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To: faucetman

Grant is a perfect example, a drunkard...but by God the man could fight!

He was a mediocre president later on but it is for his actions as a general that I include him as a flawed but extraordinary gentleman.

Franklin schemed to make money from everything he was involved in from the post office to printing the currency. He was loyal to the crown until it became clear he must become a patriot. And he loved the ladies. :-) He would have served as president but was simply too old by the nations founding. His worthwhile accomplishments are legion.

Churchill flipped back and forth between liberal and conservative parties, was partly responsible for some huge military blunders (Gallipoli for one) and drank like a fish. But the man was almost singularly responsible for saving the world from Naziism.


47 posted on 12/21/2011 8:35:20 PM PST by Bobalu (even Jesus knew the poor would always be with us)
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To: Bobalu

He handled it. He was a heavy drinker but so be it. He handled it.


49 posted on 12/21/2011 8:39:51 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: Bobalu

I commend all four of your choices, but I would have selected General Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson instead of Gen. Grant.

http://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/csos.htm


68 posted on 12/21/2011 10:00:51 PM PST by matthew fuller ("If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost." Winston Churchill)
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