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TIL Native Americans considered Richard Nixon to be the best president they ever had

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y1B8 TIL when Napoleon’s Marshall; Michel Ney was being sentenced to execution after Waterloo, Ney’s lawyer in his defense argued that Ney was now a Prussian and could not be tried by French laws, Ney interrupted him saying, “I am French and I will remain French”. Ney was later executed
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