If you start finding fault with every historical figure who is on U.S. currency, this will be headed toward Great Debates very quickly.
I’m sure you could find someone who could find a good reason why Ben Franklin shouldn’t be honored on currency.
Well, he was known to sleep around …
sorry it’s just that jackson guy really ticks me off. he never seems to be condemed for the monster he was. you going to be around monday? maybe we could talk about in GD monday when i have some time.
He liked… the FRENCH!! :eek:
The factual question is whether there is a law or regulation against using the image of a living ex-president on the currency. This is not the place to debate whether this or that politician deserves to be on the currency.
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moderator gQ
When I attended the Senior Government class in high school–just about the time Reagan was elected governor–I had a government teacher who implied that being a “liberal” was some kind of heinous crime or loathsome disease. (He said Roosevelt sold the Allies out at Yalta; though, oddly enough, he did not accuse FDR of knowing about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance.)
I don’t condone the “relocation centers” either. But if there had not been such general anti-Japanese sentiment throughout the U. S. after Pearl Harbor, FDR might have made a different choice.
As for Andrew Jackson, I think what he did as President outweighed what has been mentioned above as criticism of him:
specifically that he greatly increased the power of the executive branch, thus putting the North in a position over the South that enabled the North, eventually, to win the Civil War. He fought the Southern notion of states’ rights, to the point that in old age he said he regretted he did not send his states-rights Vice President John C. Calhoun to the gallows. (Calhoun outlived Jackson by five years; in contrast to Jackson, Calhoun said it is a false idea to believe that all people are equal.)
In any case, I consider Ronald Reagan to be a mediocre President who won his elections by dint of PR, and the Iranian hostage crisis–not necessarily that Carter was flawed in any way. Reagan, after all, had nothing to do with the peace addord Carter worked out with Begin and Sadat.
And I cetrainly don’t care for the idea of taking Jackson off the $20 bill. Who do you want on it–Nicholas Biddle? :mad:
Excuse me, Mr. Moderator. :o