"oly" wrote in message
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On Feb 15, 12:14 pm, "Beanie" wrote:
"oly" wrote in message

...I
think when you get down to the nitty-gritty, there are a large

number of U.S. Presidents who aren't truly worthy of the coinage
honor, let alone their wives.

"A large number" is a gross understatement.
Other than Teddy Roosevelt, there wasn't one POTUS in the 20th century
worthy of
the honor.
The 19th century had Lincoln, Jefferson, Madison and John Adams - the rest
are
forgettable.
Most Presidents have been political hacks, not even worthy of being on a
postage
stamp.

I think it's difficult to argue with FDR on the dime. Because he
brought us to the end of WWII successfully, not because of how he
handled the Great Depression.

Andrew Jackson and U.S. Grant both represent poor boys who made good.
Jackson's election to the Presidency was a watershed social moment in
American history - power was snatched from the East Coast aristocracy/
plutocracy and placed firmly in the hands of the man from the
frontier. Grant's Presidency was very weak, but his conduct of the
conclusion of the Civil War was masterful in both a military and
diplomatic sense. He rose well above whatever was expected of him in
life.

From the vast magnitude of his mistakes and his unfathomable personal
arrogance, Woodrow Wilson probably deserves to be on the $100,000
bill.

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I wouldn't mind seeing all our presidents retired from circulating coinage.
We don't have a monarch or ruler, per se, and most of the past US presidents
holding a prominent place in our history have already been saluted on
various numismatic media. My high school & college years were Ike and JFK
years, and regardless of what history might say about them, I thought these
were great, largely carefree years to have grown up, not that this was
necessarily of their doing. But had Ike not first been a popular WW II
general and JFK not been assasinated, I doubt we would have seen either one
on a circulating coin.