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Dec 27, 2006, 4:57 PM
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Re: [jabman] Best leader of your country-past or present
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You're an American, you should know its JFK.
We are discussing best presidents here, not 'leaders who gain office, get the country into an unwinnable war, and then die.'
Either Washington, Lincoln, or FDR. All three had massive crises to deal with that could have destroyed the nation. Washington had to keep the nation together, set worthy precedents, and ensure that democracy would not be strangled in its cradle. Lincoln had to serve as President during one of the most destructive civil wars the world had seen at that point - 1 in 20 Americans died during the Civil War. FDR had to save America from the Depression and then lead it through World War II at a time when we had few allies and less hope of victory, when the Nazi armies had dominated Europe and were eying Great Britain, when Imperial Japan had bombed the Pacific Fleet into the mud and was taking over its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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