Who is your favorite U.S. President?

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#1 is Abraham Lincoln - Skillful leader during Civil War and powerful speech he made. We'd need him today as honest president.

#2 FDR- Guided us through Great Depression and WWII.

#3 Bill Clinton - Handled U.S. Economy
 
The father of George Bush signed an ADA law.

The real original idea came from, a Congressman of Iowa, Tom Harkin because his brother was deaf. I think that his brother died a few years ago. George doesn't know much about it so his group recommended him to sign it so we are so fortunate to have that law no matter what.

If you are interested to know about him, here is the link:

http://harkin.senate.gov/specials/20020726-ada-anniversary.cfm
 
My favorite presidents are:

Regan
Jimmy Carter (I got his nice letter when I was in Hong Kong in 1982).
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy
 
PowerON said:
I believe it's unfair because Japanese attack only battleship and airfield at Pearl Harbor. They have mode in honor. They don't kill children unlike Turman did that terrible move, yet he did end the war as possible.
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You don't know what you're talking about.

Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military "murdered" near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."[8] Among the most infamous incidents in Southeast Asia were the Manila massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 100,000 civilians in the Phillipines and the Sook Ching massacre, in which between 25,000 and 50,000 ethnic Chinese in Singapore were taken to beaches and massacred.

In China alone, during 1937-45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were killed, mostly civilians as a direct result of the Japanese invasion.[9] The most infamous incident during this period was the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, when, according to the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Japanese Army massacred as many as 430,000 civilians and prisoners of war, although the accepted figure is somewhere in the hundreds of thousands.
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Special Japanese military units conducted experiments on civilians and POWs in China. One of the most infamous was Unit 731. Victims were subjected to vivisection without anesthesia, amputations, and were used to test biological weapons, among other experiments. Anesthesia was not used because it was considered to affect results. In some victims, animal blood was injected into their bodies.
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According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, Emperor Hirohito authorized by specific orders (rinsanmei) the use of chemical weapons in China.[16] For example, during the invasion of Wuhan from August to October 1938, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions, despite Article 171 of the Versailles Peace Treaty and a resolution adopted by the League of Nations on May 14, condemning the use of poison gas by Japan.
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Many written reports and testimonies collected by the Australian War Crimes Section of the Tokyo tribunal, and investigated by prosecutor William Webb (the future Judge-in-Chief), indicate that Japanese personnel in many parts of Asia and the Pacific committed acts of cannibalism against Allied prisoners of war. In many cases this was inspired by ever-increasing Allied attacks on Japanese supply lines, and the death and illness of Japanese personnel as a result of hunger. However, according to historian Yuki Tanaka: "cannibalism was often a systematic activity conducted by whole squads and under the command of officers".[18] This frequently involved murder for the purpose of securing bodies. For example, an Indian POW, Havildar Changdi Ram, testified that: "[on November 12, 1944] the Kempeitai beheaded [an Allied] pilot. I saw this from behind a tree and watched some of the Japanese cut flesh from his arms, legs, hips, buttocks and carry it off to their quarters... They cut it small pieces and fried it."
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The Japanese military's use of forced labour, by Asian civilians and POWs also caused many deaths. According to a joint study by historians including Zhifen Ju, Mitsuyoshi Himeta, Toru Kubo and Mark Peattie, more than 10 million Chinese civilians were mobilized by the Kôa-in (Japanese Asia Development Board) for forced labour.[22] More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Burma-Siam Railway.[citation needed]

The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between four and 10 million romusha (Japanese: "manual laborer"), were forced to work by the Japanese military.[23] About 270,000 of these Javanese laborers were sent to other Japanese-held areas in South East Asia. Only 52,000 were repatriated to Java, meaning that there was a death rate of 80%.
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How about now?
 
I hear stories and watch TV TLC channel. It was very interesting. I have history WWII. There is not on stories book till I watch TV TLC channel like I said WTF never tell stories WWII book. One man said that all WWII books have to rewite history. Same thing happen to USA soldier become POW "march to death". It was sad. I don't know many professional history college knowledge whole stories. I dunno. I have not read new WWII books yet.
 
Abraham Lincoln , he abolished slavery.

Ronald Reagan, he was a great communicator.
 
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
FDR
Teddy Roosevelt-National Parks
JFK
Johnson
Clinton
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PowerON said:
Harry Truman? wtf? are you madness? he one who kill million japanes (women and children) in atomic bomb.
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War are supposed to be hell. We got angry that the Japan surprise attacked at Pearl Harbor. The Japanese planes did bombed some American hospitals and shot some US citizens. I talked to the man who survived from the attack.

My favorite president is Abe Lincoln, JFK and FDR.

Lincoln....because he freed the slave, supported the deaf people, and great speech.

JFK.....because he wants all kids in school to be healthy and strong, all his hard work with Soviet Union and Cuba Crisis.

FDR....of course, he pulled us out of the Great Depression, and winning the war.
 
My favorite:

Abraham Lincoln - I have a book his true life. Wonderful! I went to Springfield, Illinois in 1994. I have a many picture with Abraham's house and lawyer's office and his museum finest buried. He was younger his mom passed away. His step mom was sooo sweet.

Regan
 
Probably George Washington. Washington was not a member of any political party. I agreed with him on one thing that he hoped that political parties would not be formed. Unfortunately, they were already formed, which lead the jealousies, arrogance, false alarms and corruptions. He mentioned it in his Farewell address. He was right.

My second favorite was obviously Abe Lincoln.
 
Throwstones said:
My favorite U.S. Presidents are:

Jimmy Carter
Theodore Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Zachery Taylor
Harry Truman
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hey, I am not american woman, but I may tell about my Opinion.
John F. Kennedy
Bill Clinton
next time, I hope Hillary Clinton
 
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