Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for March 24, 2023

You had that one coming, Charlie Brown.

King of the WIld Frontier, huh? I could’ve sworn it was — oh, I dunno — Kit Carson.

Davy Crockett did get elected to Congress. He probably didn’t want to be president.

So, George Washington was at the Alamo?

Good Greif!

Back then, Davy Crockett was all the rage, with all those coonskin hats, and that song by Bill Hayes.

In elementary school history I didn’t realise that the nation didn’t elect vice presidents the same way we did in class: the person who gets the second highest number of votes is VP. Took a couple of years to straighten that one out. I guess I wasn’t very bright, or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention.

They’re both wrong, of course. The first president of the United States was Peyton Randolph. His full title was “president of the United States in Congress Assembled”, often shortened to “president of the Continental Congress”. He was president from September 5 to October 22, 1774, and again from May 10 to May 24, 1775. George Washington didn’t become president until April 30, 1789.

Poor ole Charlie Brown.

George Washington hated the idea of political parties. He thought that people would be more loyal to their own party than towards the country. Now we see personality cults where people are more loyal to a specific individual than to their party.

well, at least, Davy was in politics at one time

At least he named an American, Schroeder.

Well at least Davy Crockett was an American and not European like Beethoven. So technically, Charlie Brown was closer.

I can’t help but wonder how many kids today might have said Neil Armstrong…

By golly, an actual funny one haha

I remember a Sunday strip, must’ve been around this time, where these two are arguing over whether Beethoven or Davy Crockett was better.

I wonder who Violet will name.

Skipped Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/04/10

Hey, at least he got an American.

He wasn’t…??

When I was his age, Davy Crocket should have been President. He was all over the weekly Disney TV show and wildly popular among boys.

Getting closer. He was a congressman…..

Either they have a one-room schoolhouse – or Schroeder has already caught in age with Charlie Brown. lol

David Crockett was a Congressmen, just not President.

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was Our First and Greatest President. In between inventing electricity and language. He also inspired his good friend Gerald Ford to invent the automobile.

Crockett RAN for President, but he lost. His big promise was to rid the nation of raccoons, and that only attracted fringe support.

Heck, Schroeder! I figured you would be proud that he that Beethoven was the first president.