Comments on: All the President’s Men: The 15 Cabinet-Level Departments http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27846 Feel Smart Again Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:14:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: NG http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27846/comment-page-1#comment-153388 NG Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:20:38 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=27846#comment-153388 <em>Jefferson resigned over a disagreement about whether the U.S. should support the French in the French Revolution. He wanted to back the French, Alexander Hamilton supported the British, and Washington opted for neutrality.</em> This doesn't make any sense. It's like saying the British deliberated about whether to support the "Americans" in the American Civil War. Both the Union and the Confederacy were Americans! Jefferson resigned over a disagreement about whether the U.S. should support the French in the French Revolution. He wanted to back the French, Alexander Hamilton supported the British, and Washington opted for neutrality.

This doesn’t make any sense. It’s like saying the British deliberated about whether to support the “Americans” in the American Civil War. Both the Union and the Confederacy were Americans!

]]> By: Jason English http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27846/comment-page-1#comment-152788 Jason English Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:22 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=27846#comment-152788 Bam! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26021 Bam!

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26021

]]> By: Dave http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/27846/comment-page-1#comment-152786 Dave Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:38:50 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=27846#comment-152786 This would make a really good quiz, can you name all the departments? This would make a really good quiz, can you name all the departments?

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