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Originally Posted by Vulcan
FD Roosevelt - never served
in my mind maybe the greatest president of the 20th century.
Ronald Reagan - never served
I include him just to be fair to you right wing lovers.
To me it's only an issue if the candidate loves war but wants someone else to do the dirty work, while never having experienced it first hand.
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Not to mention Abraham Lincoln. Or Thomas Jefferson. Or Woodrow Wilson.
The list of presidents who "never served" is pretty long, actually--as is the list of presidents who did. There are good and bad ones on both lists. It's pretty much an irrelevant biographical detail, IMO.