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Picking up on the Eisenhower thread and his 4 pictures of Great Americans, I was wondering who I would choose for my 4 pictures. I, also, thought, perhaps, others may want to submit their lists.
Since you say "great" as opposed to "greatest", I suppose this means one may include persons one admires but might not consider one of the greatest.
Now I don't have an office, much less one I could hang four portraits in, but ..........
Three of my four:
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Those two above would also be on my "greatest" list
Ulysses Grant
As for my fourth, I'm torn between a few of the founding fathers and the two Roosevelt presidents. I'd probably rotate portraits of the fourth.
In my cubicle, I currently have a photo of George Custer with a dog, which I can rotate with the one in my avatar above, of Grant leaning against a tree at Cold Harbor.
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And then I have a picture of my grandfather, Hayden Tufts, in his navy uniform next to a picture of his WWI four-stacker destroyer.
Those four are good enough for me.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Picking up on the Eisenhower thread and his 4 pictures of Great Americans, I was wondering who I would choose for my 4 pictures. I, also, thought, perhaps, others may want to submit their lists.
My 4 pictures:
Washington
Madison
Lee
Grant
Interesting to meet another Madison fan. I don't see many.
Madison, more than any other politician I can think of, was entirely married to the founding ideals and what was written in the Constitution. His ideas would change over time, but he always worked in what he perceived as the best interest of the nation. He would be on my list as well.
I have several pictures in my classroom and a couple in my office at home. Oddly enough, none of them are of people.
I agree with everyone's choices, except for Edison, a predatory jerk. I would replace him with Alexander Graham Bell. As far as political figures, the only addition I can think of is Martin Luther King, Jr., the greatest Southerner of the 20th century.
I have no pepole on my walls... I have 5 Mort Kunstler paintings and another civil war painting form a friend. If I were to make room for anybody on those walls it would have to be;
Grant
Sherman
Roosevelt
Clint Eastwood (What can I say? I'm a sucker for spaghetti westerns!)
__________________ "In mortal combat, a man may and will become so infuriated by the din and dangers of a bloody fight that his heart will turn to stone and his every de sire [be] for blood."
John Hadley, 7th Indiana after the battle at Port Republic
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
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