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Vanity: Who is Your Most Favorite American from History
Today | Yours Truly

Posted on 07/04/2023 12:10:10 PM PDT by waterhill

I'm bound to the recliner, i had surgeey last week. Been watching all kinds of history.

I'm going with Teddy Roosevelt as #2. George Washington as #1.

What is your #1#2and #3? Just curious and bored.

Happy Independence Day, thanks.

God Bless


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To: waterhill
Barry Goldwater.

None of us would be at FR today had not Goldwater carefully enunciated the conservative cause.

61 posted on 07/04/2023 12:59:06 PM PDT by Publius
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To: waterhill

#1 George Washington declined an offer of kingship.
#2 Ronald Reagan held back the Leftist scourge for 8 years.
#3 Donald Trump held battled an even more powerful Left, but it remains to be seen how he will rank in greatness - very possibly #1.

Lincoln is not on my list at all. He made very moving speeches that seduced a lot of people, but ultimately, he used brutal military force to quash dissent - thereby missing the whole point of “by the people”.


62 posted on 07/04/2023 12:59:13 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: waterhill

Smedley Butler, and we need men like him now more than ever.


63 posted on 07/04/2023 1:00:49 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: nwrep

Yes, and I guess your next choices behind Sherman were Stalin, Mao, Pom Pot.
The man tolerated theft, rape, and wanton destruction.


64 posted on 07/04/2023 1:01:18 PM PDT by georgiarat (We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner )
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To: MikeSteelBe

Audie is my son’s middle name. His nicknames mag


65 posted on 07/04/2023 1:01:49 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill
Scott Joplin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3zl4Gcr74

66 posted on 07/04/2023 1:02:35 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: ryderann

Excellent, spot on post !


67 posted on 07/04/2023 1:04:13 PM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: waterhill

John Caldwell Calhoun.


68 posted on 07/04/2023 1:06:24 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: waterhill

69 posted on 07/04/2023 1:06:31 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: enumerated

No they have to be deceased. And Trump ain’t dead.


70 posted on 07/04/2023 1:07:50 PM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: waterhill

I thank God that this list is far more difficult to write than one of our “least favorite” Americans, which would write itself.


71 posted on 07/04/2023 1:08:28 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: waterhill

For those who listed TR, what are your reasons?


72 posted on 07/04/2023 1:10:21 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: OldCorps

Adding to your list, OldCorps :

Jefferson Davis

John Randolph of Roanoke

Patrick Henry


73 posted on 07/04/2023 1:13:20 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: waterhill

Jefferson

Franklin

George

MACV SOG survivors

Bedford

Magnus and The Donald

Texas Rangers 1840-1880

Joe DiMaggio

Duke

The Cohen Bros

Comanches Blackfoot tie

My father


74 posted on 07/04/2023 1:13:27 PM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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To: waterhill

Eisenhower, who led the US to victory in World War II, who had the balls as president to round up and physically, deport, illegal aliens. We need that courage today! I also say, Lincoln, he fought to keep the country together, he freed the slaves, ultimately gave his life for that effort. George Washington. He was a citizen soldier, was president, and did not buy all accounts enrich himself or act like King.


75 posted on 07/04/2023 1:18:05 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: Alberta's Child

When was Frederick Douglass president?


76 posted on 07/04/2023 1:18:28 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: waterhill

1. President Reagan
2. General Chuck Yeager
3. Jonas Salk


77 posted on 07/04/2023 1:18:34 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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To: Alberta's Child

My sincere apologies, I thought the question was favorite president, not just favorite American. On that point yes, Frederick Douglass is also on my top 10.


78 posted on 07/04/2023 1:19:12 PM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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To: waterhill

George Washington


79 posted on 07/04/2023 1:19:36 PM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: JBW1949

The great shame was making Oaklahoma a State. Jackson was trying to move west, so they would not be killed in GA.


80 posted on 07/04/2023 1:19:49 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! there is no coexistence wi)
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