Shots Fired near the White House

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Your response:

I guess you did. My mistake was not checking up the years in Wikipedia. I somehow misremembered that he was in office a really long time.

People need a Wiki to know that FDR died at the beginning of his fourth term? The most significant President of the 20th century? And also be ignorant of when the Great Depression started?

That’s pathetic.

 

[Derec]

People need a Wiki to know that FDR died at the beginning of his fourth term? The most significant President of the 20th century? And also be ignorant of when the Great Depression started?

That’s pathetic.

Hey, I only took US History before 1875. I of course knew he died in 1945 because of the A-bomb, but was wrong about when he started his presidency.

We can't all be history buffs.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

People need a Wiki to know that FDR died at the beginning of his fourth term? The most significant President of the 20th century? And also be ignorant of when the Great Depression started?

That’s pathetic.

Hey, I only took US History before 1875. I of course knew he died in 1945 because of the A-bomb, but was wrong about when he started his presidency.

We can't all be history buffs.

We all don’t have to be. We all should know the basics. It’s never too late to learn something.

 

[Derec]

We all don’t have to be. We all should know the basics. It’s never too late to learn something.

I agree about learning. But exact years of presidential terms are not "basics" though.

 

[Toni]

We all don’t have to be. We all should know the basics. It’s never too late to learn something.

I agree about learning. But exact years of presidential terms are not "basics" though.

In this case, the exact years are basic. And easily found through google searches.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

We all don’t have to be. We all should know the basics. It’s never too late to learn something.

I agree about learning. But exact years of presidential terms are not "basics" though.

You are constantly talking about how immigrants need to adapt to host country.

 

[Angry Floof]

I was curious about what's going on with shots fired near the WH, but apparently this thread isn't about that.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I haven't seen an update of information. Secret Service thinks it was a suicide. They were waiting to announce name until after the next of kin has been notified. Allegedly.

Does anyone have more info yet?

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

We all don’t have to be. We all should know the basics. It’s never too late to learn something.

I agree about learning. But exact years of presidential terms are not "basics" though.

Thinking that we had a president who served for 22 years is laughable.

Here's the latest on the incident:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...8e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.c302f38364a7

 

[Angry Floof]

I haven't seen an update of information. Secret Service thinks it was a suicide. They were waiting to announce name until after the next of kin has been notified. Allegedly.

Does anyone have more info yet?

I don't see anything new on this yet.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Wut

If you keep being president a long time you guarantee you will be elected in a year ending with 0 (zero year curse) and you increase your chances of dying in office. You increase them even more if your constitution is weakened by polio.

You can't be US President that many years and your simple arithmetic is wrong.

History. You failed it.

There did not used to be a limit on how many terms you could be president. We changed the Constitution because of Roosevelt's long tenure.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

You can't be US President that many years and your simple arithmetic is wrong.

History. You failed it.

There did not used to be a limit on how many terms you could be president. We changed the Constitution because of Roosevelt's long tenure.

You obviously did not read the whole thread. Derec wrote that Roosevelt served 22 years but he served 12:

Well Roosevelt was cheating because he served for 22 years (and thus was bound to be elected in a "zero year")...

Derec argued that because Roosevelt served MORE THAN 20 YEARS he was "bound to be elected in a 'zero year'." Derec's argument that Roosevelt "cheated" (not literally--he was referencing the concrete number of years he thought Roosevelt served) was based on a false premise.

You obviously didn't read the thread because all parties have moved past this now and tried to get the thread back on track.

See post#26:

I haven't seen an update of information. Secret Service thinks it was a suicide. They were waiting to announce name until after the next of kin has been notified. Allegedly.

Does anyone have more info yet?