Urg, I suppose we should be saving passages of significance here from time to time. And I do save the odd post by myself and others - rarely, since I am lazy. I think C and crew have at least some backup, generally, if not all the time.
To me, Nixon (and secretary of state Kissenger), but I guess this is from an asian's perspective, for two reasons:
1) first president to recognise the PRC as the rightful China and
2) the president to have withdrawn troops from Vietnam.
Otherwise, I admire Bill Gates for his brains alone, and Andrew Goodman for his active role in equal rights for black people.
Re: George Washington
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:George Washington, for getting us a country---and the French. We would have not succeeded without their help.
BBB
You're right about the French, since they gave Washington a navy and made the victory at Yorktown possible, however, their motive was simply the fact that thier interests coincided with ours for awhile, not friendship (except perhaps in the person of Lafayette).
Mary Custis Lee.
Just kiddin' around, C.I. George all the way.(Washington, that is)
Although there were far more genuine friends from Europe than just the Marquis de Lafayette, Brandon is basically right about coinciding political interests. Perhaps that experience is why George warned us about "foreign entanglements."
Washington seems obivious, but why is Martin Luther King missing from the list and why is Albert Einstein on it? If you count non-Americans add Lassie, Schwartznegger, Tom Cruise, Waltz Disney, Bill Gates etc...
What measure and limits to you recommend?
What about Michael Jackson. The THRILLER album changed the face of modern music - whilst a surgeon changed the face of Michael.
I know the answer is the study found Ronald Reagan was # 1 (ed. I guess the other guys were too dead to matter much to living Americans huh?), which just goes to prove the absence of intelligent life on Earth.
