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July 17, 2006
Good old historians
Historians love to rank stuff. I mean, who doesn't? I recently came across this article, in which historians ranked the top ten Presidential blunders. Number one, interestingly, was President Buchanan's failure to prevent the Civil War - a mess he conveniently left for his successor, Abe Lincoln. Personally, I don't quite understand what could've been done to prevent it. Seems to me the Southern states were pretty much set on telling the rest of the country to take a hike!
Posted by oz115 at July 17, 2006 11:39 AM