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Census Best U.S. President from 1896-1960?

Discussion in 'Community' started by Ghost, Apr 2, 2016.

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Best U.S. President from 1896-1960?

  1. William McKinley

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    0.0%
  2. Theodore Roosevelt

    18.2%
  3. William Howard Taft

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  4. Thomas Woodrow Wilson

    3.0%
  5. Warren Gamaliel Harding

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  6. John Calvin Coolidge

    9.1%
  7. Herbert Clark Hoover

    6.1%
  8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    60.6%
  9. Harry S Truman

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  10. Dwight David Eisenhower

    3.0%
  1. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    Oh if Gallipoli had worked as intended..!

    We plan to land at Beach X, leak we are landing at Beach Y then... land at Beach Y to Turkish bemusement.
     
  2. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Apr 17, 2006
    Yeah but he didn't lock up Japanese Americans for being Japanese Americans like the current winner did.
     
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  3. DarthPhilosopher

    DarthPhilosopher Chosen One star 6

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    Jan 23, 2011
    Nah, but he did decide to abandon us, leaving us to be saved by America... surely this causes you endless frustration.
     
  4. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Dec 12, 2006
    Yeah I have my issues with Churchill but he was unfairly blamed for Gallipoli. The plan was sound and nearly worked, the execution was awful
     
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  5. Violent Violet Menace

    Violent Violet Menace Manager Emeritus star 5 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Aug 11, 2004
    Churchill was without question the quintessential Brit. I'll leave you to argue amongst yourselves what that means. ;)
     
  6. ShaneP

    ShaneP Ex-Mod Officio star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Mar 26, 2001

    A cigar smoking drunk?
     
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  7. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001

    If they'd had conviction and character, they'd have gotten involved in 1939. :p
     
  8. ShaneP

    ShaneP Ex-Mod Officio star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Mar 26, 2001
    We weren't going to get involved outside of a direct attack against us. We were still reeling from the Great Depression, which the New Deal had mostly failed to alleviate. We weren't exactly on a war footing, not yet anyway.

    The world wars taught us the lesson that we simply couldn't help win a war and withdraw from the world and turn our backs on it. That's why we pushed for a UN, NATO and Marshall Plan. We knew we had to stay involved in some form. We would be right back in Europe at some point if we didn't stay in the game.
     
  9. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    We got involved.
     
  10. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    Mar 14, 2004
    did you? like you and your buddies?
     
  11. ShaneP

    ShaneP Ex-Mod Officio star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Mar 26, 2001

    Yeah because you had treaties with Poland.
     
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  12. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    Mar 14, 2004
  13. ShaneP

    ShaneP Ex-Mod Officio star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Mar 26, 2001
    Why did they decide to track his cigarette and beer? Hehe
     
  14. Point Given

    Point Given Manager star 7 Staff Member Manager

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    Dec 12, 2006
    tom you'll have to post a link to that video because of profanity
     
  15. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    yes but we call them mates. There was a guy called tom too. He had a magnificent moustache. By night he played the most soulful flamenco guitar you've heard, and by day he was a Jerry-killing machine.

    A paradoxical man, that tom. A killer and an artist. After the war he married a Belgian and retired to the south of that country to make sweet, sweet weißbier and I lost contact with him. It was a different world back then - no Facebooks or internets.
     
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  16. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    Jul 10, 1998
    That FDR was such a nice guy. He signed off on the internment of citizens for our own protection. If only there was somebody who were so inclined to do that for our country nowadays...
     
  17. SateleNovelist11

    SateleNovelist11 Force Ghost star 6

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    Jan 10, 2015
    Kyle is right. There is much to like about FDR, but there are certain things in his legacy that are awful like that.
     
  18. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    So tragic.
     
  19. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    Aug 18, 2002
    Conviction and character was no doubt the reason churchill was so keen to gas Kurds. Too bad those cowards at the Raj, fearing uprising from their own subject people, whined so much he wasn't allowed to use poison gas against Arabs and Kurds.
     
  20. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    He was a great man
     
  21. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    Aug 18, 2002
    sorry I forgot who we're talking about... saddam hussein?
     
  22. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    Feb 18, 2001
    No, great meaning large or immense,
    I use it in the pejorative sense.
     
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