Posted on 06/30/2006 5:03:16 PM PDT by robowombat
Also, you must remember that leading up to the clean-up under Guilliani it was subject to the whims of the Lindsey, Beame, Koch and Dinkens administrations. That's 28yrs. of neglect.
But we were Fun City and the Big Apple!
I agree that General Grant has deserved better.
Thams fightin' words PPM!
BTW I have a scrimshaw where the whaler documented the Chicago Fire with a scene of Chicago Burning. On the other side of the whale tooth is a political statment that asserts that the Chicago Fire was "God's Wrath" due to the evil Grant Administration. No mention of a cow!
Grant was a great General but a lousy President.
No Civil War buffs from the south here to spit on his grave?
;)
The myth that Grant was a bad president was revisionism created by racist historians who didn't like Grant's efforts to bring about racial reconciliation. His two terms were a period of remarkable healing and growth. With very little effort, he could have been elected to a third term, either immediately, or after his world tour.
Is that reptillian mosaic thing still around it? Like I said, it's been at least eight years sinc I've been there.
Yeah, unfortunately. It's not bad in itself, but totally out of place around the monument.
$100,000 - Woodrow Wilson
$10,000 - Salmon P. Chase
$5,000 - James Madison
$1,000 - Grover Cleveland
$500 - William McKinley
$100 - Benjamin Franklin
$50 - Ulysses S. Grant
$20 - Andrew Jackson
$10 - Alexander Hamilton
$5 - Abraham Lincoln
$2 - Thomas Jefferson
$1 - George Washington
The most ironic of these is Andy Jackson on the $20 Federal Reserve note.
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