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<p>[QUOTE="Resu Eman, post: 710410, member: 9147"]Well, I certainly won't list all the things about them here, as anyone that can read this can read wikipedia as well. Perhaps there they will find out which one wasn't a president. </p><p> </p><p>I agree there is a bit of ignorance of those two persons, however, there are skeletons in closets of even those to whom history has been kind thus far. Just yesterday I read in my local paper (if you can believe it - after all, Wasn't it Jefferson who said "As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers" ?) that Good old George Washington reputedly fleeced $450,000 in fees for his services in the Continental Army. Meh. Don't care. Fact is he's seen as a great leader and our first (elected) president. Forget that he didn't want to be on our money, he's there. Likely will be for as long as we mint-&-print. </p><p> </p><p>While I like having some past presidents and statesmen on our notes, I do agree that a nice design change. Scroll through this: <a href="http://richardsmith.posterous.com/tag/dollarredeign?page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://richardsmith.posterous.com/tag/dollarredeign?page=1" rel="nofollow">http://richardsmith.posterous.com/tag/dollarredeign?page=1</a> and be sure to check out the other pages links at the bottom. While there are many that are rather ugly and more that are just stupid, there are a few that can get your imagination going. I like these two for example:</p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/1j3e45.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i34.tinypic.com/2w7obrm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Resu Eman, post: 710410, member: 9147"]Well, I certainly won't list all the things about them here, as anyone that can read this can read wikipedia as well. Perhaps there they will find out which one wasn't a president. I agree there is a bit of ignorance of those two persons, however, there are skeletons in closets of even those to whom history has been kind thus far. Just yesterday I read in my local paper (if you can believe it - after all, Wasn't it Jefferson who said "As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers" ?) that Good old George Washington reputedly fleeced $450,000 in fees for his services in the Continental Army. Meh. Don't care. Fact is he's seen as a great leader and our first (elected) president. Forget that he didn't want to be on our money, he's there. Likely will be for as long as we mint-&-print. While I like having some past presidents and statesmen on our notes, I do agree that a nice design change. Scroll through this: [URL]http://richardsmith.posterous.com/tag/dollarredeign?page=1[/URL] and be sure to check out the other pages links at the bottom. While there are many that are rather ugly and more that are just stupid, there are a few that can get your imagination going. I like these two for example: [IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/1j3e45.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i34.tinypic.com/2w7obrm.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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