Where we're you when Nixon resigned?

[Jim Page]

Juan and Herb, I strongly agree with both your comments. I might add that Truman had the deepest knowledge of history of any president. He spoke of Roman history as though he had been there.

The books Truman wrote without "assistants" are a joy to read. Nixon's books written without assistants are also far more readable.

--Jim

[LincolnToddFan]

(04-29-2015 10:50 AM)HerbS Wrote:  Truman was the strongest U.S.president in history so far[In my opinion].

I think my vote goes to Lincoln for strongest, physically and mentally.

The man could bend silverware effortlessly and he kept his cool during four years of a bloody and divisive Civil War that saw him mocked, betrayed, attacked and undercut....even by the people who were supposed to have been supporting him. He took a licking and kept on ticking during that unprecedented hell.

If that's not strength, I don't know what it is.

[Eva Elisabeth]

(04-30-2015 09:37 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  

(04-29-2015 10:50 AM)HerbS Wrote:  Truman was the strongest U.S.president in history so far[In my opinion].

I think my vote goes to Lincoln for strongest, physically and mentally.

The man could bend silverware effortlessly and he kept his cool during four years of a bloody and divisive Civil War that saw him mocked, betrayed, attacked and undercut....even by the people who were supposed to have been supporting him. He took a licking and kept on ticking during that unprecedented hell.

If that's not strength, I don't know what it is.

Well said, I agree. Re. Lincoln's physical strength - not to forget the axe incident at the very end of his life, and one surgeon's comment after the autopsy who was astonished that Abraham Lincoln still had well-rounded muscles like a powerful athlete.

[Rogerm]

I agree that Lincoln was probably our strongest president, both physically and mentally. President Ford might have come in a a close second, physically, as he was a former collegiate athlete.

[Gene C]

Theodore Roosevelt was also physically and mentally tough.

[LincolnToddFan]

Ahh yes, thanks Gene C...forgot about Teddy R. He suffered a lifetime of respiratory problems and was a severe asthmatic. But there is no doubt about his mental toughness!

Ever read the account of how he handled the ordeal of traveling through the Amazonian rain forest for three months??

[Gene C]

Yes, I recently read T.R. the Last Romantic by H.W.Brands. That trip down the Amazon came real close to killing him.

[RJNorton]

(05-01-2015 09:44 AM)Rogerm Wrote:  physically, as he was a former collegiate athlete.

Very true, Roger. Ford was offered contracts by the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions, but he turned them down and attended law school.

[LincolnToddFan]

Yes Roger that's true. Gerald Ford was a highly recruited football player. I also suspect he was never as "thick" as the pundits made him out to be. Not glamorous, but an essentially decent man.

Probably one of the most decent men ever to be President.

[HerbS]

A neighbor of mine was Gerald Ford's neighbor in Grand Rapids,Michigan.He says that Ford was a bright,decent person.He also says that Ford was a tremendous athlete,as well as a highly recruited football player!

[Hess1865]

LBJ was the biggest sleaze ever to sit in the White House.
A deluxe liar-I can understand how one of his early nicknames was 'Bull' Johnson.
Read any of Robert Caro's books about LBJ, especially the second one-amazing stuff.
Knowing what we know now, JFK, RFK, and LBJ should have never been elected to ANY position of power!
The USA would have been so much better off without those 3.
Their evil influence reverberates to this day......

[Gene C]

I was watching the news tonight and the political reverberations were so bad, they made the Brady Bunch reruns look good.

(out of respect to the viewing audience, I refrained from posting this theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jKDa2zpus )
oops!