Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the best president of them all ? :-)))))))))))))
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In addition to all my sincere wishes to Trump, I wish him to get stuck in front of that mirror with no way out. 
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Right up there with John F. Kennedy.
Chester Arthur was often called handsome in his day, but by modern standards, come on!...
Yes, true. 
He's nice to look at, and so is his wife. He and Michelle make a great couple. 
I don't know much about Chester Arthur.
I only have a fairly general knowledge of US history. I can draw a rough general timeline, cite a few salient facts, a few characters, situate this or that president correctly, no doubt a little more than what is taught in our countries, but it does not go any further.
It's still very schematic. 
I won't say Chester Arthur is handsome. This is only a personal appreciation, it being understood that beauty is a very relative notion.
I'm passionate about history.
I think it is important, because we are the fruit of it. Just as our descendants will be the fruit of our actions. After all, to oversimplify, what we call history today is only yesterday's politics.
Interconnecting, understanding, often restoring historical truth, allows us to better understand our present world.
Unfortunately, history in our school curricula is often, almost always, a poor relative, a minor discipline.
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In reality, only great events and famous people are precisely dated and documented.
History is what the contemporaries of the time chose to make us known .
The choice is not necessarily conscious. We will relate important facts but not all the little things that make everyday life.
In this sense, even if the black and white photos of the very beginning do not always reflect all the emotions, are not very natural and for good reason, being photographed was an event, they posed for the photo, they give a better overview of the period compared to the time when they did not exist.
Moreover, history as a science, and thus following a rigorous methodology, is relatively recent.
One only has to read the historical archives, which were often written by the people of the Church. Practically the only ones besides the nobles, namely reading and writing.
And as usual, history is written by the winners. In other words, many of the so-called historical facts are fiction rather than reality. There is also the political dimension and the message we wanted to give
Louis XIV never said "L'Etat c'est moi" or Marie-Antoinette : "let them eat cake"...
