Was it FDR or was it Teddy Roosevelt?
parsy, who isn’t sure
This remarkable fact was uncovered by Sharon Rondeau writing in the Post and Email, a blog about which I was initially cautious. Hughes was an impressive man, appointed associate justice in 1910 by William Howard Taft, he resigned to run for president in 1916. Here is a bit of the Rondeau article:
“During his presidential campaign, Hughess eligibility for the presidency was questioned because his father remained a British citizen. Breckenridge Long, an attorney and graduate of Washington University Law School who later served as Secretary of State as well as U.S. ambassador to Italy under FDR, examined the issue in an article entitled Is Mr. Charles Evans Hughes a Natural Born Citizen within the Meaning of the Constitution? Published in the Chicago Legal News, Vol. 146, p. 220 in 1916, the article begins:
Whether Mr. Hughes is, or is not, a natural born citizen within the meaning of the Constitution, so as to make him eligible, or ineligible, to assume the office of President, presents an interesting inquiry.
He was born in this country and is beyond question native born. But is there not a distinction native born and natural born? At the time he was born his father and mother were subjects of England. His father had not then been naturalized.”
Here is the URL for the entire article, including the pointer to the Breckenridge Long article.
As an aside, it is sad to see trolls dominating Internet discussions, preventing those who can help educate the public from being heard. The major media figures have been silenced, perhaps by threats involving the penalties for incitement, since violence will probably be employed by the left when the threat of exposure becomes great enough. Some of us have seen most of the polemical arguments, but when an issue such as Dr. Lakin, involving eligibility arises the wave of birth certificate responses hits first, suggesting very active monitoring of this site. Then, because of the integrity of the FR owner, measured responses begin to come. To anyone who is interested in the facts, look for succinct citations. Read the Apuzzo blog. Read The Post and Email, or Undeadrevolution.wordpress.com.
Sites without clear management, like Greta Van Sustern’s blog, have been destroyed by name calling, and by design. This is about our Constitution and, while the administrators tolerate trolls who simply interrupt serious examination, it has taken me a while to see the extent to which it dilutes discussion here, still a relative sanctuary for freedom of speech.
parsy, who isnt sure
Come on, parsi ... your memory is failing you a lot lately.
Where was it that you enjoyed that ribeye with the JimRob?
Fleming's, Ruth's Chris, or Joe's Steak House?