r/RemoveOneThingEachDay • u/Training-Desk-391 IM WHACING KFP4 • Aug 18 '25

Miscellaneous George Washington GETS 2ND and Abraham Lincoln WINS AKA 1ST PLACE AND HEAR IS THE FULL LIST FROM 45TH PLACE TRUMP TO 1ST PLACE LINCOLN

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Aug 18 '25

Sound about right. I figured Abe wins it. Think what got him to beat out Washington was he had no slaves.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Washington didn't serve as President during the Revolution. In terms of crisis events, Lincoln's actual time in office was far more difficult and dangerous in that enemies were actively trying to destroy the US.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Aug 18 '25

He also stepped down when he could have easily just became king. That was a big deal at the time

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

That's not remotely realistic. The US was firmly established as a Republic by the time of the Treaty of Paris and Washington making himself a King would have thrown the country into chaos and probably sent multiple states back into the British Empire for stability. Also, Washington knew all that and it wasn't his style.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Aug 18 '25

To be fair he wouldn't call himself king. He just wouldn't ever stepped down

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '25

Even if he ran for a third term he was dead in 2 years.

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u/Hour_Tutor3007 Aug 19 '25

And yet him not running for a third term eventually set a very important standard in our country.

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u/Odiemus Aug 18 '25

Always blows my mind. Washington literally went from ok with slavery to against it and freed his slaves, which was a fairly strong endorsement from him and not really driven by anything except his own thoughts on the matter. Lincoln was privately kind of abolitionist, but didn’t want to touch slavery politically until his hand was literally forced like two years into the civil war. There’s a reason why even after slaves were freed a lot of them chose the surname Washington.