XPost: calgary.general, can.general, can.politics 
 XPost: edm.general 
 From: Peter@White.net 
  
 CalgaryBill wrote: 
  
 > "Peter White"  wrote in message 
 > news:ZiGGd.213064$Np3.8936865@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca... 
 > 
 >>There was some other guy Ikey somebody. 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> 
 >>Don Wagner wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> wrote in message 
 >>>news:1105911628.864007.140910@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>>"Press your nose and make a buzzer sound" Glen 
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>The question was: "How many Presidents have fought in combat in the 
 >>>>last 200 years?" 
 >>>>. 
 >>>>The answer is still "zero". No Presidents have *ever* been in 
 >>>>combat. 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>In no particular order 
 >>> 
 >>>Garfeild 
 >>>George Bush 
 >>>Gerald Ford 
 >>>U.S. Grant 
 >>>Benjamin Harrison 
 >>>William Henry Harrison 
 >>>Rutherford Hayes 
 >>>Andrew Jackson 
 >>>John F. Kennedy 
 >>>A. Lincoln 
 >>>William Mckinley 
 >>>James Monroe 
 >>>Theodore Roosevelt 
 >>>Zachery Taylor 
 >>> 
 >>>Nixon, Ford and Johnson were all in WWII and may or 
 >>>may not have seen combat 
 >>> 
 >>>Jimmy Carter was in the Navy and may have seen service 
 >>>in Korea 
 > 
 > 
 > Ulysses S. Grant was a 'lead from the front' general, at times, during 
 > the U.S. Civil War.  Some suggest that was only when he was drunk, but I 
 > think drunk was his normal condition, so that idea can't be correct. 
 > How that isn't combat action, I don't understand. 
 > 
 > Kennedy WAS in the Navy, and saw action in WW2 in the Pacific Theatre. 
 > See his book "Profiles in Courage" for more info.  Or doesn't the poster 
 > consider naval action to qualify as combat action? 
 > 
 > Dwight D. Eisenhower 
  
  
 By God you got de wight ike! 
  
  
  
  
  
  
   was in military service (army) in both WW1 and WW2. 
 > He was the top American leader in the European Theatre in WW2, and was 
 > in the field in WW1 (saw and participated directly in combat action). 
 > Like Grant, he was later nominated for president (by the Republicans) 
 > and elected. 
 > 
 > Wagner was partially correct ... no American president, while serving as 
 > president, participated as an armed combatant in combat action (that 
 > rules out Lincoln's visits to the front).  That, however, is probably 
 > not the interpretation he wanted made about his post. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
  
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