Fascinating! I once heard that while his grandfather gave the longest inauguration speech (and died from complications due to exposure in about a month), Benjamin Harrison gave one of the shortest 😊
@ScottHarrison-dz6tz Says:
Standing next 2..William Sherman...Yankee general 1861 to 1865
@jec1ny Says:
The last president to sport a beard.
@suijuris1750 Says:
Tariffs are horrendous for people, if the goal is a rising standard of living.
Big Government douche. Precursor to Progressive douches.
@mlh5434 Says:
Videos like these are what confuse me about Prager sometimes. Don't get me wrong, all the anti-slavery/discrimination stuff here is good, but nothing else about Harrison seems particularly conservative or helpful. "He hired a young Teddy Roosevelt!" Um, TR was awful and in no way a conservative. "He helped implement the Sherman Anti-Trust Act!" Not a helpful or productive piece of legislation at all. "He raised tariffs to help American business!" Really? Conservatives are somehow pro-tariff now and willing to ignore Econ 101? Thankfully Grover Cleveland succeeded Harrison and righted this wrong - Prager should be doing a video praising him instead.
The only real takeaway I get from this video is "Bejamin Harrison should be respected as president because he *did* a lot of things!" Great. So did FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama. We should be celebrating presidents that do as little as possible and let markets function. Coolidge FTW.
@JConlon96 Says:
Harrison is an underrated President
@patrickmccarthy7877 Says:
Harrison shares the same birthday as my mom.
@senorbb2150 Says:
Wow the introduction of government regulations in the meat industry, and appointing a progressive Roosevelt to a commission! Sounds good to me!
@ryanhigbee5457 Says:
Do William McKinley
@koreanelvis Says:
President Benjamin Harrison was also the first president to light a Christmas tree in the White House!!
@Marc.1776. Says:
Trump will leap frog Biden like Cleveland did to Harrison
@selfcontrol9982 Says:
Thank you for this beautiful piece of history
@yellowmanusa Says:
Let us not forget, what he did to bolster the U.S. Navy. And most important to me right now as I am the father of a 8 yr old little girl in the 3rd grade, he signed a proclamation to have all of America's schools fly high, the American flag as well as recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He, the republican president signed this proclomation.
My daughter attends a local and private Christian school in Bellevue WA that says the POA is of liberal and socialist origin. FALSE! Just because Francis Belamy was a Christian Socialist, doesn't mean that the POA is so bad that we should ban our children from saying the POA. In fact, no one rightfully knows who definitively and factually wrote the poem (POA). It was either Fracis Belamy, or James Upham who wrote it. But to this very day, no one actually knows.
Irregardless, you know who, too, was a Christian Socialist? Dr. King! That doesn't mean he was a terrible man. Quite the contrary. Dr. King was a wonderful and integral man of and for the Civil Rights Movement, and yet my daughters school saw fit to celebrate and honor his birthday this month of January. In fact, my daughter recited Dr. Kings "Blueprint" speech for the whole lower class school! My whole family recognizes Dr. King as integral for a better America.
Why is Francis Belamy considered to be a basterd of sinful nature!? Just because he was a supposed socialist???! Christian Socialisim doesn't make either men a bad example. The POA is essential for our young boys and girls to gain a foundation of love, honor, and respect for our country.
Thank you for this video of President Benjamin Harrison. I very much appreciate it and plan on using it as a tool to bring ammo to my argument to the officals of the school in order to bring the POA back to her classrooms.
@Dennis-nc3vw Says:
It's insane how many Presidents we just don't know about. It makes me wonder if any Presidents alive during my lifetime will be this forgotten.
@tugginalong Says:
We don’t have career politicians that are honest any longer.
@Aurik-Kal-Durin Says:
I wanna see PragerU make a video on Donald Trump. Mostly just for the liberal meltdowns.
@vwalsh63 Says:
I'm writing this before the whole video has run. But B. Harrison and Garfield were stand up guys
@TickedOffPriest Says:
A lot of great accomplishments, but several that have made our lives worse.
@chaddisrud535 Says:
Harrison had a great resume aside from his treason during Lincoln’s war against the States.
