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To: DMaA who wrote (2816)	10/15/2006 3:46:17 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

George W Bush is not the only alcoholic Americans have elected as President. Let's examine the tenure of several past American Presidents well known to be alcoholics. Franklin Pierce After unsuccessfully pressuring Spain to sell Cuba to America for $100 million, he issued the Ostend Manifesto which suggested the U.S. should seize Cuba by force. When he signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise to promote a new railway, the expansion of slavery led to nationwide unrest after he provided protection for an illegally elected pro-slavery government in Kansas, and the creation of the Republican party. These events began the progression toward the Civil War. Pierce having lost all credibility he may have had in the North and in the South and was not renominated. James Buchanan The Democrats nominated Buchanan in 1856 largely because he was in England during the Kansas-Nebraska debate and thus remained untainted by either side of the issue. But his tenure as an alcoholic President did not fare any better than that of Pierce. In December 1860, Buchanan reorganized his cabinet, ousting Confederate sympathizers and replacing them with hard-line nationalists. At one point, his Treasury Secretary Dix ordered Treasury agents in New Orleans, "If any man pulls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot". Yet, before Buchanan left office, seven slave states seceded, the Confederacy was formed, all arsenals and forts were lost (except Fort Sumter and two remote ones), and a fourth of all federal soldiers surrendered to Texas troops. In 2006 historians voted his failure to deal with secession the worst presidential mistake ever made. The alcoholic personality, (self-centered, grandiose, dishonest, short-tempered and belligerent) is clearly on display. Their rigid one-dimensional view of the world, where there are no subtleties and everything is black or white, right or wrong let a problem spiral out of control into the Civil War, the most disastrous war the U.S. was ever involved in. Another alcoholic was Martin van Buren, legendary for being able to drink large quantities of alcohol without showing signs of drunkenness. Before being elected as President, he was known as Blue Whiskey Van. The economic disaster created by his tenure as President led to his more common nickname Martin van Ruin. .