Millard Fillmore Dollar Coin Release

Perhaps we are in a position today to most appreciate the time in history when the job description for President did not include “rock star”, or “must be capable of fundamentally changing America”. A good craftsman never shows his work and may easily be forgotten - but his handiwork is admired for years.
We should have a celebration for Fillmore at the site of his Buffalo home – The Statler.

this guy is obsessed:
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/sources-on-millard-fillmore/

aaaah Millard - the candidate of an anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, populist movement (what is old is new again, no?).

Ill take Big Steve over MF any day.

Most people forget that Fillmore was the President that sent Perry to Japan in order to get Japan to end its closed door policy. The black ships arrived in Tokyo Bay in 1853 and were the catalyst of the Meiji Restoration.

People fault Fillmore for the Fugitive Slave Act and for delaying the Civil War. But an econ history professor I once took a course from in college was very forgiving of Fillmore on the score of delaying war. He argued that the North would surely have lost the Civil War if it were fought ten years earlier (not that Fillmore was at all eager to fight such a war).

Railroad mileage tripled in the North in the 1850s. Industrial output also skyrocketed in that decade (but only up North). The South was driven into the war in part because of the radical shift in wealth (and clout), from the agrarian South to the newly industrial North. The North almost lost the war anyway, but prior to that industrial explosion in the preceding decade, there would have been no way for the North to supply its troops in enemy territory as they were eventually able to do in the 1860s.

I thought this post was a joke. Wait 'til the folks in East Aurora hear about this one.

It's kind of funny....the official ceremony is being held in Moravia, not Buffalo....so we're being slighted by the Mint!
http://www.skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=1598

the only way a dollar coin will work, is to take the paper dollar off the market.. you folks don't care about the currency just the politician .

Today, During Black History Month, Buffalo's first black mayor
unveiled a US minted $1 coin recognizing President Millard Fillmore;
the same president who signed the controversial Fugitive Slave Act
(1850)! LOL