On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:21:56 GMT, Richard Clark
wrote:

|On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:38:48 -0600 (CST),
|(Richard Harrison) wrote:
|
|Wes, N7WS wrote:
|"We had an engineer for President. Look how well that worked out. One
|term and we replaced him with a movie actor.
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|Jimmy Carter in retirement, is negotiating peace accords around the
|world. He is now in Geneva working with Palestineans and Israelis.
|
|We`ve had other engineers starting with George Washington.
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|We`ve had Herbert Hoover, a,n engineer, who wrecked the economy, as
|Ronald Reagan later did. Hoover, the engineer was replaced by FDR who
|served 11 years and changed the world for the better forever. W. is
|trying to undo the New Deal and in the process will likely wreck the
|economy as Hoover did.
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|Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI
|
|Hi All,
|
|The statement "an engineer" is certainly inaccurate by my count too.
|What about Davis, Grant, and Eisenhower?

I was thinking of people that I had a chance to vote for. But, what
about them? If we're going to get picky.

Davis wasn't POTUS.

Washington was not an engineer in the usually accepted sense of the
word.

If attending West Point makes one an engineer, then Grant and Ike were
engineers. Otherwise...

Grant worked in his father's leather shop, and was a failed farmer and
financier. (Anheuser Busch owns the farm now. I was there a couple of
months ago.)

Ike was a jock, who went to West Point intending to play ball, not to
get an engineering degree. (I was at his library, tomb, etc. a couple
of months ago too.)

If we're looking for qualifications for greatness, maybe "self-taught"
should be more important than "Harvard-educated lawyer" or "West
Point-educated engineer." Washington and Lincoln top my list. (I
spent some time with Abe this summer too)