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Captain Zero

(6,802 posts)
1. Benjamin Harrison's Campaign Meme was.....
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:26 AM
Nov 2020

Not Make America Great
Not Build Back Better
Not A New Deal
Not A Fair Deal
Not The New Frontier


Benjamin Harrison's slogan was : Harrison for President ! He Is OK !

Learned it on a tour of his home in Indianapolis.
'OK' was just then a new slang term at the time of his run.
Probably a slogan to stay away from, since it only got him one term, after a loss in the popular vote.

We were on the tour with a sweet retired couple from Missouri who were touring all the president's homes and they started laughing and chuckling over that and then we did too and the rest of the tour we were all wiping our eyes and almost crying with laughter.

 

disalitervisum

(470 posts)
2. Four out of six in the lost popular vote/impeached categories
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:27 AM
Nov 2020

have occurred within the last 50 years of the life of the Republic, starting with Nixon in 1974. Coincidental with the rise of "movement conservatism" and unrestricted free-market capitalism. Seems to me to be a warning from the winds of history.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
5. If you consider that the current crop of vindictive Rs impeached Clinton basically for jay walking
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 05:32 AM
Nov 2020

compared to the crimes of Nixon and the absolute abuse of the office during tRump's regime, Clinton's fake impeachment could be termed impeachment lite.

Freddie

(9,259 posts)
7. "Less than one term" Presidents
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 08:25 AM
Nov 2020

John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur and Gerald Ford were VPs that took the office upon the president’s death/resignation and failed to win a term on their own (or chose not to run or were denied their party’s nomination).
Teddy Roosevelt*, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and LBJ became president upon the president’s death and were elected to a term on their own but chose not to run for a second full term.
*TR chose not to run for a second term in 1908 but decided to run again in 1912 as the candidate of the new Progressive (“Bull Moose) Party. He split the vote with incumbent Taft, handing the presidency to the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson.

Freddie

(9,259 posts)
8. "True" one term presidents (see above)
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 08:33 AM
Nov 2020

John Adams
John Quincy Adams
James Polk
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Rutherford Hayes
Benjamin Harrison
William Taft
Herbert Hoover
Jimmy Carter
George H W Bush
Donald J. Trump

marked50

(1,366 posts)
9. That Venn diagram is something I think Drumpf would love to share with others because
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 10:49 AM
Nov 2020

it shows him as the "Center of Attention". I don't think he understands the verbage.

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