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OK. I was a good student. Loved history and still do. I might spend 1 to 2 hours a week reading history to refresh my memory and learn new things. Always found history to be exciting and fresh, and could read for hours. Well today I was reading about the Gadsden purchase where the US purchased 30K square miles from Mexico for a southern rail route. And in that article was talk of one US President Millard Fillmore. Wait, what?! Who? Millard Fillmore? Never heard of him (gasp!). A quick google search smacks me in the face with the realization that in fact one Millard Fillmore was in fact the 13th President of these United States. How on earth did I not know this!! I know I learned my presidents in grade school. This guy must have been such a do nothing that I somehow forgot about him. Another google search shows him to be one of the most forgettable US presidents, so at least I'm not alone. Any Whig party fans on the board? ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | ||
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Isn't his portrait on the four dollar bill? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Didn't you serve as his horse carriage driver? ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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Though I couldn't tell you one thing about him, I've actually felt he was one of the most memorable presidents. I mean how do you forget the name Millard? | |||
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Millard County, Utah and Fillmore, Utah the old territorial capital of Utah were named after him. Utah thought it might make it easier to get statehood if they named a county and the capital after the president. It didn’t work. But, in Utah, we know of him. __________________________ | |||
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OK, he wasn't one of the more distinguished presidents (though far from the worst), but not to have heard of him at all?  | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
You did not have to memorize and recite the Presidents of the US, in order? The states? State capitols? You never heard him mentioned on the Tonight Show? Carson referred to him often. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I'm pretty sure he did not get a BJ in the Oval Office. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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| Slayer of Agapanthus |
He is buried in Buffalo, NY. I drove by the cemetary many times but never did divert to visit his grave. Oh well, one of the lesser regrets of my life. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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Growing up in the buffalo region we heard a lot about him. One of our bigger city hospitals was named after him. | |||
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The less you hear, the better the president. For me, it’s Calvin Coolidge. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
He was the inspiration for the name of the "Mallard Fillmore" comic strip and its main character. | |||
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...his era predated the 'oval office'....really, just learned that tonight **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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Even I, who didn't come here until I was 15, at least knew who he was. Geez. You need to get back to class, my friend. Q | |||
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Let us not forget the Fillmore Theater and the Fillmore East, where some of the worlds best rock bands ever, performed! Both maned after Millie, as he was known to his friends... _________________________ | |||
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The duck character in the Bloom County comic strip was named Mallard Fillmore. You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless. NRA Benefactor/Patriot Member | |||
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Come on, Carson has been off the air for a quarter century. You can't assume, that a) everyone watched him, and b) are old enough to have watched. ___________________________________________ "He was never hindered by any dogma, except the Constitution." - Ty Ross speaking of his grandfather General Barry Goldwater "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want." - William Tecumseh Sherman | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
It seems like only yesterday. I guess even the pages of the Funk & Wagnalls are yellowing now days, and the hermetically sealed Mayonaise jar has been hauled off to the recycle yard. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I know of Fillmore Street in San Francisco before it was gentrified. I don't know all the presidents. Never studied US history. It's not like history will repeat so there's no point in studying it. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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He was president for a faint 16 months with limited accomplishments. It’s easy to over look him... ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | |||
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