Reagan on money?

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Don't your DARE touch our Hamilton!

Besides being a Founding Father, an honor in itself, Hamilton's other virtues include, among other things:

(1) An uncanny ability to assess human nature. He described to the letter the destructive nightmare that would become the French Revolution, even as Jefferson wished the Revolution would be exported across the Atlantic

(2) A vision of the US that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf of Yucatan to Hudson's Bay, with a population of 300 million. Economically strong and self sufficient, the linchpin of a global marketplace. Pretty darn close to reality

(3) Implementing monetary policies that make American money the essential currency of international transaction. Without him, we'd need to barter our bread for a Mexican peso or gack..sputter a euro.

(4) From a Unionist perspective, the integration of the new nation. His "Federalist Papers" gave intellectually coherent reasons why otherwise sovereign states should adopt the Constitution. His suggestion to Washington for a ruthless suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion kept the US from becoming an 18th-century Iraq or Balkans II

Both Reagan and Andrew Mellon, Hamilton's only successor as Treasury secretary, would agree to leave the $10 just as it is.

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What the hell is Grant doing on the 50, replace him with Reagan.

Grant was one of only three presidents to win a majority of the popular vote throughout the 19th century. The first was Jackson, the last was McKinley.

(Dave's map lists the popular vote tallies since 1824, I believe, but some of those early numbers come from dodgy sources. An unfortunate consequence of the partiality of early secretaries of state, I guess. The pre Civil-War tallies are always edgy)

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I made an observation, but not a value judgement. Grover Cleveland better deserves the $50 spot than Grant, if you're solely going by 'actions as sitting president'

But Grant did push through civil rights legislation and enforce Reconstruction at least half-heartedly.

I'm still going over those prehistoric elections. For example, the famous Jackson biographer Robert Remini said Jackson received 687502 votes to the combined opposition of 566297, not at all what it is on the Election Results page.

I'm telling you--fishy, fishy, fishy.