This Is Not My List. But Let's Open the Floor for Debate. The Greatest 100 Americans of All-Time.

https://www.washington.edu/news/2009/12/10/100-greatest-americans/

Ike is too high, Grant is [i]way[/i] too low (he should be in Top 10). And William Tecumseh Sherman didn't even make the cut! (nor did Gen's MacArthur and Patton).

But Al Gore's on the list? Seriously?

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

A lot of "Greatness" is situational..Patton is a case in point..A truly great General and inspirational leader in the field. But a man of action, built for conflict..In peacetime he would have been a disaster.. Indeed if he had entered politics instead of Eisenhower, World War three may have followed immediately..😷

beckyromero · 36-40, F

@whowasthatmaskedman [quote]A lot of "Greatness" is situational..Patton is a case in point[/quote]

Yes, Patton was the right man in the right place at the right time.

But the thing is he could have failed, but didn't.

As for Eisenhower, imagine if he [i]didn't[/i] enter politics.

Sen. Robert Taft would have been the Republican nominee in 1952. Taft reportedly wanted to tap Gen. Douglas MacArthur as his running mate. That ticket would have breezed to victory.

And when Taft died of his heart attack in July 1953, MacArthur would have become president.

Suffice to say I don't think we'd be worrying too much about North Korea having nukes today.