Who in your opinion is a great american leader?

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(I'm writing a report and need help)

Answer 1

You said Great American Leader, you didn't specify good or evil and leadership is measured by ones ability to motivate, convince and lead people.

Reverend Jim Jones & The People's Temple (900+) Jim Jones, the son of a Klansman, considered himself the reincarnation of both Jesus and Lenin. He was also endowed with a huge penis which he used repeatedly in the name of Christ. Jim had visions of an impending nuclear holocaust in which only the towns of Ukiah, California and Belo Horizonte, Brazil would survive. With that in mind, he relocated his first People's Temple to Ukiah to await the Armageddon.

Tired of waiting for the third world war, he moved his church to San Francisco where he received numerous humanitarian awards and became the Chairman of the city's Housing Authority. It was there that he first practiced a ritual called "White Nights" in which he prepared his followers for an act of revolutionary suicide to protest racism and fascism.

By 1977, as things started getting weirder, he was forced to move his church to Guyana, South America. There, in the isolation of the jungle, Jimmy created his dream community, Jonestown, and lost his mind. Jim's nirvana rapidly deteriorated into a nightmare which he knew of only one way to end.

On November 18, 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan from San Francisco went on a fact-finding mission investigating alleged human rights abuses at Jonestown. After only a day at the jungle compound, a member tried to stab Ryan. The injury was minor, but Ryan decided to leave with his party and 18 temple members who wanted to to return to the United States. Other members of the cult followed the group to the airstrip and opened fire, killing Ryan, three journalists, and one of the departing members. Eleven others were injured.

Hours later, the good reverend ordered his followers to drink from a tub of grape-flavored Fla-Vor-Aid laced with potassium cyanide and tranquilizers. All 900+ did. Children died first; babies were killed by poison squirted into their mouths with a syringe. Then the adults. Most were poisoned, some forcibly. Some were shot by security guards. As the ritual suicide progressed, it is unclear whether Jim put a bullet through his brain, or someone did it for him.

Within a few months of the mass deaths, other People's Temple members who had survived also committed suicide, with one mother slitting the throats of her three children. A year later, ex-People's Temple members Jeanne and Al Mills and their daughter Linda, who had been speaking out about their cult experience, were shot to death in their Berkeley, CA home. They had become among the most vocal People's Temple critics and feared for their safety.

When the bodies came back home, many could not be identified. Several cemeteries refused to take them until the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland stepped forward in 1979 and accepted 409 bodies. The remaining victims had been cremated or buried in family cemeteries.

Jonestown itself has all but vanished, stripped by villagers and consumed by a fire in the early 1980s. Some believe that Jimmy was linked to the CIA and that the Jonestown massacre was in fact a mind control experiment. If it was, it was a total success. Years later, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed that he did indeed personally delivered the cyanide to his "good friend, Jim Jones."

Every year, on November 18, a memorial is held at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, where 260 People's Temple children are buried. Due to the lack of dental records, the children were never able to be identified and thus were buried together there. On the 20th anniversary of the mass suicide, Liz Aguirre, president of Ultraseal International, hand-delivered a $5,000 check to finance a Vietnam memorial-type 20-foot wall to be erected in the cemetary. The black, granite panels of the memorial will have the names and ages of the victims inscribed as well as a dedication written by poet Maya Angelou.

Answer 2

In my opinion, we don't have any great American leader now, but the past is full of them. Along with Lincoln, the founding fathers were great leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin, Roosevelt, Lewis and Clark, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones (great sailor, but he was not what you could call patient). Great military figures from World Wars I and II, but all I can recall right now is D.W. Eisenhower. I think there are great leaders in medicine such as the one who found a immunization for polio. Any endeavor to help others would go toward making a leader, but it helps to have charisma, ethics, education, and be able to convince people of the right thing to do.

Answer 3

Ronald Regan

He had a pair of balls and did all the things that Jimmy Carter was too scared to do. He freed the American hostages being held in Iran and played a major role in ending communism in Russia/Soviet Union.

He was recently ranked in a poll as the nuber 1 president ever

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 5

I answer this via thinking, out of those adult adult males, who would be maximum remembered and celebrated interior the distant way forward for u.s.... basically positioned .... Ben Franklin. if people and society proceed to exist for yet another 2 hundred years, human beings will nonetheless be discovering and analyzing approximately Franklin no longer via fact of his political strikes, that have been considerable whether, yet via fact of his iconic stature as easily the 1st super American in history. he would additionally be considered as a scientist of a few importance too interior the destiny. Franklin additionally worked in diverse fields of expertise. Hamilton, Clay, Goldwater, and Seward will ultimately replace into no longer something greater advantageous than footnotes in history whose biographies will slip into psychological oblivion. basically think of of it this way, maximum human beings, as of 2007, have not got a clue to who Seward, Clay, and Goldwater are in history. possibly Hamilton, via fact his face looks on the money they have of their wallet, yet they have not got a clue approximately him incredibly and all the flaws he did to lead our nascent republic to that's wonderful destiny. positioned up script..... even however Malcolm X and Martin Luther King have been easily influential to this usa, the question focuses in on politicians/political leaders. they only do no longer qualify for this actual question.

Answer 6

Mat Groening.
He is always trying for people not only to have fun, but to be critical about themselves.