In response to: Can Aaron Burr be redeemed?

Edwin L. Brown *61

9 Years Ago

Aaron Burr, pro and con

After reading this careful weighing of Burr’s considerable merits alongside the familiar demerits, I tend to look at him more as I view LBJ, that latter-day “deeply flawed idealist” — to be squeezed among our 25 most ­influential alumni in place of Donald Rumsfeld ’54?

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