At the risk of writing this Presidents Day what we always write on Presidents Day, here we go again.
No president is as great as we think. No president is as bad as we think.
There is nothing like President Trump in American history.
The best presidents in chronological order are: Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Roosevelt and Reagan.
The worst presidents in chronological order are: Adams, Buchanan, Hoover, Carter, Obama.
George W. Bush handled 9/11, liberated Afghanistan, won the war in Iraq, and handled the financial crisis.
Andrew Jackson was a horrible president (2nd Bank Act, Specie Circular, Indian Removal Act) and should not be on the $20. Replace him with Reagan.
The most underated president is James Polk (Annexation of Texas, 54-40 dispute, War with Mexico).
Lyndon Johnson has risen in our esteem. W has fallen.
Nixon was framed.
William Stroock (as in Stroock's Books)
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Monday, February 17, 2020
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
The Will Stroock Post Presidents Day Spectacular -Limey Edition
Notes on our favorite Prime Ministers.*
Robert Peel: Invented modern police, repeal of the Test Act.
Pitt the Elder: Visionary who waged a global war against France.
Gladstone: 19th century progressive reformer.
Palmerston: Crimea and the Sepoys and the American Crisis. Gunboats indeed. Civis Britanus Sum!
John Major: Steady hand, governed in a time of peace and prosperity.
The nation is at the end, we think, of a long line of failures, non-entities and empty suits, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May. The four of them have comprehensibly wrecked the country, no one more than Blair.
An empty cab pulled up to the palace at Theresa May got out.
Mister they could use a man like Harold MacMillan again.
*Don't talk about Churchill. We're bored with the whole thing. Also Maggie, though we're not bored with her.
Robert Peel: Invented modern police, repeal of the Test Act.
Pitt the Elder: Visionary who waged a global war against France.
Gladstone: 19th century progressive reformer.
Palmerston: Crimea and the Sepoys and the American Crisis. Gunboats indeed. Civis Britanus Sum!
John Major: Steady hand, governed in a time of peace and prosperity.
The nation is at the end, we think, of a long line of failures, non-entities and empty suits, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May. The four of them have comprehensibly wrecked the country, no one more than Blair.
An empty cab pulled up to the palace at Theresa May got out.
Mister they could use a man like Harold MacMillan again.
*Don't talk about Churchill. We're bored with the whole thing. Also Maggie, though we're not bored with her.
Monday, February 18, 2019
Presidents Day Spectacular: Tricky Dick
Nixon was a victim of the Deep State, represented by Mark Felt in the FBI, pissed off that he wasn't tapped to replace Hoover, and Katy Graham at the WaPo, offended that Nixon had the temerity to succeed.
Nixon was a good president who passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, flipped China, ended the 73 War, and by the way, got us out of Vietnam.
Corruption? Please...
The same people who complain about Nixon's wiretaps and briefcases of cash voted for Barry and Hillary! twice.
Nixon was a good president who passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, flipped China, ended the 73 War, and by the way, got us out of Vietnam.
Corruption? Please...
The same people who complain about Nixon's wiretaps and briefcases of cash voted for Barry and Hillary! twice.
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