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To: meandog

61 percent of historians think ...

An unpopular war with 5,000 deaths is worse than a civil war with 6 to 700,000 deaths - any real historian would rank James Buchanan below George W. Bush.

5.1 percent unemployment is worse than 36 percent undemployment during the Great Depression - any real historian would rank Herbert Hoover below George W. Bush.

Having an aide to the Vice President convicted for misleading a grand jury about a matter that did not involve an underlying crime is worse than being forced to resign from office for covering-up a break-in on the opporing political party’s headquarters - any real historian would rank Richard M. Nixon below George W. Bush.

The fact that the majority of a survey of so-called professional historians ranked G.W. Bush last proves that they’re (A) ignorant of history, (B) emotionally disturbed, and/or (C) tenured professors.


40 posted on 04/14/2008 12:34:17 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever
The worst unemployment during Hoover's tenure was 24.9%. The rate improved at a painfully slow pace under FDR, then got worse again in 1938 as the depression was made worse by his policies. Hoover gets all the blame but I would submit that Roosevelt was much worse for the economy. Furthermore, Hoover never imprisoned a whole segment of the citizenry like FDR did.
60 posted on 04/14/2008 1:18:32 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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