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Look to the past for the future - Greatest leaders of the 20th Century (Vanity)
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| October 8, 2012
| ConservativeInPA
Posted on 10/08/2012 6:59:16 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
I just finished watching, Margaret Thatcher - The Iron Lady, on Netflix ... the British documentary, not the Meryl Streep movie. The kids watched the documentary and loved it.
The documentary got me thinking about great world leaders in the 20th century. The ones that immediately came to mind were Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Certainly there are others, but I will limit my list to these three.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: churchill; reagan; thatcher
What great leaders of the 20th century would be an excellent example for Mitt Romney when he becomes president? Why?
To: ConservativeInPA
you just named them. WHY? Because they understood the notion that freedom isn’t free and is worth defending at home and abroad.
don’t go wobbly on us
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posted on
10/08/2012 7:03:54 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Nifster
Actually, I was having difficulty coming up with anyone else. Not going wobbly here.
To: ConservativeInPA
Romney so despised Reagan that he left the republican party.
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posted on
10/08/2012 7:40:44 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: ConservativeInPA
What great leaders of the 20th century would be an excellent example for Mitt Romney when he becomes president? Why? Here are a few leaders from off the top of my head, in addition to Reagan, Churchill and Thatcher. Although some of them have significant shortcomings, I will emphasize their positive accomplishments.
- Konrad Adenauer--for promoting a free economy, decentralized government; opposition to Communism and commitment to the West
- Dwight Eisenhower--for achieving a strong, up-to-date strategic defense and for binding the Western world together with a system of alliances.
- Richard Nixon--for making decisive decisions during crises, such as ordering the the B-52's to bomb Hanoi in 1972 and the resupply of weapons to Israel during the Yom Kippur War; for using backdoor diplomacy to settle conflicts.
- Warren G. Harding--for his success in significantly reducing the size and scope of the federal government.
- Calvin Coolidge--for seeing his role as president to be the nation's first magistrate in the Jeffersonian tradition and not to be an elected king.
- Alcide de Gasperi--for fighting Fascism and Communism; for his commitment to the West and to preserving the sovereignty and integrity of Italy.
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posted on
10/08/2012 10:04:08 PM PDT
by
Fiji Hill
(Io Triumphe!)
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