Hamilton, Broadway vs real life

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I’m grateful for it though. He might have been on the chopping block otherwise. Even the GOP tried to get him off the currency (in favor of Reagan) because he wasn’t a President.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Hamilton, Broadway was real life:

Even the GOP tried to get him off the currency (in favor of Reagan) because he wasn’t a President.

I wasn't aware of that. Presumably, they had no problem with Franklin?

[jon-nyc]

@george-k said in Hamilton, Broadway was real life:

@jon-nyc said in Hamilton, Broadway was real life:

Even the GOP tried to get him off the currency (in favor of Reagan) because he wasn’t a President.

I wasn't aware of that. Presumably, they had no problem with Franklin?

I think it was mostly the pragmatic choice in getting Reagan on a bill, not so much driven by Hamilton antipathy. Franklin was definitely more loved, at least prior to the musical. Hamilton was also a Federalist and the GOP by that time had more intellectual roots in Jeffersonian ideas.

[Mik]

And Hamilton far more influential than Reagan.