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overwrought political slander
 
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MarkWarner08
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« on: July 22, 2008, 12:24:21 PM »

"[Theodore] Roosevelt was the first President whose chief personal characteristic  was mendacity, the first to glory in duplicity, the first braggart, the first bully, the first betrayer of a friend who ever occupied the White House." -- George Harvey, North American Review
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« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2008, 05:02:25 PM »

Very LOL.

Because Andrew Jackson was so morally pure. To name just one.
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« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2008, 06:41:23 PM »

Very LOL.

Because Andrew Jackson was so morally pure. To name just one.
Exactly. And T.R. "betrayed" Taft after he left office. If Perkins were alive today, he'd be in line for a show on Fox News.
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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2008, 10:43:10 PM »

I don't know if he was the first...
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« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2008, 07:15:50 AM »

"[Theodore] Roosevelt was the first President whose chief personal characteristic  was mendacity, [/quote]Fillmore. At the very latest.
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Washington. [/quote]the first braggart, [/quote]Not sure who was the first, but does it matter?
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not sure, but probably Washington or Adams. Although both were certainly above par for a politician.
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Not sure.
I know which liar president disgusts me the most, though. James A Garfield, forging Chief Charlot's signature to the cession of the Bitterroot Valley.
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