Boy, that was an eye-opening account of “Legends and Lies” by Bill O’Reilly tonight. It was on TV. Pictured was the death of President George Washington, the election between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, which was decided in the House, and the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

As you will recall from your High School history class, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in the duel. Scholars still debate whether or not Hamilton had purposely aimed high miss Burr or if he just got off a bad shot. I am inclined to believe the first.

Burr then was dismissed by Jefferson even though he was, as second in the balloting, the Vice President. Jefferson knew Burr’s character and had no use for him. Burr left and began to stir up trouble in Louisiana. Jefferson had him arrested for treason, but he won the court case—even though his political life was ruined.

That’s just the tip of the ice berg. See how very interesting history, especially U.S. history can be?

It’s kinda like the Peanuts comic strip where Lucy finds Snoopy sleeping on top of his dog house. She says: “You’re useless, do you know that?”

Then she adds: “What have you done to help advance civilization?” Then she leaves Snoopy to call after her: “She doesn’t understand, but I don’t blame her.”

Finally, lying on the dog house, Snoopy intones: “The results of what I have done will be known only to future generations!”

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