If you could sit down and have dinner with any historic person from 1800 to the present...

Teddy Roosevelt.

I’d want to listen to his hunting stories

Reagan

Teddy Roosevelt

George Patton or Winston Churchill

William T Sherman.

His understanding of war and total war were beyond the comprehension of most men at the time.

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You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about.

War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it … Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors.

You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.

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He also resigned as LSU’s president and didn’t immediately enroll as a general but rather as a lower ranking officer and worked his way up. This was very different than many Northern generals that viewed the war as a political tool for advancement.

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He took work in the fields of banking and law briefly before becoming the superintendent of the Louisiana Military Academy in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War, however, Sherman resigned from the academy and headed north, where he was made a colonel of the 13th United States Infantry.

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Clarence Darrow

I think I would find his courtroom war stories fascinating.

Tesla, JFK

Chesty Puller

Or Thomas Jefferson

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If you could sit down and have dinner with any historic person from 1800 to the present...
Who would it be and why?

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Aunt Jemima

If it a dinner it means you are eating, pancakes are not just for breakfast