The great Grover Cleavland

[Legend1104]

I was reading last night about Grover cleavland and he seems like one of the best presidents we ever had. He was a non-interventionist, was in complete support of the gold standard, believed in lassiez faire so much that he opposed the gov. sending grain to Texas farmers during a drought, ran surpluses, and was one of the most frugal presidents. He also is the only person to serve 2 non-consecutive terms.

[fisharmor]

Yep. Regularly ignored by historians because historians are generally Keynesian socialist fascist thought police.

Most lists of great presidents are lists of the worst. The worst rated ones are generally ok.

[Flash]

Yes and look what Mark Twain had to say about him:

Of all our public men of today he stands first in my reverence & admiration, & the next one stands two-hundred-&-twenty-fifth. He is the only statesman we have now. ... Cleveland drunk is a more valuable asset to this country than the whole batch of the rest of our public men sober.He is high-minded; all his impulses are great & pure & fine. I wish we had another of this sort.
- Letter to Jean Clemens, 19 June 1908

[BuddyRey]

Cleveland was so epic that his face used to be on the one-thousand-dollar bill...until the feds took those out of circulation. :mad:

[rprprs]

Cleveland was so epic that his face used to be on the one-thousand-dollar bill...until the feds took those out of circulation. :mad:

Yes, but unfortunately, at the top tier was...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/US100000dollarsbillobverse.jpg
Of course, if it was actually a gold certificate, I wouldn't care whose picture was on it. ;)

[2young2vote]

What were you reading?

[Legend1104]

was reading a book called FDRs Fallacy and at the end it made metion of him. Then I looked him up on wikipedia. I am thinking of looking for a book about him.

[Galileo Galilei]

He also brought us the Statue of Liberty. He was the first president ever filmed.