By Dale Moore |
By Dale Moore |
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Dear Mr. President, I know that sometimes you must feel you have been persecuted this past year. But take heart! So have each of your predecessors. It seems we Americans vote for a President, but as soon as we have chosen the best man for the job, we immediately begin to tear him down. For example, here are a few things that have been said about some of the other 45 Presidents. 1. ___flouts the sacred documents, behaving like a crowned monarch, reflecting on his creator and betraying the commandments of Christ. 2. “his great intrinsic defects of character, his disgusting egotism, weakness, vacillation, ecdcentric tendencies and his bitter animosity” 3. ___has none of the qualities demanded by the Presidency. He is colorless, a little man with a know difficulty in understanding the printed word. 4. Utterly incompetent! He is shattered , dazed, and utterly foolish. It would not surprise me if he destroyed himself. 5. A _____victory will mean civil war. Hordes of Frenchmen and Irishmen, the refuse of Europe will flood the country and threaten the life of all who love order, peace, virtue, and religion. 6. It is to be observed that President ____ limits the term “people” to mean white people. If a man has the slightest tinge of colored blood in his veins he is not to be considered one of the people. 7. It is reported that the Pope has already purchased a large estate in the Washington area to be nearby in order to guide _____ in his decisions as President. 8. He is a creature of the grossest adulation, a man incapable of friendship, a hypocrite in public life, apostate and imposter. 9. Surely this country is doomed to disgrace and ruin. What Presidents we might have! But this little Jim ______ has a cue (pony tail) no bigger than a pipe stem. It is enough to make a man forswear his country. And that is their two cents worth… Answers to the Presidential Quiz 1. William McKinley. Margaret Leech, In the Days of McKinley p.550 2. Written by Alexander Hamilton about John Adams. John Adams by iten b 3. Harry Truman David McCullough, Truman 4. Said by Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Rush about Abraham Lincoln. David Donald, Lincoln 5. A New York newspaper writing about the possible election of Thomas Jefferson 6. John S. C. Abbot Lives of the Presidents 7. New York newspaper report speaking of the election of John Kennedy. 8. John Payne writing of George Washington 9.
The morning after James Madison’s nomination for President a
barber in Washington D. C. speaking to a U.S. Senator on the merits of
judging great men by the size of their cues and amount of powder on their
hair. |
