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The Most Libertarian President of My Lifetime

• lewrockwell.com By Bionic Mosquito

Let's dispatch with the last question.  Average male life expectancy is something around 80 years; feel free to assume I am average.  So, let's consider all presidents since Franklin Roosevelt as eligible candidates.

Ivan Eland has written a book, Recarving Rushmore.  He examines all presidents up to and including George W. Bush and ranks them according to peace, prosperity and liberty – good things to consider.  Eland places John Tyler and Grover Cleveland at the top of his list; mainstream sources cited by Eland offer George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt.  Where Woodrow Wilson is last on Eland's list, the mainstream sources have him in the top eleven.

"Wait a Minute!  What are you doing, bionic?  No president can be labeled 'libertarian'!  Stay out of politics; you only encourage the crooks."  I am most sympathetic to this view; sadly, politics doesn't return the courtesy.  In any case, the title of this post precludes me from stopping here.  And "most" implies relative to others.


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