@garysmith9823 Says:
Interesting. I was only aware of him as the guy who won the electoral college and split up Grover Cleveland's presidency.
@patriciaharrison Says:
Thank you so much for doing this about my great grandfather, I really appreciate it, and I appreciate his service to our country!!!
@89Awww Says:
Benjamin Harrison was responsible for the disastrous McKinley Tariff, which hurt the economy and the morally dubious taking of Hawaii. The Wounded Knee Massacre also happened under his watch and corruption was rampant in his administration. For these reasons, I rank him among the bottom ten worst presidents despite his accomplishments.
@richd6362 Says:
Great video. I lived in Indiana several years and got to see his home.
@foristrothbert568 Says:
I love how every "great" Western leader is always obsessed with minoritarian concerns and is indifferent or opposed to the native people of his homeland.
@Apollo1989V Says:
Blacks vote over 90% Democrat today, yet the left does little to help them.
@noidreculse8906 Says:
Interesting stuff. I live in Idaho and we have a city named Harrison and almost every city has a street name for him too.
@cvr527 Says:
Just a reminder to all. Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive president. His Square Deal set the stage for the New Deal. Teddy was also a warmonger.
@josephgerard5473 Says:
If anyone's interested, there's a British band called UNIT that released a whole album inspired by and dedicated to Prageru, TPUSA and The Daily Wire. I discovered their You Tube channel a couple of years ago and most of their stuff is excellent. I'm not an agent for the band nor do I know any of them but, to judge from their lyrics, they seem genuine. I found them by typing UNIT Andy Martin The Voice Of Reason into YT which did the trick. They have the entire album as a playlist. One of their tracks features the mighty Ben Shapiro and they do a cracking version of Columbia Gem Of The Ocean, too! PS No, I am not the singer’s dad nor am I their manager or related in any way to the group!
@davem7847 Says:
While Benjamin Harrison did a lot of great things, you forgot that while paying the veterans thier pension and being warned by Grover Cleveland that doing so could tank the economy, it caused the first Depression in 1893? after Grover Cleveland started his 2nd term. Look into the History Channels The Presidents episodes. Both Depressions caused by Republicans (And I am a long time Republican for 50+ years). All the facts are the facts. There was good and not so good.
@Stevarooni Says:
The Meat Inspection Act resulted in inspectors going from meat plant to meat plant, never cleaning the inspection device between plants until the late 1900s.
@freesk8 Says:
Harrison was not fiscally conservative enough for me. Tariffs and increased government power are not conservative. Mark me down as a Coolidge fan.
@kathleensmith5132 Says:
Excellent. Thank you!
@JoaoSoares-rs6ec Says:
A man that puts merit over favoritism,our as put here patronism
@kinjunranger140 Says:
Indiana had a couple of VP's also. Mike Pence and Dan Quayle's wife.
@crystalgridart3610 Says:
Please more educational content. PragerU really woke me up. Thank you for setting this leftist straight. God Bless
@chardijensen690 Says:
That was very interesting.
@barclayjb Says:
My office is in Fort Benjamin Harrison (former Army fort) in Indianapolis. Thanks for more information about the history that is around us.
@merlinwizard1000 Says:
15th, 29 January 2024
@terryboyer1342 Says:
Even though it was the democrats persecuting and denying them their rights blacks overwhelmingly vote for them. It was republicans who freed them and restored their rights. Yet they consider them their enemy. How did this happen?
@CuyanaTGen Says:
Good for Prager U for presenting these videos --- I UP Vote them almost always --- regarding many facets of our American Experience, but, I would hope that they would change the standards by which they evaluate our elected office-holders. E.g., I would like to see such evaluations made based on the degree to which such individuals adhere to our fundamental Self-Evident American Truths n Principles; e.i., as expressed in our Unanimous Declaration; where, after all, are these truths n principles not the fundamentals of our American Way Of Life; that is, our American Common Core? *_MAGA NOW ... more than ever!_*
@bobinindiana Says:
The home of Benjamin Harrison is a museum open to the public in Indianapolis. It is a very beautiful home.
@SHARKVADERS Says:
PRAGERU!!!!!
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@crissiannj Says:
Benjamin Harrison is my ancestor....I hope this is positive...😅
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