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- Jun 27, 2003
Just spent 3 semi-boring hours in US History again tonight. However we've finally started talking about the Civil War so I am not as bored (it's one of my favorite parts of history, not so much the war but everything surrounding it). It was really weird, the diagrams that my prof drew were eerily similar to those Mr. Summer had for his lessons on the same subject. I found it really cool and kinda funny! Oh well, I'm a geek.
Anyway we got a bit off course and started discussing the reasons why Buccanon(sp, I butchered it I'm sure) didn't run for re-election, and then I asked if he thought that Lincoln would have run again had he not been killed. Mr. Wilksey said he didn't think so. That Lincoln would have wanted out, and it was a general acceptance that while not a rule that the president would only serve 2 terms. That he felt the only reason Roosevelt went for 3 was because we were in a World Conflict at the time. It made sense but the class was split almost down the middle. So I am posing the question to you. Based on what history tells us about Mr. Lincoln and your own feelings, do you think he would have run again had he not been murdered?
Anyway we got a bit off course and started discussing the reasons why Buccanon(sp, I butchered it I'm sure) didn't run for re-election, and then I asked if he thought that Lincoln would have run again had he not been killed. Mr. Wilksey said he didn't think so. That Lincoln would have wanted out, and it was a general acceptance that while not a rule that the president would only serve 2 terms. That he felt the only reason Roosevelt went for 3 was because we were in a World Conflict at the time. It made sense but the class was split almost down the middle. So I am posing the question to you. Based on what history tells us about Mr. Lincoln and your own feelings, do you think he would have run again had he not been murdered?