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    I see the Lenin statue more like the Walther PPK and Nazi flag my grandfather took from an SS officer after blowing up his Panzer tank and pulling the crew to safety. It is a war trophy brought to this country by a private citizen, and not anything more.

    The Robert E Lee statue was erected in 1920 to remind black GIs returning from the war that they were still second fucking class citizens in the country they just defended overseas.

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    Interesting piece. It does seem that historians are rethinking Grant's stature as a POTUS.

    Rethinking President Grant (Part One)


    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/rethinking-president-ulysses-grant-stature-rising/

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
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    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by LA Ute View Post
    Interesting piece. It does seem that historians are rethinking Grant's stature as a POTUS.

    Rethinking President Grant (Part One)


    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/rethinking-president-ulysses-grant-stature-rising/
    Chernow's biography is one of the best books I have read on a long time. Doesn't whitewash Grant's obliviousness to the scandals around him, but really emphasizes how Grant stuck with reconstruction as long as he could, when many Repubs were ready to give up, and how much responsibility Grant felt for the future of the freed Blacks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by concerned View Post
    Chernow's biography is one of the best books I have read on a long time. Doesn't whitewash Grant's obliviousness to the scandals around him, but really emphasizes how Grant stuck with reconstruction as long as he could, when many Repubs were ready to give up, and how much responsibility Grant felt for the future of the freed Blacks.
    The musical can’t be far behind.

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
    --Yeats

    “True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”

    --John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell

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