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re: Your list of the greatest Americans of all-time?

Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:59 pm to
Posted by Brood211
Member since Jun 2012
1415 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:59 pm to
No general Patton?
Posted by TheTexasTiger7
Dallas - Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2018
9387 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:03 pm to
1. George Washington
2. Teddy Rosevelt
3. Muhamed Ali
4. John Wayne
5. Elvis Presley
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Neil Armstrong
8. Thomas Jefferson
9. MLK
10. Mickey Mantle
Posted by dustytiger123
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2008
873 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:04 pm to
All the WWII soldiers made this country what it was... everyone else just benefitted after that..
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
12856 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:09 pm to
Barack Obama



























Oh you said greatest not most traitorous
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
73007 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:25 pm to
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Thoreau
Ronald Reagan
George Washington
David Lee Roth
Posted by Apache
San Diego
Member since Dec 2013
2490 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:28 pm to
Bill Wilson needs to be on the list.
Posted by lsusa
Doing Missionary work for LSU
Member since Oct 2005
4627 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:34 pm to
My bakers dozen list in no particular order, and with the caveat that at least 5 on the list could be interchangible with about 30 others. Also want to say that this isn't digging it every part of their personal lives ...


George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
Abe Lincoln
Jackie Robinson
Bill Gates
Thomas Edison
Oprah Winfrey
Teddy Roosevelt
Audie Murphy
MLK
Sandra Day O'Connor
Elvis


I only put 10 minutes or so into this, but some of the others who could make this list depending on how you want to define "great"

Alvin York
Warren Buffett
Thomas Payne
John Ford
Robert E Lee
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnige
Alan Page
Ronald Reagan
Barrack Obama
Bob Hope
John Wayne
Hugh Hefner
FDR
Chuck Yeager
Jack Kemp
Mary Alice Bethune
Thurgood Marshall
Bob Dylan
Jimmy Doolittle
Mark Twain
Neal Armstrong
JFK
Muhammad Ali
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Jimmy Carter *pre and post presidency
Babe Ruth
Lou Gherig
Steve Spielberg
Bobby Jones
Moe Berg
Posted by DellTronJon
Member since Feb 2010
1295 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:34 pm to
Theodore Roosevelt could be in the running for one of the worst americans of all time, but if you are going to fool yourself into putting a roosevelt on your list, at least it wasn't Franklin.
Posted by Tyga Woods
South Central Jupiter Island, FL
Member since Sep 2016
30345 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:37 pm to
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Warren Buffett
Sam Walton
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 1:39 pm
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:37 pm to
No Ben Franklin?


List sucks.
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:44 pm to
Walt Disney.
Aretha
Bob Zimmerman Dylan
Franklin "Adi Da" Jones
Faulkner
J.P. Morgan
Muhammad Ali
Edison
John Adams
Posted by Coach Buzzcut
Member since Feb 2016
1361 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:45 pm to
The Mayo family
Teddy Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Rockefeller’s
Carnegie
JP Morgan
Warren Buffet
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 1:47 pm
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114038 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:48 pm to
I'll throw some names out there. Yall decide if they should be on the list.

Thomas Edison
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Henry Ford
Walt Disney
Barrack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Neil Armstrong
Oprah Winfrey
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Little Richard
Michael Jordan
Candy Barr
Posted by northshorebamaman
Cochise County AZ
Member since Jul 2009
35525 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:51 pm to
quote:

I'll throw some names out there. Yall decide if they should be on the list.

Thomas Edison
Bill Gates-no
Steve Jobs-no
Harriet Beecher Stowe -no
Harriet Tubman
Henry Ford
Walt Disney
Barrack Obama-no
Ronald Reagan
Neil Armstrong
Oprah Winfrey-no
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Little Richard-no
Michael Jordan-no
Candy Barr-no
Posted by red sox fan 13
Valley Park
Member since Aug 2018
15358 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:53 pm to
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2. Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)

Was a drunk and really not that great of a general.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:53 pm to
I'd swear you get paid per down vote.
Posted by danfraz
San Antonio TX
Member since Apr 2008
24550 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:56 pm to
That Jane Mansfield had some big breasts.
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
30698 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:57 pm to
quote:

8 dick marcinko


Dirty Dick was a hell of a sailor but hard to put him in the top ten Americans when he is a felon as a result of defrauding the American government.



Brought us special ops out of the dark ages

Enough - lack of direction from his leaders led to the fraud and retribution
This post was edited on 4/28/19 at 1:59 pm
Posted by SoulGlo
Shinin' Through
Member since Dec 2011
17248 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:58 pm to
Washington
Franklin
Jefferson
Coolidge
Posted by Eightballjacket
Member since Jan 2016
7321 posts
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:58 pm to
Teddy Roosevelt.
George Washington.
Andrew Jackson
Lewis & Clarke
Einstein
Thomas Edison.
The Wright brothers.
Alexander Graham Bell.


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