Commander In Chief

[Legzman]

Actually John Wilkes Booth was only going to kidnap Lincoln and exchange him for captured Confederate soldiers. When Lincoln made a speech about giving emancipated slaves the right to vote, that is when Booth's kidnapping plot became an assassination plot.:hatsoff:

Shows how much I know. Still, I knew it had something to do with the slaves!

 

[bodie54]

Washington, Lincoln, FDR

 

[Becks...poamr]

No love for Nixon?

 

[Quagmire33]

Clinton

 

[MrZiggles]

Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson

 

[Legzman]

No love for Nixon?

no love for presidents period!

 

[meesterperfect]

Adams was a Brit. At that time American was an address not a nationality.

In that case all the people in the colonies at that time. were brits .
splitting hairs a bit?

 

[darkwarrior3007]

Check this out, pretty interesting:

http://www.geocities.com/cureworks1/5blkpres.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08036/854713-51.stm

 

[Member2019]

Live and learn.. at least he was President of Pennsylvania, though that is a poor consolation :shy:

Yeah, pretty bad move.

Ok, then I choose Bill Clinton. He finaly brought the sexual revolution to the white house :bowdown:

Hardly! Clinton was tame compared to many! You should read up on many of the past Presidents.

i think around the time john adams was president of the united states of america, he was probably an american.
my favorite commander-in-chief is still the original: george washington.
artysml:impdaddy oh yes!

Both Adams and Washington were not first generation colonial citizens IIRC. The Boston and Virginian accent weren't quite defined yet, but it wasn't English, Welsh or Scottish any more for many 2nd and 3rd gen colonists.

Adams was a Brit. At that time American was an address not a nationality.

Non-sense. The US had been operating for over a century with a very different approach to self-government. Although the judicial was very much like the British Common Law approach, the legislative varied greatly, and was unlike virtually anything else in the Commonwealth at the time. It's where our original "power of, by and for the states" came from. The federal power was granted by several Constitutional assemblies, and has been under refinement since.

In fact, it was the removal of that century-plus freedom from the colonies that stroked the problem. Several British Lords recognized this, but they were unable to sway their House to see it. Heck, even King George III started to question some things the House of Lords and the British main commercial interests (West Indies) were pushing, but found himself siding with them for various reasons.

Adams was the second and last of the "great moderates" in American society, following in the footsteps of Washington. Both avoided politics and sought real solutions. Unfortunately, the Federalists and Republicans headed by people like Hamilton and Jefferson saw it otherwise.

Adams kept the US out of war, like Washington before him. Unfortunately, most of Adams' great accomplishments in his first term were only realized after the Electoral College voted.

Other than his stance on Native Americans, I actually admire Andrew Jackson as one of my favorite. But in reality, the people who have shaped the US the greatest have not been in the US Executive. And they have not been in the US Congress.

Marshall was probably the man who made the US what it is in a federal, Consitutional-Republic. He was appointed by Adams in the last days of his term. The US Supreme Court is often disregarded and chastized, but it's actually one of the greatest bodies that does not base it's rulings on politics and popular viewpoint.

That's why it holds the most power, and is most removed from the whim of the people. Of course, the balance against the US Supreme Court is that a super-majority of the populous can amend the Constitution to over-rule any Common Law or existing Constitutional Rule of Law.

I wouldn't say Abraham Lincoln is my least favorite President. He was in a tough spot, and really inherited the problem well before he got in. The South felt powerless against the North. But his actions were wrong in many ways at several points in my view. At the same time, he did try to stress the need for the Union, something Andrew Johnson continued after his death, but was so wrongly prosecuted for when he was just trying to "heal the nation."

 

[darkwarrior3007]

This is interesting too:

http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html

 

[Member2019]

Okay, there is bias in this ...

This is interesting too:
http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html

They list Jeffersonian-Republican aka Democrat-Republic presidents under Democrat Presidents. There are other biases in this list as well.

The Jeffersonian-Republicans aka Democrat-Republicans were the foundation of both the Democrat and Republican platforms. As I always point out, even when we agree on one platform, it seems we're always trying to do different things and eventually form two sets of how to do it.

 

[jamrak]

I agree that I have to learn about the past Presidents, but anyways, that press-conference with Yeltsin and Clinton was just awesome:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vHfbpL0NDmw

keeping in mind my previous mistakes, I am just asking: had anything like that happened before/after?

 

[georges]

Frarnklin D Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

 

[titsrock]

FDR, JFK, Thomas Jefferson and Richard Nixon were the best presidents