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Okay, just going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#Family_background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#Family_ba... -
by afarrell 6y ago
Okay, just going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#Family_background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower#Family_ba...
- conn a ship: It mentions no naval career. It does mention fishing, so there is a decent probability that he could handle a canoe. But if that is the standard for "conn a ship", then this whole argument is basically just "people should have hobbies" which...okay sure. And they already do.
- design a building: No mention of this. He attended West Point, which is also an engineering school, but that is very weak evidence. I went to MIT and the only building design I've ever done is that of a shed. Again, people should have hobbies.
- write a sonnet: Google searches for "poetry by Dwight D Eisenhower", "Ike sonnet", "Eisenhower Sonnet", and "Sonnet by Eisenhower" do not turn up anything. Maybe he wrote poetry to his wife, but we have no evidence of it. Again, people should have hobbies.
- balance accounts: I'm happy to just assume this to be true as part of his career's focus in being able to organize troops.
- butcher a hog: His father worked as a railroad mechanic and then at a creamery. They were not wealthy. There's no mention of his working in agriculture. He did like hunting, so its totally plausable that he could dress a deer. But he didn't work on a farm or in a slaughterhouse or meat-packing plant. Why would someone who owned pigs waste the meat/time/money to teach someone how to slaughter them as even a hobby?
- set a bone: Plausable, but I see a number of sports-related leg injuries.
- program a 1973-era computer: He died in 1969
I could go and try to research this more thoroughly, but it is hard to prove a negative and time is a global variable.
[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Washington/Publications/Historic_Data/livestock/hogmya.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Washington/Pub...