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@wmboyle4 The Celtics….thats hard to take

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@RBrookhiser Eisenhower’s blood pressure was exceedingly high during the latter stages of the war (he was smoking nonstop and making some rather big decisions) and that corresponds with the ED people throw around.

Seems likely Ike and Kay flirted but never had sex.

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@RBrookhiser Opposition to busing put a lot of people in Wallace’s camp in 1972. He had built credibility with the normally democratic white working class by preaching law and order in 1968

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@RickyBobWeaver @RBrookhiser Lee and his army amounted to confederate nationalism, so it makes sense that Davis would meddle less in that realm. Cf Gary Gallagher

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@TerriersFan @RBrookhiser Probably like Lord North more too. lol

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@BrankoMilan @ShazCoder He is not a good guy in Gaddis’s book. There are no Soviet good guys in Gaddis’s books. Just gradations of bad.

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@RBrookhiser Burr married Eliza Jumel as an old man and spent her money so fast that she divorced him almost immediately

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@bosskingkool @RBrookhiser Context probably matters. Jefferson and Madison governed when VA still packed a wallop politically and the South was on the front foot. Calhoun could feel that power slipping away, and that sense fed his worst sectionslist impulses

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@tonywendice1954 @Dastardlyb247 @RBrookhiser It is a manifestly terrible way to choose leaders, so no it was not horrific.

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@RBrookhiser It fits with his Hamilton as evil sorcerer idea.

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@tonywendice1954 @RBrookhiser Denouncing hereditary monarchy and introducing America as an asylum for all mankind wasn’t horrific.

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@loneloc02 @RBrookhiser The Mazzei letter gave Washington some insights, but I think that letter underplayed how much respect Jefferson had for the man. Too bad it had the souring effect that it did.

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@RBrookhiser Sanders admires Debs and has mentioned him on many occasions.

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@loneloc02 @RBrookhiser Sure. I wrote positioned, not posed. I don’t think Jackson was faking. I also don’t think Jackson knew of Jefferson’s reservations about him. Jefferson was non-confrontational by nature and made his opinion known in letters, not in a public way. (Unlike Clay)

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@RBrookhiser It’s hard to imagine Trump falling into any category of virtue that a ff would have recognized. It’s also worth noting that Trump’s total ignorance of the classics would have made him unable to converse with the founders in any meaningful way.

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@RBrookhiser Ha ha. Yeah, meant names

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@RBrookhiser Buckley’s anti-establishmentarian views had shades of populism in it, and the same is true of the whole modern conservative project. Buckley might have detested George. Wallace’s populism but he backed McCarthy. Phone book babes > Harvard faculty etc

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@losthunderlads @RBrookhiser Yeah. I think he had the alcoholism concealed at that point, but I have had the same thoughts.

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