1876 or and and they were right about that though. it was actually more stolen back after the democrats had started feeling the first place but 1884 looked very much like their year and they had every reason for feeling that it would be their year. and so what would happen would be they had to simply find a candidate who could do the job. let me see if i can go some pictures and give you a kind of a feel for what we re going to be showing right here and there we are that does a that gives us a pretty good image to start out with 1884 the setting president is a republican president. his name is chester alan arthur president by grace of an assassins bullet that killed james a garfield in 1881. uh chester alan arthur deserved determined his own right. he actually was a pretty and pretty able president. uh, but there were those who never could forgive him for the way he came to power for the new that he was part of the political faction that it included the assassin james guitar
the most intelligent presidents we have ever had. i mean, he is up there in the top half dozen. and when we go through his life, by the end of it, or the middle of it, you re going to start laughing because you re just going to say no, that can t be, he can t be that good in that field, it s just not possible. and then we ll find something else. and you re going to say, no, he is just incredibly bright. and the hope for his presidency was enormous. and so we re going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. i was chatting with a friend before. and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. it s i don t know how you test something like that. it s not as if you give presidents iq tests. it s a lot easier with things that are easy to measure. tall and short. i mean, we all know that madison was our shortest president, lincoln was our tallest president. that s easy. i don t know how you know who the most intelligent. certainly the two adams, jefferson, m
garfield is one of the most intelligent presidents we have ever had. he is up there in the top half dozen and when we go through his life, by the end of the middle of it, and you re going to say no, that can t be. he can t be that good in that field. it s just not possible, and then we ll find something else, and you re going to no. he is just incredibly bright, and the hope for his presidency was enormous, and we re going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. i was chatting with a friend before, and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. i don t know how you test something like that, and it s not as if you give presidents iq tests. it s a lot easier with things that are easy to measure, tall ask short. we all know that madison was our shortest president, lincoln was our tallest president because that s easy. i don t know how you know who the most intelligent. certainly the two adams , jefferson, madison and lincoln garfield is right up there.
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