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Re: Grover Cleveland

R.J. Lehmann — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:28:20 -0000

And just think -- two out of those three were Democrats from New York.

Re: Grover Cleveland

TGGP — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:01:14 -0000

Is it you or the other blogger here who asserts the Constitution is "not written on paper but in the hearts of the people". I prefer Spooner's emphasis on the actual words in the document and their meaning, even if he felt the document itself was "No Authority" (and I myself think it would have been better if we had stuck with the Articles of Confederation).

Many of the best presidents are the ones we never hear about: van Buren, Cleveland and Coolidge.

Re: Grover Cleveland

Kevin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:48:58 -0000

How funky, that's like being Jesus's great-nephew.

Re: Grover Cleveland

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:07:28 -0000

These things can be startling at first glance.

One of my grandfathers was born before Napoleon died. And my son has an excellent chance to stretch the string of only four generations into a fourth century - 19th, 20th, today, 21st.

Oddly enough my other grandfather fought in the Civil War. He was no kid when my mother was born.

No wonder I alway regarded Cleveland as an unfairly forgotten, great President.

Re: Grover Cleveland

Steve — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:23:40 -0000

Just think if Strom Thurmond's, Larry King's, or Tony Randall's sons wait until late in life to have children. There's a hundred an fifteen year gap between Grover Cleveland's birth and his grandson's. This could be topped by decades.

The age gap between successive generations of males in my family is not as extreme (approx 35 yrs/generation), but I'm not yet thirty, and I found it remarkable that my grandfather told me stories of his grandfather's experiences as a boy in the 1840s. I found it amazing that I could hear stories of events from the Tyler administration on a second-hand basis. The stories themselves (much like this post)... not that interesting.