 1812. But there's no record of him shooting anybody while he was vice president.
71 posted on
02/13/2006 3:14:43 PM PST by
Colinsky
To: raj bhatia
President Hamilton would have been a gold standard benchmark for the ages. Even though he advocated abolishing the states and creating a strictly national government?
86 posted on
02/13/2006 4:22:31 PM PST by
Skokie42
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson