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6. Some funnies from Part 2: "You have to remember: The president is SIX!" and

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 11:04 PM

Sep 2014

Alice said, &quot TR) wanted to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every baptism."

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Toward the end of his tenure, TR is ruminating how greatness in presidents depends on their having had a war or great crisis, that nobody would know LINCOLN without the Civil War. And the narrator reads, &quot TR) had not had a war, had not had a great crisis. Some people thought HE WAS THE CRISIS!" Haha.

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Watching "The Roosevelts" - just looking at Wikipedia's entry on rankings of US presidents. [View all] NRaleighLiberal Sep 2014 OP

Eisenhower Kalidurga Sep 2014 #1

Exactly. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2014 #2

A substantial number of present-day Democrat Congress-critters are a good bit right of Ike's indepat Sep 2014 #3

yep that's true as well Kalidurga Sep 2014 #4

......and expanded social security to cover the middle class. NCarolinawoman Sep 2014 #5

Some funnies from Part 2: "You have to remember: The president is SIX!" and UTUSN Sep 2014 #6