[Spam] [Vision2020] Who is "The Greatest American" ?

[lfalen]

I would go with Franklin, followed by Washington. Though not on your list,I would rank George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington about equal to MLK.
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From: Donovan Arnold donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 04:45:17 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] Who is "The Greatest American" ?

> I do not know how many other Discovery Channel fans
> there are on Vision2020, but they have been running a
> program where people call in and vote for their
> favorite American of all time. Granted the voting
> system is biased, but I wanted to gage what people
> think on here of the final five contestants and which
> one you like best:
> 
> Benjamin Franklin
> Ronald Reagan
> Abraham Lincoln
> George Washington
> Martin Luther King Jr.
> 
> While I think MLK and Abe did the single best things,
> I voted for Ben Franklin because he did so many
> things. He invented the public fire department and
> lightening rod, public hospitals, public libraries,
> and established the first public university. He also
> discovered electricity, helped with the Constitution,
> and convinced France to help the US which won the
> Revolutionary War. And invented the Farmers Almanac
> with helped many farmers and families be
> self-sufficient which made this nation they greatest
> in the world. And he did this all starting off as a
> poor boy with just 5 years of formal education.
> 
> Who do you think did the most for this nation out of
> the five?
> 
> Donovan J Arnold 
> 
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