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Quiz: If you were a military leader, who would you be?

March 13th, 2008
By JILL MILLER ZIMON

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You can see who I would be here.

Since I don’t know a lot about military history, I’m not sure what this really means (I’ll be googling to learn after I post this). I like the Nobel Peace Prize win though.

Who are you?

Hattip to Reasoned Audacity.

Update: Wow - I know it’s only Wikipedia, but it puts me to shame for not knowing all this - I like the comparison to Teddy Roosevelt, from the sound of this:

In 1901, as Vice President, the 42 year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley’s assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz. He is the youngest person to become President.[4] He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a “trust buster“. He was clear, however, to show he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His “Square Deal” promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessmen. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.[5][6] As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he broke with his friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but lost the Republican nomination to Taft and ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. He beat Taft in the popular vote and pulled so many Progressives out of the Republican Party that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the Republican Party for the next two decades.

Here’s a tribute to one of the leaders in the quiz - but be sure to watch or advance to about 58 seconds and go from there. You’ll be sorry if you don’t. Didn’t anyone else ever hear the rumor that these folks didn’t know English when they first started singing these songs?



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