President #21, C-SPAN Historians ranking #32 Muttonchops to the Rescue! Chester Alan Arthur, perhaps more than any other person to hold the job, never wanted to be President. He seemed stunned that he was put in that position. Then again, he accepted the job as Vice President, which does make you likely to become President. [...]
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President #14, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #40 At least Nathaniel Hawthorne liked him Franklin Pierce is a very difficult president to read about. There weren’t many biographies written about him. A man named Peter Wallner wrote a two volume biography of Pierce that was published between 2004 and 2007. However, that was two too many volumes [...]
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President #34, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #8 It’s Been Said That People Liked This Guy When I was a kid in the 1970s, the 1950s were considered a cool time. “Happy Days” and “Laverne & Shirley” dominated television. Coming out of the turbulent 1960s (a decade glamorized in much different way from the 1950s), the 1950s [...]
Filed under: Cold War presidents | Tagged: Kansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Republicans, Texas, University President, World War II veteran | 12 Comments »
