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Favorite President?
Replies: 15 — Last Post Nov. 20, 2008 3:42pm by kidd rune
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I know most of us are young including myself but which president would you say is your favorite based on what you read and heard in school and/or at home?  I know teachers can sometimes be a little biased if they disagree with certain policies the president signed off on.

But who would it be and why?

I'm going to have to go with FDR. (Franklin D Roosevelt)  His work during the Great Depression was outstanding.  The programs he initiated were top of the line.  I know we have problems with those programs today but he brought the country out of economic hardship.  His work with World War II was outstanding also.

I know there has been numerous good presidents and you're going to have flaws with every president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

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i think that they all have their downsides so i wouldnt like to decide.
Woodrow Wilson had good ideas for the Treaty of Versailles but was a racist, and there are similar presidents who have done great things but also held bad beliefs.
Also, i am British so i cannot profess to have all the knowledge available on US presidents, since i am currently studying American history for the first time and am only covering 1890-1945

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Jackson. The man was a hero.





































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FDR pushed the USA into an unnecessary war.

I do believe that Reagan was the the greatest - at least in the top 3.

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I'd have to say the man on the penny.

Definitely Abe. (:

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Quote: from Jadien at 9:40 pm on Oct. 31, 2008
I'd have to say the man on the penny.  

Definitely Abe. (:

He tore the USA apart and is the reason that many people were slaughtered.

WHY him?

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Quote: from jamesish at 11:50 am on Oct. 18, 2008
I know most of us are young including myself but which president would you say is your favorite based on what you read and heard in school and/or at home? I know teachers can sometimes be a little biased if they disagree with certain policies the president signed off on.

But who would it be and why?

I'm going to have to go with FDR. (Franklin D Roosevelt) His work during the Great Depression was outstanding. The programs he initiated were top of the line. I know we have problems with those programs today but he brought the country out of economic hardship. His work with World War II was outstanding also.

I know there has been numerous good presidents and you're going to have flaws with every president.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Believe it or not I picked the same president. In my AP US History class last year, we had presidential brackets (it was March madness time), and we had to explain why one president was better than the other. The last round I had either FDR and Lincoln or FDR and Kennedy. I don't quite remember, but I picked FDR for a lot of the same reasons that you say that he is your favorite. He was able to pull a country together through both a depression and a world war.

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He was able to pull a country together through both a depression and a world war.
Why did he put us in a war to begin with?

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Quote: from kidd rune at 3:07 pm on Nov. 2, 2008
He was able to pull a country together through both a depression and a world war.
Why did he put us in a war to begin with?

Are you seriously arguing our reason of entry into WW II?

Post edited at 12:28 pm on Nov. 2, 2008 by jamesish

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Are you seriously arguing our reason of entry into WW II?
Yes, yes I am. The whole war was unnecessary in my opinion and any conflicts could have been solved without the largest war in human history.

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Quote: from kidd rune at 8:56 pm on Nov. 2, 2008
Are you seriously arguing our reason of entry into WW II?
Yes, yes I am. The whole war was unnecessary in my opinion and any conflicts could have been solved without the largest war in human history.

wrong.

Then again, you think 80% of the holocaust was a lie so i wont bother with reason.

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I gotta go with the original. George Washington ftw.

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wrong.

Then again, you think 80% of the holocaust was a lie so i wont bother with reason.

Where did you get 80% from, and what does that have to do with anything?

Tell me WHY it couldn't have been settled peacefully - and WHAT couldn't have been.

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Lincoln, Roosevelt, or Washington.
I don't like posting on these kind of topics because I think I am overstepping my geographical boundaries, but I've done US History and I like those two.
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Quote: from kidd rune at 5:20 pm on Nov. 18, 2008
wrong.

Then again, you think 80% of the holocaust was a lie so i wont bother with reason.

Where did you get 80% from, and what does that have to do with anything?  

Tell me WHY it couldn't have been settled peacefully - and WHAT couldn't have been.

It couldn't have been settled peacefully by the United States because by the time we entered it was beyond our capacity for diplomacy. Hitler was wholly unwilling to negotiate.

Quote: from kidd rune at 11:44 pm on Nov. 1, 2008

Quote: from Jadien at 9:40 pm on Oct. 31, 2008
I'd have to say the man on the penny.  

 Definitely Abe. (:

He tore the USA apart and is the reason that many people were slaughtered.

WHY him?

By no fault of his own. Abe did everything within his power to restore the union, but none of his actions led to the war.

Post edited at 2:03 pm on Nov. 20, 2008 by HeartofJuyoMk2

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