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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lot's of great ones here, except Teddy Roosevelt and the bot troll from this morning.

I think for the finalists, in addition to Lincoln, FDR, MLK, Mr Rogers, Harriet Tubman, we could add Jane Addams and Eleanor Roosevelt. And maybe not overall but of our time, John Lewis.[/quote]

I think Japanese internment & the continuation of Mexican repatriation which included 40-60 percent American citizens despite its less violent nature plus the choice to develop the nuclear bomb is too great a horrific mark on far's legacy.  politicians are all dirty and nasty in oneway or other, his personal character also left a lot to be desired.

my vote:  tubman, Frederick douglass, jane Addams, mr rogers.  [/quote]

FDR gets a lot of love for the CCC, government sponsored socialism. [/quote]

I've been working on talking through stuff like this with my older kid.  They talked about President's Day.  We talked about how people are complicated and it's okay to talk about the good and bad people did.  So Washington was a crucial figure in US History but also owned slaves (I'm not ready to dig into Jefferson with him yet).

My granddad absolutely loved FDR because his policies lifted my grandparents out of poverty post Great Depression.  My great uncle was one of the Bonus Army demonstrators. But my best friend's grandmother and her family was interned during WWII for being part Japanese.[/quote]

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