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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

PRESIDENTS OF WAR:
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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 12 Oct 2017

    Columbus arrives in New World, today 1492: #Vanderlynpic.twitter.com/GclOVcos9p

    7:28 AM - 12 Oct 2017
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      1. Rod James‏ @_rodjames_ 12 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        And so the deadly takeover begins...

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      1. Kenneth D McClintock‏ @PRKDMc 12 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        ...but he set foot in what would actually be the US a year, a month and a week later, 19Nov1493 when he arrived in Puerto Rico 🇺🇸 🇵🇷

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum 12 Oct 2017
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        And immediately begins to plan on subjugating it. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html … #Arawakpic.twitter.com/JSpv4aQnz2

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      1. Jonah‏ @BookofJonah 12 Oct 2017
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        Soon after…millions of indigenous people are dead.

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      2. Joan Young‏ @HandleFlier 12 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I hate this painting. America, founded on hatred and fear. Look at the depiction of the real Americans hiding behind the trees. This is us.

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      4. Joan Young‏ @HandleFlier 12 Oct 2017
        Replying to @dbehman12 @BeschlossDC

        Good grief. People lived here before the land was "discovered". Leif Erickson was here before CC. Somebody was going to develop America.

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      1. James‏ @jimmynotorious 12 Oct 2017
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        Stepping over bodies

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      1. Pose_pmd‏ @astro58lady 12 Oct 2017
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        Establishing theft, European assimilation, genoside and the beginnings of free labor, also known as the slave trade. The Get Over.🤔

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      1. NaomiH_nothing‏ @NaomiH_nothing 12 Oct 2017
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        pic.twitter.com/edeRPgC8Jn

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      1. Katsura‏ @KatsuraLeaf 12 Oct 2017
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        Stop me if you've heard this one before...but World wasn't New to the people already living there. Isn't the title "Landing of Columbus"?

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      1. Rich Lindsay‏ @Rich_Linds 12 Oct 2017
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        Say whatcha want. I call it a day off. Thanks Chris!!

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      1. Jim "I Go Pogo" Yoakum‏ @thearchivest 12 Oct 2017
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        He immediately asked all the Hispanics to leave and named the place Vespuciland.

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      1. rick ho‏ @rickhodesigns 12 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        “New world”

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      1. John Coletta‏ @JohnColetta00 12 Oct 2017
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        AND some 500 plus years AFTER he will now become THE DEVIL in historical context BECAUSE.....?????

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      1. Ingeborg  ⭐️‏ @IngeborgRakvag 12 Oct 2017
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        *Hums* The massacre begins tonight 🎶

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      2. Matt Paradis  🇳🇮‏ @matt_paradis 12 Oct 2017
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      1. Vic Volpe‏ @tPfit87ter 13 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        To put 1492 in some historical perspective study (1) the Mongol Empire conquests; and (2) effects from the Bubonic plague across Asia/Europe

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