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“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) Handpicked by Roosevelt, William Howard Taft was to continue his agenda. He had been brought in by the McKinley...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) In 1896, Democrat William Jennings Bryan was making the case for the common man. Republican William McKinley was backed...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) Grover Cleveland returns to the White House. He was the first and still the only President to win two...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) Benjamin Harrison was the centennial president elected exactly 100 years after George Washington. While a very good speechmaker, he...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) Chester Arthur was removed in disgrace as Chief Collector of the NY Custom House in 1878. Three years later...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) James Garfield won the Republican nomination and the presidenct in 1881. He was the first former college president and...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) Truly the first celebrity candidate, US Grant was the youngest man ever elected President at the time at 46....
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) As the leader of the newly formed Republican party, Abraham Lincoln was Conservative in the sense that he wanted...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) James Buchanan had been a congressman, foreign minister, senator and secretary of state, The actions he took or didn’t...
“Whatcha got ain’t nothin new. This country’s hard on people, you can’t stop what’s coming, it ain’t all waiting on you. That’s vanity.” – Ellis, No Country for Old Men (2007) As the Compromise of 1850 barely held the nation together, Franklin Pierce ascended to the presidency was a Northern...